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Simon Loasby named Head of Hyundai Styling Group

Simon Loasby, Director of Hyundai Design in China, has been promoted to Head of Hyundai Styling Group at Hyundai Design Center in Korea.

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Activating Grip In Project Nine

Sure, it was a last minute request and I was clearly the backup option, but what the hell, I agreed to help a mate out. Because in most situations helping friends is the right course of action to take. Sometimes the satisfaction of lending a helping hand is the reward, but in this instance, I […]

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Trade War Watch: It’s Okay to Feel a Little Sorry for Harley-Davidson

Last summer, the European Union imposed an additional 25-percent import duty on top of the existing 6-percent tariff levied on large motorcycles. Established as a response to the United States’ duties on steel and aluminum, the move crippled Harley-Davidson’s ability to thrive in the European market — a region that accounts for about one-sixth of […]

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Widebody Dodge Charger Spotted During Commercial Shoot

Instagram user eviil_srt, so named for his sinister-looking Chrysler 300 SRT8, posted a video in which he claims to have caught a production-ready Charger widebody in the midst of filming a commercial. The video quality is perplexingly horrendous and involves plenty of unnecessary hooting noises coming from the camera operator, but we’ll cut him some slack. […]

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Citroën teases AI-powered Centenary Concept

At the upcoming VivaTech event Citroën will unveil an all-electric, autonomous concept car that will celebrate the brand's Centenary.

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Short Washington Kids Face Increased Safety, Embarrassment Under New Law

If memory serves correctly, your author was approaching a height of 5’4″ as he neared his 12th birthday. Still, even before that early growth spurt, transportation to and from various locales meant fastening a lap belt in the back seat of my dad’s Ford Fairmont, assuming no one had called shotgun. It was a simpler […]

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What Will Lincoln Look Like in 2020?

Lincoln, eager to avoid the fate of Mercury, has spent years attempting to turn itself around. It’s a slow-and-steady kind of race. Rather than try to dazzle the public with a slick marketing campaign (confusing, perhaps – Ed.), Lincoln’s sticking to the fundamentals. Bludgeoned by the Great Recession, Lincoln’s sales actually began their steady decline […]

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Kia HabaNiro Concept

Developed at Kia's California design studio, the HabaNiro concept is a fully-electric, all-wheel drive, four-seat  crossover concept with a dynamic design, an autonomous drive mode, and a range of more than 300 miles.

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Rare Rides: The Ultimate 8 Series BMW Is the Alpina B12 of 1992

Rare Rides featured an Alpina once before: the in-house performance tuner’s take on the late-Eighties 6 Series — the B7. Today’s Alpina is a B12, which is literally five more. And more is better, right? There is, of course, a brand new edition of the 8 Series for sale right now, but BMW’s present styling […]

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2019 Ford Ranger Review – A Tweener

You know you’re getting old when you start using phrases like “back in my day” on the regular. Indeed, as I’m rounding my fortieth lap of the sun, I find myself reminiscing entirely too much. And, considering this tidy second career I’ve picked out, it’s not surprising that my daydreams revert all too often to […]

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Waymo Picks Detroit Plant for Self-driving Vehicle Conversions

It’s a long way from the company’s fledgling, Phoenix-area autonomous ride-hailing service, but Detroit has enough available space and local talent for Waymo to sign a lease. On Tuesday, the self-driving tech company announced a deal to mate Chrysler Pacificas and Jaguar I-Paces with autonomous hardware in an abandoned assembly plant sitting in the heart […]

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Federal Probe Covers 12.3 Million Vehicles; Airbags May Not Deploy in a Crash

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has launched an investigation into a slew of late-model vehicles equipped with airbags that may not protect occupants in the event of a crash. The vehicles, built by American, Japanese, and Korean automakers, were all manufactured between 2010 and 2019. According to the NHTSA, the faulty airbags may be […]

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Horses and Guinea Pigs: Elon Musk’s Lofty Promises Raise Safety Advocates’ Ire, Sink Stock

Did you miss Autonomy Day yesterday? If you’re unaware, that’s the name given to Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s promise-filled, self-driving-focused speech to investors yesterday in the cradle of dreams (also known as Silicon Valley). There, Musk promised cars a driver can sleep in; cars that will make its owner money. Cars that, despite their self-driving […]

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QOTD: Hitting the Breaking Point?

A few miles north of the American border lies a humble, affordable town called Vancouver — a town which just set a record. That record? The highest gas prices anywhere in North America, ever. Surely, a feat worth celebrating, especially by Car Twitter personalities who own half a dozen vehicles but believe gasoline should cost […]

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The Digital Effect: Formula Drift Long Beach In 0.836 Seconds

Taking digital photos is a weird thing to do. In contrast to shooting film, where you’re physically capturing a moment on a tangible, touchable medium, there’s a certain soullessness to machine-gunning away with your files being written to some mysterious digital ether. I’ve typically noticed my keep rate when I’m using an analog camera is […]

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This Little Nissan Truck Goes Sunny Side Down

Based on the B110 chassis, or Nissan 1200 as it was better known, the Nissan Sunny truck (B120 series) was first introduced in 1971. At the time Nissan was developing the truck, I don’t think they could have ever known how successful it would be. The little Sunny pickup took the world by storm, and for many years it […]

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Promise Hour: Tesla Broadcasts Self-driving Tech to Perk Up Investors

Tesla celebrated “Autonomy Day” on Monday, broadcasting a web presentation to investors touting its self-driving strategy — part of CEO Elon Musk’s attempt to prove that the manufacturer’s longstanding commitment to the technology will bear fruit. While the mood was undercut by news of one of its vehicles spontaneously combusting in a Shanghai parking garage, the company […]

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