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• Ford Commits To Over $500 Million In New Canadian Investments
• DS 5 Hybrid Dropped From The UK Due To Poor Sales
• Start Your Porsche Supercar Collection With This 959 And Carrera GT
• Skoda's Forthcoming Kodiaq Coupe Will Probably Look Like This
• Porsche Wins FIA World Endurance Championship For The Second Year In A Row
• Teens Steal Three SRT Hellcats And Crash Almost Immediately
• Roush's 500 HP Ford Focus RS Turned Heads At SEMA
• Facelifted Volkswagen Golf Just Three Days From Launch
• Ferrari's Fab Five Brought To The Racetrack By Jay Leno
• New Emissions Cheating Device Found On Audis With Automatic Transmissions
• Downsizing Champs: These Are The 10 Best Engines Under 2.0-Liters
• Visual Face-Off: Who Wore It Better; The X-Class Or The Alaskan?
• 10 Optional Extras That Cost As Much As An Actual Car
• Holden Commodore SS To Be Retired With New Generation
• Mountain Biker Endures Three Hard Falls, Still Gives #Maximumeffort
• Wheelsandmore Jaguar F-Type S Pumps Out 420 PS, Has A Meaner Stance
• U Spy: Commercial Vehicles Need Testing, Too
• Here's What An Aston Martin V8 Vantage Really Costs To Own For A Year
• Smoking Aces: The 5 Best Looking Tobacco Racing Liveries
• Chevy Spied Altitude-Testing 2018 Equinox, Volt
• Close Call Incident Resolved Politely, Road Rage Avoided

Ford Commits To Over $500 Million In New Canadian Investments Posted: 07 Nov 2016 04:30 AM PST Ford has committed to over $530 million of additional investments into its Canadian factories. Read more »

DS 5 Hybrid Dropped From The UK Due To Poor Sales Posted: 07 Nov 2016 03:57 AM PST Alternative-fuel car deliveries may be on the rise globally, but not of them are so successful. Cue the DS 5 Hybrid, which has been quietly retired from the United Kingdom, a decision confirmed by one of the brand's spokespersons, who recently talked to AutoExpress on the matter. Read more »

Start Your Porsche Supercar Collection With This 959 And Carrera GT Posted: 07 Nov 2016 03:00 AM PST Dig Porsches? A 911 Turbo will get you where you're going in a hurry, and put a big smile on your face in the process. But if you're looking for the truly exotic from Zuffenhausen, Milan will be the place to be later this month for RM Sotheby's Duemila Ruote sale. Read more »

Skoda's Forthcoming Kodiaq Coupe Will Probably Look Like This Posted: 07 Nov 2016 02:00 AM PST Late last month, we brought you a report that Skoda was planning a coupe-like version of its new Kodiaq crossover, particularly for the Chinese market. At least one reader was paying attention, because Theo Chin worked up these renderings based on that bit of news. Read more »

Porsche Wins FIA World Endurance Championship For The Second Year In A Row Posted: 07 Nov 2016 01:00 AM PST Porsche has added another accomplishment to its ever-expanding trophy cabinet. With one race still left to go, the team from Weissach has secured the manufacturers' title in the 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship. Read more »

Teens Steal Three SRT Hellcats And Crash Almost Immediately Posted: 06 Nov 2016 10:06 PM PST Three teenagers from the Kansas City area have been left red-faced after crashing three vehicles almost immediately after stealing them, including two Dodge Charger SRT Hellcats and a Challenger Hellcat. Read more »

Roush's 500 HP Ford Focus RS Turned Heads At SEMA Posted: 06 Nov 2016 09:02 PM PST SEMA may be over for another year but in between all the one-off, custom builds was the Ford Focus RS from Roush Performance, celebrating its world debut at the event. Read more »

Facelifted Volkswagen Golf Just Three Days From Launch Posted: 06 Nov 2016 07:10 PM PST The facelifted, seventh-generation Volkswagen Golf will launch in just three days time with an updated design and according to reports, two new engines. Read more »

Ferrari's Fab Five Brought To The Racetrack By Jay Leno Posted: 06 Nov 2016 06:24 PM PST The last time we saw Ferrari's "specials" was great, if not for the fact that the latest model was missing. Not that we were complaining, but it would be nice to have the LaFerrari along, too. Read more »

New Emissions Cheating Device Found On Audis With Automatic Transmissions Posted: 06 Nov 2016 05:45 PM PST The Dieselgate is far from over but, apparently, the VW Group's illegal practices when it comes to emissions certification were not confined to diesel-powered models. Read more »

Downsizing Champs: These Are The 10 Best Engines Under 2.0-Liters Posted: 06 Nov 2016 03:00 PM PST When it comes to small engines, some manufacturers focus on extracting performance, others on fuel economy, with a rare few even excelling at both. Read more »

Visual Face-Off: Who Wore It Better; The X-Class Or The Alaskan? Posted: 06 Nov 2016 02:25 PM PST What does the Mercedes X-Class and the Renault Alaskan have in common? They're both based on the Nissan Navara NP300, but that's just how synergies work in the automotive industry. Read more »

10 Optional Extras That Cost As Much As An Actual Car Posted: 06 Nov 2016 02:26 PM PST While some cars are meant to be packed with all the latest gadgets and gizmos, other types of optional extras are only there for the sake of appearances. Read more »

Holden Commodore SS To Be Retired With New Generation Posted: 06 Nov 2016 11:03 AM PST Having being around since 1982, when it was adopted from sister company Chevrolet and used on the Commodore VH, the SS badge will disappear once the current model will be replaced in early 2018. Read more »

Mountain Biker Endures Three Hard Falls, Still Gives #Maximumeffort Posted: 06 Nov 2016 10:00 AM PST If there was ever somebody who had a lot in common with Marvel's Deadpool character and the way he keeps getting back up after getting hurt, this mountain biker might be the man. Read more »

Wheelsandmore Jaguar F-Type S Pumps Out 420 PS, Has A Meaner Stance Posted: 06 Nov 2016 09:05 AM PST Jaguar's Porsche 911 fighter, the F-Type, has been around, in its current form, for some time now. Naturally, it has had attracted the attention of the tuning industry, and the latest offering comes from Wheelsandmore, which as come up with an upgrade package aimed specifically at the S variant. Read more »

U Spy: Commercial Vehicles Need Testing, Too Posted: 06 Nov 2016 08:02 AM PST We come across spy shots of upcoming new vehicles all the time. We tend to bring you the ones that are either important new models (that you might be likely to buy), or exciting ones (that most of us could only dream of putting in our driveways). These latest reader-submitted photos fit into neither category, but they go to show that even commercial vehicles need extensive testing, too. Read more »

Here's What An Aston Martin V8 Vantage Really Costs To Own For A Year Posted: 06 Nov 2016 06:58 AM PST While some car enthusiasts would have to sell an arm and a leg to be able to truly afford an Aston Martin, others are luckier, but even if one could pay the sticker price for a V8 Vantage, is it really worth it? Read more »

Smoking Aces: The 5 Best Looking Tobacco Racing Liveries Posted: 06 Nov 2016 05:55 AM PST We get why tobacco advertising had to be banned. We really do. Smoking is bad, and associating it in consumers' minds – especially in the impressionable minds of young fans – is not a good thing. But we have to admit to a bit of nostalgia for the days when cigarette brands sponsored racing teams. It's not just that tobacco companies have lots of money to throw at marketing and the subsequent positive effects that can have on racing budgets. There are lots of corporations with big advertising budgets – from automakers, rubber producers, and oil refineries to alcohol distilleries, telecommunication giants, and even financial institutions – that are keen to associate themselves with the fast-paced image of motor racing. More than anything, it's the racing liveries that tobacco sponsorship produced that we miss the most. Because they were some of the most gorgeous color schemes ever to grace competition automobiles. So divorced (in as much as possible) from the products they conveyed, we've assembled this list of some of the most beautiful, most recognizable, and most iconic racing liveries ever to be bred by the tobacco companies that have long since vanished from the racing circuit. Marlboro The premier brand in the Philip Morris portfolio has been one of the most prolific sponsors of motor racing. Its white with red chevron livery has adorned McLaren's grand prix racers in their heyday, Penske's cars on the Indy racing circuit, and of course the Scuderia Ferrari. It's the latter with which the brand was arguably the most inexorably intertwined, to the point that the Marlboro name was part of the Italian outfit's official racing name for decades – and remained so long after tobacco advertising was banned from motor racing, giving rise to an evolving creativity to convey the brand with its logo increasingly obscured. The relationship between Ferrari and Marlboro has remained so close, in fact, that after a string of team principals failed to put the Scuderia back in the winner's circle, the tobacco company sent over its own Maurizio Arrivabene to run the team – which he still does two years later. Rothmans When we asked you, our loyal readers, a few months ago which team had the best-looking livery on the F1 grid today, the answer was overwhelmingly Williams – sponsored by Martini Racing, with its iconic stripes. Rothmans, we'd argue, had a livery almost as (if not equally) beautiful. The British tobacco brand also sponsored the Williams team – like Marlboro and McLaren, at the height of its success. It also applied its navy and white livery with red and gold stripes to Porsche's legendary 956 Group C racers at Le Mans, and followed the German automaker into rallying, where it also sponsored Subaru, among others. John Player Special While Marlboro and Rothmans extended their sponsorship to numerous teams in multiple racing disciplines, John Player Special focused primarily on its partnership with Lotus. The JPS livery of gold stripes over black was so iconic, in fact, that the reborn Lotus team brought it back in recent years, even without the logos and financial backing of the Imperial Tobacco brand. Gold Leaf Though it may not be as widely recognized as those that followed, the first tobacco brand to jump into grand prix racing was Gold Leaf. The sister brand to JPS similarly sponsored Graham Hill's Lotus 49B as early as the 1968 Monaco Grand Prix, adding its name to that of Team Lotus and applying its red and gold livery – which, to our eye, remains among the most timeless. Silk Cut With seven wins, Jaguar ranks as one of the most successful manufacturers ever to compete at Le Mans. Most of those victories came in the 1950s, but it came back again in the late '80s with a series of XJR Group C racers. They were sleek and fast – and sponsored by Silk Cut. The Japanese tobacco brand applied its purple, white, and yellow livery to a series of the TWR-developed racing coupes that took the checkered flag at Le Mans in 1988 and 1990 and the World Sportscar Championship in '87, '88, and '91 – but not in America, where the IMSA GTP series' title sponsor Camel forced the Jaguar team to run with secondary sponsor Castrol instead. Of course these weren't the only tobacco brands to advertise in motorsports. Brands like Camel, Player's, West, and Lucky Strike all supported teams in Formula One as well. And that's just in one series, from which Big Tobacco and its big budgets started disappearing in 2000. For better or worse, we may never see their likes again.

Chevy Spied Altitude-Testing 2018 Equinox, Volt Posted: 06 Nov 2016 06:42 PM PST General Motors produces a heck of a lot of different vehicles. And of all its divisions, Chevrolet probably has the most diverse lineup, producing everything from heavy-duty pickups and commodious SUVs to sleek sports cars and economical hybrids. Just look at some of the vehicles the Bowtie brand alone been spotted testing recently. Read more »

Close Call Incident Resolved Politely, Road Rage Avoided Posted: 06 Nov 2016 03:51 AM PST Getting cut off in traffic to the point where you need to actively avoid an accident can cause frustration and, depending on the circumstances and parties involved, even lead to road rage. Read more »

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