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Automotive history buffs should get a knowledge workout if Audi’s Super Bowl ad is as, well, advertised. Audi’s 60-second spot, entitled...
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The last Yugo rolled off the assembly line at 9:00 a.m., November 11, 2008. With no more ceremony than factory worker’s hand-written paper sign...
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In the clutches of Rolls-Royce since the putsch of 1933 when Rolls acquired Bentley, the company from Crewe, England, had been reduced from a Le...
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Timing is everything. Ask any Acapulco cliff diver. Or Carroll Shelby. The best news Ol’ Shel’ ever received was that England’s...
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Just the sound of the starter says this is going to be something special, that high-pitched whine that’s a cross between an air wrench and a...
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Smart Gmbh, the Daimler Benz-owned maker of the fourtwo microcar that has been on sale in the US for almost a year now and can be seen nipping around...
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Spectators at the 1962 Nurburgring 1000 could scarcely believe their eyes. A little Lotus from the under-two-liter class was leading the race,...
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If there’s one item of faith among car mileage conspiracy theorists it’s that “if the Model T could get 25 mpg back in 1918, why...
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Something amazing happened in 1975. For the first time in two decades, a company other than Volkswagen topped the U.S. imported car sales charts....
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