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A lot of people will be taking to the roads for Thanksgiving dinners with friends and family next week, which ultimately means a lot of passengers will be riding with drivers who may be texting or talking on the phone, eating or exceeding the speed limit or otherwise driving recklessly.
By Aaron Turpen on
Recent discussions here on Torque News have created debate over the viability of the Tesla Model S and Tesla CEO Elon Musk's projected production numbers for the car. If the company produces 20,000 cars in 2013, will it realistically be able to sell them too?
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Beware the turkey shoppers and stay safe this holiday season.
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, then this video of the all-new 2014 Mercedes SLS AMG “Black Series” is worth ten thousand.
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California tuner John Pangilinan took the Scosche x Alpinestars Subaru STI and turned it into a build unlike any other.
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See what it's like to ride shotgun with Rally-America Champion, David Higgins in his 2012 Subaru WRX STI Open Class Rally car. Buckle up and enjoy the ride of a lifetime...
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The SVT Team developed a 200 mph+ 2013 Ford Shelby GT500 supercar and they tell us how they did it.
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It all comes down to simple math and tires give us a clue when it comes to comparing Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf to Tesla Model S and Fisker Karma.
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2012 has given us a noticeable increase in electric cars despite the negative twist the general insists on spewing out. What can we expect for 2013?
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Diesel is a controversial fuel amongst environmental advocates, but from passenger cars to heavy-duty haulers, diesel will remain a dominant fuel of choice for decades.
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We don’t mean Hollywood scary cars; we’re talking about scary, dangerous deathtraps, actually cruising the roads somewhere in the past or still on the road today.
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The motorcycle that was found off the coast of British Columbia has been memorialized in a new exhibit in the Harley Davidson museum to honor the Japanese tsunami victims.
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Toyota Marketing Japan (TMJ) and Toyota Motor Sales & Marketing (TMSM), in order to promote harmony among people, society and our shared environment, are Special Partners for the 25th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF), to be held from today through October 28.
By John Goreham on
Less than 10% of all accidents resulting in death are caused by distracted driving. That doesn't mean that responsible Americans shouldn't hang up and drive.
By Nicolas Zart on
Like it or not, electric cars are becoming an ever increasing part of our automobile industry, with promises of better home energy security and eventually lowering pollution emission. So what’s all the hate?
By Denis Flierl on
Volvo Car Corporation has paved the way for implementation of communication between cars by signing a Memorandum of Understanding.
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Winter is nearly here and if you live where snow, sleet, or worse are common, this will serve as a little reminder to keep you safe on the road.
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Children of the 60s, 70s, and 80s will remember some of the fashionably cool, but often questionable "features" and common modifications made to cars back in the day. Here's some favorites.
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The HLDI has released insurance claims data showing which vehicles have the highest and lowest overall insurance losses, showing the vehicle size still plays a big role in crash survival.
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The 2015 Ford Mustang is reported to be getting a 4-cylinder EcoBoost and now the technical specs are becoming clearer.
By Nicolas Zart on
The battery industry and its electric car market is extremely difficult to predict. Have our governments made the right choices?
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Users of CARFAX’s vehicle history reports between certain dates in the states of Oklahoma, Ohio, Texas, Tennessee, California or North Carolina are entitled to claim a settlement voucher.
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If you own a Jeep and like to take it off the beaten path, testing the limits of your ability and those of the vehicle, you’re going to love the chance to win a Smittybilt XRC 8 winch with 8,000 pounds of pulling power.
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Professional BMW race driver Augusto Farfus scares his wife in a BMW M3 Coupe while taking her on a fast lap around the Nurburgring Nordschleife.
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In what may be the world’s first such deal, the Tullibardine distillery in Perthshire has contracted with a spinoff company from Napier University, called Celtic Renewables, who plans to employ microbes to convert the byproducts from distilling whiskey into butanol to be used to fuel vehicles.
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Future Flow Media is a provider of hyper-targeted email advertising that has come up with a way to track the effectiveness of the kind of marketing they do, in terms of how many buyers resulted from their service.
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Simply put, drivers in 2040 won’t need a license because cars will drive themselves and identification will have transformed into a device, perhaps worn on your wrist, that functions as your key to everything, your passport, plane ticket, video phone and heads up display computer.
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Nissan unveils more data in the battery capacity loss controversy, saying that the culprit is total driving distance, not heat, and that the battery packs are behaving as expected considering the heavy use.
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Gilt.com is an unabashed purveyor of the most self-indulgent guilty pleasures and by midnight tonight will have sold one lucky acolyte of conspicuous consumption an incredible automobile and experience in a Polaris White XJL Ultimate.
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MotorWeek, the longest-running automotive show on American television, begins its 32nd season with a chance for auto enthusiasts to enter the MotorWeek Ultimate Automotive Experience Sweepstakes.