Wagons/Estates
Opel/Vauxhall Insignia wins European Car of the Year by single point
Looks like there won’t be much of a fiesta for Ford this year, as the Opel/Vauxhall Insignia has captured the 2009 European Car of the Year award by just one point over the hot little hatch with the big blue oval on its snout. Scoring 321 points to the Fiesta’s 320, the Insignia claimed the [...]
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SEMA 2008: Ecto-1 scares up plenty of attention in Vegas
With Halloween behind us and most of the spooks and spectres returned to their natural realm, the Ghostbusters gang had some time to kill and headed over to the Las Vegas Convention Center to check out the excitement of SEMA. Fortunately for them they were given a prime parking spot right outside the hall. (We [...]
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SEMA 2008: Subaru trots out Forester XTI concept and tweaked WRX
Even though our lust for Japan’s forbidden fruit has been sated by three generations of the Subaru STI and Mitsubishi EVO – and now, the Nissan GT-R – one guilty pleasure is still out of reach. The Subaru Forester STI has always held a special place in our hearts, combining a healthy dose of practicality [...]
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SEMA 2008: Ford stacks the ballot with concepts for election day
What recession? Perhaps anticipating the euphoria that will follow the end to the seemingly decades-long Presidential race today, Ford decided to throw a huge tuner party at SEMA this year, and they invited ALL of their friends. The Ford booth always houses a bunch of tuned blue ovals, but they generally tend to be grouped [...]
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SEMA 2008: A baker’s dozen concepts stretch Ford Flex-ibility
With so many acres of sheetmetal to work with, the Ford Flex definitely offers a tempting canvas for tuners and automotive taggers. But 13 official custom Flexes? It seems everyone and their mother decided to do up a tuned Flex this year for SEMA. We were told there were at least 13, but we suspect [...]
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Tomica die-cast verifies 2009 Nissan Cube styling
Thanks to alert reader Galvin, we can verify that the 2009 Nissan Cube images we published back in September and (rolls eyes) were subsequently ordered to pull down are indeed accurate. The source? eBay — in auctions for Tomica’s new Matchbox-sized die-cast of the car. As you can see here, the toy shows off the [...]
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Spy Shots: BMW V5
A BMW V5 prototype has been let loose under a wardrobe’s worth of camo, but you can still see it remains true to the early renderings. That might be a good thing if anyone has really decided they need a stretched X6. Based on the X6’s slower-than-expected U.S. sales, maybe the extra room is what [...]
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Spy Shots: R-Class facelift
The R-Class won a design award, went on tour with the Rolling Stones, was ropped in price, and still sold so poorly that Mercedes admitted the car was a failure. Yet M-B head man Dieter Zetsche said the car isn’t going away, so as one does with continuing product, the R-Class is getting some face [...]
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Chevrolet Cruze could spawn hatch and wagon variants
The Chevrolet Cruze may be delayed, but that doesn’t mean that more variants of the Cobalt/Lacetti replacement aren’t on the drawing board. In addition to the standard four-door model that Chevrolet debuted in Paris, a five-door hatch and a wagon will fill the rest of the range.
GM plans to produce the European Cruze in South [...]
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Spy Shots: Mercedes-Benz E63AMG Wagon
A covered up E63 AMG Wagon has been caught doing the rounds on public roads before we see it in showrooms some time next year. It looks like the potential ungainliness of the new E-Class could be gracefully smoothed out by the longer lines of the wagon. Of course, even if it is still ungainly, [...]
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