Chevrolet COPO Camaro Concept lives life a quarter-mile at a time

Get the Guaranteed Best Price from over 4,000 certified dealers for the vehicle of your choice. Get Started What's a COPO, you ask? Back in the heyday of American muscle cars, COPO was an acronym for Central Office Production Order, which was, for all intents and purposes, a way for Chevrolet and its enterprising dealer network to sneak high-performance option packages...

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UK petrol stations closing, "fuel deserts" may result

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Icon Bronco

"The watch industry is a very interesting parallel in that none of us need watches anymore," Jonathon Ward, founder of Icon 4x4, offers as a metaphor for his latest project. "The secret to them succeeding and prospering and furthering their design efforts in the modern market is in the execution – making the execution distinct and purposeful and bespoke. We are trying to...

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Refreshed 2012 Mitsubishi Shogun rocks up

NEW MODEL YEAR MITSUBISHI SHOGUN ENTERS THE SUV MARKETCIRENCESTER, UK (Friday, 28th October 2011) – Mitsubishi Motors' new model-year Shogun arrives in the UK this week. It is a progressive evolution of Mitsubishi's classic off-roading status symbol that combines authentic four-wheel drive go-anywhere ability with bold, muscular styling. It now comes with a Euro V compliant turbo diesel engine and offers a choice of either three door short-wheel base or five door long-wheel base versions.Like its predecessor, the Mitsubishi Shogun is immediately...

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Maybach 57 by Jay-Z + Kanye West

V12 / 5.513 cc / 550 PS / 664 lb/ft (900 Nm) @ 2.300 - 3.000 / 0 - 62 mph (100 km/h): 5,2 s / Vmax: 155 mph (250 km/h)(click images for a larger view) <iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http://onlycarsandcars.blogspot.com/2011/10/maybach-57-by-jay-z-kanye-west.html&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=100&amp;action=like&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light"...

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Nissan NV van stumbling out of the gate

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Opel Says it Will Lead EV Race, Working on More Vehicles

Published October 29, 2011By Jeff Cobb Opel RAK-e. A flight of fancy? Opel says it is evaluating whether to build this little battery electric vehicle. This week Renault-Nissan outlined its agenda to be number one in the world electrified auto market, but it won’t own Europe if General Motor’s Opel division has anything to say about it.For that matter, GM has also said it...

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BMW M3 Carbon Edition for China

V8 / 3.999 cc / 420 PS / 295 lb/ft (400 Nm) @ 3.900 / 0 - 62 mph (100 km/h): 4,8 s / Vmax: 155 mph (250 km/h) / Limited Edition only for the chinese market (111 cars)(click images for a larger view) <iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http://onlycarsandcars.blogspot.com/2011/10/bmw-m3-carbon-edition-for-china.html&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=100&amp;action=like&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light"...

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Cobra introduces iRadar Community to crowdsource speed traps

Cobra Announces Cobra iRadarTM CommunityNext Generation of Automotive Smart Detection System Combines Cloud Services, Location-Based Services and Crowdsourcing for Community Sharing of Radar/Laser and Safety Alert InfoCHICAGO, IL - October 26, 2011 - Cobra Electronics Corporation (NASDAQ: COBR), celebrating 50 years of innovation in 2011 as a leading designer and marketer of award-winning radar detection systems and mobile electronics, today announced the general availability of Cobra iRadar Community, which is included in the latest software release...

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California Tests Hybrid Heavy-Duty Earth Movers

Published October 28, 2011 Caterpillar's Hybrid Earth Mover. Consumer hybrids like the Toyota Prius and Honda Insight do a great deal to limit the emissions footprints of the people who drive them. But when you take gas-electric technologies and put them into heavy duty vehicles like earth movers, the resulting emissions savings can equal that of 14 Priuses over the course...

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Toyota unloads bounty of SEMA rides

Toyota is bringing an arsenal of custom vehicles to SEMA 2011, including three pickups and one very cool Yaris B-Spec Racer. The pint-sized bruiser is based on the 2012 Yaris SE and should be bashing fenders with the rest of the SCCA B-Spec class contenders soon. Toyota says that Jamie Bestwick, of BMX fame, will campaign the car in the SCCA National Championship Runoffs...

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AEV turns Wrangler into Brute Double Cab for SEMA

AEV DEBUTS ALL NEW 4-DOOR BRUTE DOUBLE CAB AT SEMAAmerican Expedition Vehicles (AEV) will debut the brand new four-door 2012 AEV Brute Double Cab at this year's SEMA Show, nearly a decade after first introducing its Jeep based Brute pickup truck. AEV's original Brute was unveiled at SEMA in 2002 as a Jeep pickup conversion that offered superb styling, rugged utility, and the high quality always associated with AEV. Now AEV will once again use SEMA to introduce the popular Brute's newest incarnation, the Brute Double Cab, a four-door overland vehicle...

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Lincoln MK Z

V6 / 3.496 cc / 267 PS / 249 ft/lb (337 Nm) @ 4.500(click images for a larger view) <iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http://onlycarsandcars.blogspot.com/2011/10/lincoln-mk-z.html&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=100&amp;action=like&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light"...

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