10 Wild Cars from the 2013 Geneva Auto Show: Drink In the Automotive Crazysauce

Europe’s exotic-car tuners and smaller automakers use the high-profile Geneva auto show to show off their wares, many of which are as subtle as a branding iron to the face. These cars could reflect Switzerland’s neutrality or its lack of a domestic auto industry, but it’s more likely that there are a lot of people out there with more money than taste. We love it. To each his own, we say—even if the results are twisted, the enthusiasm is pure. Here we present 10 of the wildest rides from this…

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Japan’s Retro Car Kings: Saving Classic Japanese Automotive Culture – Video

Car culture around the world naturally has its different varieties and subtleties. In some parts of the world, specific automotive culture catches on to the rest and sometimes becomes standard. With that said, Japan’s Retro Car Culture, often not exploited by the rest of the world, is starting to make a move over the seas finding a new place in the hearts of enthusiasts everywhere.
Discovery Turbo takes an in-depth look inside of five of Japan’s most talented classic car tuners (Moon Auto, T.A. Au…

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500 Articles and Counting: An Automotive Enthusiast’s Tale

 
Composing articles in the past month, I was conscious to the fact my story count was reaching a milestone. Contributing to Automoblog.net since April of 2010, I had contributed 499 postings ahead of this article. With this article, I have cracked the 500th article mark on Automoblog.net. Thank you to all who have read and enjoyed my work (I can imagine there are at least a few). Acknowledging this as a momentous occurrence, the chore for me was to determine something appropriate.
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500 Articles and Counting: An Automotive Enthusiast’s Tale

 
Composing articles in the past month, I was conscious to the fact my story count was reaching a milestone. Contributing to Automoblog.net since April of 2010, I had contributed 499 postings ahead of this article. With this article, I have cracked the 500th article mark on Automoblog.net. Thank you to all who have read and enjoyed my work (I can imagine there are at least a few). Acknowledging this as a momentous occurrence, the chore for me was to determine something appropriate.
I was scrolli…

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Mobile technology expected to drive the automotive experience

Vehicles are quickly becoming just another place where consumers use smartphones and related technology, says Mark Boyadjis o -More- 

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Car Tuning Trends through the Decades: 1960s-2000s

Car tuning is the modification of stock vehicles and cars from their original
manufacturing. Car tuning alters the vehicle in some way- either to make it look different
or to perform better or differently from the original performance. Car tuning did not gain
popularity until vehicles became a part of everyday society after the 1950s. It was not
until the 1960s that many families even had vehicles- much less vehicles that they tried to
modify in some way.

Take a look back at some of the major car tuning trends that happened in each decade
from 1960 to the present.

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Exhaust Pipe Dreams: A Visit to the Petersen Automotive Museum’s Hidden Collection

Museums that celebrate car culture and the colorful history of the automobile rank high on enthusiasts’ minds when planning a vacation.  What could be better than stepping into a time capsule of hobby?
What’s that, you say?  There’s a hidden collection?  Follow the jump for the explanation.
Automotive enthusiasts’ pipe dreams are made of the vehicles that comprise the basement collection of the Petersen Automotive Museum, but few have seen and experienced it first-hand.

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Destiny’s Child: VL Automotive Debuts the Karma-Based Destino [2013 Detroit Auto Show]

Retirement means different things to different people; for auto-industry superhero Bob Lutz it means business as usual, keeping in the mix with not one, but two automotive startups. But as where VIA motors is taking GM trucks and vans and electrifying them for fleet customers, VL Automotive is taking Fisker Karma hybrids and transforming them to run on fossil-fueled GM horsepower.
Never one to waste time or mince words, Lutz has joined forces with Gilbert Villarreal, president of Auburn Hills–based…

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Video: Toyota Motor Corp. and Lexus show off their direction in future of automotive safety R&D

I’m sure most of you readers remember Lexus’s TV ad spot, which featured their latest virtual driving machine, designed to simulate real-world scenarios for future research and development in automotive safety. That said, in lieu of the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show taking place in Las Vegas, NV, Toyota Motor Corporation and Lexus have decided to seize this moment to show off their latest efforts in automobile safety research and development.
Along with their press boost, ToMoCo and Le…

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2013 Automotive Black Sheep Herd

 
 
Alright, so it is two days past Black Friday. Assume I was like so many others who were making leaping dives to save ten dollars on a toaster. Black Friday is one of those interesting periods of near savage behaviour in the name of consumerism. The ironic part is day where shoppers are enticed to swarm into stores arrives after one of family togetherness and bidding thanks to simpler things (along with the generous addition of football).
On the day of Thanksgiving (or Black Friday Eve …

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