2013 Toyota Avalons create mixed first impressions at our track

Toyota usually leaves spacious luxury car duties to its premium Lexus brand. But Toyota dealers have many loyal customers with needs for big-car room, luxury and utility but at a non-upscale price. And for years the Avalon has been a cornerstone of that demand.

For 2013, the roomy Avalon has been redesigned and, apparently, pointed in a new direction in Toyota’s latest attempt to appeal to a younger customer. And while it’s still roomy, we wonder if the company has been stung with the Avalon being labe…

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Report: BMW to create M4 version of 4 Series, M3 will live on as well

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In some way, shape or form, BMW has confirmed with CARandDRIVER that it will obviously produce an M4 version of the new 4 Series Coupe and an M4 Convertible of the 4-Series Convertible.
Check out our original post on the BMW 4 Series Coupe Concept.

However, what’s interesting is that the M3 will not disappear –…

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Red Bull Creation: Create The Future, Episode 1

Meet Ryan Doyle In July, we partnered with Red Bull on the Creation event, in which teams of makers competed to build, well, great stuff. To get in on the action, they had to create an Arduino-based project. (And if that term doesn’t mean anything to you, here’s our video explaining what an Arduino is.) Winners were crowned in July-including Missouri’s Hack A Day team, with its dueling labyrinth tables, a sort of booby-trap pinball-and now we’re spending the summer with Red Bull, as they profile other g…

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Scientists Create the Smallest Possible Five-Ringed Molecule, Photograph It, and Call It Olympicene

Olympicene 100,000 times thinner than a human hair. IBM Research-Zurich While most people end up crafting stick figures in boring meetings, Graham Richards of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) was doodling when he thought making “a molecular structure with three hexagonal rings above two others would make for an interesting synthetic challenge.” In an attempt to make casual daydreamers feel even worse, Richards and a team of chemists from the RSC, University of Warwick, and IBM Research-Zurich got to …

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April Fools: Could Chevrolet Create an El Camino Camaro?

The product that has best bridged the qualities of the vintage and modern Chevrolet is most definitely the Camaro. While the Corvette is the oldest running car model in the Chevrolet line-up, the Chevrolet Camaro currently draws a more emotional connection thanks to higher availability. Immediately paying tribute to the first-generation General Motors pony car with styling, the Camaro returned in 2009 successfully transporting itself into a performance vehicle market during a harsh economy. Last year,…

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Aston Martin and John Lobb create a line of driving shoes. You can’t afford these either.

There you are… flying along in your DB9 when suddenly… your driving experience is ruined! Bad weather? Track conditions? Bad lap time on the Nurburgring? Nope, none of that, it’s just that… well… you aren’t wearing the correct shoes to properly enhance your driving experience. That may sound a little far fetched, but apparently the [...]

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Maserati and Bulgari Team Up to Create Upmarket Octo Timepiece

If you were ever to associate cars with watches, the Toyota Camry's equivalent timepiece would be something in the likes of a Casio or Seiko: an affordable product that does the job day in, day out. Likewise, a Maserati would be like a Bulgari. So it doesn't come to much of a surprise that Maserati and Bulgari joined forces or as the two companies put it, “to share their ideals” that are “admirably epitomized” in the Octo Maserati timepiece. Read more »Copyright © Carscoop.blogspot…

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Maserati and Bulgari Team Up to Create Upmarket Octo Timepiece

If you were ever to associate cars with watches, the Toyota Camry's equivalent timepiece would be something in the likes of a Casio or Seiko: an affordable product that does the job day in, day out. Likewise, a Maserati would be like a Bulgari. So it doesn't come to much of a surprise that Maserati and Bulgari joined forces or as the two companies put it, “to share their ideals” that are “admirably epitomized” in the Octo Maserati timepiece. Read more »Copyright © Carscoop.blogspot…

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Carbon fiber, software fix create lighter, faster Fiat

Chrysler Group’s Mopar parts brand and Italian supplier Magneti Marelli have teamed up on a design exercise based on the 2012 Fiat 500 Abarth that shaved weight and added horsepower.

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Ferrari Designer Called Upon by Fiat to Create a Common Styling for Chrysler and Lancia

Platform sharing is nothing new in the automotive world. Everyone does it as it enables companies to reduce development costs across the board. For example, if it weren’t for the VW Touareg, Porsche probably wouldn’t have the means to develop the model that effectively made it a cash cow: the Cayenne. And truth to be said, most of the times, your average buyer doesn't know what's hiding under the sheetmetal nor if the vehicle in question is identical in many ways to a model bearing a differen…

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