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Nissan Leaf gets lower base price: Purchase price of $18,000 possible with tax incentives

BestCarEver — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:16:44 +0000

Nissan Motor Co. will cut the base price of the slow-selling Leaf electric car by 18 percent, or $6,400, the automaker said Monday.

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Yokohama Avid Touring tires recalled due to possible sidewall cracks

BestCarEver — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 02:36:41 +0000

Yokohama Tire is recalling nearly 11,000 of its Avid Touring S vehicle tires due to “improper geometry,” according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The production flaw could lead to cracks in the tires’ sidewalls and a sudden loss of air pressure, increasing the risk of a crash, said the agency.

Only one size—215/65R16 98T SL—of the all-season tires are being recalled, and no deaths or accidents have been reported to the NHTSA or the Yokohama company.

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Archive Gallery: 9 Phone Innovations That Made The iPhone 5 Possible

BestCarEver — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:28:44 +0000

Want to make your own wireless phone? Don’t forget to grab your stovepipe! The First Car Phone: July 1919 PopSci archivesWe might not have Siri if it weren’t for 1972′s Hot Lite. Remember making your own wireless phone for 25 cents? Remember the stovepipe antenna? Neither do we. But without all the wacky, experimental telephone technologies of the past century, today we might still be fumbling along without touchscreens and voicemail. In this archive gallery, we pay our respects to the (admittedly goofy…

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

BestCarEver — Tue, 29 May 2012 22:36:14 +0000

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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Group Lotus Issues Statement to Combat Possible Misinformation

BestCarEver — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:44:44 +0000

Despite being business surrounded by a piece of four-wheeled transportation, there is a high range of human emotions involved in the many levels of the auto industry. Competition between companies inspires a love and hate around automobiles bringing out the best as well as the worst of humanity. The same push that can allow motorists to relish the greatest technologies such as quattro all-wheel drive, direct injection and electronic stability control can be devoted to feud with rivals as egos …

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WOT Four Years Ago: 100K Ford Flex Sales Possible, Soft-Top BMW Z4, Stylish Geely Concept

BestCarEver — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:20:09 +0000

April 11, 2008 — Four years ago today, Ford toyed with the idea of selling 100,000 Flex crossovers a year — an idea that sounded feasible at the time. Believe it or not, it’s also been four years since Mercedes-Benz’s 2.1-liter diesel engine – a version of the one soon appearing in the 2013 Mercedes-Benz [...]

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Future Collaboration Possible Between BMW and GM

BestCarEver — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 09:04:12 +0000

As car fans, we often pick sides of your favourite brands. Claiming allegiance to an automaker, there is a pride in the technological advantages claimed by a choice company. VTEC, EcoBoost, SkyActiv and TDI identify some popular names of solutions used to define a particular automaker. However, when it comes to developing some of the newest technologies in motoring, it is rare that a single auto company can carry the costly and long process alone. In fact, some notable automakers went out of business or…

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Report: Alfa Romeo 4C will be pretty awesome, convertible version possible

BestCarEver — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:44:46 +0000

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Top Gear recently sat down with Mauro Pierallini, head of engineering for Fiat in Europe, to talk about the upcoming Alfa Romeo 4C. Engineers say that the first prototype of the car will hit roads in the middle of 2012, with sales to start in Europe and the United States in 2013.

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F1: Petrov slams Renault and admits exit ‘possible’

BestCarEver — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:08:32 +0000

Vitaly Petrov has admitted he might be in breach of contract for a rant against his F1 team Renault in the Russian press.

He started by telling Russian television Rossiya 2 that the Enstone based team’s development of its 2011 car has not been good enough due to early problems with the unique forward-mounted engine exhausts.
Vitaly Petrov, Lotus Renalut F1 TeamPhoto by: xpb.cc

"For almost ten races we have had absolutely nothing (new), which, in fact, means we drive basically the same car we began…

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Land Rover tests Defender concepts for possible U.S. comeback

BestCarEver — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:23:05 +0000

Los Angeles- Land Rover wants to know if North America is ready for a new Defender.

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