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Don Draper Drunk Drives An XKE: The Jaguars Of Mad Men [Car Porn]
Last night’s Mad Men was filled with Jaguars. Lots and lots of Jaguars. Let’s drool over the cars that will keep the show’s impermeable cool intact, even as its characters get on to the uglier years of the ‘60s. More » Original post: Don Draper Drunk Drives...
Product Review: Roadmice Wireless Car Mouse
Product Review: Roadmice Wireless Car Mouse
  It has been eluded to that the younger people are not embracing car ownership with the same value as they did 40-50 years ago. Expense after expense, the need to live smaller in this current society, fortunately technology has grown more compact to grant otherwise immobilized individuals...
Car And Driver: 2013 BMW 6 Series Gran Coupe Drive Review
Car and Driver also had the opportunity to drive the new 2013 BMW 6 Series Gran Coupe. BMWBLOG will have their own report on the 6 Series Gran Coupe, but in the mean time, here are some of findings by C&D: Focus on the Familiar As in other 6-series models, the Gran Coupe’s cockpit is beautifully...
The Million-Dollar Story Of The First V8 Corvette [Video]
Corvette-o-philes know the first-generation Corvette wasn’t a muscle car — it was a European-style roadster with Jaguar in its sights. Under the fiberglass hood was an inline six, dubbed “Blue Flame.” But in 1955, sales were off. The Corvette needed a transfusion — and...
The Continental’s Beijing Notebook: Design Talk, the Ultimate XJ, China Has the Wagon Bug
Each week, our German correspondent slices and dices the latest rumblings, news, and quick-hit driving impressions from the other side of the pond. His byline may say Jens Meiners, but we simply call him . . . the Continental. I was in Beijing last week on a Land Rover trip. While there, I spoke with...
Jaguar Confirms V-8 Option for Upcoming F-type
At the Beijing auto show, Jaguar confirmed that its new F-type would receive a new 380-hp, supercharged 3.0-liter V-6 derived from the brand’s 5.0-liter V-8. There’s good news for those who believe six cylinders are two too few; Jag has confirmed that the F-type also will receive a 5.0-liter...
2013 Ford Focus ST: $24,495 Base Price, SAE-Rated 252 hp and 270 lb-ft
Ford has revealed the base price for the upcoming 2013 Focus ST: The turbocharged hatchback will start at $24,495 when it goes on sale later this year. The company also announced that the ST’s SAE power ratings are higher than the original estimates. When the ST debuted at the Frankfurt auto show...
2013 Dodge Dart Reviewed, 2013 Mercedes SL63 AMG Driven, Disney: Car News headlines
Today at High Gear Media, Norway loves the Nissan Leaf and Bosch speaks up regarding the future of diesels. A rare Aston Martin is heading to auction and the 2014 Jaguar F-Type will have a V-8 engine option. All this and more in today’s car news, right here on The Car Connection. Disney showed...
Jaguar Introduces New, Downsized Production Engines in Beijing
Jaguar Introduces New, Downsized Production Engines in Beijing
  For a long time, the scope of automotive power was covered by the saying “there is no replacement for displacement”. In the 21 st century, the rules for gaining optimum engine power have changed in the face of improving emissions and fuel economy. The widespread usage of technologies such...
Jaguar XKR-S: Straight Up Car Porn [Video]
Dutch photographer Alexander van Boekholdt sent us this still shoot and video of Jaguar’s surprisingly gorgeous, powerful leather-lined supercoupe, the XKR-S . It is so blue. More » View original here: Jaguar XKR-S: Straight Up Car Porn [Video] See the original post here:  Jaguar...
COTD: Gumpert Apollo Edition [Commenter Of The Day]
Making exotic automobiles appears to be the domain of the emotional, the romantic, the irrational. One manufacturer stands against this ethos with an unbelievably nerdcore hypercar, Roland Gumpert’s Apollo. It’s not pretty, but it’s fast. More » Read more here: COTD: Gumpert...
Why Are Free Cars OK For College Coaches But Not Players? [Star Cars]
It’s a well-established fact that big NCAA programs mean big money. For coaches that often means big perks, too. And while it’s wrong to give would-be players free cars, there’s no such hesitation on the part of colleges to hand out keys like candy to coaches. More » More...
Watch A Mostly Stock 2013 Nissan GT-R Run A 10-Second Quarter-Mile [Video]
In his book 3 Seconds: The Power of Thinking Twice , professor of clinical psychology Les Parrott, Ph.D. says it takes three seconds to redirect a thought — in other words, to think twice. This 2013 Nissan GT-R gets from 0-60 quicker than that. Who’s got the power now, Doc? More »...
A Lotus Exige That Can Tangle With A Porsche 911 GT3 [Video]
It’s more than sad that we won’t be getting this run-out version of the Lotus Exige. Maybe it’s because the company’s U.S. air-bag exemption has run out, or that CEO Dany Bahar’s pissed we weren’t more excited about the company’s new concepts. So, let’s...
Jaguar/Land Rover Officially Launches Engineered to Order Division [Beijing Auto Show]
The Beijing auto show debut of Land Rover’s Range Rover Evoque Special Edition with Victoria Beckham had us initially scratching our heads. Not necessarily because we were perplexed by Mrs. Beckham’s taste, or even by the fact that it exists, but because the few examples that will come here...
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