With a first-year coach in Steve Kerr and a team lacking any player with NBA Finals experience, the Golden State Warriors began the season as unlikely title candidates. “We definitely are a great team, a team that should go down in history as one of the best teams from top to bottom,” Warriors star guard Curry said. It’s the first championship squad lacking a player with prior finals experience since
Despite the greatest one-man performance in NBA Finals history, LeBron James could not make the injury-weakened Cleveland Cavaliers a champion in his homecoming season. The 30-year-old superstar took his once-woeful club from a doormat to a title contender that fell short Tuesday as the Golden State Warriors beat the Cavs 105-97 to win the best-of-seven series 4-2, extending Cleveland’s US-record drought without a major pro sports title to 51 years
(Reuters) – LeBron James has tasted defeat four times in NBA Finals now but that does not make it any easier to swallow. In fact, losing to Golden State hurt so much he would rather miss out on the playoffs altogether than lose another championship series. James led the way for Cleveland with 32 points, 18 rebounds and nine assists in Game Six on Tuesday but it was not enough
-Koenigsegg’s One:1 hypercar is just downright ludicrous. Named for its power-to-weight ratio—1340 hp moving an equal number of kilograms, just under 3000 lbs—this thing was built to blow minds. – We’ve seen a good handful of videos of the One:1 in action, blasting 220 mph at a supercar airstrip meetup, thundering around Suzuka Circuit, and even racing that other Swedish juggernaut of torque, the Volvo FH semi truck. – But
-As base cars go, the 2015 Chrysler 300 Limited doesn’t make you feel like you settled for the cheap seats, as even the least-expensive 300 oozes curb appeal. Out on the town? Chances are good the valet will park the 300 (especially one dressed in dark gray or black) near the front with stuff imported from somewhere other than Detroit. Freshened a smidge for 2015, Chrysler’s flagship sedan wears the
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–Overview: Now that the rear-drive FR-S has had its brief moment, the tC coupe resumes the role of bestselling Scion, a position it has occupied for most of the brand’s 11-model-year life. An affordable two-door hatchback coupe sits squarely on-target for this youth-oriented brand that Toyota still refers to as its “test laboratory division.” (Its latest lab experiment is to let Mazda build Scion’s first sedan.) The tC was last
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– Toyota is adding 1.37 million vehicles to the Takata airbag recalls after reports from the Japanese airbag supplier showed the Corolla as one of the highest at-risk vehicles for shrapnel-shooting inflators. – Faulty passenger airbags were installed in more specific vehicles than Toyota had previously known, according to the company. The cars in this latest roundup, other examples of which were included in previous actions, include the 2003–2007 Corolla and Matrix,
– Volvo had no problems selling out the 750-unit global run of high-performance S60 and V60 Polestar models it produced for 2015, and the company recently confirmed it is offering up a second, equally sized batch of the tuned sedans and wagons for 2016. At that point, though, Volvo hadn’t yet worked out how many of those 750 2016 S60 and V60 Polestars were destined for the U.S. Consider that mystery now solved.– – – –
