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You Had Us at Gulf Blue: Porsche Creates Gorgeous 911 Targa 4S Exclusive Edition Exclusively for . . . the Netherlands?

– The Netherlands is a perfectly agreeable little northern European country, but let us tell you what: We want to invade it and call it our own right about now. CarandDriverLands has a nice ring to it, right? What has us seeing red mist over such a friendly little nation? Well, Porsche has just introduced an ultra-limited-edition 911 Targa 4S dubbed the Exclusive Edition to celebrate 50 years of Targas,

Dual-Clutch Buicks Are in China, We’re Waiting for Their Visas

– We’ve been seeing more camouflaged Buick Envision crossovers near our offices, and now we’re surer than ever what’s under those taped hoods: the General’s first dual-clutch transmission. As the elderly ladies and dogs in the commercials say, “That’s not a Buick!” – – But it is, at least in China. Last week, Buick released the Envision 20T, equipped with a seven-speed dual-clutch automatic paired with one of GM’s many

2016 Chevrolet Silverado Spy Photos: A Slight Mug Adjustment Is in Store

-The wheels of automotive development, they are a turnin’. Well, that and the five-to-six-year product cycle is always a turnin’, and so it goes with Chevrolet’s Silverado 1500 pickup. Having been redesigned for 2014, the Silverado is coming due for a freshening in the next year or so. Right on schedule, then, we’ve received our first spy photos of the updated 2016 Chevy Silverado out testing.– – Predictably, the Silverado

Afghan blast kills 33; president blames Islamic State

By Rafiq Sherzad JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) – A suicide bomber in Afghanistan’s eastern city of Jalalabad killed 33 people and injured more than 100 on Saturday, setting off a blast outside a bank where government workers collect salaries, the city’s police chief said. President Ashraf Ghani blamed Islamic State militants, without giving further detail. If true, it would be the first such major attack carried out by the group in

President Ghani: IS claims responsibility for deadly Afghan bombing

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a suicide attack in Afghanistan Saturday that killed 33 people and wounded more than 100 others, President Ashraf Ghani said, in what appears to be the first major attack by the jihadists in the country. Ghani’s government has repeatedly raised the ominous prospect of IS making inroads into Afghanistan, though the group that has captured swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq has

TV: Russia's Putin says ready to work with United States

Russia has key interests in common with the United States and needs to work with it on a common agenda, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday in a television interview. In his comments to the state-run Rossiya channel, Putin appeared to soften his anti-American rhetoric after being highly critical. Relations between Moscow and Washington and other Western powers have soured over the conflict in Russia’s neighbor Ukraine, sinking to