This ’66 Dodge Dart Is Nothing Like the One Your Grandma Drove
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Audi Swaps Matrix LED Lights for Matrix OLED Lights, but U.S. Still in the Dark
– Emerging from an extremely brief shadow in the modern headlight technology wars, Audi has announced it will debut a concept car at this fall’s Frankfurt auto show featuring Matrix OLED headlights. After sparring with BMW over who’d be first to market with a laser headlight, Audi is moving to incorporate OLED (organic LED) lighting into its clever Matrix headlight technology, the one where a multitude of individual lights are
In Colorado, a Big Budget and Crew Try to Make Top Gear, American-Style
– Car television went plotz a few months ago with the sudden meltdown of Britain’s Top Gear. If only Jeremy Clarkson had first given a thought to old Woody Hayes or George S. Patton, two guys who accomplished a lot in life but are often remembered first (or second—certainly in the top five) for hitting an underling. You can scream and you can throw things, as Indiana’s Bobby Knight did,
Ford Focus RS Pricing and Options Accidentally Revealed Online
Wanna see something cool? Head on over to this URL. Looks like a semi-broken Ford website, right? Go ahead and click through to the 2016 Ford Focus section—as of this writing, you can configure a 2016 Ford Focus RS on a website we’re pretty sure Ford didn’t want you to see. There you’ll find that the RS starts at $36,605 including destination and delivery fees. – First discovered by commenters at Jalopnik,
Owners Want Aston to Make Their $2.3-Million Vulcan Track Cars Road-Legal
– You demanded it, folks. Okay, maybe not you, since your net worth is almost definitely somewhere south of a billion dollars, but at least some of the fantastically heeled buyers of Aston Martin’s wicked, track-focused Vulcan hypercar have asked the company to look into making the thing street-legal. – The report comes to us from Dutch website Autovisie via the newspaper De Telegraaf, with Vulcan project manager Simon Croft stating that, while some people have
2016 Hyundai Tucson SE 2.0L FWD Driven: Ace of Base
-Hyundai is just so geeked to tell you about all the gilded features you can get on the 2016 Tucson. It’s practically like an Audi, they might say, what with its LED taillights, LED running lights, LED map lights, and even non-LED-lit things such as heated and ventilated seats, a 405-watt sound system, a panoramic sunroof, leather upholstery, automatic emergency braking, and a turbocharged four-cylinder engine with a dual-clutch automatic
2016 Hyundai Tucson SE 2.0L FWD – First Drive Review
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2 houses from 'Breaking Bad' for sale in Albuquerque
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Two houses featured on the hit AMC-TV series “Breaking Bad” are up for sale in Albuquerque.
The Long Goodbye: We Drive Every Generation of Land Rover Defender
-Nothing is more British than the Land Rover Defender. Not the royal family, not warm beer, not even an understanding of cricket’s LBW rule or the baffling urge to have a lovely cup of hot, milky tea when the temperature is nudging 90 degrees Fahrenheit in the shade. Which is why the official retirement of this venerable, but much-loved, automotive fossil has practically triggered a bout of national mourning. So
Afghan intelligence agency says Taliban's leader is dead
KABUL (Reuters) – A spokesman for Afghanistan’s intelligence agency said on Wednesday that Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar died two years ago in a Pakistani hospital. The statement by National Directorate of Security spokesman Hasib Sediqi came after the Afghan government said it was investigating reports of Omar’s death, just days ahead of an expected second round of peace talks with the Taliban. The NDS has previously said privately