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The Rime of the Gaydon Mariners: Aston Martin Announces 2016 DB9 GT, Updates to Vantage and Rapide S

– There’s something about the older Aston Martins in the company’s lineup. The Vantage GT, while outclassed on paper by the Corvette Z06 and the Jaguar F-type V8, manages to retain an analog sports-car feel that’s wholly charming in its own right. And the DB9, despite 11 years in production, remains an involving, lovely thing to drive. It is, perhaps, the most idyllically Aston Martin of all the models the

2016 Mercedes GLE450 and GLE63 AMG Coupe Driven: If BMW Jumped Off a Bridge, Would You?

-There is strength in numbers, something you discover as a child when you commit some heinous offense against adult society and then try to blame your peers: “But everyone was doing it!” In my household, that protest was always met with the rejoinder, “If all the other kids decided to jump off a bridge, would you do that, too?” delivered by my mother with equal parts anger and sarcasm. Perhaps

CUEd Up: Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, CUE Updates Coming to 2016 Cadillacs

-As much as we love driving the current generation of Cadillacs—see for example our recent reviews of the ATS-V sedan and coupe, or our long-term wrap-up of our CTS Vsport—we remain frustrated and annoyed with the brand’s CUE touch-screen infotainment interface. Come 2016, however, most Cadillacs will get Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, which could prove far more convenient than dealing with CUE on its own. – The Cadillac news

GMC Adds Apple CarPlay to Yukon, Sierra, and Canyon, Misses Opportunity to Call It TruckPlay

-General Motors’ truck-slinging division, GMC, has announced that it is following its corporate brethren at Chevrolet, Buick, and Cadillac in offering Apple’s CarPlay connectivity. – For 2016, Sierra and Canyon pickups and Yukon and Yukon XL SUVs equipped with the seven- or eight-inch IntelliLink infotainment touch screens will have CarPlay functionality, which allows occupants to mirror some smartphone apps directly on the display. Users can also access functions using their vehicle’s onboard voice-command system to control Apple’s

France summons U.S. envoy over 'unacceptable' NSA spying

By John Irish and Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) – France summoned the U.S. ambassador on Wednesday to explain allegations by transparency lobby group WikiLeaks of what President Francois Hollande branded “unacceptable” spying on successive French leaders. The latest revelations of espionage among Western allies come after it emerged the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) had spied on Germany and that Germany’s own BND intelligence agency had cooperated with the NSA