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French Prankster Poses as a Mobile Speed Camera, gets Caught After Flashing the Police

By Ant On January 28, 2012 No Comments

You may have heard about French humorist Rémi Gaillard who has made a name for himself over the past few years for a series of pranks that he uploads on his YouTube channel.

For his latest practical joke, Gaillard decided to dress up as a…mobile speed camera and flash passing cars on the road.

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TRD Suits up the New 2013 Lexus GS F Sport Sedan in Japan

By Ant On January 28, 2012 No Comments

As soon as Lexus rolled out the new 2013 GS sedan in Japan on Thursday, its parent company’s performance division, Toyota Racing Developments (TRD), came out with a selection of upgrade parts for the F Sport model.

We’ll remind you that the F Sport package for the new GS already includes an aero kit with different front and rear bumpers, a mesh front grille, side skirts and a rear spoiler along with 19-inch wheels and a tuned suspension.

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ABT Sportsline Does the Audi A4 Facelift, S4 gets up to 435HP

By Ant On January 28, 2012 No Comments

Whenever Audi presents a new or a revised model, ABT Sportsline follows up with a host of upgrades. The refreshed Audi A4 / S4 sedan is no exception to the rule with the German tuning firm offering a number of styling and performance parts and accesories.

To give a more aggressive look to the facelifted A4′s exterior, ABT designed a new aero kit that includes a front apron, rocker panels, a rear apron and diffuser combo, side air vents plus a three-piece boot lid spoiler that wraps around the body.

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BMW Driver Too Fast for his Own Good…

By Ant On January 28, 2012 No Comments

It seems that the BMW 5-Series [E39] sedan owner seen in this surveillance footage using what looks like an Opel Vectra as a launching ramp either failed to recall or was never told about the merits of defensive driving.

Guess he just had to learn his lesson the hard way… Fortunately, from what we can tell from the video that follows below, no one seems to have been seriously hurt.

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Fiat to Launch New Strada Small Pickup Truck in its Home Market

By Ant On January 28, 2012 No Comments

Starting from next week, Fiat will offer its new Strada pickup truck in its home market of Italy. The Strada is Fiat’s second best-selling commercial vehicle after the Ducato with 127,800 units sold worldwide in 2011. It is built at the company’s FIASA plant in Betim, Brazil.

The revised light commercial model comes in three flavors named Working, Trekking and Adventure plus three body styles, including short cab, long cab and the four-seater crew cab for a total of six different variants.

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New Four-Cylinder Honda Crosstour Costs $2,685 Less than V6, Starts at $28,465*

By Ant On January 28, 2012 No Comments

Honda is expanding the range of its Accord-based Crosstour model with the addition of a four-cylinder, two-wheel drive version that goes on sale today priced from $27,655, or $28,465 if you include an $810 destination and handling charge. That’s $2,685 less than the equivalent V6 model.

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First Production Aston Martin V12 Zagato to Debut at Kuwait Concours d’ Elegance

By Ant On January 28, 2012 No Comments

We were expecting to see the final production version of the Aston Martin V12 Zagato at last year’s Frankfurt Motor Show but instead the British company turned one of the racing concepts into a road-spec show car to give an indication of what it would look like.

Now the time has come for Aston Martin to put the concepts aside and show the first finished customer car that will make its world premiere at the Kuwait Concours d’ Elegance from February 15 to 18.

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Ford Posts Biggest Profit Since 1998 but only Thanks to One-Time Gain, Gives $6,200 Bonus to Workers

By Ant On January 28, 2012 No Comments

Piggybacked by a one-time tax gain, Ford Motor Company has posted its highest annual profit since 1998 and the second biggest in the firm’s 109-year long history. The Blue Oval’s net income for 2011 was US$20.2 billion or US$4.94 per share, an increase of US$13.7 billion, or US$3.28 per share, from a year ago.

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SPIED: New Porsche 911 Turbo Pops Into our Radar

By Ant On January 28, 2012 No Comments

For the past 38 years, all generations of the 911 include at least one Turbo variant, and the most recent iteration of Porsche’s iconic sports car with the internal designation 991 will be no different.

Stuttgart’s engineers have been meticulously working on the development of the all-new 911 Turbo for quite some time now and it shouldn’t be long before it makes its official appearance.

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New BMW X3 Tops while Range Rover Evoque Flops Consumer Reports' Tests

By Ant On January 28, 2012 No Comments

Just like a Rotten Tomatoes review can make or break a movie’s reputation and its box-office success, Consumer Reports’ road tests have the potential to boost a vehicle’s sales or in some cases force a an automaker to run back to the drawing board.

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