Bentley plans for the future with hybrid models and hopes to snag Maybach customers

Bentley is extensively prepping for their future with a couple of new paths to higher sales. Just recently, the company has downsized from a W12 to a V8 engine and their next course of action is to offer a plug-in hybrid model. In an interview with Car and Driver, Bentley CEO Wolfgang Dürheimer reported that the hybrid system could be based on Volkswagen technology and that it could combine either...

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2013 Chevrolet Spark review

2013 Chevrolet Spark mini-car, introduced in 2011 Los Angeles Auto Show International, is the only car in its segment to offer a seven-inch color touch screen capable of displaying radio-based navigation smartphone, the media and contacts for hands-free calling. A sporty four-passenger, five-door hatch is updated to the United States and Canadian consumers, Chevrolet Spark is designed to stimulate first-time buyers and residents of the city with...

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Gearworld’s Best of 2011: Supercar of the Year

Going through all of the glorious supercars of 2011 was no easy task, especially since it felt like every random country of the world was developing their own supercar. Each vehicle we came across deserved to have their time to shine on the list for best supercar of 2011, but as time went on, it was clear which ones stood out above all of the rest.A couple of the supercars on the list shouldn’t surprise...

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Found in a family members garage rafters when cleaning, a rare 1968 Scat Pack Super Bee light sign, for sale on Craigslist

Aprox. 55" wide, 35" Tall, 8" DeepAprox. 6 lbsPlastic with cardboard back.Original hanging chain attached.Original 2 prong electrical cord attached.5 original light sockets attached. original Dodge Dealer Lighted Scat Pack Super Bee Sign. I found this while cleaning out a garage of a family member who had it stored in the rafters. As you can see from the photos, all the light sockets work (non original bulbs) and the plastic does not have any burn...

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Car collector extraordinaire Bruce Meyer defines the acronym CSX as Carroll Shelby Experimental

That is what I thought it was too, but after reading Shelby Cobra Fifty Years, the author Colin Comer, expert in Cobras, defined CSX as Ace car company 3rd series (a =1st b=2nd c=3rd) S was for Shelby, the customer... and X was for export. So, what is the right definition? I'll have to get the Shelby company, or the SAAC to let me know, and settle this....

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Autoweek’s Vinsetta Garage

Named for a storied auto-repair shop on Detroit’s legendary Woodward Avenue, Autoweek’s Vinsetta Garage originates in the Motor City, for people who live for cars everywhere.http://www.vinsetta.com/ here's my opinion of it after watching it:Started with a look at Bruce Meyer's cars, and some other collector guys with a LeMons Caddy and Bobcat, then a discussion on what is a car person/guy, a dialog with Courtney and Auto Week editor, in a E type Jag.... which the editor calls a Drophead Coupe. Get off your high horse, it's a convertible you egotist....

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Hot Rod Delux turned up a great stroy this month... a found duece had unexpected history, on El Mirage, and a timing tag turned up!

I just keep getting Hot Rod Delux, it never seems like Hot Rod and Car Craft, wasting our money on endless pages of ads and warmed over articles on rebuilding engines and transmissions... they stick to old photos, cool old cars, and lots of interesting stuff turns up... like this duece.Lewis McMillan bought this one at the LARS (LA Roadster Show) in 1978, and had no idea it had dry lakes racing history. (I label dry lakes racing as "dry lakes racing,...

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Mary Ann Foss and Black Magic (58 Pontiac), they won the 1964 D/SA title

Long story short, a mother of 4 kicked butt on the track! If you have the 1964 Nov issue of Hot Rod, go to page 72. If I remember, I will scan that and post it here.Image from http://allshops.org/cgi-bin/community/communityalbums.cgi?action=openalbum&albumid=9980177328...

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The Salt 2 Salt Studebaker set some records at Bonneville this year, with an interesting 182 cu in v8

photo from http://www.flickr.com/photos/70716191@N00/sets/72157627367551319/ where they have a gallery of Bonneville photos or go to their home page (the home of the 1953 Studebaker coupe that established the records in: XO/BGC, XO/BFALT, XF/BFALT, XF/BGALT, F/CGALT, and F/CFALT )  for links to many years of Bonneville galleries http://www.salt2salt.hutman.net/The trick of getting such a small displacement is using a tiny one year...

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Cool Model T stuff found on Acesdeluxe.blogspot.com

http://acesdeluxe.blogspot.c...

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I just learned of a new museum, lots of cars and motorbikes, it's in Murdo, on I90 1/2 way across South Dakota

Here is the inventory from 2011, it's not 100% accurate, but close enough to let you know what you can expect to find, you can get a look at them at http://www.pioneerautoshow.com/tour-cars.php...

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Ronnie Kaplan's #33 Javelin... 1970 Trans Am race car, it's a Red White and Blue color scheme I haven't seen before

 Ronnie was the Javelin Trans Am team leader 1967-1969 and a conversation about his time racing is here: http://www.tajavelin.com/penske_kaplan.html Found on http://homeracingworld.yuku.com/topic/24746/javelin-liveryGet your Red White and Blue TA Javelin fix at http://www.tajavelin.com/photos.h...

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Awesome drag racing video, it's been too long since I posted one... the audio and video are incredible, especially at minute 4:07 watching the Hemi Under Glass carry them the full 1320

Found on http://acesdeluxe.blogspot.c...

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Pulling teeth made easy the motorcycle way

found on http://acesdeluxe.blogspot.com/2011_07_01_archive.h...

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With Van Halen playing the 1984 hit "Jump", Zona Rapida posted a gallery of cars flying over hills

that is clever and funnyhttp://zona-rapida.blogspot.com/2011/11/fotografia-jump.h...

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The highlights of the 2011 WRC season, or... drifts, crashes, and how to fly a car

Found on http://zona-rapida.blogspot.c...

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If you want to browse through a summer car show in Canberra Australia, I found a webite for you

you'ss be able to look at the sunkissed warm Aussie cars from where ever on the planet you are, no mattter how much snow is outside your home, see cars you've never seen before like the Armstrong Siddeley, and ponder what keeps the rest of the world from adopting the Ute as a common car model http://onfourwheels.blogspot.c...

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Opening a car door for a girlfriend... what it means

Either the car is new, or the girlfriend...

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What to do with kids or toddlers when going for a drive 100 years ago was simple, put them in a car seat... but where the car seat was located was unreal by todays standards

 on the far back, or the far front, it's like the idea that placing a kid over a bumper never spraked the notion that kids in the proximity of a bumper become a bumper. Our ancestors seem to have lived by sheer accidental good luck sometimes.all found on http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/179374/251713.html?1323523...

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Charles Bronson was a car collector... who knew?!?! His Bugatti type 49

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Looked like a 34 hot rod, with a 427 cammer, so it was bought at a swap meet... when the new owner stripped it down to check it out, discovered it was built on a stolen Shelby Cobra chassis

found in the book Shelby Cobras Fifty Years, photos by Jeff Bu...

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2011 totals versus 2010 totals

Visits in 2011Total 735,331This Week 22,061PAGE VIEWStotal 2,994,177this week 49,172380 followers and 8670 postsVisits in 2010Total 614,209This Week 13,287PAGE VIEWSTotal 1,315,718This Week 31,918208 followers, and 6600 posts...

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Rene Ortega in Mexico has a marvelous gallery of Carrera Panamerica photos of cool cars

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ranachilan...

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