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The BMW Acronym and History Behind it Might Surprise You | MotorBiscuit
The popular luxury and performance car manufacturer is known as BMW, but few people actually know what the name stands…
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Air Force F-15Es Trained To Launch Cruise Missiles In The Baltic Region During Major Exercise
The U.S. Air Force recently led a major exercise in and around Europe that also included elements from other branches…
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Flowcamper Casper Packs Big RV Living Into Tiny Volkswagen Space
With winter weather waning in the northern hemisphere, it’s time to turn our attention to outdoor adventuring. German-based Flowcamper offers…
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Mercedes-AMG Confirms Higher-Performance GT Four-Door Hybrid
Mercedes-AMG has confirmed an even higher-performance GT four-door, and it could have upward of 800 horsepower. There’s a “V8 BiTurbo…
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How Many Miles Will a Jeep Last? | MotorBiscuit
For many car shoppers, how many miles a car can last is key when buying a new vehicle. With that…
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Don’t Knock This Four-Door Chevy Corvette C3 Until You Buy It
If there has always been one drawback of buying a Chevrolet Corvette over a Porsche 911, it’s been the Chevy’s…
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Hyundai breaks ground on fuel cell plant in China
Hyundai Motor Group has announced it held a virtual groundbreaking ceremony for HTWO Guangzhou, the group’s first fuel cell system…
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Tested: 2001 Compact SUV Winter Showdown
From the March 2001 issue of Car and Driver. Every Michigander—hell, even the Michigoslings—knows perfectly well what happens in December,…
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JLR Cancels Electric Road Rover, Jaguar J-Pace Likely Dead As Well
Times are tough for Jaguar and Land Rover. The conglomerate’s global sales were down 24 percent in 2020, with Jaguar’s…
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Chevrolet Just Increased the Price of all C8 Corvettes by $1,000 | MotorBiscuit
For those of you hoping to scoop up a 2021 Chevrolet Corvette, you better re-write that check. Chevrolet just increased…
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2022 Kia Niro Spy Photos Show Crossover Hiding Its Updated Design
It’s easy to lose the Kia Niro in the expansive sea of affordable crossovers, though the relatively new model is…
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2022 Volvo C40 Recharge Expands Volvo’s EV Family
The C40 Recharge is Volvo’s latest electric-vehicle offering. Similar in size and specs to the XC40 Recharge, the C40 has…
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2022 Volvo C40 Recharge: What We Know So Far
Overview Volvo has chopped the roof on its electric XC40 Recharge SUV to create the more stylish 2022 C40 Recharge.…
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2021 Volkswagen ID.4 Review, Pricing, and Specs
Overview After years of teasing us with electric-powered concept cars, Volkswagen is finally delivering on its promises with the ID.4…
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18 Easter Eggs on the 2021 Ford Bronco
Marc UrbanoCar and Driver We’ve been rightfully complaining for years about vehicle interiors. So much dark, cheap plastic dripped over…
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Toyota Yaris Wins European Car Of The Year Award
The new Toyota Yaris was named European Car of the Year for 2021. The Japanese hatchback took the crown leaving…
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Genesis GV60 Rendered To Life After Recent Spy Photos
Genesis is set to launch its first-ever all-electric SUV later this year and according to a report from February, it…
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Tested: 2021 Volkswagen ID.4 Seeks to Normalize Electric Cars
As electric cars begin to proliferate, we are seeing the auto industry figuring out the best way to build and…
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Geely’s Volvo Cars to be fully electric by 2030
XC40 was Volvo’s first BEV SUV, part of an EV and PHEV model line now sub-branded Recharge Volvo Cars said…
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It Takes 88 Laps to Break Even on the Nürburgring’s Annual Season Pass
There are all kinds of season passes out there, nowadays, ranging from theme parks to Olive Garden, but did you…
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Petaluma, California, Is the First US City to Ban New Gas Pumps
The Petaluma, California, city council unanimously voted to become the first city in the United States to ban both the…
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MINI Gets a Makeover — Three Models Upgrade with No Price Change | MotorBiscuit
It’s time for an upgrade to some of the Mini Cooper models, but this will be the first time three…
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Google Tells Search Users It’s a Good Idea to Throw Car Batteries Into the Ocean
The Internet is a weird, wild repository for the breadth of human knowledge and ingenuity regardless of how correct or…
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Odd-Looking Three-Wheeled Electric RV From China Only Sells For $4,800
Full-fledged motorhomes are usually hulking in size, and that’s rightfully so since you should be getting a large usable living…
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Is the 2021 Kia K5 GT Really a Sport Sedan? | MotorBiscuit
While the 2021 K5 (née Optima) may be stylish, the Kia sedan doesn’t quite have the performance to match. The…
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Glickenhaus 008 Baja Dakar Buggy Gets Updated In Official Renderings
Nearly a year ago, James Glickenhaus, owner of Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus, brought forth his intention to build a wild SCG-branded all-terrain…
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Honda Insight Powered By Single-Cylinder Harbor Freight Engine Actually Works
Engine swaps are typically done to generate more power, but that’s not always the main focus. Sometimes people do them…
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Nearly 2 Million Toyota RAV4s Are Under Investigation Over Fire Risk
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened a preliminary evaluation investigation into the 2013 through 2018 Toyota RAV4 because…
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Is The Subaru 360 The Worst Car In History? | MotorBiscuit
Subaru may have found a fan base in the United States; however, it debuted with critical failure. The first Subaru…
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Why Is Everyone Bidding On This Junky-Looking, Old Dodge Caravan?
Modified minivans may seem like an oxymoron, but what else would you call this 1994 Dodge Caravan that’s for sale…
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The Outdated 2017 Nissan Frontier Is Still Winning Awards | MotorBiscuit
While the 2022 cars are slowly rolling out, critics are still stuck on the 2017 Nissan Frontier. What makes this…
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Custom McLaren 720S From SWAE Is A Wicked Widebody Weapon With 900 HP
SWAE Pushes the Limits of Material Sciences and 3D Printing with the First in a Series of Exotic Vehicles…
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What Car Model Deserves to Be Spun-Off Into Its Own Brand?
Remember when Genesis was just one weirdly luxurious sedan in the Hyundai lineup? Now, it’s its own full-fledged luxury brand…
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Would You Drive This Crazy-Looking Porsche Taycan Art Car For Sale?
Art cars can be an equally exciting and controversial endeavor. Throughout the years, the meeting of automotive and artistic minds…
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2021 Chevrolet Corvette Review, Pricing, and Specs
Overview After years of waiting for the mid-engine Corvette to make its debut, the pressure was on for Chevrolet to…
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2021 Jaguar F-Pace SVR Is New, Fast, and Doomed
The auto industry never stops moving forward, and any new model faces a finite lifespan. Yet the revised F-Pace SVR…
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View Photos of the 2021 Jaguar F-Pace SVR
Jaguar The 2021 Jaguar F-Pace SVR is the rare refreshed model with a hard expiration date, since Jaguar has announced…
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3 Reasons the 2021 Ford Raptor is Better Than the Ram TRX
The battle of the super trucks is intensifying. For a few months, the 2021 Ram 1500 TRX didn’t have any…
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2021 BMW 5 Series Sedan: Review, Trims, Specs, Price, New Interior Features, Exterior Design, and Specifications
As it did last year, the BMW 5 Series range is available in seven trims in the USA: 530i, 530i…
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2022 Jeep Grand Cherokee Five-Passenger Spied Showing A Different Face
The new Jeep Grand Cherokee L debuted its three-row body back in January, but the current-generation SUV soldiers on for…
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Ghosn’s accused rescuers sent to Japan
But none of those efforts paid off. In recent weeks, the federal appeals court in Massachusetts and the U.S. Supreme…
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Faraday Institution: Step forward in mechanistic understanding of oxygen-redox processes in lithium-rich battery cathodes
Scientists based at the University of Oxford as part of the Faraday Institution CATMAT project researching next-generation cathode materials have…
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GTO Engineering Project Moderna: This Quad-Cam V12 Classic Ferrari Tribute Is Ready for Production
With the Ferrari 250 GTOs being among the most valuable collector cars, at this point, I don’t even want to…
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Ford Maverick Could Start At Less Than $20,000
It’s no secret by now that Ford is bringing back its Maverick pickup truck. Ever since the name resurfaced a…
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2022 Kia Carnival Starts at $33,275, Up $1700 over Sedona It Replaces
The new 2022 Kia Carnival starts at $33,275, a $1700 price increase from the Kia Sedona it replaces. The Carnival…
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McKinsey & Company: Road work ahead: The emerging revolution in the road construction industry
Advances in technology will affect not only the composition and utilization of roads but also the speed and cost of…
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2022 Chevrolet Bolt EUV Review, Pricing, and Specs
Overview Chevrolet has expanded its electric vehicle lineup for 2022 by introducing the SUV-inspired Bolt EUV (Electric Utility Vehicle), which…
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Price Hike: The Chevrolet Corvette Will No Longer Be a Sub-$60K Mid-Engined Car
When the much-hyped current-gen Chevrolet Corvette was first announced, it made waves not just for being the first mid-engined Corvette…
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EKPO Fuel Cell Technologies launches
EKPO Fuel Cell Technologies, the joint venture of ElringKlinger (60%) and Plastic Omnium (40%), is now ready to start operations,…
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EU mandated EV and charging station labeling starts 20 March
A new, harmonised set of labels for electric vehicles and charging stations will start to be used throughout Europe from…
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