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BMW may increase i8 production to reduce wait times.
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36-MPG Jaguar XJ-S: Hypermiling Owner's Great Lengths For 1984 Luxury Coupe
An owner boosts the fuel economy of his 3.6-liter six-cylinder Jaguar XJ-S.
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2015 Honda CR-Z Hybrid Two-Seat Coupe: Unchanged For New Model Year
The 2015 Honda CR-Z enters the new model year unchanged.
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Updated 2016 Cadillac ELR Electric Coupe For LA Auto Show
While much of the electric-car world is anticipating the next Chevy Volt, which will launch in January, GM's other range-extended electric car will be getting some changes before then. According to Edmunds, an updated 2016 Cadillac ELR will debut in November at the 2014 Los Angeles Auto Show. DON'T...
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2015 Ford Mustang EcoBoost Gas Mileage: 26 MPG Combined: UPDATE
Leaked window stickers reveal 2015 Ford Mustang EcoBoost fuel economy.
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2015 BMW i8: Sexy Plug-In Hybrid Sport Coupe, Our First Drive
Could the 2015 BMW i8 sports coupe, coming this summer, do for plug-in hybrids what the Tesla Model S did for battery-electric vehicles? That is, could the sleek, sexy, attention-luring coupe with doors that open like insect wings make plug-in hybrids...sexy? ALSO READ: Chevy Volt: How It Really...
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In general, getting people talking about your ad is a good way to get people talking about your car. In the case of "Poolside"--an ad for the 2014 Cadillac ELR range-extended electric luxury coupe aired during the Oscars and the Sochi Olympics--however, not all the talk has been favorable. MORE: 2014 Cadillac ELR Ad: What Does It Say About Who Buys Electric Cars? (Video) In fact, enough of it has been sufficiently negative that Craig Bierley, Cadillac's advertising director, was interviewed about it by Ad Age magazine. As covered by Automotive News, Bierley says the ad was intended to be a...
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2014 Cadillac ELR: Gorgeous, Too-Pricey Electric Luxury Coupe
Let's get one thing out of the way up front: The 2014 Cadillac ELR is rather more than a "tarted-up Volt," in the words of more than one commentator. It's a quiet, smooth, adequately powerful and very stylish coupe with a luxurious interior, and it runs on GM's most advanced range-extended electric...
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2015 BMW i8: Sexy Plug-In Hybrid Sport Coupe Coming Later This Year
With awareness of the 2014 BMW i3 battery-electric car starting to rise--it will arrive at dealers in late April or early May--it's sometimes easy to forget that BMW has a second plug-in car following close behind. And unlike the i3, whose looks are controversial, there's very little debate over...
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2014 Cadillac ELR Ad: What Does It Say About Who Buys Electric Cars? (Video)
Well, if this is the guy who's actually going to buy a 2014 Cadillac ELR, there may be some interesting conversations to come with Nissan Leaf owners. This ELR driver is a hard-charging, self-assured, contemptuous-of-vacations, modern-home-owning middle-aged white male, as portrayed in a recent...
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2014 Cadillac ELR Electric Coupe: Free Home Charging Station Included
When the price of the 2014 Cadillac ELR range-extended luxury coupe was announced last October--it's $75,995--the gasps and shrieking could be heard throughout the plug-in electric car world. Yesterday, Cadillac sweetened the pot a bit: It said it would offer a "complimentary" 240-Volt Level 2 home...
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2014 Cadillac ELR Luxury Electric Coupe: Now En Route To Dealers
The 2014 Cadillac ELR is now shipping to dealers.
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The 2014 Cadillac ELR will hit showrooms in January with a base price of $75,995.
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Top Five Small Coupes With The Best Gas Mileage
It used to be so simple to tell which cars were coupes and which weren't. And not just because the word "Coupe" was emblazoned on your vinyl roof pillars in metallic script. Generally, if it was a little sleeker than the average car, had only two doors and a proper trunk, you had yourself a coupe...
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Delays At Detroit Electric Postpone Electric Sports Car By A Month
Forgive the cynicism, but color us not all that surprised at the news that startup automaker Detroit Electric is postponing production of its SP:01 electric sports car by "at least a month." Launched in a flurry of media attention in early April, the plug-in electric SP:01 sports coupe is...
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Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Electric Drive Supercar: First Drive Video
It was a Mercedes-Benz icon before it became a performance flagship. Now it's a messenger for the future: the gullwing's going electric. The SLS AMG Electric Drive electric car is closing in on series production, converting the octane-addicted supercar to fit a greener vision of the future. We've...
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Diesel History For Sale: 1979 Oldsmobile 98 Coupe, 54K Miles
Fans of diesel-engined cars really, really love their vehicles, and we have a lot of them on this site. So we're hoping that some Southern California diesel car fanatic will step up to the plate and buy this piece of diesel history. Found through the always entertaining Bring A Trailer site, this...
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2014 Cadillac ELR Video Preview
Based on the Volt, but dressed in a very sharp new suit, the 2014 Cadillac ELR promises to bring the joys of greener driving to the executive sector. Not that the luxury segment hasn't already been a hotbed of hybrid development in recent years, though initially slow on the uptake. That makes...
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For years, spy photographers made a living shooting camouflaged test cars for eager fans. Now the auto companies are doing it themselves. GM today released a photo of the 2014 Cadillac ELR on the road in Southern California, covered in camo, as its second teaser shot for the electric luxury coupe it will unveil next Tuesday at the Detroit Auto Show. In mid-December, GM had released a first teaser image of the Cadillac ELR, a shadowy side-profile shot that confirmed its essential shape without adding many details. The range-extended Cadillac will ride on the same underpinnings as the Chevrolet...
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2014 Cadillac ELR Electric Car: Teaser Image Of Voltec Coupe Released
We know the official release of the 2014 Cadillac ELR electric car will be on Monday, January 15, at the Detroit Auto Show. Now Cadillac has released a teaser image of the range-extended electric coupe, which is based on a modified version of the Voltec powertrain used in the Chevrolet Volt...
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All-Electric Mercedes-Benz SLS E-Cell Gets Closer To Launch
For those of you who like fast, expensive, all-electric sports cars, next year will be big. The Audi R8 e-tron will launch first, but it will soon be followed by the Mercedes-Benz SLS E-Cell, the all-electric conversion of its expensive gull-wing sports coupe. Now, Motor Authority has some spy...
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2013 Hyundai Elantra Gives You A Choice: Sedan, Coupe, Hatch (But No Wagon)
Americans won't buy hatchbacks, or so goes the hoary old conventional wisdom. That may no longer be true, as Ford found out, but most compact cars are still four-door sedans. With the 2013 launch of its Elantra GT hatchback and Elantra Coupe, however, Hyundai has expanded its compact line to offer...
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VW’s Golf-Based Scirocco Compact Coupe: Returning To U.S. Soon?
Back in the 1970s, Volkswagen unveiled the Volkswagen Scirocco, a front-engined, front-wheel drive replacement for the aging rear-engined, rear-wheel drive Karmann Ghia coupe. It sold in the U.S. until 1998, ceasing production entirely in 1992 before being reborn as a Volkswagen’s European...
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Infiniti Zero Emission Coupe Concept To Debut At NY Auto Show
Infiniti has been on something of a product blitz lately, launching its 2013 JX seven-seat crossover this month and a host of concept cars over the last year. Now it has confirmed it will show a new concept at the 2012 New York Auto Show two weeks hence: the Infiniti Zero Emission Concept Coupe. We...
John Voelcker