At roughly 21 feet long, the Mercedes-Maybach Pullman is the successor to the legendary Mercedes 600 Pullman (aka the Großer Mercedes) – it will be made for dignitaries and heads of state and cost a bloody fortune.

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Japan’s Mag-X got their first look at the new Honda S660, successor to the Beat sports car, at an event in Hokkaido. Also spied in the background, a camo’d Civic Type-R.

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Will a 911 Turbo by any other name be as sweet? Porsche thinks so.

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From  “Commuting in America 2013” via AASHTO. Lots of growth in private transportation, but public transit, telecommuting and walking to work have stayed fairly flat. Despite prognostications of a newly urbanized populace that’s hungry for public transportation, the statistics seem to tell a different story.

H/T Glenn Mercer

While the mechanicals are unchanged, the Hyundai Elantra GT gets a new, Sonata-inspired face and 17″ wheels.

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Driving a rear-drive, turbocharged car in the winter is usually an exercise in gentle throttle control coupled with self-restraint. And it’s tough when you lack both of those traits.

Past experiences with this kind of car tend to follow a typical pattern. Enter a turn, lift the throttle to unsettle the rear of the car, get back on the gas. Wait, wait, wait for the turbo to spool up (if you’re in something like a Volvo 700 or 900-Series wagon) and then *BAM*, get hit with a fist-full of boost. No wonder Gordon Murray always championed the naturally aspirated engine.

But it looks like things have changed.

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A small housekeeping item. Tomorrow and Friday will feature coverage of the Chicago Auto Show. We will return to regularly scheduled programming on Saturday.

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You might be thinking that in a fit of absent-mindedness, I’ve mistakenly put a photo of a Opel Insignia or Buick Regal as the main image – and technically, you’re right. But the car above, though it’s difficult to see, is actually wearing a Holden badge.

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Pity the poor common Frenchman of the Third Estate. He will never know what it’s like to be Dominique Strauss-Khan. To go from a ministerial Renault or Peugeot sedan to an Audi A7. To show up in an A7 to his court hearing on charges of “aggravated pimping”. To have half naked women throw themselves at you, while cocooned inside your A7. To deny such charges by stating that participation in orgies (filled with sex workers procured by DSK) were merely “rare”.  Forget the 35 hour work week. The French know how to live.

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I haven’t owned an American car since 1992, but it’s been over 35 years since I’ve even driven a Chevrolet. In 1979, my husband bought himself a Caprice, with the biggest V8 engine available. Usually, we owned Chryslers, Dodges and once, a green V8 Mustang, like the one Steve McQueen drove in Bullitt. There was also a Mercury […]

New cars in India will have to face mandatory crash testing, while the cars of the next Bond film will almost certainly end up crashed.

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Chevrolet’s Bolt EV will go into production in 2016, along with an Opel variant.

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The Ontario government has sold their remaining stake in General Motors for $1.1 billion.

Oh, and #Technologyandstuff

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Winners of the contest to win one of three copies of Weird Cars by Michael Banovsky have been announced.

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