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Starting Lines: Jag Going To War With Cayman?

POSTED: 25th November 2011

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Jaguar is a sports car company, pure and simple. That’s how it got its start over 60 years ago, and all its most iconic vehicles have had speed in mind. Under the Ford umbrella, that core trait seemed to dull, however. While the XK is a fantastic GT, the company’s focus has been to build [...]


Starting Lines: BMW To Expand i-Series?

POSTED: 23rd September 2011

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Reports out of BMW are currently suggesting that the its two futuristic and eco-conscious i-series vehicles, the i3 and i8 shown here, may soon be joined by two additional models said to be the i4 and i5, a smaller coupe and a family-focused four-door. Both models will employ the i-series design language and will be [...]


Starting Lines – Is Jaguar Going To Build The C-X75?

POSTED: 29th July 2011

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Emphatically… Yes! But it will be missing a key ingredient. We here at RPM have been quite happy with the recent trend of putting super cool concepts into production, even if it is limited production. With Porsche announcing the building of the 918, and Lamborghini putting very few examples of the Sesto Elemento on sale [...]


Starting Lines: Gateway Classic Mustangs Building Bullitt Car

POSTED: 6th June 2011

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Building replicas of famous movie cars is nothing new. After the second version of Gone in 60 Seconds came out, the streets soon filled with Eleanor lookalikes. However, it’s taken a good long time for a replica of the most famous Mustang of all to take shape. The Steve McQueen thriller Bullitt features a Mustang [...]


Starting Lines: Next Chrysler 300 Unleashed

POSTED: 16th May 2011

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When the Chrysler 300 surfaced in 2005, it put the entire full-size sedan market on notice, offering the most masculine, chisel-jawed good looks in the segment. However, since that time, sales of the 300 have consistently fallen and the design has now become quite long in the tooth. However, with Chrysler doing a full facelift [...]


Starting Lines: Viper Confirmed for 2012

POSTED: 18th February 2011

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The merger of Fiat and Chrysler has done great things for the beleaguered American manufacturer. Along with an influx of both finances and morale, the merger has seen the return of several vehicles, including the Durango and Avenger. However, there is still one very large hole left in the Dodge lineup that is soon to [...]


Starting Lines: The Boss is Coming!

POSTED: 1st November 2010

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Ford gave the green light only once before. In 1968, management approved a special Mustang – a car that sacrificed nothing in its quest to be the best all-around road-going performance machine ever created by Ford Motor Company…


Starting Lines: Toyota and Tesla Join Forces

POSTED: 9th August 2010

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The ever-increasing list of recalls just keeps on coming from Toyota in an unprecedented degree of of bad press. However, a surprise announcement that the Japanese company will be joining forces with electric sports car builder, Tesla, created a short breath of good news. The two companies…


Starting Lines: Porsche Makes Fuel Efficiency Look Sexy

POSTED: 18th June 2010

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What do you get when you mix a Carrera GT with a Boxster Spyder, a hybrid and Porsche’s race-winning RS Spyder? One of the coolest concepts we’ve ever laid eyes on. After unveiling a hybrid version of its 911 GT3 race car, Porsche offered up this tasty beauty at the Geneva Auto Show…


Starting Lines: Toyota Recalls Millions

POSTED: 7th June 2010

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Recalls are nothing new in the auto business. When you build hundreds of thousands of cars a year, little problems are bound to pop up from time to time. In the most important recall since the infamous Ford/Firestone fiasco, Toyota’s “unintended acceleration”…