Content Provided Courtesy of BenzInsiderThe China division of Mercedes-Benz is being investigated along with two other auto manufacturers by the Administrative Center for Defective Products of China or the DPAC since it supposedly used asphalt on vehicles as sound deadeners. The two other automobile manufacturers whose China divisions were also investigated were Audi and BMW. [...]
This is the sound of eight very angry pistons wailing away like it’s their last day on earth. The thing that gets me about race cars isn’t just how intense they are, but the fact that they have to me maxed out around a track, all day, non-stop. That’s impressive. Don’t get me wrong, I [
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Trucks don’t autocross. It’s just one of those things that is better accomplished in a car with a low center of gravity and sticky tires. You know what though? Don’t tell that to the guys ...
Content Provided Courtesy of Benz-Insider Hildesheim-based tuner KTW Tuning has just outed a C63 AMG-based beast with obvious Black Series influences and aspirations. The tuned car comes with a tweaked engine that gets an output of just a shade under 518 horsepower (386 kW rating, per EU standards). KTW has also disabled the Vmax speed limiter [...]
In the battle of the modern diesel powered pickups, the real contenders are the Ford PowerStroke and the Rams Cummins Turbo Diesel – and the video below shows one Ram warrior handing a sound beating to a vastly less modified Ford Super Duty. In fact, the Ford in the video is so much slower that ...
Last month, trading on the S&P500 neared an all-time high, and the DowJones actually surpassed its all-time peak. So what’s the smart investor to do? In a commercial from the late ’90s—or early ’00s—BMW had the answer. Descending the staircase paying no heed to the market news on his (extremely early) flat screen television, the [
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Let’s wind the clock back to 2007. McLaren-Mercedes was ready to kick off their F1 season with a driver lineup that appeared second to none. Fernando Alonso had just signed with McLaren. The Spaniard was coming off a World Championship season with the Renault Factory team, his second drivers’ championship for his now former team. [...]
