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BMW To Unleash Optional Competition Package For 2014 M5 Sport Sedan

The refreshed 2014 BMW M5 is expected to arrive on dealer lots later this year, but if an intriguing report from the folks at BMW Blog is 100% accurate, the company will be offering a special package to spice up the M5′s already potent performance figures.  That should please buyers that want more fun and performance from their sport sedan purchase, and who feel that 560 horsepower is not quite enough for their performance driving needs.

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Audi Unveils Lightweight TT Ultra Quattro Concept

With the annual Worthersee Volkswagen Group Tuning Festival fast approaching, Audi engineers will be wowing the crowds in Austria this May with their latest concept vehicle the TT Ultra Quattro Concept, which was designed to showcase the company’s weight saving technologies and how they can improve performance.

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Volkswagen Plans Ten New Plants By 2018

Volkswagen plans to be the world’s largest automaker – a title that has been surprisingly in flux for the past several years, after three quarters of a century of GM occupying that spot – by 2018.  Today the company announced another angle of how it plans to get there: expanding global production capacity in a big way.  And make no mistake, at this point, it sounds extremely likely that VW will meet its 2018 goal.

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BMW Surpasses Audi In Luxury-Car Sales Race

In the latest twist in the fierce duel between BMW and Audi for first place in the heated global luxury car sales race, BMW has overtaken its longtime rival to regain first place after posting stronger than expected February sales numbers.

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Audi Unveils A3 E-Tron Concept Ahead Of Geneva Debut

Audi has pulled the veil off of its reworked A3 E-Tron concept which will represent the brand’s latest entry in its long line of E-Tron concept vehicles when it makes its official debut at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show in March.

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Detroit 2013: 2014 Audi RS7

In its press conference late yesterday, Audi graced the stage with the 2014 Audi RS7 which is the four ringed brand’s entry in the heated high performance four door coupe segment going up against key rivals such as the also recently unveiled BMW M6 Gran Coupe and the equally formidable Mercedes CLS63 4 MATIC.

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Are You Ready For a Self-Driving Car?

At next week’s International CES in Las Vegas (where our own Kevin Gordon will be on-site), both Toyota and Audi will show their concepts for self-driving, or autonomous cars.  Some states (Nevada, California, and Florida) have approved autonomous cars on public roads, and many observers see them as welcome, or necessary, or inevitable.  But are you ready for them?

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Infiniti Announces Idiotic New Naming Scheme

Over the years, Infiniti’s management has made some head-scratching moves.  The brand, launched around the same time as Lexus, decided to show rocks and trees – and not the actual products – as it launched, which led potential buyers to wonder just what the heck Infiniti was.  Now, Infiniti has a decent – albeit not full – lineup consisting of the G and M cars, and EX, JX, FX, and QX crossovers, all with model names that describe their engine displacement, so it must be time to blow things up.

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Audi Unveils F12 e Performance Prototype Vehicle

Following three years of hard work and development with the engineers at Bosch as well as several smaller institutes, Audi has unveiled the final product of this joint project, the Audi F12 e Performance prototype.  The car showcases new materials and EV technology that could trickle down into full production in the near future.

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Mercedes Watches as Competitors Shift (More) Gears

On 14 May 2003, Mercedes announced its new 7G-TRONIC gearbox, a world’s first for an automatic gearbox with seven gears. In its day, it was something revolutionary when its competitors were either on 5-speed or 6-speed automatic gearboxes. Seven gears, Mercedes said, would vastly improve fuel consumption and acceleration.

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