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Mother Nature Network |
Jun 17 2013, 2:19pm CDT
Sarah Robinson knows all about adrenaline. She spent six years as the first female tire tester for Michelin North America, which meant going flat out — through snow, ice and baking heat — in everything from BMW M3s and Honda Odysseys to sem ...
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Automotive Blogs |
Jun 17 2013, 12:51pm CDT
Product upgrades and plant sourcing moves that Chrysler Group started in 2010 will culminate in 2016, and although decisions will be made before then, there are still many questions without answers. For example ...
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Automobile Magazine |
Jun 17 2013, 10:30am CDT
Chrysler Group will revamp almost its entire model range by 2016, according to a new report from WardsAuto. The update confirms much of what we already learned from Chrysler’s five-year product planning documents. By 2016, Wards estimates that ...
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Automobile Magazine |
Jun 16 2013, 9:38am CDT
While sitting (cowering, really) outside the bathrooms at Baltimore-Washington International Airport during a tornado warning, I pondered my day driving the 2014 Fiat 500L. Fiat chose the Maryland city to introduce it' ...
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NBC Washington |
Jun 16 2013, 6:43am CDT
Police say a motorcycle driver was seriously injured when a driver failed to yield in Howard County Saturday. A motorcycle driver was hospitalized with serious injuries following an accident in Elkridge, Md. late Saturday afternoon. Police wer ...
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Auto Week |
Jun 15 2013, 11:49pm CDT
Fiat The 2014 Fiat 500L has a turbocharged 1.4-liter making 160 hp and 184 lb-ft of torque. In true Italian style, Fiat brought the drama to its 500L launch event in Baltimore this week. Not only did it provide a small mo ...
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The Eagle-Tribune | North Andover, MA |
Jun 15 2013, 11:05pm CDT
Automakers are spending billions of dollars to squeeze efficiency from a car part most people never think twice about: the transmission. In the next five years, many new vehicles will have transmissions with up to 10 speed ...
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Car and Driver |
Jun 15 2013, 11:04pm CDT
Fiat has moved on from its initial marketing flop with J.Lo. The brand now deploys a little Italian cheek—literally—with scorpions snipping bikini tops and singer Pitbull fist-bumping the tiny 500 into the American psyche. Sexy sell ...
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Baltimore Sun |
Jun 15 2013, 8:20pm CDT
Howard County police are investigating a crash that injured a motorcyclist when a car allegedly failed to yield the right of way. The accident occurred Saturday at approximately 5:29 p.m., when the driver ...
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Montgomery Media |
Jun 15 2013, 2:05pm CDT
100 Years Ago — Passing locomotives shrieked, the town fire whistle got on the job, the Lansdale Fire Company hurried with their apparatus to the scene, but to no avail. A main portion of the works is in ruins, tons of ra ...
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