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BMW X6 M Road Test

weaponX submitted on 8/22/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 2:28:05 AM

When folks first happen upon BMW’s peculiarly proportioned X6, they can’t get over its skyscraper butt. Many can’t get around it, either. Were you to walk into the X6’s liftgate at midnight outside the Sidetrack Tap, the thing would nail you not in t...

15 user comments | Category: Reviews

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More Power + PDK Equals The New Porsche 911 Turbo

weaponX submitted on 8/7/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 11:06:13 PM

More than one year after the regular Porsche 911 migrated to Phase II of the 997 architecture, the Turbo follows. The most important change: A new twin-turbocharged, direct-injection flat-six engine with higher compression (9.8:1, from 9.0:1), a disp...

11 user comments | Category: Spy Shots

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Who is the king of the 'Ring? Nissan GT-R vs Porsche 911 GT2.

weaponX submitted on 2/2/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 5:18:02 PM

It was a throwaway statement, but once it was reported and widely quoted, it caused quite a controversy. Oh, how we all love a tempest in a teapot. It went thus. August Achleitner, the demure chief of the Porsche 911 range, was speaking to an Aust...

28 user comments | Category: Reviews

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Classic Twin-Clutch Battle: BMW M3 vs Porsche 911 Carrera

weaponX submitted on 12/24/2008 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 1:43:57 PM

Is the squeaky-clean, push-button, microchip-managed future of motoring grim? It’s hard to say. Ignition keys are disappearing. So are clutch pedals. And toxic gases. And the risk of violent death. Your outlook may depend on whether you’d rather ...

30 user comments | Category: Reviews

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Audi R8 Smoked By Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG Wagon.

weaponX submitted on 7/14/2008 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 11:33:52 PM

Few sports cars at any price have garnered as much attention and accolade as the sexy, saucy, and very fast Audi R8. So imagine one being outgunned by a housewife in, of all things, a station wagon. That’s exactly what could happen with this &u...

75 user comments | Category: Misc News

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BMW X6 M with possible twin-turbo V10

weaponX submitted on 7/6/2008 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 1:48:27 PM

Right on the heels of our X6 hybrid spy photos, shooters in California have captured images of what is believed to be the M version of the newest entry in the BMW lineup. Although BMW still won’t confirm the M version of the X6, the side vents ...

24 user comments | Category: Spy Shots

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Major Mojo: First look at the fourth-gen BMW M3

weaponX submitted on 4/3/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 12:50:37 PM

By GREG KABLE AutoWeek | Published 04/02/07, 10:55 am et We suspect it might be something special, this new fourth-generation BMW M3. A car that takes the sonorous engine note, rabid performance, superb chassis balance, impressive build qual...

26 user comments | Category: New Cars

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No Compromise. Next year, expect a faster, more expensive BMW M3

weaponX submitted on 1/27/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 1:20:08 AM

By GREG KABLE AutoWeek | Published 01/19/07, 11:57 am et There are whispers going around that BMW is planning to reveal its fourth-generation M3 in concept-car guise at the Geneva motor show in March before unwrapping the production version ...

59 user comments | Category: Spy News

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Edmunds Test: Mercedes-Benz ML63 AMG

weaponX submitted on 1/3/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 11:28:47 PM

We'd just finished displaying the awesome pulling power of the new 2007 Mercedes-Benz ML63 AMG, when one of our passengers, peeling himself off the back of his seat, exclaimed, "Oh, my god!" ...

6 user comments | Category: Reviews

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