Bentley released this teaser photo of a mystery car to debut at Geneva.
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For a superhigh-end automaker with a long history, Bentley keeps itself busy. The company launched the Brooklands coupe in 2007, and last year tweaked its Continental GT, appending the word Speed to the model name. …
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The Volvo XC60 comes standard with the City Safety feature.
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Although a car crash perks up everyone’s attention, we got to experience the opposite in the non-crashing Volvo XC60. The folks at Volvo want everyone to know about the XC60’s new City Safety feature, and …
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The EDAG light car will debut at the 2009 Geneva Motor Show.
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One of our favorite aspects of the Geneva Motor Show are the concepts shown by design houses and engineering firms. Never intended to reach production, these concepts show what the companies can do. EDAG is one …
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Shelby is working on an electric version of the 2009 Ultimate Aero supercar.
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In conjunction with the release of its 2009 Ultimate Aero at the Abu Dhabi Motor Show, Shelby SuperCars announced details of an electric version of this same car, due to be launched in the …
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We saw a number of electric concepts at the Detroit Auto Show, but there were also a set of more traditional concepts with internal combustion engines on their spec lists. These cars show off the sorts of designs the car companies are looking at for …
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There may be a lot of new green cars on the floor at the 2009 Detroit Auto Show, but powerful cars still have a strong presence. We take a look at the new Ford Shelby, Jaguar R series, Audi R8 5.2 FSI Quattro, the …
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McLaren ends its SLR line with a special model named after a British racing legend. The SLR Stirling Moss features supercar performance and looks that, except for the carbon fiber, are right at home on a 1950s racetrack. When the limited production run starts on …
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CNET Tech Car of the Year for 2008
(Credit: Corinne Schulze/CBS Interactive)In December we invited you to vote for the 2008 Tech Car of the Year from our five nominees. Well, no upset this year, as our staff judges agreed with the voting public, the 2009 Nissan GT-R is our Tech Car of the Year. Nissan has been putting top-notch cabin tech into its Infiniti models, and applied the same gear to the GT-R. But that’s only the beginning, as you can almost feel the circuitry running through the GT-R’s advanced suspensions and road-holding systems. Likewise, the engine is a pretty impressive piece of engineering, bringing in supercar acceleration from a V-6, not to mention the new double-clutch gearbox.
The GT-R has some faults, such as the overly stiff ride, which isn’t really mitigated by the Comfort setting for the suspension. And we had some staff disagreement about that double-clutch gearbox: Brian Cooley found problems with using it in traffic, while Wayne Cunningham felt it worked very smoothly. But we couldn’t deny the tech tour de force that the Nissan GT-R represents.
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(Credit: CBS Interactive)As the year winds down, we look back at the cars we’ve reviewed in 2008, and try to figure out which one qualifies as the Tech Car of the Year. To that end, our staff has boiled the choices down to five nominees, and, as in …
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Your car may not answer when you talk to it, but we’ve got four GPS devices that will. The latest, cutting-edge GPS devices not only guide you to destinations and show you traffic conditions, but also respond to voice commands. You can fit your …
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