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If the new sheetmetal looks familiar, that’s because the Jetta draws heavily from the New Compact Coupe concept unveiled at last January’s Detroit auto show (pictured below). Styling resembles other family products like the new Touareg and the Golf.

If the new sheetmetal looks familiar, that’s because the Jetta draws heavily from the New Compact Coupe concept unveiled at last January’s Detroit auto show (pictured below). Read the rest of this entry »

If chickens evolved at the same rapid rate as sport-utility vehicles, they’d pop out of the egg battered and fried. Just look at the Dodge Durango. When it was introduced for the 1998 model year, it was in many ways unique. By 2002, it was mostly obsolete.

The original Durango, which was based on Dodge’s

pickup truck, filled a profitable gap in the SUV market—it was smaller than a Ford Expedition and bigger than a Ford Explorer. It matched the behemoths of the class by offering V-8 power and topped the mid-size SUVs by providing a third-row seat. Read the rest of this entry »

Fernando Alonso escaped penalty on Sunday despite using the ‘DRS’ system outside the designated zone in the Chinese grand prix.

Replay footage has emerged showing the Ferrari’s rear wing flap deploying as he pursued Michael Schumacher in Shanghai.

David Coulthard, veteran driver and now commentator for British television, said the Spaniard was not deliberately cheating.

“I fail to see what he would have done from the cockpit,” the Scot said on the BBC late on Sunday. Read the rest of this entry »