L.a. Auto Show Editors’ Picks: The Top 5 Cars On The Show Floor

Porsche has been on a serious hot streak for many years now. The Macan, a smart play in the exploding compact crossover segment, could put the automaker over the top. Even in this awkward category what is a crossover, anyway? the Macan manages to look both aggressive and refined. It deftly mixes utility, luxury, breakneck speed and, almost assuredly, Porsche-like handling. The 400-horsepower turbo model turns zero-to-60 mph in 4.4 seconds, a truly ludicrous figure for a grocery-getter.
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Driverless cars: From Hollywood to real world

This month Nissan took the first step towards autonomous vehicles by unveiling the latest version of its Qashqai Crossover in London. Ghosn with Nissan’s Qashqai Crossover. PHOTO: NISSAN And Ghosn said some of the technology needed for a driverless car is in the new model. Headlights that dim automatically, fitted cameras to maintain distance from other vehicles and detectors to aid blind spots are just some of the features on the new Qashqai. Nissan to produce cars in Myanmar Nissan plans to showcase its autonomous vehicle technology at the Tokyo Motor Show when it opens to the public on November 23. Nissan back to Datsun, but only in India Investing for the future Renault-Nissan CEO: Eliminate uncertainty Qashqai sales are a rare glimmer of growth in a European car market that is trying to recover after the 2008 financial crisis.
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NHTSA Attorney Calls Autonomous Cars “Premature”

It’s not just the idea of millions of motorists speeding down freeways with their noses buried in the Facebooks that worries NHTSA; it’s the completely new paradigm that autonomous cars usher in. MUST READ: Tesla Gets Creative With Model S Safety Rating & Ruins It For Everyone The biggest hurdle still seems to be liability: when autonomous vehicles collide, who’s at fault ? Automakers? Software engineers? Drivers? There are other, more wonkish issues to address, too: communications protocols, infrastructure models, and so on.
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Get Lost In Evo’s Sublime 2013 Car Of The Year Testing – Autoblog

This year the magazine pitted eight CotY finalists against each other on Route Napoleon in Southern France – Evo claims it’s the “best road in the world” – and then proceeded to nitpick the smallest of faults on each car until the winner could be named. You see, this year’s lineup of machines was just so good that only one car obviously wasn’t CotY material from the get-go. Can you guess which one judging from the list below?
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Report: Idling Buses, Cars Outside Schools Dangerous

Post to Facebook Report: Idling buses, cars outside schools dangerous on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/1hdi30S Incorrect please try again A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. Sent! A link has been sent to your friend’s email address. 2 Report: Idling buses, cars outside schools dangerous Mark Wert, The Cincinnati Enquirer 8:24 a.m. EST November 4, 2013 Researcher, organizations aim to reduce exposure by urging vehicles to turn off engines.
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Massive SEMA 2013 Photo Gallery: More Than 100 Photos of Cars, Parts, Engines, and More Cars

Below is a quick run-through of what weve seen this week, the good, the bad, and the very, very ugly. On the good side (in our oh-so-humble opinion) are the many Streamliners, dragsters, and Funny Cars dotting the convention center. We never get tired of seeing race cars. Never. We also never get tired of seeing previous HOT ROD feature cars, and it seems like half the show field has appeared in our pages over the last couple of years.
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