Rolls-Royce Drophead rain soaked interior could cost $100K [video]

Video taken in Adelaide Australia captures a Rolls-Royce Drophead Coupe getting its interior soaked during a rain storm.

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Rolls-Royce Drophead rain soaked interior could cost $100K [video]

Report: One-off Mercedes 500K barn find discovered in South Central, LA salvage yard

Filed under: Classics , Coupe , Etc. , Mercedes-Benz , Specialty Being agriculturally inclined to build barns in the country, we don’t expect barn finds to turn up in the middle of a high-turnover metropolis. Yet that’s been happening more regularly of late, and writer Michael Mraz has found another example in South Central, Los Angeles: a one-of-one Mercedes-Benz 1935 Caracciola 500K built especially for Silver Arrows race driver Rudolph Caraccioloa. It is pictured above in better days, after having been restored and displayed on the lawn at the Pebble Beach concours in the late 1970s.

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OFFICIAL: Volkswagen Up! five-door revealed

First previewed in Frankfurt last year as the Cross up! concept, the production version seen here carries over the same engines and option packages as the 3-door Up! – just with easier access to the rear seats.

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Report: One-off Mercedes 550K barn find discovered in South Central, LA salvage yard

Filed under: Classics , Coupe , Etc. , Mercedes-Benz , Specialty Being agriculturally inclined to build barns in the country, we don’t expect barn finds to turn up in the middle of a high-turnover metropolis. Yet that’s been happening more regularly of late, and writer Michael Mraz has found another example in South Central, Los Angeles: a one-of-one Mercedes-Benz 1935 Caracciola 500K built especially for Silver Arrows race driver Rudolph Caraccioloa. It is pictured above in better days, after having been restored and displayed on the lawn at the Pebble Beach concours in the late 1970s

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Official: Renault launches sleeker Scenic and Grand Scenic minivans

Filed under: Minivan/Van , Europe , Misc. Auto Shows , Renault There’s seldom anything particularly exciting or glamorous about a minivan. But that doesn’t mean their producers can’t keep trying.

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Report: UAW President Bob King pumped about new CAFE standards

Filed under: Car Buying , Etc. , Government/Legal , UAW/Unions Bob King , President of the United Auto Workers , is adding his voice to those who have already chimed in with support for the new Corporate Average Fuel Economy standard of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. In what might be a historic break from the union’s contentious past, King is throwing in for the new fuel efficiency rules because he thinks it will mean jobs for his members as the auto industry reacts to the mandate. In the past, such a decree could have meant much wailing and gnashing of teeth from both the automakers and labor unions.

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