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Report: BMW hooks DTM up with new M3 safety car

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Filed under: Coupe , Europe , BMW , Racing Choosing a safety car to pace a racing series is tricky business that almost invariably results in either a constant flux of vehicles called into duty or playing favorites between the manufacturers taking part in the series. NASCAR changes its pace cars about as quickly as it changes tires. Formula One sticks with Mercedes-Benz machinery, and nobody seems to complain very much. But DTM bridges the gap with a slightly different approach

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Video: L.L. Bean celebrates century of mucking about with Bootmobile [w/video]

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Filed under: Etc. , Marketing/Advertising , Videos , Design/Style The L.L.Bean Bootmobile is perhaps the diametric opposite of the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile , promoting outdoor activity instead of consumption of sodium and saturated-fat-laden sausages. The well-known maker of high quality outdoor goods is celebrating its 100th anniversary, and the Bootmobile has been created as a way to celebrate the product that helped start it all. After being unveiled to L.L

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Report: Refreshed 2013 Mercedes-Benz GLK to get diesel option

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Filed under: Crossover , Mercedes-Benz , Diesel Even though spy shots signal that exterior adjustments on the next Mercedes-Benz GLK will be subtle, there’s one giant adjustment coming under the hood, and it smells like oil – in a good way. Automotive News says the revamped softroader will gain a new diesel engine option. For its part, Mercedes-Benz hasn’t said which of its oilburners it will offer with the GLK, but it’s been hinted that it could be the 2.1-liter turbo diesel mill with 204 horsepower and 369 pound-feet of torque that sees duty in models like the C-Class and M-Class in other lands. The addition of the GLK and next C-Class will make seven Mercedes model lines offered with diesel in the U.S.

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Detroit: This is the 2013 Ford Fusion

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Filed under: Detroit Auto Show , Sedan , Ford We’ve still got a few days between us and the reveal of the 2013 Ford Fusion , but a minor bug in its iPad teaser app has given us an early glimpse of the all-new sedan. As we showed you before, Ford enlisted the help of an interactive iPad app to count down the days until the Fusion’s reveal. But today, an error with the app gave us a nice front-three-quarter view of Ford’s new Camry -fighter, which has since been removed. We’re digging the low-slung stance, blacked-out Day Light Opening (greenhouse) and pixel-perfect wheel size, but it’s the fascia that’s easily the most handsome, combining elements of recent Ford concepts and polishing them up for production duty (along with a fair bit of Aston Martin in that grille).

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Followup: Infiniti QX-powered boat continues construction

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Filed under: SUV , Etc. , Infiniti Over the summer, we posted on a project being undertaken by students at the Tennessee Technical Center-Nashville and Nashville State Community College: prepare a 400-horsepower, 5.6-liter V8 from an Infiniti QX56 for seafaring duty in a 20-foot Chris-Craft. The engine’s transformation is nearly complete, but it seems the boat needs a great deal more work.

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Followup: Infiniti QX-powered boat continues construction