Filed under: Motorsports , Lotus Few drivers have caused the kind of speculation that Kimi Raikkonen has in the past few years alone. Will he take a Ferrari payoff and make way for Fernando Alonso ? Will he find another ride in Formula One ? Will he make it in the World Rally Championship ?
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Official: Kimi Raikkonen marks official return to F1 with Lotus test run [w/video]
2012 Ford Edge Limited Despite the missing two cylinders, the new EcoBoost engine still pulls like a strong and smooth V-6. Despite the missing two cylinders, the new EcoBoost engine still pulls like a strong and smooth V-6. There is little lag, and I doubt that most buyers would notice any difference in power delivery. However, they will probably notice the very un-V-6-like noises coming from the engine bay – it may pull like a V-6, but sounds like the four-cylinder it is
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2012 Ford Edge Limited
Filed under: Videos , Design/Style , Racing According to Sven Voelker’s book Go Faster , it was American driver Briggs Cunningham who ushered in the era of the “go-faster stripe” when he put two of them on his white Le Mans racer in the fifties. The next year, according to Voelker, stripes were everywhere, and so began the era of wild and memorable race-car liveries that would peak in the 70s and 80s. The surprise of the book is that the in the days before massive corporate sponsorship, color schemes weren’t conjured by graphics departments. Usually, they came from the engineers and grease monkeys who built the cars.
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Video: Go Faster celebrates the 70s heyday of race car liveries
Filed under: Motorsports , Lotus , Misc. Auto Shows The only thing more ambitious than Lotus and its expansive new product plan is the company’s racing program. In the span of just a few years, the British automaker has launched forays into Formula One , IndyCar , endurance sportscar racing and even karting , all with its own factory-backed works initiatives. And in true Lotus style, it’s not showing any signs of slowing down any time soon.
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Official: Lotus ramps up Indy racing program with Bourdais and Legge
Filed under: Car Buying , SUV , Marketing/Advertising , Lexus , Toyota , Luxury A new Lexus LX 570 is going to set you back nearly $82k after you add $875 delivery to its $80,930 base price. The luxury version of the Toyota Land Cruiser wears a new Lexus spindle grille , one that’s big enough to make Rumplestiltskin proud, and it has revised front and rear fascias among the other upgrades that Lexus says justify its 1.9-percent price increase. Among the other new-for-2013 features are an updated Crawl Control mode and terrain-select for the all-wheel-drive system, because what Lexus owner doesn’t enjoy serious rock-crawling? A new multimedia system with the next-generation Lexus Enform system is also part of the deal, which seems much more in line with real-world customer behavior, as Enform allows drivers to use Facebook and Yelp, among other services
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Official: 2013 Lexus LX 570 price increased to $81,805*
Filed under: Marketing/Advertising , Hatchback , Ford , Misc. Auto Shows , Racing Teams come and teams go from the World Rally Championship . But while this season will see the arrival of Volkswagen and Mini on the WRC stage as newcomers, one perennial challenger that will return is Ford .
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Official: Ford gears up with new Fiesta RS WRC livery