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Shia LaBeouf is struggling to evict his dad from the garage of his Los Angeles home. Vietnam veteran Jeffrey LaBeouf spends his summers living in a teepee in Montana and his winters staying with his movie star son - but this year the actor’s father has yet to move on.
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The 2007 Lincoln MKZ is a five-passenger luxury sedan boasting a refined look, powerful engine, and the confidence of available all-wheel drive. Read the rest of this entry »

Year after year, the Mercury Grand Marquis is a sales leader among full-size sedans, and it’s easy to see why. It has the most horsepower and torque, the roomiest interior and the biggest trunk of any vehicle in its class.

The Mercury Grand Marquis is the only vehicle in its class with a standard V-8 engine — the 4.6-liter, single-overhead-cam V-8, which produces 224 horsepower at 4,800 rpm and 275 pound-feet of torque at 4,000 rpm. All Grand Marquis models use a four-speed automatic transmission with electronic automatic overdrive. Read the rest of this entry »

The Jeep Commander is, in many ways, an engineering tour de force. Using the same platform as the Jeep Grand Cherokee - which is shared with the Mercedes M-Class, but developed by Jeep/Truck Engineering in Detroit - the Commander is not a mere cosmetic rebadging job, but a fully retuned, reconfigured vehicle. It’s said that the benchmark for the Commander was the new Land Rover LR3 - and that the Commander beats the LR3 in every benchmark, in some cases by a large margin, with greater reliability and much lower cost. What’s more, it is produced on the same assembly line, so production can be kept in line with demand for both the Commander and Grand Cherokee. It’s hard to say which one is the more prodigious feat: the incredibly flexible production line, which can make two vehicles with very different bodies one after the other, or beating what was until very recently considered to be the best-in-class vehicle in just about every way, including price and quality. Read the rest of this entry »

Infiniti, Europe’s newest premium car brand, has launched an internet based ‘reservation list’ in response to demand from customers eager to be among the first in their country to own one of the company’s range of performance cars when deliveries start from October 2008. Read the rest of this entry »

The Mercedes SL debuted in 1957 and has been an object of lust ever since. A two-seat, rear-wheel-drive roadster, the SL is the classic sporting Mercedes. Like the original, today’s SL boasts outstanding performance. The Mercedes-Benz SL-Class has matured in every way over its six generations, quicker and faster on the one hand, more beautiful and more luxurious on the other, to the point where it lacks absolutely nothing, from its array of powerful V8 and V12 engines to its powerful stereo to its active suspension system to those all-day bucket seats. It is a marvel of automotive technology, featuring a folding steel convertible top. Read the rest of this entry »

It doesn’t take long to realize that the new 2009 Volkswagen Scirocco is a better drive than the highly praised Golf GTI. The two might share much of their underpinnings, but the adoption of wider tracks ensures the former is more sure-footed around the Nürburgring.

And we know this because we’re driving the 2009 Volkswagen Scirocco on the Nürburgring, part of a final-check ride of VW’s newest performance vehicle before it goes on sale in Europe this summer. Read the rest of this entry »

Why buy a tinny hatch when you can get a full-bodied rally champ asks KARTIK GANESH
There aren’t too many cars sold in India that sport the kind of parentage and credentials that the Lancer does – a saloon that’s won and keeps winning rally championships by the dozen in its various Evolutions. Read the rest of this entry »

Tom Walkinshaw began his motorsports career in 1968 and then formed Tom Walkinshaw Racing in 1975. Now with over 30 years’ experience in performance engineering, they have turned their expertise on the special edition Mitsubishi L200 double cab pick-up. Read the rest of this entry »

The 107 was the UK’s best-selling low-emissions vehicle in 2007 (source: SMMT). It currently has a three-model choice with the top-of-the-range model in the 107 Urban Move. This version is being enhanced from June. Read the rest of this entry »