Take a pick among General Motors’ line-up of auto brands when it comes to overall popularity and chances are you’d take a while before picking Buick among them.

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After the Porsche Boxster S Black Edition revealed just yesterday, Cadillac brought their own "Black" edition based on the CTS-V models, sedan, coupe and station wagon models.

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British tuning firm Merdad has been rolling out tuning programs for the Range Rover Sport for quite some time now and it figures that with their popularity getting stronger and stronger, the easy answer would be to continue their roll and translate their latest program for the newest crop of Range Rover Sport models to come out of Land Rover’s production facility.

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Mazda produced the RX-7 from 1978 to 2002 and, compared to the RX-8, it did very well. Now, after almost ten years, the Japanese company will bring back the RX-7 DNA with the launch of a new sports car called the RX-9. And, however chronologically deficient it may be, the RX-9 is being made as a successor to the RX-7 and not the RX-8. We should be seeing this new model hit the streets as soon as the RX-8 bids adieu to the market.

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The Le Mans endurance race is long considered as the oldest and pre-eminent race of its kind in the world. It’s safe to say that the teams that participate in Le Mans aren’t exactly what you’d consider as run-of-the-mill. Only the big boys play here, so they say.

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If you're short on torches and pitchforks, I know a guy.
That's a disingenuous offer, really, because the 2011 Jeep Compass is actually pretty decent. As has been the trend recently, Jeep spent what little money it had on fixing the bits that needed it most.


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You know the old line about the inmates running the asylum? Well, the asylum's been handing out engineering degrees, and the inmates are now running BMW, Cadillac, and Porsche. Meet the Unicorns -- three cars, in the words of Raoul Duke, too weird to live and too rare to die. Each is a manifestation of a novel concept: maximum performance mated to oodles of capacity and practicality. All three vehicles are also patently absurd, in the very best possible sense of the word-so bizarre that we had to road-trip them to the only American city capable of standing up to this trio's epic level of whoa: Las Vegas.

Download Comparison: 2011 BMW X6 M vs. 2011 Cadillac CTS-V vs. 2011 Porsche Panamera Turbo

Two months after Mercedes unveiled the standard CLS model at the 2010 Paris Auto Show, the better version of the CLS-Class was ready to spice up the eagerly waiting public. The CLS63 AMG showed its face at the LA Auto Show and it was ready to bring the heat with its 5.5-liter biturbo V8 engine.

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According to Mercedes-Benz, 95 percent of its C-Class buyers opt for an automatic transmission. With so few Americans going for the three-pedal models, you'd think Stuttgart would save a dime and discontinue the manual gearbox option all together, but they wouldn't dare.

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Newport Beach is one of the most disarmingly picturesque — and frighteningly expensive — beach towns in Orange County, California. This part of the "O.C." — don't call it that — is the perfect environment for the 2006 Volvo C70 T5, now a convertible of the retractable hardtop variety. (The essentially unchanged 2007 Volvo C70 goes on sale in midsummer.) Be it a misty morning of "June Gloom" or an SPF-challenging sunny beach afternoon, the Volvo C70 compromises neither beauty nor functionality when rigged top-up as a steel-roof coupe or top down as a well-finished convertible.

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Here's a freaky one for you.

We took this 2007 Mercedes-Benz E550 to the test track on July 13. It was a Thursday, and it began like any other day. Just as we always do, we arrived around 8 a.m., set up the ol' radar gun and began to make passes down California Speedway's new drag strip. No big deal, just another day earning the bacon.

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What has been dubbed the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Force, is taking to the streets of New York City in the new 2012 CLS 63 AMG to spot “stylesetters” with fresh, creative design looks and arresting appeal. Stylist Brad Goreski and a team of Fashion Enforcers are on duty for five days during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week carrying out its mission.

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The 29th January is a very special day for Mercedes-Benz. It was on this day in 1886 that Carl Benz filed a patent application (number 37435) at the Reich patent office for his “vehicle operated by gas engine”. And now, 125 years to the day, 29th January 2011 sees the launch of the latest development from Mercedes-Benz – the new CLS. This new generation of the four-door coupé embodies to perfection the remarkable capacity for innovation in the fields of design and technology which has characterised the brand with the three-pointed star for over a century. This combination of sensuality and sense is picked up by the 360° campaign for the market launch of the new CLS.

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If you still identify Volkswagen with the uncomplicated—and mechanically simple—original Beetle, it’s time to update your thinking. Times have changed, and the focus at VW is now on technology and modern design. The recently launched Golf VI provided a strong hint of where VW is headed with its high-volume cars, but it’s this new Polo that really lights the way. See, the Golf VI is burdened with many carry-over parts from the Golf V, a.k.a. Rabbit, whereas the Polo is the first all-new car from the latest leadership group at the helm of Vee-Dub. “What you see here is VW design for the coming 10 years,” the company told us at the car’s launch in Sardinia. “This car we designed from scratch. A simple, crisp design leading to the future—which will be a lot different from the present.”


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The miniature cars are in the colors of drivers Gary Paffett, Bruno Spengler, Paul di Resta, Ralf Schumacher and David Coulthard

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