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CarGuyDad News!

December 15, 2010 News 1 Comment

4307  200x240 paper copy CarGuyDad News! It’s time for the CarGuyDad news! A weekly (or whenever I get around to it) news update that features this week’s most exciting stories. This week we have exciting new cars for BMW M fans, Volkswagen news that will make enthusiasts jump for joy, pricing details on Acura’s new wagon, and plenty of racing news.

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Pictures from CTS-V Challenge

October 30, 2009 Driving 2 Comments
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Enjoy the pictures, the full and still unedited gallery is below. We had fun; I’ll have a full write up on all the good, the bad, and the ugly over the weekend. … Continue Reading

Entered Bob Lutz’s CTS-V Challenge!

October 13, 2009 Stories 16 Comments

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UPDATE – WE WERE SELECTED  TO GO AGAINST BOB LUTZ IN THE CTS-V.

Recently, GM started a new marketing campaign titled “May The Best Car Win”. As part of this campaign, General’s top CarGuy, Bob Lutz challenged the automotive journalists “to find a stock production sedan on the planet that could outperform the CTS-V on the track”. This challenge has been accepted by Jalopnik’s Wes Siler who will be driving a Jaguar XFR. The challenge was further opened to other participants and guess what? For the heck of it, my friend Mike and I have entered the contest to take on this challenge in a 2008 BMW M5! … Continue Reading

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Rally Racing, part 1: Building the Car

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This is the first of three articles on Rally Racing. I intend to cover car set-ups, driver training, different classes, and whatever else I may come upon. This part will show a built of an Open Class rally car, which is …

Driving Jaguar’s new XFR, on the Road and on the Track

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I have recently had the opportunity to drive the new Jaguar XFR on the road and on a race track. With the XFR competing directly against the BMW M5, which I have also had the opportunity to drive on the track …

Experiencing The New Diesel-Powered BMWs.

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While you may have already read a thing or two about BMW’s new compression ignition offerings, you may not have heard all the details, and you may have some questions. I sure did, and I did my best to answer them …

Cars of Paris

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French cars; some say they’re ugly, some say they’re beautiful, all agree that they’re unreliable. However, there is something about them that makes you want to look. These pictures were taken in March of 2007, my wife’s and mine last trip …

Cars (and other vehicles) of Cuba

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Do you think your ’02 Chevy Tahoe with 170k miles is at the end of its life? Try driving a ’55 Suburban that you inherited from you father. This is a gallery of car pictures from Cuba, where the only way …

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