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    Aston Martin offers power upgrades to last-gen V8 Vantages
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    Click above for a high-res gallery of the 2007 Aston Martin V8 Vantage
    If you're a 2005-2008 Aston Martin V8 Vantage owner, you may have wished you'd held out for the 2009 model which benefits from an extra 0.4-liters of displacement (up from 4.3- to 4.7-liters) and gains an extra 40 hp and 45 ...

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    Autoblog's Top Ten(ish) from the 2008 25 Hours of Thunderhill
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    Click above to check out Thunderhill's top ten, and a few of our favorites
    With 83 official competitors at the 2008 25 Hours of Thunderhill, it's next to impossible to give each team their well-deserved time in the limelight. So we've complied a gallery of the top ten overall finishers (although ...

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    2008 25 Hours of Thunderhill: Game on!
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    At 5:00 AM PST this morning, the 2008 25 Hours of Thunderhill restarted after a fog-induced 7.5-hour delay. We were able to catch a few hours of sleep in the interim and got word at 4:30 AM from team Cytosport that the fog was lifting and that the race would be underway shortly.NASA hasn't updated ...

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    2008 25 Hours of Thunderhill: Powerslides and peg-legs
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    Click above for a high-res gallery of the action on Saturday afternoon
    The sun has set and the fog is beginning to roll in. But before darkness descended on Thunderhill, we were able to catch some of the contenders in action, including the ultra-quick pit-stop performed by the Cytosport team, the ...

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    2008 25 Hours of Thunderhill: Three engine swaps and counting
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    Click above for a high-res gallery
    "Come to Evil Genius – engine swap!!" That's the text message we received at 3:30 PM from the esteemed Dr. Lieberman, telling us about the catastrophic engine failure that took out Evil Genius Racing's 1994 Miata. By the time we caught up with John (the ...

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    2008 25 Hours of Thunderhill: Qualifying and a stroll through the pits
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    UPDATE - 11:13 AM PST: The green flag has dropped and the race is underway.Click these colored words here for live results and scoring.

    Click above for a high-res gallery of the pits at Thunderhill
    We're a few minutes away from the start of the 25 Hours of Thunderhill, so we took the opportunity to ...

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    Review: 2008 Porsche Cayenne GTS
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    2008 Porsche Cayenne GTS – Click above for high-res image gallery
    Porsche makes sports cars backed by a rich tradition and race history. The thought of something wearing the badge that's also able to cart around your family and a load of their assorted junk was once laughable. Today, of ...

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    SEMA Preview: 560-hp Challenger Convertible that Dodge won't build
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    Coach Builders Ltd. is known for its convertible conversions of the Chrysler 300C and Cadillac CTS, so after Dodge made the decision not to offer the Challenger in drop-top guise, it knew what it had to do.The Florida-based company will bring a customized soft-top Dodge Challenger SRT8 to SEMA, ...

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    Review: 2008 Mitsubishi Evolution X MR
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    2008 Mitsubishi Evolution X MR – Click above for high-res image gallery
    Here's a revelation: being stuck in traffic sucks. And it's even more infuriating behind the wheel of an Evo.Despite what some scribes might lead you to believe, the Evos of yore (VIII and IX) weren't deplorable daily ...

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    Review: 2008 Jeep Compass Sport 4x2
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    2008 Jeep Compass – Click above for high-res image gallery
    We weren't really sure what direction Jeep was heading when it introduced the Compass in 2007. Built on a shared platform with the Dodge Caliber, the Compass goes against what we normally think a Jeep should be – rugged, tough, ...

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