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BMW X3 M40i Service Adventure: An Update on a Few Issues A couple of updates back, we reported our  2018 BMW X3  M40i was suffering from a leaky sunroof, a creaking suspension, and a busted cargo net. I brought it in to get all of that sorted and to take care of routine service and learned that not all  BMW  dealerships are created equal. This was my third time going to this particular dealership, and every time I get a non-BMW loaner from its Enterprise rental partner. If I owned the X3 and bought into the BMW experience, I would not be happy.

The refreshed  2020 Subaru Impreza  has been revealed in its home market of Japan, but you'll need a magnifying glass to see the changes. A revised lower front fascia is the most obvious change because there's now one large opening instead of three smaller ones. Two chrome strips surround the front foglights and the grille is narrower than its predecessor.  Subaru  appears to have also added two new wheel designs as part of the JDM Impreza's refresh. No changes appear to have been made to the  2020 Subaru Impreza's interior , which features the Starlink infotainment system with a 6.5- or 8.0-inch touchscreen. For the Japanese market, the  2020 Subaru Impreza  comes standard with the EyeSight driver assistance suite, which bundles together automatic emergency braking, forward collision warning, pedestrian detection, lane keeping assist, and adaptive cruise control. Subaru couldn't comment on whether we'll get the same changes, but expect the U.S.-s

James Bond’s 1965 Aston Martin DB5 Sells for More Than $6.3 Million RM Sotheby's did well by adding a third night to its 2019 Monterey auction roster, featuring Aston Martins exclusively. The star of the evening, a  1965 DB5  that was one of three existing screen cars from the popular 007 franchise movie,  Goldfinger , sold for a huge $6,385,000 to plenty of applause from the auction room. Applause came first when the ex-Bond DB5 rolled onto the block in the Portola Plaza Hotel event space after a short teaser video played, showing the car screeching around twisting roads with appropriately Bond-esque music and cinematography. Bidding started quick and steady, with six bidders vying for the car both in the room and on the telephone, though once bids crested $4.5 million, then $5 million, the remaining bids were given more thoughtfully. In all, it took nearly five minutes before the car was hammered sold to a bidder in the room. As what may be the most famous

Classic Corvettes Abound at the 2019 Woodward Dream Cruise It's the year of Corvette.  With the unveiling of the long-awaited mid-enigne 2020 Stingray , 'Vette fever is peaking. So it's no surprise that the 2019 Woodward Dream Cruise is packed with the first seven generations of the sports car. Every day last week leading up to the actual cruise on Saturday, the lanes of Woodward have been an homage to classic Corvettes; with the debut of the Corvette C8, everything with an engine in front of the driver will soon be considered legacy. Since the mid-engine car does not go on sale until early next year, anyone hoping to see production models on the road cruising was disappointed. But the  Chevy  area along Woodward had a preproduction model on display on Saturday. Lines formed early for a look, and they never let up. The eighth-generation car has the updated pushrod 6.2-liter small-block V-8 engine known as LT2, which makes 490 horsepower and 465 lb-ft

Find Out What the 2019 Porsche 911 Carrera S 992 Makes on the Dyno We all know  Porsche  is capable of building powerful, naturally aspirated screamers like the 520-hp engine in the  GT3 RS . And Porsche engineers have demonstrated plenty of forced-induction proficiency with the twin-turbo flat-six in the  690-hp GT2 RS . Our question has to do with the turbocharged, water-cooled lump sitting over the rear axle of the new 992-generation 911 Carrera S; how much power is it really making? We took a Racing Yellow 2020 911 Carrera S to a dyno to find out. Porsche claims 443 hp and 390 lb-ft of torque from the twin-turbocharged 3.0-liter flat-six, but keep in mind, those numbers are rated at the crank. Those specs won't directly translate to the numbers this Porsche will put down on the dyno. A dynamometer measures how much power and torque make it to the ground, or in this case, the cylindrical drums on which the car is driving during dyno testing. Some of the po

Best Classic Car Patina Seen at the 2019 Woodward Dream Cruise Although the dictionary describes patina as "a green or brown film on the surface of bronze or similar metals, produced by oxidation over a long period," MotorTrend sees it differently. Every August, during the annual Woodward Avenue Dream Cruise north of Detroit, MotorTrend describes patina as an awesome ode to  au naturel  classic cars and trucks and the people who appreciate them. Anyone who has worked on a car knows the paint job is painstaking and expensive. Some cars might not be worth it. In Michigan it's not hard to find early-model vehicles where oxidation has robbed them of color and left them basking in a form of their birthday suit. A good sealer can preserve that. But rust takes its toll on a lot of Midwest vehicles. One trend today is to take a vehicle with a body still in good shape and add a little faux patina using a chemical spray or maybe just a vinyl wrap depicting p

Best Classic Car Patina Seen at the 2019 Woodward Dream Cruise Although the dictionary describes patina as "a green or brown film on the surface of bronze or similar metals, produced by oxidation over a long period," MotorTrend sees it differently. Every August, during the annual Woodward Avenue Dream Cruise north of Detroit, MotorTrend describes patina as an awesome ode to  au naturel  classic cars and trucks and the people who appreciate them. Anyone who has worked on a car knows the paint job is painstaking and expensive. Some cars might not be worth it. In Michigan it's not hard to find early-model vehicles where oxidation has robbed them of color and left them basking in a form of their birthday suit. A good sealer can preserve that. But rust takes its toll on a lot of Midwest vehicles. One trend today is to take a vehicle with a body still in good shape and add a little faux patina using a chemical spray or maybe just a vinyl wrap depicting p

1994 McLaren F1 LM-Spec Fetches $19.8 Million at Auction ension was thick in the air as the  1994 McLaren F1  rolled onto the auction block in Monterey on Friday. Bidders and spectators alike wondered if the car would fetch the $21 million to $23 million that auction house RM Sotheby's estimated for the rare three-seater supercar. In the end, the hammer fell at $19.8 million including commission, which is still enough to set a new world record for most valuable  McLaren  F1 sold at auction. The McLaren F1 in question is one of just 64 road-going versions of the model made (the remainder of the 106 produced were prototypes or race cars) and also one of just two to be converted to Le Mans (LM) spec by   McLaren Special Operations . The car retained its fully trimmed interior despite the performance increases and is also fitted with the Extra High Downforce kit, uprated air conditioning, race-spec suspension, 18-inch GTR wheels, two extra radiators, and a transmission cooler, amon

2020 Triumph Street Triple under development - Report Triumph Motorcycles is working on the 2020 iteration of the Street Triple range. Documents from California Air Research Board (CARB) suggest that the 2020 Triumph Street Triple R and Street Triple RS will receive an additional three-way catalytic converter. This will bring the total number of catalytic converters to two. The updated hardware cuts the hydrocarbon output to half, (0.2g/km to 0.1g/km). The combined hydrocarbon and nitrogen oxides levels have also witnessed a drop (0.3g/km to 0.2g/km). The evaporative emissions on the 2020 models are rated at 0.3g as against 0.5g on the 2019 iteration. The Type Approval documents of the Euro-spec model reveals more details. According to the source report, the European documents only list the range-topping RS model. The performance numbers revealed by the European documents indicate that the Euro-V compliant Street Triple RS will not suffer from performance reduction due to

We covered over 10,000 destinations last weekend, says Ola Major cab aggregator  Ola  Tuesday said the popularity of  Ola Outstation surged last weekend with outstation cabs covering over 10,000  destinations  across the country and over 1.1 crore kms. Besides providing mobility solutions within the cities,  Ola offers taxi service called  Ola Outstation to the customers enabling them to travel to the  destination  of their choice. Recently,  Ola  analysed the travel habit of people using  Ola  Outstation and came up with some interesting report. "Data tracked during the long Independence Day weekend from  Delhi ,  Bengaluru and  Mumbai , shows over 50 per cent of outstation travel was to hill stations and  heritage sites , with  places  of pilgrimage coming in third at about 20 per cent,  Ola  said in a statement. The cab aggregator said 60 per cent of users from  Bengaluru , 74 per cent from  Delhi  and 66 per cent from  Mumbai  booked  Ola  Outstation for their spont

Bengaluru: Debt-ridden Ola cab driver ends life Bengaluru:  A debt-ridden Ola cab driver allegedly committed suicide by slitting his throat inside his car in Maruthinagar in BDA Layout on Monday night. The deceased has been identified as Manjunath (26), a resident of Nagarabhavi. According to police, Manjunath had taken loans of over Rs. 15 lakh from his friends and private lenders. As his earning was not sufficient to repay the loan, he was demanding money from his parents to clear off the loan for the last one year. While his parents had cleared most of his loan amount, Manjunath kept asking for Rs.10 lakh from them. Manjunath and his parents had a fight over the same issue a year ago after which he left his house and started living separately. Since then, he drove a cab for a living and to clear off the debts but he couldn't manage to earn enough money.Manjunath decided to take the extreme step on Monday as he was unable to repay the loan following repeated harassment

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Car registration fee hike put on hold The government has decided to review the proposed increase in registration fee of petrol and diesel vehicles amid heavy lobbying from the auto sector that is facing its worst slowdown in nearly two decades.  A draft notification by the ministry of road transport and highways issued last month proposed to increase the registration charges for new internal combustion engine (ICE) cars to Rs 5,000 from Rs 600 at present. Renewal of registration of ICE cars is proposed at Rs 15,000.  http://www.shalomcabs.in/

BS-VI TVS Apache RTR 160 4V spotted ahead of imminent launch The revised front-end of the BS-VI Apache RTR 160 4V features bigger pilot lamps, along with a LED headlight setup. The redesigned headlight mask (in a dual-tone finish) adds a refreshed look to the front fascia of the Apache RTR 160 4V. Another set of clear spy images from CarToq reveal the rest of the design, which is identical to the current (BS-IV) version. Thus, you can see a muscular fuel tank with an asymmetrically mounted filler cap, a single-piece step-up seat, a boxy exhaust design, an engine cowl and a split-style pillion grab rail. The saddle appears to feature a dual-tone finish for a premium look. The cockpit retains the digital instrument console along with switchgear, bar-end weights, grips and levers from the current model. Apart from the regular ride-related information, the feature-rich display includes a gear position indicator and a lap timer. A single-piece handlebar will continue to perform the