This is your guide to all the world and North American premieres taking place at the 2014 Los Angeles Auto Show that goes in full swing on November 17.
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Amazingly, the internet survived Kim Kardashian's butt-shot for her 'Paper Magazine' cover, but not without bursting a cracking number of responses.
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The next generation of BMW's mainstream models will be more differentiated from each other in terms of styling, the company's design boss has revealed.
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Who hasn't poked fun at Matthew McConaughey's Lincoln MKC spots yet? Because now young children are imitating the actor's role in those infamous commercials.
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The car you'll really want to see at Maserati's Los Angeles Auto Show booth next week will be the Alfieri Concept, but the Italians are also premiering the 2015MY versions of their two sedans.
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Vehicles are, without a doubt, the main source of revenue for car makers.

Merchandise, though, is a very nice way of boosting your income – provided of course that you're a premium brand whose products will be sought after by customers.
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A 2003 Ferrari Enzo with only 2,215 miles (3,565 km) on the odometer for a little under $400,000 sounds like an incredible deal. But it isn't quite like that. This is a crashed Ferrari Enzo, and the $376,000 price is not the final price but the current bid on auction site Crashed Toyz.
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Grand Theft Auto games, from the third installment onward, have been distinctly third-person experiences.

Mods appeared for pretty much all titles up to the fifth one (released in September of 2013), but now with the occasion of launching GTA5 on next-gen consoles and PC, developer Rockstar will be adding a first person mode too.
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2014 MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez has again received the BMW M Award as the best qualifier in the premier class of motorcycle racing. If last year's prize was a customized BMW M6 Coupe, this year BMW awarded him with an exclusive BMW M4 Coupe.
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Race on Sunday, sell on Monday; the old adage is most certainly used by automakers' marketing departments as they try to make some short of connection between their on-track success and the models they actually sell to the public.

The truth is, though, that these days racing technology is so sophisticated, and thus costly, that its use on everyday cars is all but prohibited. Sure, some of it eventually trickles down eventually on production models but not quite in the same form – even if those PR departments would like us to believe otherwise.

Toyota, however, went the other way around, as it is already testing certain parts of the current Prius replacement in its TS040 Hybrid Le Mans racer, which currently leads the championship standings.

"Our components already have parts from the next-generation Prius", president of Toyota Motorsport GmbH Yoshiaki Kinoshita told Autonews. Although he wasn't willing to go into much detail, Kinoshita said that they weren't mechanical parts but rather preproduction prototypes of microchips and microcontrollers that are tested for longevity in the harsh environment of endurance racing.

One thing the racer and the street-going hybrids have in common is the need for fuel efficiency. The TS040 has been redesigned in order to reduce its consumption by 25 percent compared to the 2013 TS030 car while, at the same time, increasing a much higher output of 1,000HP to the previous racer's 750!

Kinoshita revealed that one technology that most certainly won't feature in the fourth-generation Prius is the racing car's electric power storage system. That's because the former uses supercapacitors for its braking energy storage and subsequent release, an energy flow that happens much faster than in any street car that's perfectly OK with batteries.

Then there are the semiconductors, which manage the energy flow between the hybrid's battery, motor and generator. Toyota revealed last May that it has developed a silicon carbide semiconductor that can increase fuel efficiency by 10 percent and that it plans to commercialize it in around six years' time. Probably after they have been thoroughly tested on a future hybrid racer for a sufficient amount of time, we presume.

By Andrew Tsaosusis

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Don't feel bad if your tongue inadvertently unleashes a NSFW tirade after watching the following dash-cam footage.
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As much as we would have been entertained by the idea of a Maserati Ghibli sedan riding on stilts with a fancy-sounding moniker, it ain't gonna happen.

At least not in the foreseeable future because you never know which path premium carmakers will follow to achieve their sales goals.
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US car sales are on track to reach 16,4 million vehicles this year, up 6 percent from 2013 and a record level since 2006. But there's another important indicator that speaks volumes about the economy's recovery: Americans are spending more money per car than before.
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Appreciated around the world for their capabilities, and used as rapid response vehicles in areas where roads are not the best, all-wheel drive variants of the Mercedes Sprinter have a lot to offer.

Now, you'll be able to buy a 4x4 Sprinter in the US, and the automaker arranged a press event to showcase its off-road worthiness.
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So apparently Kia has been hard at work creating its first ever dedicated hybrid model. It won't, however, be a tapered eco-box like the Toyota Prius, but an actual small SUV.
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Lotus has marked the assembly of the 1,000th Exige S sports car at its core plant in Hethel, United Kingdom.
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Could it have been any other way?
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VW has introduced five new Euro6 engines and the second generation modular infotainment system (MIB) on the Beetle and Beetle Cabriolet in Europe.
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The rendering posted herein shows just how suitable a three-door RS Q3 would look. Audi hasn't mentioned being interested in making one, but perhaps they should reconsider.
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When Aston Martin first announced the Lagonda sedan, it said it was exclusively made for markets in the Middle East. However, the automaker's new CEO Andy Palmer may have a different opinion.
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It's the moment of truth for the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta comet mission as the Philae probe is set to park itself on a Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko after 11:02 EST / 16:02 GMT / 17:02 CET today.
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A woman in an Infiniti QX50 (or EX) who reportedly dozed off on the wheel of her SUV and collided head on with an oncoming truck is extremely lucky to be alive.
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The global car market is changing fast and the sports car segment is probably most affected by the global recession. According to BMW's sales boss, sports cars may never return to pre-crisis sales levels.
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The eighth-generation VW Golf is expected to spawn the first-ever SUV to wear a Golf badge when it launches in 2018.
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Hyundai has released pricing and is accepting orders for the all-new i20 hatchback in Britain, before it arrives in showrooms in January 2015.
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