Weprin Survey Finds 61 Percent Like Bike Lanes, Even in Eastern Queens

In City Council Member Mark Weprin's district, 61 percent of those surveyed said they like the city's bike lane program. Image: City Council Several surveys this year by top polling organizations have found citywide support for bike lanes. And in Park Slope and the Upper West Side, questionnaires put out by local elected officials have shown [...]

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Jeff Burton Promotes New Sprint Drive First App

Sprint Drive First ? a new app from Sprint Sprint Drive First is a new app from Sprint that automatically locks a mobile phone when a car is moving faster than 10 mph. It disables phone functionality, directs incoming calls to voice mail and silences distracting alerts for incoming emails and text messages. Sprint Drive [...]

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Ferrari FF to Appear in Neiman Marcus Christmas Book

Past Neiman Marcus Christmas catalogs have contained vehicles as varied as the retro-mod dud of a Thunderbird, the Jaguar XJL Supercharged, and the Camaro SS convertible. Pulling product from across the pond after last year?s bowtie adventure, this year’s book will contain the Ferrari FF?a special-edition FF, of course. The stuff? A unique shade of [...]

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The Continental: Future Audis and Mercedes, Efficient Engines, and the U.S. Passat from the European Perspective

Each week, our German correspondent slices and dices the latest rumblings, news, and quick-hit driving impressions from the other side of the pond. His byline may say Jens Meiners, but we simply call him . . . the Continental. One year after the Audi Quattro concept‘s launch at the Paris auto show, a decision on building it [...]

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Video: Audi e-tron Spyder struts its stuff in Malibu

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There is a lot to love about the 2014 Audi e-tron Spyder. It's a compact roadster with a torque-happy, twin-turbo diesel V6 mated to two electric motors capable of more instant twist. When we recently took the e-tron Spyder for a spin, we were limited to just 40 miles per hour, but the Four-Ringed automaker tells us that a trip to 62 takes only 4.4 seconds.

And because this Spyder is a green monster, it can travel up to 30 miles on electric power alone. Using a mixture of the diesel and its lithium ion battery, it will consume on average a scant 2.2 liters of fuel per 100 kilometers.

That sounds like a lot of "too good to be true," but Audi promises to be the leader in luxury electric cars by 2020, and a production version of this vehicle is expected for 2014. Hit the jump to watch new footage of the e-tron Spyder in motion. It might not be ready to go on sale, but it at least looks mighty fine on the roads of Malibu, California, near where we drove it.

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Leimer on top in final test of 2011

Fabio Leimer rounded out his impressive GP2 post-season form by topping the final day of testing at Barcelona. Having also set the pace on both days of testing at Jerez - again with the Racing Engineering squad - Leimer has therefore failed to top only one of the four days of post-season testing. The 22-year-old, a racewinner with the Rapax squad this year, set the early running before the session was halted following Kevin Magnussen's foray into the gravel at Turn 5

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Oh Brother!

IndyCar may have the brothers Bettenhausen and Unser, NASCAR may have the  Bodines, Burtons, Buschs, Labontes and Woods (to name a few), but iRacing has the Stergios brothers.  Jake and PJ Stergios (New England) demonstrated that fact in emphatic fashion last night, driving their Star Mazdas to a brotherly one-two finish ahead of Evan Maillard (France) in the iRacing.com Road Racing Tournament final at Watkins Glen International. While Jake started on pole and led the 20 lap race from start to finish, PJ had to work a little harder ? make that a lot harder ? for his spot on the podium.  Fifth on the grid, he worked his way up to P2 by Lap Four only for Maillard to reclaim the spot on Lap 10.  The two ran nose [...]

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