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My favorite wine blog
Dining@LargeThere are some people who are such engaging critics I will read every word they write, even if I have no interest in the subject matter. The Los Angeles Times' Dan Neil is one of those. What do I care......Tags: Beverage Industry, Alcoholic Beverages, Dining and Drinking
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Electric-vehicle maker Think files for bankruptcy in Norway
L.A. Times Tech BlogElectric-vehicle maker Think Global has filed for bankruptcy in Norway, its home country. The company is among the older manufacturers of battery-powered cars, emerging more than 20 years ago and launching its Think City model in 1999. Think has... -
Jesse Valadez dies at 64; pioneer of L.A.'s lowriders
An impressively long line of classic lowriders from throughout Southern California and beyond joined the funeral procession that began at St. Alphonsus Catholic Church in East Los Angeles and ended at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier.
On a flatbed...Tags: Vehicles, Elections, Robin the Boy Wonder (fictional character), Colon, Mexico
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'Top Gear' recap: American, and proud of it
Show TrackerEpisode 4 got me wondering: Who has more testosterone coursing through his slender bod? Tanner Foust, who raced Ford's mega-beast F-150 Raptor through the Arizonan scrub, or his competitor, the unidentified HALO jumper, who bulleted downward through the... -
2011 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Gullwing: The mind-blowing 1950s version was cooler, but . . .
It goes about a zillion miles an hour, looks tougher than jailhouse steak and has explosive bolts in the doors, but before getting to the new Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Gullwing, if I may, a nod to the old (1955-1957) Gullwing.
Some years ago I drove a...Tags: Vehicles, Museum Dioramas, Automotive Equipment, Fires, Hands
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2010 Audi R8 5.2 FSI: An 'Avatar'-style creature of magnificent grace and power
James Cameron's film "Avatar" dreams a world where humans can telepathically plug into beautiful blue creatures of extraordinary power and speed, with glittery feline eyes and rock-hard butts.
Audi beat him to it.
The car is the 2010 Audi R8 5.2 FSI --...Tags: Vehicles, Avatar (movie), Lamborghini, Charlton Heston, Car Engine Repair
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Ecstasy-to-drive Lotus Evora leaves one question: Take a check?
![Every time I write about a high-performance sports car, I'm guaranteed to get letters from readers to this effect: "How can you possibly glorify the Badminton Dual-Cowl 87B? No one needs a car that goes 200 mph, costs $300,000 and gets five miles per gallon. With all that's going on in the world [climate change, war in the Middle East, balance of trade etc.]. For shame. For shame!"](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/column/2010-01/51775372-21202325.jpg "Every time I write about a high-performance sports car, I'm guaranteed to get letters from readers to this effect: \"How can you possibly glorify the Badminton Dual-Cowl 87B? No one needs a car that goes 200 mph, costs $300,000 and gets five miles per gallon. With all that's going on in the world [climate change, war in the Middle East, balance of trade etc.]. For shame. For shame!\"")
Every time I write about a high-performance sports car, I'm guaranteed to get letters from readers to this effect: "How can you possibly glorify the Badminton Dual-Cowl 87B? No one needs a car that goes 200 mph, costs $300,000 and gets five miles per...Tags: Vehicles, Clothing and Textiles Industry, Automotive Equipment, Judges, Car Engine Repair
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2011 BMW 535i: Everything you want, except fun
The one thing you can be sure of when you walk out of a BMW news conference is that you'll have plenty of information. Your head aches from it. Your ears ring with it. Your jaws are sore from swallowing it whole like a snake.
I fairly staggered out of...Tags: Vehicles, Hybrid Vehicles, Ice Cream, Electronics, Luxury Vehicles
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Audi, BMW sell the sizzle of diesel, not the soot
Imagine trying to market a product that most Americans regard as old and obsolete, that is remembered -- if at all -- as low-class and low-tech, noisy and noisome, and whose most notable advocates are truck drivers with prominent trouser cleavage.
CB...Tags: Computer Networking and Internet, Mercedes-Benz, Diesel Fuel, Audi, Passenger Cars
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2010 Ferrari 458 Italia: Dashing through the snow in a wicked red sleigh
MARANELLO, Italy — Snow is a beautiful thing.
Yet it's not snowflakes I see drifting into Ferrari's brick courtyard on the Via Abetone, the Temple Mount in this, the Jerusalem of Red Cars. Instead, I see confetti-like news clippings from Corriere...Tags: Vehicles, Car Tires, Car Engine Repair, Gaming, Jerusalem (Israel)
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Suzuki SX4 earns its stripes
It's a well-known principle of quantum mechanics that racing stripes make a car faster. Depending on the width and color of the stripes, accessorizing paint schemes can be good for as much as 2 seconds in the quarter-mile and 50 mph top speed. No one...Tags: Vehicles, Car Guides and Reviews, Car Engine Repair
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Norwegian electric-car maker Think revs up funding
L.A. Times Tech BlogThe Think City is an emission-free, 100% electric vehicle. Credit: Dan Neil / Los Angeles Times Think, the Norwegian electric carmaker, said Monday that it had raised an additional $40 million in funding to finance its expansion in Europe and the United...
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