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Founder August Horch knew that his name didn’t exactly have the perfect ring for a car company. Unlike many of his peers who simply put their last names on the masthead, Horch got clever. Horch means “listen” in German: the word’s Latin equivalent, “Audi” sounds much better, so Horch listened to good sense and took Audi as the name of his company.

 

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Ever since its official launch, the Kia Soul has been one of the most active models at SEMA. Last year, Kia rolled into Las Vegas with a Soul lineup inspired by comic-book heroes, but this year, Kia prepared quite an impressive lineup of Souls with four of them drawing inspiration from the music world. This final model is the Soul “The Voice” and it was prepared by NBC as a tribute to the famous TV show. According to its creator, this Soul “represents the sheer talent needed to perform in front of a live audience and millions at home.” This model features a cool bright red exterior paint combined with a “The Voice logo” on the side, vinyl on the window portion and a cool “I Want You” logo illuminated in the lower grille.

 

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The new SUV will once again ride on Nissan’s modular D platform, found in vehicles like the Altima and latest Pathfinder, and should be in showrooms late next year, as a 2015 model. This means we can expect the new Murano to make its auto show debut in the first half of next year, most likely at April’s 2014 New York Auto Show. The current Murano is getting up in years, with its design dating back to 2009. Its smaller brother, the Rogue, has just been redesigned, so clearly the time is right for the Murano to receive its own redesign. Thankfully, we’re unlikely to see a second generation of the ungainly Murano CrossCabriolet. As the latest spy shots confirm, styling of the new 2015 Murano has been clearly influenced by Nissan’s Resonance concept from earlier this year. Styled under the direction of Nissan design boss Shiro Nakamura, the Resonance’s design emphasizes an aerodynamic look that’s meant to come across as both lightweight and protective.

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Dymaxion car reborn Jaroslav Spacek, of the Czech restoration company Ecorra, stands here with an unfinished replica of Buckminster Fuller’s 1933 Dymaxion car. Designed by the visionary US architect and all-round polymath R Buckminster Fuller, it was a failure commercially, but it tried lots of different things that have had big influence on car design.

 

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Some engines are famous. They get all the love, all the glory, all the medals. They have chrome inlet pipes and their own stands at auto shows. And some of them are not. They toil away for many hundreds of thousands of miles, unappreciated, but still pretty great. Which engine do you think is unappreciated? Let us know below in the comments!

 

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