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Old is new again: Will a floor-hinged throttle pedal be in your future?

If you think that every little nut, bolt, switch, gear or widget in your new car wasn't scrutinized by a team of highly educated, overworked car geeks (read: engineers), think again. A couple of recent conversations with automotive engineers confirmed that virtually nothing that goes into a car today is taken for granted. During the recent Pebble Beach weekend, I had the pleasure of spending time with an engineer for Jaguar, and the subject turned to materials used for various switches in the cabin.

Ten notable Saab models from history--the AutoWeek list

Technical specifications provided by Saab media On December 15, 1989, General Motors announced that it intended to buy 50 percent of Saab Scania's car business and to form a new company, Saab Automobile AB. Twenty years later, GM confirmed that it has a tentative agreement to sell Saab to a group led by Swedish supercar maker Koenigsegg Automotive. Here is a look at 10 notable Saabs: 1986 Saab 900 Convertible 1.

Inside the 2012 Land Rover Range Rover Evoque

With many large and heavy luxury SUVs powered by 5.0-liter V8 engines in its lineup, Land Rover was likely to run headlong into stringent new carbon-reduction legislation around the globe. True, there are small utes, powered by V6 and four-cylinder turbodiesel engines, but these are entry-level models not completely representative of Land Rover's core image. The Range Rover Evoque changes all that.