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RPM Drives: 2018 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid

RPM News Weekly correspondent Rich Taber travels to Union Point, MA, 12 miles south of Boston – a new city that’s rising out of the remnants of an old military airfield. Situated between Weymouth and Rockland, this city is different. It’s intended to be a sustainable city, but like many other cities it shares some of the look of an urban development. Similarly, the featured RAV4 Hybrid SE looks, feels and could be confused with its conventionally powered siblings. However, there are many differences. Toyota introduced the SE trim of the RAV4 Hybrid late in the 2017 model year and…

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Formula E Kicks Off Season Four

While much attention from the automotive press this week has been aimed at the Los Angeles International Auto Show, RPM News Weekly has focused its eyes on the Season Four start of Formula E Racing. With the city of Hong Kong for its opening backdrop, the series is expected to see 11 cities over the next eight months including its second run in New York in July 2018. Ten teams, 20 drivers compete in the Formula E Prix driving their all-electric open-wheel formula cars along city streets at speeds up to 140 miles per hour. From a standing start, these…

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Larz Anderson Auto Museum Collaborates w/ Boston MFA

This week RPM News Weekly kicks off its second season of programming and the launch of its all new website at rpmnewsweekly.com with a visit to the Larz Anderson Auto Museum in Brookline, Massachusetts where Boston Museum of Fine Arts Curator of Design Meghan Melvin gave a group of curious automotive enthusiasts a peak at the MFA’s transportation design collection. Don’t worry. It’s not as stuffy as you might think. In fact, we were delightfully surprised that the Museum had such an expansive collection of original automobile design artwork from such highly regarded automotive illustrators as Carl Renner, Homer C.…

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RPM Drives: 2017 Volkswagen Beetle Convertible

Weekend fun takes on added meaning in the 2017 Volkswagen Beetle Convertible where peppy turbocharged performance meets the unmitigated joy of having nothing between you and the open air as you cruise down a winding road to the sea.

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2018 Toyota Camry Comes To New England

This week RPM News Weekly travels to Middleboro, Massachusetts to welcome the completely redesigned, eighth generation Toyota Camry to the Boston metro region by way of a product demonstration presented at the headquarters of the New England Motor Press Association. (more…)

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Mecum Auctions J. Geils Collection of Italian Cars

This week RPM News Weekly pays tribute to legendary rock guitarist John J. Geils whose band amassed a string of popular hits in the 1970s and 80s including the #1 chart topper Centerfold. It may seem strange to our automotive audience that RPM News Weekly would take the program in this direction, but there are couple of important connections here. First, J. Geils, who passed away in April, was a good friend of Jim Barisano, CEO of WheelsTV with whom RPM News Weekly is closely affiliated. And secondly, he was a passionate collector of classic Italian motor vehicles. This week,…

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