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Filed under: Podcasts, Geneva Motor Show, Audi, BMW, Chrysler, Kia, Lotus, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, Citroën

Episode #167 of the Autoblog Podcast is a fine quartet of Chris Shunk, Sam Abuelsamid, Chris Paukert and Dan Roth. We breeze through the Autoblog Garage, filled with a snow-tired Camaro, a pair of Audi cabrios and a Kia Forte Koup, before hitting the news.

Audi’s updated RS5, with a clear-voiced 4.2-liter V8 is up first, followed by the want-it-now BMW 5 Series Touring. We’re not done with Europe yet, kicking around the Mercedes-Benz F800 and Citroën DS3 Racing before heading across La Manche to check out the Lotus Proton PHEV and then discuss Kia’s Magentis renderings. Wrapping it up, we surmise what Chrysler’s purported refreshes might turn out to be and talk about the overwhelming crush of Toyota recall and Congressional hearing news before taking some questions and calling it a night.

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Filed under: Motorsports, BMW, Racing

BMW has a new, global ad campaign out this year called “Story of Joy,” and Rahal-Letterman Racing’s new ALMS racer is going to help promote it. The racer came out today for pre-season testing, with BMW’s North American motorsport manager attesting that the “Joy livery as a special tribute to our most enthusiastic fans.”

Bill Auberlen, Tommy Milner, Joey Hand, and Dirk Müller will share two cars during the race season. This is the firm’s 35th anniversary of American operations and its first major race win on American soil, the 12 Hours of Sebring. On March 20 we’ll find out if they can make it even more special. And if you like the look of the car, then joy times awaits you in the high-res gallery below, with more details in the press release below the fold.

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Filed under: Performance, Wagon, BMW, Misc. Auto Shows, Luxury

BMW has announced the debut of the company’s latest generation 5 Series Touring, so rumors of the Touring’s demise may have been exaggerated. To be fair, the BMW 5 Series Touring was never going to go away altogether – not when it sells in big numbers in European markets. That said, BMW foresees its new double-hinged hatchback 5 Series Gran Turismo as cannibalizing the wagon’s already tiny sales in the U.S., so we don’t expect to see the new Touring model in American showrooms. The rest of the world can look forward to a new wagon that is lower, lighter and more of a looker than the hunchback on the other side of the showroom.

The world premiere of the new 5 Touring will take place at the 2010 Auto Mobil International (AMI) in Leipzig. Although no photos or details have been released, this fourth generation 5 Series station wagon will share a lot in common with the recently introduced F10 2011 5 Series sedan that we sampled in Spain last month. That means new engines, gearboxes, suspension architecture, rear-wheel steering, user-selectable adaptive drive settings, brake energy regeneration and another generation of iDrive, for better or for worse. We’ll get you more details and photos as they become available, in the meantime, make the jump for the official press release.

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