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- Future Audi Models will Differ More in Design from Each Other, Says R&D Boss
- New Mitsubishi Mirage to be Offered in the States with a Three-Cylinder Engine from Fall 2013
- Bentley Fires Plant Priest Before Christmas Because it Doesn't Want to Offend Non-Christian Workers…
- BMW 6-Series Gran Coupe with M Sport Package Vossen-ed Up
- Jay Leno Walk us Around Four Pristine Pieces of Corvette History
- The Top 10 Cars Most Likely to be Targeted by Thieves in Britain
- Why You Shouldn't Hide in a Car's Engine Bay to Scare Your Mechanic
- Ford Faces Federal Class-Action Lawsuit Over C-MAX and Fusion Hybrids MPG Numbers
- CDC Performance Bolts on a Supercharger to the Ferrari California [w/Video]
- Toyota Agrees to Pay US$1.4 Billion to Settle Unintended Acceleration Lawsuits
- Lamborghini Test Drive in China Goes Awfully Wrong; Ferrari Owner Crashes Car After Buying it
- Why Does Toyota Think that a Pink Crown Athlete Symbolizes its…Athletic Nature? [w/Videos]
- Does the Front End of This Hyundai Genesis Coupe Remind You of Something?
- Turkish Designer Imagines a Mercedes-Benz Sub-Compact Hatch to Sit Under the A-Class
- Stand Your Ground, the Russian Pedestrian Edition
- Analysts Predict U.S. New Cars Sales to Grow to 15 Million Units in 2013, Used Car Prices to Fall
- Mcchip Turns Porsche 993 GT2 Into a Formidable Track Racer with 596-Horses
- Facelifted Ford Fiesta Van Gains Aston Martin-Esque Schnozzle
- New Mercedes-Benz Citan Van Receives One of its First Tuning Jobs
- Hyundai Elantra Sets New Sales Record in the States, Could Pass 200,000 Units this Year
| Future Audi Models will Differ More in Design from Each Other, Says R&D Boss Posted: 27 Dec 2012 07:24 PM PST  Things are looking great for Audi: in the first 11 months of the year, its sales have already exceeded 2011's total, recording a 12.7 percent increase and it's nigh impossible to find a niche in which it doesn't compete. Alas, in their efforts to create a family look its designers have taken things a bit too far. In fact, in certain cases, it's difficult to distinguish one model from the other, especially from the front… That's not nitpicking but a fact that even Wolfgang Dürheimer, the ex-Bentley boss who since September is Audi's board member responsible for research and development, acknowledges. Read more »       |
| New Mitsubishi Mirage to be Offered in the States with a Three-Cylinder Engine from Fall 2013 Posted: 27 Dec 2012 03:59 PM PST  The car that Mitsubishi believes will help it grow again and increase its sales on a global basis and especially in developing markets, the new Mirage, will join the brand's range in the United States next year, but we already knew that. What a report from Car and Driver adds is that the Japanese carmaker's no-frills sub-compact will be revealed in U.S.-specification at the 2013 New York Auto Show in April, and that it will go on sale in September of the same year. Read more »   |
| Bentley Fires Plant Priest Before Christmas Because it Doesn't Want to Offend Non-Christian Workers… Posted: 27 Dec 2012 04:46 PM PST  Reverend Francis Cook was employed by Bentley for the past 10 years. Once a week, he visited the VW Group-owned luxury automaker's factory in Crewe, England, and chatted to its employees, run Christian courses and written messages in the company's newsletters. Just a few days before Christmas (…), he was told that his services were no longer required and he should vacate the premises. "The reason I have been given is that there are too many people of different faiths to warrant a Christian chaplain", Cooke told UK daily newspaper The Mirror. "There have been no complaints made against me and my position is to help people, and not just those who are Christians." Read more »   |
| BMW 6-Series Gran Coupe with M Sport Package Vossen-ed Up Posted: 27 Dec 2012 02:32 PM PST  When owners of new BMW models want to add some visual pizazz to their rides, their first choice is to tick the M Sport Package box from the options list, which usually comes with an aerodynamic kit and bigger alloy wheels for the exterior, and sport seats and trim for the interior. Read more »    |
| Jay Leno Walk us Around Four Pristine Pieces of Corvette History Posted: 27 Dec 2012 02:01 PM PST  Most of you are already aware that American comedian and TV show host Jay Leno is a very serious car enthusiast who also likes to share his passion with others gearheads. With the eagerly anticipated 2014 Corvette C7 just around the corner, Leno invited vice president of General Motors Design Ed Welburn to his garage. Welburn didn't come alone, of course: he brought with him four Corvettes from the past. Read more »   |
| The Top 10 Cars Most Likely to be Targeted by Thieves in Britain Posted: 27 Dec 2012 01:27 PM PST  General insurance company Swiftcover has released a list with the top 10 vehicles that are most likely to be stolen in Britain. The company states it analyzed more than 2,300 theft claims among the UK vehicles it insured from February 2011 to February 2012, while taking into account the estimated numbers of cars on the road and removing models with less than ten cases of theft per year. Read more »   |
| Why You Shouldn't Hide in a Car's Engine Bay to Scare Your Mechanic Posted: 27 Dec 2012 12:39 PM PST  Well, despite the fact that this young prankster succeeded in frightening his victim, you could chalk this one up as a fail as at it came at a personal cost. You see, some bright adults came up with the idea of hiding a kid in the empty engine compartment of an old Chrysler Sebring to scare a mechanic once he opened up the car's hood. Read more »   |
| Ford Faces Federal Class-Action Lawsuit Over C-MAX and Fusion Hybrids MPG Numbers Posted: 27 Dec 2012 12:01 PM PST  It was probably a matter of time before someone picked up the Consumer Reports review that accused Ford of misstating the 2013 C-MAX Hybrid and Fusion Hybrid fuel economy numbers and filing a lawsuit. The publication contested the 47 mpg city/highway/combined figure and said that the two Ford hybrids had the "distinction" of recording the greatest difference between the EPA-approved mpg and the ones it achieved during its own tests. Read more »   |
| CDC Performance Bolts on a Supercharger to the Ferrari California [w/Video] Posted: 27 Dec 2012 11:34 AM PST  For its second project after the Maserati Quattroporte that was released earlier this summer, German sports car tuner CDC Performance has worked over the most affordable Ferrari model, the California hardtop roadster. Beginning with the engine, CDC Performance introduces a supercharger system complete with intercooling, and a custom made exhaust system fitted with a valve to control the V8's noise levels, bumping output from 483hp (490PS) to 594hp (602PS), and torque from 505Nm (372 lb-ft) to 600Nm (443 lb-ft). Read more »   |
| Toyota Agrees to Pay US$1.4 Billion to Settle Unintended Acceleration Lawsuits Posted: 27 Dec 2012 11:04 AM PST  In the past 10 years, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has received nearly 3,100 complaints about sudden acceleration issues in Toyota vehicles. Those complaints alleged 93 deaths, but the Administration has confirmed a direct link in just five of them. The issue made headlines in 2009 after a wrongly installed floor mat on a loaner Lexus ES caused the vehicle to crash, resulting in the death of the driver and his three passengers. Toyota was forced to recall 7.1 million vehicles in the U.S. and another 5.3 in the rest of the world over the issue and was slapped with US$70 million in fines by the NHTSA as it failed to recall the affected vehicles on time. Read more »   |
| Lamborghini Test Drive in China Goes Awfully Wrong; Ferrari Owner Crashes Car After Buying it Posted: 27 Dec 2012 10:16 AM PST  If you should be careful the first time you drive a mainstream vehicle, then you really need to watch out when you sit behind the wheel of a supercar from the likes of Ferrari and Lamborghini. The first accident we found on the crash-loving website Wreckedexotics reportedly involves a Chinese customer of Lamborghini who took a Gallardo roadster for a test drive out in the rain and somehow ended up killing a tree and parking it on its side… Read more »   |
| Why Does Toyota Think that a Pink Crown Athlete Symbolizes its…Athletic Nature? [w/Videos] Posted: 27 Dec 2012 09:18 AM PST  Perhaps you can help us figure out what's with the pink-colored 2013 Toyota Crown Athlete that was presented this week in Japan under the soothing sounds of Frank Sinatra's "Strangers in the night", since our knowledge of the Japanese language is limited to words like "Konnichiwa" and "Sayōnara" and the company doesn't allow access to its "Re-Born" website for visitors outside of Japan. We looked up the available colors for the new Crown Athlete, and pink wasn't among the shades offered on the car's online configurator. Read more »   |
| Does the Front End of This Hyundai Genesis Coupe Remind You of Something? Posted: 27 Dec 2012 08:42 AM PST  Here's a couple of hints; the car we're referring to in our title comes from Britain and is named after the limited number of models that were produced in 2009-2010. Some chromed slits on the Genesis Coupe's modified grille would have helped it bear a stronger resemblance to the vehicle we're talking about. While we leave you think about it for a moment, let us tell you that this Craigslist find is a 2010 Hyundai Genesis Coupe 2.0T Track Edition fitted with a force-fed turbocharged four-banger driving the rear wheels through a six-speed manual gearbox. Read more »   |
| Turkish Designer Imagines a Mercedes-Benz Sub-Compact Hatch to Sit Under the A-Class Posted: 27 Dec 2012 08:17 AM PST  It took Mercedes-Benz two generation of models, but third time was a charm when it came to the firm's A-Class compact hatchback, which has been a wild success in Europe having secured more than 90,000 orders from September to mid-November, when Daimler last told us about the sales numbers. Inspired by the more aggressive styling and proportions of the A-Class Mk3, Turkish industrial design Uğur Göküş took it upon himself to visualize a smaller model positioned between the Smart series and the A-Class. Read more »   |
| Stand Your Ground, the Russian Pedestrian Edition Posted: 27 Dec 2012 07:41 AM PST  Florida's 'Stand Your Ground' law, which gained national attention after the high profile shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, states: "A person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and who is attacked in any other place where he or she has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony." We don't know if there's a similar law for pedestrians in Smolensk Oblast in Russia, but this man sure knows how to 'stand his ground' when drivers disregard the signs and don't slow down to let people cross the road. See what happened in the video that follows the break. Read more »   |
| Analysts Predict U.S. New Cars Sales to Grow to 15 Million Units in 2013, Used Car Prices to Fall Posted: 27 Dec 2012 06:59 AM PST  New light-vehicle sales in the States are gradually recovering from the slump that began in 2007 with the global credit crunch and will continue to grow in 2013, albeit at a slower pace than previous years, according to most automotive analysts. Edmunds.com projects 15 million new car sales in 2013, a four percent increase over 2012, which is expected to end with around 14.5 million units. It will be the first time since 2007 that the U.S. market will surpass the 15 million sales mark. Read more »   |
| Mcchip Turns Porsche 993 GT2 Into a Formidable Track Racer with 596-Horses Posted: 27 Dec 2012 06:13 AM PST  While some tend to believe that certain cars are like a fine bottle of wine that improves with age, truth is that, once you begin counting a vehicle's age in decades, the more attention it needs to keep it up and running. When time came to spruce up his car, this owner of the classic 993-generation Porsche 911 GT2 from the mid-1990s, decided to not only restore but also turn the German sports coupe into a street-legal track racer. Read more »   |
| Facelifted Ford Fiesta Van Gains Aston Martin-Esque Schnozzle Posted: 27 Dec 2012 05:41 AM PST  Joining the refreshed range of Fiesta hatchbacks in Europe is the facelifted, commercial version of the series aptly named the Fiesta Van, which is available to order now in Britain, with customer deliveries from early January 2013. Read more »    |
| New Mercedes-Benz Citan Van Receives One of its First Tuning Jobs Posted: 27 Dec 2012 05:13 AM PST  The new Citan urban delivery van is the fruit of the partnership between Mercedes-Benz parent company Daimler and the Renault-Nissan Alliance. It is based on the French firm's successful Kangoo series and is available in three different body variants. While it hasn't been on the market that long since European sales began in October, the Citan has already caught the attention of tuners, with German aftermarket company KTW Tuning presenting, if not the first, one of the first programs for Mercedes' smallest commercial vehicle. Read more »   |
| Hyundai Elantra Sets New Sales Record in the States, Could Pass 200,000 Units this Year Posted: 27 Dec 2012 04:49 AM PST  Now in its fifth generation, the Hyundai Elantra has set another all-time sales record in the States in 2012, exceeding last year's total of 186,361 units earlier this month. Read more »    |
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