Thursday, November 19, 2009

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2010 Opel / Vauxhall Corsa gains More Powerful and Fuel Efficient Engines and Chassis Improvements

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 10:01 PM PST

General Motors' European division Opel and its sister company Vauxhall have revealed the revised 2010 Corsa that's scheduled to go on sale in mainland Europe early next year and in the UK, from April. If you're looking at the photos to discover what's new about the 2010 Corsa, you'd better stop because Opel/Vauxhall didn't change a thing on the...

Only in Abu Dhabi: Cops Get Nissan GT-R Police Car

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 09:01 PM PST

Well, we suppose that in a country where supercars and ultra luxurious sedans and SUVs of all sorts are as common as Fords and Chevys here in the States, it's only fit for the UAE's police forces to patrol the roads and highways of the capital city of Abu Dhabi in a Nissan GT-R. Albeit less extreme that Italy's Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4...

Fesler-Moss 2010 Camaro Limited Edition with ZR1 LS9 and a $150,000 Price Tag

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 06:37 PM PST

For those that want to go the whole nine yards with the 2010 Camaro Fesler-Moss packages, muscle car builder Chris Fesler and former GM specialty vehicle director Jon Moss, have created the Limited Edition package. That is, if you're actually willing to spend more than what it would cost you to park a brand new Corvette ZR1 and a loaded 2010...

North American Debut for Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG at 2009 LA Auto Show

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 02:55 PM PST

Just to be clear, there's nothing new - or at least nothing we haven't seen before at other shows- for Mercedes-Benz at the forthcoming 2009 LA Auto Show in December. The major attraction at the firm's booth will be the 563-horsepower SLS AMG 'gullwing' supercar that will make its North American debut in Los Angeles along with the diesel-powered...

New Study Says that Every GM Vehicle Sold in the States Costs Taxpayers $12,200 - In Theory...

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 02:08 PM PST

It's 'bailout talk' time again as a new study that was conducted by Thomas D. Hopkins, a Professor of Economics at Rochester Institute of Technology, for the 362,000-member strong National Taxpayers Union (NTU), finds that the American taxpayer will have put up $12,200 for every GM vehicle, and $7,600 for every Chrysler, sold from the beginning of...

Hyundai Presents its First Direct-Injection Petrol Engine, the New 201HP 2.4L Theta II

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 12:25 PM PST

Hyundai has officially unveiled it first-ever direct-injection gasoline engine, the new 2.4 Theta II GDI that promises to deliver more power and a significant improvement in fuel consumption over the standard multi-point fuel injected engines. In its Korean domestic market specification, the 2.4-liter four-cylinder unit engine produces an output...

Honda to Reveal P-NUT Compact Coupe Design Study at 2009 LA Auto Show

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 10:50 AM PST

As we're approaching the opening date of the 2009 Los Angeles Auto Show on December 2, more and more automakers are announcing their plans for the event. Honda made it official today that it will stage the world debut of the Personal-Neo Urban Transport design study, or P-NUT for short. The Japanese firm's Spartan press release makes word of a...

Last Call: Ford to Produce An Additional Run of 400 Units of the 305HP Focus RS for Germany

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 10:23 AM PST

Ford's original plans were to produce a total of 1,200 units of the Focus RS hot hatch for the German market. However, due to the unexpectedly high demand for the company's fastest-ever European model, Ford has decided to build an additional run of 400 copies of the 305-horsepower strong Focus RS exclusively for Germany, thus increasing the total...

Autonomous Audi TTS Takes Driving Out of the Equation [with Video and Photos]

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 08:24 AM PST

This here is the Autonomous Audi TTS, a research model for a car that does away with the driver altogether in order to explore the best capabilities of current and future driver assistance technologies. The prototype car is the collaborative work of the Volkswagen Group Electronics Research Laboratory (ERL), the Stanford University Dynamics Design...

360HP Fiat 500 Abarth by Romeo Ferraris to Participate in Italian Endurance Race

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 07:27 AM PST

Romeo Ferraris, as in the Italian tuning firm and racing car builder, has announced that it will take part in the '6 Hours of Vallelunga' endurance race in Italy on November 22 with its specially developed Fiat 500 Abarth competition model. The carbon-fiber bodied Italian hatch with the humongous rear wing packs a heavily modified 1.4-liter...

North American Mazda2 to Premiere at LA Auto Show, Sales Start in 2010

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 06:52 AM PST

The Ford Fiesta's Japanese cousin, the Mazda2, will make its debut on this side of the Atlantic at the Los Angeles Auto Show in early December, the company announced today. Mazda said that the North American-spec hatchback will go on sale in the USA and Canada beginning in late 2010. The Japanese firm has not disclosed any specific details or...
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