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- Lexus Loses Big In the U.S.A.: Outpaced by Two of its German Rivals
- BMW’s Retrolicious 328 Homage Concept Makes Official Debut
- BMW’s New Age 328 Roadster Concept: First Live Photos
- Audi-fied Fiat Uno Turbo is a Hideous Eyesore
- Ferrari's One-Off Superamerica 45 Special Drops its Top at Villa d'Este
- Aston Martin’s One-77 Supercar Filmed on the Streets of London
- Q&A with Endora Cars on its Corvette-Based SC-1
- Autocar Magazine Envisions the Perfect Driver's Car with the BS1 (No Pun Intended…)
- New Toyota FT-86 / Scion FR-S Sports Coupe Scooped on Video
- Kubatech’s Chipped Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG with 583-horsepower
- Aston Martin V12 Zagato: Italian Elegance Meets British Brute Force
| Lexus Loses Big In the U.S.A.: Outpaced by Two of its German Rivals Posted: 20 May 2011 08:31 PM PDT  It took eleven years for Lexus to earn the title of top dog of the U.S. luxury car market, and roughly the same amount of time for it to lose it. As a result of parent company Toyota's accelerator pedal recall saga and the fifty percent drop in production capacity caused by the Tōhoku earthquake, old guard automakers BMW and Mercedes-Benz have left the Japanese upstart gasping for air in third place. According to automotive forecaster IHS, Mercedes-Benz will most probably sell 254,100 cars and SUVs in the States topping BMW's estimated deliveries of 250,400 units. Lexus is projected to drop to third place with 192,900 sales. Read more »
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| BMW’s Retrolicious 328 Homage Concept Makes Official Debut Posted: 20 May 2011 02:14 PM PDT  The stage is set for this weekend's Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este in Italy with automakers and individual owners of classic cars already rolling out their goods for the 2011 edition of the show. The famed event will also play host to the world premiere of a fresh batch of sports car concept cars such as the Aston Martin V12 Zagato that we told you about earlier today and the BMW 328 Hommage concept, which we present here.
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| BMW’s New Age 328 Roadster Concept: First Live Photos Posted: 20 May 2011 01:25 PM PDT  Just a few minutes ago, the Belgian crew from Autofans dropped these cell-phone photos (courtesy of a Twitter user Sjoerdvstokkum) of a new BMW concept model into our e-mail box. The design study is called the 328 Hommage Concept and it was created by BMW to celebrate the original model's 75th birthday. Stay tuned as in a few minutes we'll bring you the full details and photos of the 328 Hommage. Read more »
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| Audi-fied Fiat Uno Turbo is a Hideous Eyesore Posted: 20 May 2011 11:51 AM PDT  Along with Peugeot's award winning 205 (remember the Rallye and the GTi?), the Fiat Uno is considered one of the finest superminis to come out of Europe in the 1980s. And the fact that both models remained in the market with small changes for more than a decade is a testament to that. The Uno's clean and modern lines were the work of Giorgetto Giugiaro's ItalDesign, which has now passed into the hands of the ever-growing Volkswagen Group.
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| Ferrari's One-Off Superamerica 45 Special Drops its Top at Villa d'Este Posted: 20 May 2011 11:56 AM PDT  The coachbuilt Ferrari Superamerica 45 special commissioned by American billionaire Peter Kalikow has arrived at the Villa d'Este for the Concorso D'Eleganza contest. Not surprisingly, a by-passer took advantage of the occasion and filmed the car's roof mechanism in action at its first outing under the sun. This is the first time we see the supercar's rotating top on the move and we have to admit it's pretty fast. Read more »
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| Aston Martin’s One-77 Supercar Filmed on the Streets of London Posted: 20 May 2011 10:58 AM PDT  There are very few cars in this world that can stir our imagination just by looking at them parked on the road, and this is one of them. We're talking about the top dog in Aston Martin's current lineup, the One-77 supercar, which was filmed here on the streets of London as it was being started up and ready to launch, by a Youtube user. It's always great to see a rare supercar being used on the road instead of spending its life in a garage as a centerpiece. Read more »
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| Q&A with Endora Cars on its Corvette-Based SC-1 Posted: 20 May 2011 08:59 AM PDT  Coachbuilt Corvettes are a dime a dozen these days, but only a select few builds manage to stand out from the crowd. The most recent Corvette-based proposal to pop up in the news is the new SC-1 from Endora-Cars, a company based in Karlshuld, a municipality in the district of Neuburg-Schrobenhausen in Bavaria, Germany. Now, seeing that the SC-1 captured the attention of you, our readers (albeit in a sort of love-it-or-hate-it kind of way), we came in contact with Endora Cars and asked their spokesman, Björn Marek, a few questions about their Corvette-based build. Follow the jump to read our Q&A session with Marek.
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| Autocar Magazine Envisions the Perfect Driver's Car with the BS1 (No Pun Intended…) Posted: 20 May 2011 08:11 AM PDT  What we learn from specialized publications is that all cars have their flaws, no matter how expensive they are. So could there be such a thing as a perfect car? Autocar believes it so, with the British magazine going as far as creating renderings and specifying a driver's ideal set of wheel. Editor-at-large Steve Sutcliffe's vision of the perfect sports car goes like this: an open-top two-seater with a mid-engine layout, rear-wheel-drive, less than 1,000 kg (2,204 lbs) and with a price of £35,000 ($56,800).
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| New Toyota FT-86 / Scion FR-S Sports Coupe Scooped on Video Posted: 20 May 2011 07:26 AM PDT  By now, you have probably already seen our spy shots of the kitted-out Toyota FT-86 prototype with the Supra-like rear wing, which was snagged during testing in Germany, but one scoopster managed to film the sports car on the road as well. Read more »
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| Kubatech’s Chipped Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG with 583-horsepower Posted: 20 May 2011 06:49 AM PDT  For some people, there is no such thing as too much horsepower. The more the better, even if we're talking about a compact sedan like the Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG that leaves Stuttgart's factory with a 6.2-liter V8 engine cranking out 457-horsepower and 600 Nm (442 lb-ft)of peak torque. In the case of German tuning firm Kubatech, the answer to the C63 AMG's horsepower problem was a Stage 3 performance kit that includes a new ECU from Mcchip-dkr along with a complete sports exhaust system from Cargraphic, which help bump output to 583HP and 692 Nm (510 lb-ft). Read more »
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| Aston Martin V12 Zagato: Italian Elegance Meets British Brute Force Posted: 20 May 2011 06:07 AM PDT  Some companies really know how to celebrate. Take AstonMartin and Zagato, for example. The iconic British sports car maker and the legendary Italian coachbuilder will mark the 50th anniversary of their first collaboration with a brand new study.
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