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- Video: Lamborghini Aventador vs Gallardo Spyder vs Ferrari 360 Modena
- SCOOP: New Ford Mondeo Prototype Spotted Out in the Open, will Replace the U.S. Fusion as Well
- Jackasses on Wheels and with Guns Terrorize Middle East Drivers [Video]
- Honda CEO Confirms New NSX and “Hot” 2012 Civic Type R
- Ad Watch: Wild Mercedes-Benz C-Class Breaks Loose from its Door Chains
- Tata Nano: World's Most Affordable Car Receives a $4.6 million Gold Treatment [with Videos]
- SPY SHOTS: Porsche Preparing Panamera for its First Facelift
- Toyota Invests in Safety, Demonstrates Hybrid Synthetic Sound Alert and More
- Chuck Norris Approved: Awesome Save, Even if it was Accidental
- Daihatsu Presents New Fuel-Efficient Mira e:S in Japan
- Video: Volkswagen Unleashes Guerilla Campaign for Small Up! City Car
- SPIED: 2012 Renault Megane Hatchback and Sport Tourer Facelift
- The Flying Dutchman: Nissan GT-R Lands into a Water Ditch
- Aston Martin Says it Can't Satisfy Demand for $49K Cygnet
- MR Car Design Spiffs Up the Renault Clio RS
- Healey Sports Cars to Revive Jensen with New Interceptor GT in 2012
- IAA 2011: Ford's Pure Electric E-Bike Concept
- BMW Expands 6-Series Coupe and Cabrio Lineup with AWD Versions, Priced from $86,000
- Infiniti M35h sets Guinness World Record for Fastest Accelerating Full Hybrid, Lamborghini Countach Owners Beware
- GM and SAIC to Develop a New Electric Vehicle in China
| Video: Lamborghini Aventador vs Gallardo Spyder vs Ferrari 360 Modena Posted: 20 Sep 2011 04:48 PM PDT  If it where any other type of cars, we'd probably skip this vide altogether, but it's not every day that you see a spanking new Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4 getting ready to Of course there's a matter of who's driving the Italian supercars and what condition they're in, but it looks like the Aventador and the LP 560-4 Spyder pretty much smoked the rest. Click past the break to watch the short clip for yourself. Read more »
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| SCOOP: New Ford Mondeo Prototype Spotted Out in the Open, will Replace the U.S. Fusion as Well Posted: 20 Sep 2011 03:55 PM PDT  Our spy photographers captured a development prototype of Ford's new global mid-size sedan sporting a modified platform but with most body parts sourced from the current Mondeo saloon, during testing in Europe. In the likes of the latest Fiesta and more recently, the new Focus that are available in more or less the same form worldwide, the next generation of the Mondeo will serve as truly global model for Ford in the popular mid-size segment. Read more »
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| Jackasses on Wheels and with Guns Terrorize Middle East Drivers [Video] Posted: 20 Sep 2011 03:05 PM PDT  There's hooning. And then there's criminal hooning. These particular individuals shown in the video after the break no doubt belong to the second category with their idiotically dangerous antics.
As if waving guns and shooting in the air on a public road isn't dumb enough, the wannabe drifters terrorize all the rest of the drivers throwing the Accord in front of passenger cars, trucks and even near a school bus. Read more »
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| Honda CEO Confirms New NSX and “Hot” 2012 Civic Type R Posted: 20 Sep 2011 02:22 PM PDT  [2003 Honda HSC Concept pictured above]
"I spent part of my early career at Honda developing the NSX, and specifically the aluminium body," Ito told reporters from UK's Autocar. "I really enjoyed the experience and learned much, so my wish is that Honda engineers have the experience of developing a sportscar like the NSX in the future. Within Honda, our engineers are already looking at developing such a car," he added. Read more »
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| Ad Watch: Wild Mercedes-Benz C-Class Breaks Loose from its Door Chains Posted: 20 Sep 2011 01:48 PM PDT  To promote its newly arrived C-Class Coupe, Mercedes-Benz's U.S. arm has produced this attention-grabbing commercial. The 30-second TV spot shows a C-Class sedan with its rear doors chained down racing on a road until, as you may have already figured out, it breaks free revealing the Coupe model. Video follows after the break. Read more »
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| Tata Nano: World's Most Affordable Car Receives a $4.6 million Gold Treatment [with Videos] Posted: 20 Sep 2011 01:16 PM PDT  When Ratan Tata revealed the $2,500 Nano mini car in India in January 2008, the owner and Chairman of Tata Motors, made headlines the world over with the world's cheapest car. Three years later the Nano has faced a spontaneous-combusting debacle while despite the booming Indian car market; its sales have dropped significantly. So Tata decided to do a little publicity stand in order to bring its car once again into the spotlight. Read more »
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| SPY SHOTS: Porsche Preparing Panamera for its First Facelift Posted: 20 Sep 2011 12:29 PM PDT  The Porsche Panamera was introduced in 2009 as the Stuttgart-based brand's first attempt to break into the lucrative executive saloon segment (albeit with a rear hatch).
Now, Porsche has begun preparations for the Panamera's first facelift, which should arrive in the market within the next year or year-and-a-half. Read more »
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| Toyota Invests in Safety, Demonstrates Hybrid Synthetic Sound Alert and More Posted: 20 Sep 2011 11:59 AM PDT  Toyota has taken a lot of heat in the past couple of years over safety issues, especially in North America. But last January, the Japanese company announced that it will invest $50 million over five years in its Collaborative Research Safety Center (CRSC) to develop new safety technologies. Recently, Toyota Motor Sales USA organized a Safety Seminar in which it displayed the technologies developed by the CRSC and its partners while also announcing plans to launch 10 new research initiatives with leading US universities and institutions. Read more »
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| Chuck Norris Approved: Awesome Save, Even if it was Accidental Posted: 20 Sep 2011 11:34 AM PDT  As with anything else in this life, sometimes you need a little luck to get through a potentially dangerous situation. Now, unless Chuck Norris was behind the wheel of the red truck you see on your right hand, we'll assume that the driver didn't intentionally tilt the vehicle on one side to maneuver himself out of harm's way. Watch the clip right after the jump. Read more »
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| Daihatsu Presents New Fuel-Efficient Mira e:S in Japan Posted: 20 Sep 2011 10:58 AM PDT  Toyota's daughter brand of small vehicles, Daihatsu, has launched a new version of its Mira kei car called e:S incorporating a raft of new or revised technologies, all of which aim to improve fuel efficiency. Daihatsu says that it has overhauled all existing aspects of the engine, the transmission, and the body structure, to make the most of energy efficiency and as a result, says that the Mira e:S is almost 40 percent more fuel efficient that current mini cars with engine displacements of up to 660 cc [0.6-liter]. Read more »
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| Video: Volkswagen Unleashes Guerilla Campaign for Small Up! City Car Posted: 20 Sep 2011 10:14 AM PDT  To demonstrate how important size is when it comes to parking in modern day cities, Volkswagen launched a new guerilla campaign for its new Up! city car right outside the Frankfurt Motor Show hall. In the early hours of the morning, the German company's marketing team covered a line of cars in textiles featuring a life-size print of the new Up!. You can watch the video right after the break. Read more »
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| SPIED: 2012 Renault Megane Hatchback and Sport Tourer Facelift Posted: 20 Sep 2011 09:35 AM PDT  Renault is one of the few remaining mainstream automakers that have yet to adopt the use of vinyl wraps to cover up their prototype models from the prying eyes of spy photographers.
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| The Flying Dutchman: Nissan GT-R Lands into a Water Ditch Posted: 20 Sep 2011 08:52 AM PDT  There's something about sports cars and…water sports this week. Following the story on the Ferrari Enzo that took a quick dip into the Atlantic Ocean a couple of days ago, we now have a Nissan GT-R that was flogged into a water ditch in Amsterdam, Holland. According to press reports from The Netherlands, the driver of the Nissan GT-R was returning from a close-by race track event when he lost control of the vehicle for unknown reasons, sending it straight into the swamp-like ditch. A messy situation indeed, but fortunately, nobody was injured. Hop over the break to wash...err..watch the aftermath in the two video clips. Read more »
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| Aston Martin Says it Can't Satisfy Demand for $49K Cygnet Posted: 20 Sep 2011 08:34 AM PDT  Aston Martin's chairman Ulrich Bez has admitted that sales of the subcompact Cygnet are "not as high as we hoped". He claimed though that the reason is not the lack of customers, but of supply. "I'm not satisfied with sales of the Cygnet" Bez told British magazine, Autocar. "We can't deliver as many as customers want, as we don't have enough stock. It is the sort of product a customer wants and decides they want on the spot –they don't want to wait for their car to be built, but to drive it away there and then," he added. Read more »
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| MR Car Design Spiffs Up the Renault Clio RS Posted: 20 Sep 2011 08:00 AM PDT  The Renault Clio RenaultSport or RS 200 for short is considered to be one of the best small hot hatches in Europe. German tuning house MR Car Design believes it can make it a little bit better with a selection of very mild modifications. MR Car Design starts with the Renault Clio RS 200's 2.0-liter, naturally-aspirated four-banger that produces 200-horses in factory tune. After the fitting of an optimized ECU and a custom exhaust system that includes the Akrapovic-Evolution-System, output is pushed to a more potent 220-horsepower. Read more »
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| Healey Sports Cars to Revive Jensen with New Interceptor GT in 2012 Posted: 20 Sep 2011 07:39 AM PDT  Brand revivals are not very common, but they are not a novelty either. For example, BMW did it with the Mini with considerable success, while Mercedes-Benz was also able to resurrect Maybach with… err…let's just say unsatisfactory results. Now Healey Sports Cars Switzerland [HSCS], which owns the brand rights to Jensen Motors will re-launch the company with a spanking new car next year. Read more »
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| IAA 2011: Ford's Pure Electric E-Bike Concept Posted: 20 Sep 2011 07:07 AM PDT  Lost somewhere between the world premieres of the production 2012 Focus ST and the conceptual Fiesta ST and EVOS at Ford's Frankfurt Motor Show gig, is the E-Bike Concept that was created to demonstrate how the company's design language can translate into a bicycle. The pure electric bicycle was developed by a Ford Design team headed by Executive Design Director Martin Smith, in partnership with cyber-Wear, the German brand behind the automaker's lifestyle collection products. Read more »
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| BMW Expands 6-Series Coupe and Cabrio Lineup with AWD Versions, Priced from $86,000 Posted: 20 Sep 2011 06:26 AM PDT  First announced this summer, the BMW 650i is now available for order in the States with the option of the xDrive all-wheel drive system on both the Coupe and Convertible body styles.
The xDrive system will cost buyers an additional $3,000 lifting the MSRP of the 650i Coupe from $83,000 to $86,000, and the 650i Convertible from $90,500 to $93,500. Read more »
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| Posted: 20 Sep 2011 06:06 AM PDT  On August 23, the new Infiniti M35h sped into the Guinness Book of Records as the world's fastest accelerating full hybrid model. The record-breaking feat took place at UK's Santa Pod drag strip, with the 364HP luxury sedan, driven by CAR magazine journalist Tim Pollard, setting an average 0-400 m (quarter-mile) time of 13.9031 seconds and a passing speed of over 160 km/h (100 mph). Read more »
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| GM and SAIC to Develop a New Electric Vehicle in China Posted: 20 Sep 2011 05:43 AM PDT  General Motors Chairman and CEO Dan Akerson and his counterpart at SAIC Motor Corp., Hu Maoyuan, signed an agreement for the joint development of a new electric vehicle in China. The Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center, which is jointly owned by the two companies, will undertake the development of the new architecture, with GM and SAIC teams working together. Read more »
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