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Main > Car Makers News > Other > New York 2008: NYC oddities and side splitters We were extremely busy while trying to cover the snot out of the New York Auto Show this past week at the Jacob Javits Center. Even when we were running across the show floor to make a press conference and get a good seat, we still had our fingers on the trigger of our many DSLR cameras. At times we caught some interesting and downright funny things that just didn't fit into any other gallery except one devote to the odd and slightly hilarious. Check them out in the gallery below, complete with captions... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-22 19:54:38 Article Views Rating: 233 Main > Car Makers News > Mitsubishi > New York 2008: The Mitsubishi i is A-OKei Click image for a high-res gallery of the turbocharged Mitsubishi iI'm the resident kei car obsessive here at Autoblog. That means I'm the guy who actually thinks, "That is awesome," when he reads the Google translated announcement of yet another Suzuki Wagon R variant. Hell, I did two posts on the one-off Hello Kitty Mitsubishi i. Keis are cool. So, you can imagine how happy I was to see that Mitsubishi brought along a small fleet of its i minicars to the New York Auto Show this year. Mitsubishi's... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-22 19:54:37 Article Views Rating: 261 Main > Car Makers News > BMW > Munich BMW Museum Reopening BMW museum was closed for reconstruction and it is going to be open for public again on the 21st of June this year. The owners decided they could make the place larger and show more exhibits there. It has been a unique building from the very beginning of its existence. When it was built in 1973, people were impressed with its architecture. It has been designed by an Austrian professor and consists out of two building different in shape. The top of one of them shows a huge BMW logo which is well seen... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-22 19:54:37 Article Views Rating: 235 Main > Car Makers News > Other > A New Car Insurance Comparison Website Bank Lloyds started a comparison website on which the consumers can check for the prices on car insurance and see what will satisfy their personal needs best. The service of 35 providers can be checked on www.insurance.co.uk, but the administration of the website plans to have even more of insurance companies there. Lloyds offers its own package of auto insurance and the other car insurance companies suppose that www.insurance.co.uk would be independent from the bank, but the website creators say they... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-22 19:54:37 Article Views Rating: 325 Main > Car Makers News > Hyundai > Hyundai launches site for Genesis Coupe We dug the hot new Genesis Coupe at the New York Auto Show, but not everybody can head out to Gotham to see Hyundai's future tuner de force. Hyundai knows it has a good thing on its hands, and has now shared it with the world in web form. The Genesis Coupe's official site includes everything from technical specifications and available equipment to photo galleries and videos. That ought to help you kill the year-or-so wait for the Genesis Coupe's arrival in dealer showrooms. We noticed that Hyundai... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-22 19:54:37 Article Views Rating: 227 Main > Car Makers News > Mini > 2008 Mini John Cooper 2008 Mini John Cooper was presented on the Geneva Auto Show this year. Being a little vehicle it has 218 horsepower which is unbelievable for a tiny one like this. The 1.6-liter four-cylinder engine is turbocharged. Being designed as a racing car from the beginning Mini Cooper still has fog lights, but its bumper was remodeled and got deeper providing more aerodynamics to the car. The wheels got some tuning. You can see low-profile run flat tires on 17-inch wheels. These super light weight wheels were... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-22 19:54:36 Article Views Rating: 434 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Avro 720 Mirage Special Edition A very limited edition of Ford GT is going to come out soon. British auto tuning company, Avro Motor Cars, is planning to make a new legend, Avro 720 Mirage. Only ten of these unique cars will be made. The designers put 720 horsepower in this car as well as 220 mph top-speed and 627 pound-feet torque. Accufab provides a throttle body, an inlet sleeve and an x-pipe exhaust system. An enormous supercharger is made by Whipple. Avro has orange color with black details. Its front and rear track is wider than... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-22 19:54:35 Article Views Rating: 262 Main > Car Makers News > Other > 2008 New-York Auto Show Starts Today Everybody was waiting for the grand opening of the New-York Auto Show. For two days press was full of the articles about the vehicles presented there. Finally today is the first day when the show starts and will take place for 10 days till March 30. This year New-York started earlier. Geneva Auto Show has been finished two weeks ago and the New-York Show starts right after it. Earlier the time difference between them was bigger for a comparison, there was the whole month between the shows last year. The... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-22 19:54:34 Article Views Rating: 261 Main > Car Makers News > Scion > Scion Hako Coupe Concept on New-York Auto Show An unusual looking car was presented at the New-York Auto Show today by Scion. It was designed by a Tokyo team and represents a toy-like flat roof boxy vehicle. In general, if you associated Hako Coupe with a person, the first thought to hit your mind would be, it looks like a military officer. The creators of Hako Coupe Concept are definitely square lovers. Front and back lights, large upper grill, door handles and the whole top of the car are as rectangular as they can be. Seems like, if they put... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-22 19:54:34 Article Views Rating: 392 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Auto briefs NEW YORK -- Toyota Motor Corp. has cut its forecast for the U.S. auto market this year and now expects overall industry sales of around 15.5 million cars and trucks, according to Toyota executives at the New York car show. That range "is looking to be a more reasonable and realistic view," Randy Pflughaupt, vice president for marketing at Toyota Motor Sales USA, said at the auto show. At the start of the year, the Japanese automaker had predicted the market would be flat in 2008, with sales totaling... Full article... 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