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Main > Car Makers News > Other > ABT Scirocco heads to Essen Click above for a hi-res gallery of the ABT Scirocco So, the Essen Motor Show is coming up. For those of you unaware, it's basically a Euro SEMA. All the tuners will be there, showing off stuff that's both decent and dreadful, proving that yes, Europeans can do bad taste as well as anyone this side of the Atlantic. ABT is entirely capable of serving up either dish, but in the case of their Scirocco, they manage to stay on the better side of decent. You know the drill: body kit, wheels, suspension... Full article... Article added: 2008-11-29 08:01:12 Article Views Rating: 117 Main > Car Makers News > Honda > Honda V8 coming... in 2015 "You've got to have the right tool for the job." "You can't bring a knife to a gun-fight." Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. We've heard it all before. Honda makes some excellent engines, there's no doubt about that, from small displacement four-pots that rev through the roof to gloriously smooth and reliable V6 units. Unfortunately, the fun stops there, as the Japanese automaker has steadfastly stuck to its guns, not building an eight-cylinder engine when it can do just as well with fewer pistons... Full article... Article added: 2008-11-29 08:01:11 Article Views Rating: 170 Main > Car Makers News > Lexus > Lexus Says If Approved, LF-A May Never See More Than 500 Units Ever Almost two years after the concept version's unveiling in Detroit, Toyota is still not saying when or if the LF-A will make it to production. Sources believe, however, that the production LF-A is now signed off, and this long awaited 480-horsepower, 200-mph supercoupe will appear at some strategic point in 2009, with a limited run of sales to start later, perhaps in 2010 or 2011. The recent buzz in Tokyo has been that Toyota is thinking of a 500-unit run with an asking price that would be the equivalent... Full article... Article added: 2008-11-27 08:21:49 Article Views Rating: 225 Main > Car Makers News > BMW > BMW Fender Gills- Are they the price of admission for Luxury Styling? I am baffled by a recent phenomenon in the automotive styling world. It seems non-functional, plastic fender gills are now the price of entry in the luxury market. I first took notice of this trend in the 2000 BMW M3.The overall styling of the E46 M3 was primarily non-offensive, excluding the cancerous growth on the hood dubbed "the power dome" and the plastic gills on the fenders.The M3 gills coincided with the BMW Z8, a supercar with super-retro styling sans LSD. I liked the Z8, at the time, and... Full article... Article added: 2008-11-27 08:21:36 Article Views Rating: 164 Main > Car Makers News > Lexus > The BEST Lexus Commercial EVER - But Somehow They Managed To Get It Wrong! I was watching TV tonight, well allow me to rephrase, the TV was on while I was working on my laptop tonight when I happened to look up to catch a commercial involving a little boy on Christmas Day and a Big Wheel.If you were born prior to about 1985, you know exactly what I am talking about.The Big Wheel. Three Wheels of neighborhood freedom.Long before kids cruised around neighborhoods in battery powered cars made to look like Mustangs, Escalades and numerous Jeeps, the three wheeled Big Wheel... Full article... Article added: 2008-11-27 08:21:36 Article Views Rating: 211 Main > Car Makers News > Lexus > IIHS Ranks Lexus As An "Also Ran" In 2009 Top Safety Picks Seventy-two vehicles earn the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's Top Safety Pick[source] Full article... Article added: 2008-11-26 06:44:20 Article Views Rating: 165 Main > Car Makers News > Lexus > Lexus LF-A Supercar shows up at Toyota’s Motorsports Festival The race enthusiasts of Japan had an uncommon opportunity to view the Lexus LF-A in action this weekend, when the extremely mysterious V10 sport coupe was displayed at Toyota’s Motorsports Festival at Fuji Speedway.This was the black “development” LF-A mule that participated in the Nürburgring 24 Hours this summer. At the wheel of the car was Akio Toyoda, executive vice president of Toyota and one of the major causes behind the LF-A program. Before a crowd of about 30,000, Akio did two rounds in... Full article... Article added: 2008-11-26 06:44:18 Article Views Rating: 207 Main > Car Makers News > Other > IIHS releases list of 2009 Top Safety Picks Vehicles are getting safer according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, which published its list of 2009 Top Safety Picks today. A total of 72 vehicles earned Top Safety Pick honors this year, which means each one earned the highest score of Good in front, side and rear crash tests performed by the IIHS, as well as offers electronic stability control. Ford and Volvo had the most cars on the list with 16 total, while Honda/Acura nabbed 13. The VW/Audi Group had nine models, and General Motors... Full article... Article added: 2008-11-26 06:44:13 Article Views Rating: 124 Main > Car Makers News > Other > The Most BRILLIANT Idea Yet On The Bailout! Should The Oil Companies Foot The Loans To Help The Auto Industry? I would LOVE to tell you that I was the one smart enough to come up with this idea but it was my friend over at the Auto Channel who had this stroke of brilliance and shared it with me at the BMW private LA Auto Show media dinner at Patina Wednesday night.Forget the US taxpayers or the Government bailing these guys out, how about the PR move of the young century...The Oil companies offering to loan Detroit the money as an act of compassion to the American people and an industry that has been SO good to... Full article... Article added: 2008-11-23 11:29:14 Article Views Rating: 88 Main > Car Makers News > Other > A Day At The Los Angeles Auto Show - Agent 00J Asks the Questions He Thinks You Want Answered In His Search For the Truth! The LA Auto Show has been a ritual that I have enjoyed for 12 years now. For the last 8 of those 12 years, this annual rite of passage has been enjoyed with the company of my brother in law, a car fanatic himself.In preparing to go to the show this morning, Agent 001 e-mailed me a list of "must see" cars and items at the show.The list did not go ignored, however a list of my own began to form as I watched the people at the show as much as I watched the cars themselves.Although in no... Full article... Article added: 2008-11-23 11:29:13 Article Views Rating: 85 |
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