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Main > Car Makers News > Other > MX-5 Miata owns the entry-level sports car market | detnews.com | The Detroit News For two decades, despite challenges here and there, Mazda's MX-5 Miata has owned the popular-priced sports car market. It was a sensation when it appeared in 1990 as the embodiment of the traditional open two-seater, dominated for generations by roadsters and convertibles from Great Britain. They included the Austin-Healey Sprite, 100 and 3000; Lotus Elan; MG TC, TD, A, B and Midget; Triumph TR and Spitfire, and Sunbeam Alpine and Tiger. All offered top-down exhilaration with a low center of gravity and... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-17 04:19:54 Article Views Rating: 71 Main > Car Makers News > Other > MX-5 Miata owns the entry-level sports car market | detnews.com | The Detroit News For two decades, despite challenges here and there, Mazda's MX-5 Miata has owned the popular-priced sports car market. It was a sensation when it appeared in 1990 as the embodiment of the traditional open two-seater, dominated for generations by roadsters and convertibles from Great Britain. They included the Austin-Healey Sprite, 100 and 3000; Lotus Elan; MG TC, TD, A, B and Midget; Triumph TR and Spitfire, and Sunbeam Alpine and Tiger. All offered top-down exhilaration with a low center of gravity and... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-17 04:19:37 Article Views Rating: 30 Main > Motorsport > Other > New 2010 VW Beetle Rendering Speculation Volkswagen is planning to produce all-new Beetle, which is reportedly on imprints for a 2010 launch. The new VW Beetle will once again be styled in California and engineered in Germany. It will be allotment a platform with the next-generation Rabbit and the new Scirocco.The next-generation Beetle, on the other hand, is a stab to stray from the ‘hatchling car’ copy close to it in the previous days. To make a more expensive and rotund recent look and fashion, a VW team of designers use... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-14 07:06:30 Article Views Rating: 149 Main > Car Makers News > Volkswagen > Volkswagen Scirocco R unveiled Don't get too excited if you're Stateside -- this puppy's a Europe-only treat. iMotor is first on the web with photos of the new Volkswagen Scirocco R. The UK publication had the slick blue hot hatch for an exclusive photo shoot, the embargo for which apparently lifted as the clock struck midnight GMT this evening. So, what do our friends across the pond get? Well, the Scirocco R features the Audi S3's 265-horsepower variant of the near-ubiquitous 2.0 TFSI engine, which sends power to the front wheels... Full article... Article added: 2009-05-20 09:27:19 Article Views Rating: 305 Main > Car Makers News > Bentley > Bentley Continental Supersports The Continental Supersports has been priced, with Bentley having decided that $267,000 is fair compensation for exclusive access to green, luxurious speed. The ethanol-capable Conti is not only a sign of Bentley technology to come, it also provides the first clues to the next generation Continental, which we were told "isn't far off." Orders can be placed beginning in October, though the first couple hundred units earmarked for the U.S. will be gas-only, with the full on flex-fuel model... Full article... Article added: 2009-04-22 06:00:35 Article Views Rating: 289 Main > Car Parts > Other > Corvette Z03 Stateside Enamored by the renderings we saw last year? Well, soon the Ugur Sahin designed Corvette Z03 can be yours for a cool price tag of around $69,000, excluding the price of a donor C6 Corvette, of course. To match the car's stricking looks, Mallet Cars from Ohio has signed on to provide an additional horsepower punch.The 'Vette tuner and noted racing outfit has produced two extremely high-power force-induced packages for the limited-edition European-penned sportscar. Donning all-carbon fiber bodywork, the... Full article... Article added: 2009-04-08 06:09:51 Article Views Rating: 846 Main > Car Makers News > Alfa Romeo > Alfa Romeo MiTo Review and Prices Consumer Guide’s Impressions of the 2011 Alfa Romeo MiToIf all goes well, the headline-grabbing Fiat-Chrysler alliance will deliver a stylish premium small car to lead the U.S. return of a storied Italian brand. MiTo is Alfa Romeo’s answer to the BMW Mini Cooper--and will need to be as popular to give the new partnership a chance.What We Know About the 2011 Alfa Romeo MiToAlfa Romeo is known for sports cars like Dustin Hoffman’s iconic ride in “The Graduate,” but it... Full article... Article added: 2009-03-05 06:45:25 Article Views Rating: 366 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Big 3's hybrid message: We will survive; we will be green | detnews.com | The Detroit News Kicking off the most important auto show of a crucial year, Detroit's Big Three automakers unveiled stylish, fuel-efficient and high-tech vehicles Sunday aimed at winning back customers from import brands and countering doomsayers and critics in Washington and across the country. "You can't look at the array of cars that we've brought up on stage today and say these guys don't get it, these cars are ugly, and these cars don't perform," said GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz, the Detroit industry's most eloquent... Full article... Article added: 2009-01-12 06:34:09 Article Views Rating: 252 Main > Car Makers News > Lotus > Lotus developing new electric sports car Lotus is laboring on an electric sports car to compete with Tesla’s Roadster and Fisker’s Karma. The CEO of Lotus, Michael Kimberley, said the company is already “working on the technologies that will go behind” the electric Lotus, and that buyers should not be “surprised to see an electric Lotus shortly”.The news emerges after the latest revealing of the Lotus Evora 4-seater, for which there is already a long list of celebrities expressing interest. The Evora and the latest electric Lotus... Full article... Article added: 2009-01-03 09:19:51 Article Views Rating: 206 Main > Car Makers News > BMW > Gigantic BMW 750Li defies physics, handles like a dream | detnews.com | The Detroit News DRESDEN, Germany -- My driving partner and I were in the vicinity of Chemnitz, a somewhat dire little city in the former East Germany known for its alcoholism and an enormous monument to Karl Marx. Naturally, we had to see it. "Bitte, kennen Sie, wo ist der grossen Kopf vom Karl Marx?" we asked passers-by. The former East Germans, standing in chilly drizzle, were delighted to help the capitalist running dogs in their gigantic limousine, a 2009 BMW 750Li. They pointed us down one of the main streets --... Full article... Article added: 2009-01-03 09:19:45 Article Views Rating: 232 |
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