Archive for August, 2010
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
You were waiting entire life for this moment - imagine that your dreams finally came true and you just earned Italia Ferrari 458. You make your way into the showroom, get the keys, a little paperwork and have it to yourself.
Get in, start and burn your engine at high rpm. Fold the corner, fly sideways, you’re in seventh heaven. The next day you wake up, glad you’re moving, and after driving several miles, when you think that 458 Italia no longer has any secrets from you, you get a skid and smash into a tree … in front of the Ferrari headquarters in Maranello. (more…)
Tags:458, 458 Italia, crash, Ferrari, Ferrari 458 Italia, Italia, Maranello
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Monday, August 23rd, 2010
Pictures of the concealed for the years concept Rover from 1997 appeared over the Internet. The car was meant to be somewhat smaller than 75, but larger than the models marked by symbols 25 and 45. Rover has called his project 55, but mainly for financial reasons car never went into production, although the owner, BMW, associated Rover with great hopes.
Unfortunately, I do not know anything about the units which were to drive the car. But I am convinced that if the car was introduced to production, sales results would certainly be better than Jaguar model 75, whose quality leaves much to be desired, and whose owners could not afford a Jaguar, and wanted to have something better than Ford Mondeo. (more…)
Tags:55, 75, Rover, Rover 55, Rover 75
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Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
Europe and Asia are two distinct visions when it comes to culture, life as well as cars. What the Chinese or Russians consider lofty, for the Europeans will probably be saturated with kitsch. This time we have prepared for you an Asian tuning result from Thailand.
The base model car that you see on your screen above is the latest generation of Honda Civic sedan. Looking at the rear of the car, we have the impression that Civic was Lexus wannabe, but quick glance at the front, and… bam, the Toyota Crown. The profile of this weird creature, however, gives us another contradictory message that it was not Lexus, not Toyota but Honda Civic sedan, which probably suffered a mental collapse, which is reflected by slightly masked wheels with massive wheel arches. (more…)
Tags:Civic, Civic Sedan, Crown, Honda, Honda Civic, Honda Civic Sedan, Lexus, Lexus IS, Toyota, Toyota Crown
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Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
Surprising information about the latest Chevrolet Corvette (C7) appeared recently on the Internet. As reported by Saab management, Swedish engineers together with their colleagues from GM, have been working on a special dual-clutch, which could carry up to 590 Nm of maximum torque. Unfortunately, work stopped in 2008 due to global crisis.
More interestingly, the latest Corvette’a will be powered by economic, turbocharged V6 engine. Production of this monster will start in April 2012. Cars will be made of light alloy, which reduces fuel consumption and improves performance. (more…)
Tags:2012 Chevrolet Corvette, C7, Chverolet Corvette, Corvette, Corvette C7, Corvette Concept, Corvette Vision Concept, Corvette ZR-1
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Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
New Chinese owner of the Swedish Volvo announces major changes in the strategy. The Chinese want to sell annually about 380 000 cars, so that Volvo will be one hundred percent profitable investment.
To obtain such a high result, however, is not easy - Geely has decided that it will be necessary to market a new model - it will be a little larger sedan than S80, which will be put in a luxury car segment, such as the Audi A8, BMW 7 Series, Mercedes Class S or Jaguar XJ. (more…)
Tags:Geely, premium, Volvo, Volvo S80
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Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
Blue McLaren F1 shown above crashed on Friday afternoon on the national road B48 near the exit to Bendorf Trier in southern Germany.
Driver of worth over one million euros McLaren F1 road encountered a black compact car, possibly the Audi A3, which did not expect rapidly approaching British monster. (more…)
Tags:autobahn, crash, Deutschland, F1, McLaren, McLaren F1
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Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
No, the Swedish manufacturer has no plans to introduce the 9-5 Coupe model, but such a move would rather not surprise anyone. This idea comes from Saab enthusiasts, and more specifically from “Saabsunited” readers.
Generally speaking, whole looks at least good. Personally, I would make a few improvements, such as: longer doors, more aluminum accents and, the most important, larger alloy rims. (more…)
Tags:9-5, 9-5 Coupe, SAAB, Saab 9-5, Saab 9-5 Coupe
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Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
If by the chance you are on emigration in the UK, and you can find a pub Sky 3D by your workplace, you will have an opportunity to use it.
Mercedes will present its three dimensional movie with their fastest star, SLSe AMG, next sunday. If you have already purchased the newspaper from the television for the weekend, then note the program Manx Meister - the latest film from Mercedes-Benz. (more…)
Tags:3D, AMG, film, Mercedes, Mercedes SLS AMG, Mercedes-Benz, Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, SLS, SLS AMG
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Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
As the U.S. Motor Trend informs, the new sports Toyobaru, as a joint sports car project developed by Toyota and Subaru, under a rather mechanical name of FT-86 will be constructed on a modified Subaru Legacy platform, using the suspension of the Impreza model.
New Subaru model will use 2-liter boxer engine type, with 200 or 260-horsepower, depending on customer choice. Interestingly, the car will be driven only on the rear wheels through six- speed manual gearbox. It is also possible that the Japanese will make automated one available. (more…)
Tags:FT-86, Legacy, Subaru, Subaru FT-86, Subaru Legacy, Toyobaru, Toyobaru FT-86, Toyota, Toyota FT-86
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Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
A number of legendary brands in their history encountered very serious problems, some of them consequently fall, while others bounce off the bottom and soar to the heights. Saab manufacturer is certainly not in the first group we include, but not yet classifies the latter. Bosses recipe of success is to return to the roots, high-quality, new range of models and finally perform in the WRC.
You do not have to clean up your monitor - Swedes actually set themselves the task of returning to world-class racing, and it is already set for the 2012 with the model of 9-2 and 9-1. For those less informed, I was wrong in writing about its return, because Saab has already appeared in the WRC, in 1976. (more…)
Tags:9-1, SAAB, Saab 9-1, WRC
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