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Saturday, 17 January 2009
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The latest concept creation of budding automotive designer Jamie Martin is the modern Cobra Venom V8 based on the original AC Shelby Cobra. In fact, the design depicts a possible successor to the original 1960 Cobra and if built would be powered by a Ford V8 engine. This new video rendering of the car imagines what it would be like in the fast and fuming flesh.
Originally released in photos in June of last year, the Cobra Venom V8's new video brings the renderings to life, and lends a soundtrack to the spec sheet.
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Saturday, 17 January 2009
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Between the GT-R and the Z-car, Nissan has a rich history of fine
sportscars. However, its French sister company is another story. Since
discontinuing the Alpine in 1996, Renault's sporting spirit has had to
subside on hot hatches and in its F1 program. Remarkable as they are,
the French automaker has been working on bringing back the Alpineanticipated to debut sometime next year.
That's a long way off, if you ask Brazilian design student Marcello
Felipe Maggioni. So he's come up with a design of his own for the new
Alpine.
The concept is characterized by a chopped-down
greenhouse and low-slung headlamps, creating a wedge shape similar in
style to the Lexus LF-A.
Maggioni based the design around a mid-engine layout, with a
homologated street-legal version of the high-revving 2.4-liter V8 from
the Renault F1 car. Of course this is well beyond what Renault might
actually produce to revive the Alpine nameplate, but if you're going to
dream, why not dream big?
sportscar line, with a new model
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Saturday, 17 January 2009
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At last year's Geneva Motor Show, Bentley declared it would get its fleet to the equivalent of 120 g/km of well-to-wheel CO2
emissions by 2012. One of the keys to that will be the use of biofuels,
primarily ethanol. At the Detroit Auto Show this week, Bentley board
member Stuart McCullough declared that the company would debut its
first flex fuel car at the Geneva Motor Show
in March. McCullough also confirmed that the entire Bentley lineup will
be flex-fuel capable by 2012. Since all of Bentley's cars are
turbocharged, they should be well suited to running on the high octane
ethanol. By tuning the engines for ethanol, Bentley may even be able to
overcome most of the efficiency deficit that normally aspirated engines
experience with ethanol. Whether running on ethanol will really make
Bentleys get the equivalent of 120 g/km is debatable, but at least they
won't be using as much petroleum.
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Saturday, 17 January 2009
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The big Barrett-Jackson car auction in Scottsdale's going on right now and we're already into the fourth day of hot gavel action. Here's the eight top cars that have found new owners through day three.
With so much metal at the auction coming from the sale of a selection of classics from the GM Heritage Center museum,
it's interesting that the top eight cars that've been sold so far at
the 2009 Barrett-Jackson Auction in Scottsdale, AZ all came from that
collection.
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Saturday, 17 January 2009
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Late in 2008 Hamann revealed its plans for the BMW X6, including a range of performance and appearance upgrades. Today the tuning house expands that range with a new Tycoon widebody kit for the 'sports activity coupe'.
Building on the foundation of Hamann's earlier X6 modificaitions, including power upgrades to the xDrive30d and xDrive35d diesel engines as well as the big and powerful xDrive50i petrol V8. Rated at 261hp (195kW) and 315hp (235kW) for the diesel models, respectively, Hamann has not yet disclosed the power upgrade for the xDrive50i, though building on the already-potent 400hp (298kW) twin-turbo V8 ensures it will be a beast.
The key new upgrades for the Tycoon variant, however, relate to the widebody kit, which extends the car's horizontal width by 2.36in (60mm).
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Saturday, 17 January 2009
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Volkswagen has made no secret of its desire to revive the compact roadster market with numerous concept cars over the last decade. The most recent of these was the Bluesport roadster that was unveiled this week at the Detroit Auto Show. The latest design takes the compact roadster concept to a new level, with almost production-ready specs and a real possibility of getting the green light for global sales.
One VW exec, Ulrich Hackenberg, even went so far as to suggest that the concept vehicle could reach the production stage.
[ Source: motorauthority.com Read the Full Article ]
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Saturday, 17 January 2009
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To
quote Mark Twain, "The rumors of Kawasaki's death in MotoGP may be
greatly exaggerated." Fine, so it's not an exact quote, but the point
is the same. Despite Kawasaki's assertion that it was indeed suspending its factory support from MotoGP,
the threat of lawsuit may cause the team to change its mind. According
to Carmelo Ezpeleta, who heads Dorna, the company that holds the rights
to MotoGP, Kawasaki is contractually obligated to stay in MotoGP
through 2011 and must ensure that its two ZX-RR race bikes take part in
the series in 2009. Assuming this happens, Dorna will release the team
from its commitment for the final two years. If Team Green chooses not
to comply, Dorna will seek financial compensation. Perhaps it's not
surprising, then, that Kawasaki has indeed been testing its bikes in
Australia, seemingly in preparation to race in the first event of the
season on April 12 in Qatar.
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Saturday, 17 January 2009
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The 2009 Dodge Challenger
R/T Classic trim-level brings bigger stripes, functional hood scoops
and a low-restriction exhaust to the Mopar muscle car, bringing the
5.7-liter HEMI up to 376 HP and 410 lb-ft of torque.
The R/T Classic couldn't be more classic if you were forced to
drive around in it wearing an Afro. Slotted between the base Challenger
R/T and the Challenger SRT8,
the Classic is loaded with visual enhancements which include new paint,
retro striping, egg-crate grille and classic R/T badging.
In the punch department, the R/T Classic still sports the 5.7-liter
HEMI V-8 but gets a performance-tuned low restriction exhaust helping
the engine put out 376 HP and 410 lb.-ft. of twist. This is good enough
to propel the R/T and its groovy script to 60 MPH in less than six
seconds. The 2009 Dodge Challenger R/T Classic starts at $34,005 (including $725 destination) and is available for ordering now at Dodge dealerships.
[ Source: jalopnik.com Read the Full Article ]
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Saturday, 17 January 2009
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Here's
a question that often comes up when discussing the green automotive
scene: Is it more eco-friendly to keep your old car or to buy a new,
more fuel efficient model? The answer is, as you may have guessed, very
complicated. One way to attack the question is on carbon emissions, and
this is the main tack that Scientific American has taken when analyzing the issue.
According to SciAm, due to the emissions created when manufacturing
vehicles, you should keep your current car as long as possible, so long
as it is in decent running condition and getting reasonably good fuel
mileage. Case closed?...
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Saturday, 17 January 2009
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Motors has slashed its advertising budget by 20% for 2009, according to
Ed Peper, VP at Chevrolet. Still, there are at least two new products
that are coming from Chevrolet this year, and both of them will need a
big head start if they're going to make headway in this luke-warm
market. After all, a botched or mistimed launch is something that could
easily bring GM to its knees. For this reason, most of the available
resources will be spent on the new 2009 Camaro and the upcoming Equinox, which sees a completely refreshed design for the new year.
What
of Chevy's other models? GM can't really afford successful products
like the Malibu to fall out of the public eye. So Peper says the
automaker will rely heavily on its local dealerships to continue an
advertising blitz on the mid-size sedan along with the rest of the Bow
Tie's product line.
[Source: Automotive News - Sub. Req.]
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Saturday, 17 January 2009
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Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
NBC's Mike Wendland drives a car that parks itself at the Detroit Auto Show. (NBC News Channel)
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Friday, 16 January 2009
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The Dodge Challenger SRT8 is a big, heavy beast of a car, but that didn't stop it from getting a little hang time...
[via John Sibal blog] [ Source: jalopnik.com Read the Full Article ]
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