The Bad Boy Of Formula Drift
He's Knownfor his aggressive driving and Vaugns Gittin Jr. got...
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Extreme Drifting
The Fast and the Furious elevated drifting to the big...
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Verena Mei: Car Model Babe Turns Racer
 You’ve seen plenty of them before at auto shows: the...
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Stina Hublnette is More Than a Trophy Wife
When your husband is a world-famous Drifter, and you’re a...
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Open Wheel Racing
At open track racing beginners are welcome, but the advance...
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Bring Your Car & Let It Rip
Being stuck in traffic and wondering if you'll ever move...
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Car Club Of The Week: The Shifters
Most car clubs try to take old cars and make...
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Yellow Charger: Low-Rider and Muscle Car
Check out this car that can be both low-rider and...
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Respect Tradition
Nothing turns heads like a classic hotrod! So forget today’s...
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Alpine IXAW404 Digital Media Receiver
 For the ultimate in-vehicle experience with your iPod® or iPhone®, Alpine’s...
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Swarthmore College Students Build Hydrogen-Powered Motorcycle
Monday, 02 February 2009

Alex Bell and Andres Pacheco are studying engineering at Swarthmore college. They've worked worked very hard on an ambitious project: "Our goal was to design and build a hydrogen fuel cell powered motorcycle to test the efficiencies of hydrogen fuel cell, internal combustion, and battery propulsion."

They've succeeded, with videos to prove it. Read on for more details....
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Super Bowl XLIII: All The Car Related Comercials [YouTube]
Monday, 02 February 2009

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The Superbowl is always known for awesome commercials. Click on the link to check out all the car related commercials that magically showed up on YouTube this morning.
click the read more link below to see the videos

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What Celebrities Drive: Kim Kardashian
Monday, 02 February 2009

 

 


Kim Kardashian, the not-really-a-star- but-still-somehow-a-celebrity-because -she-likes-to-take-her-clothes-off-on-camera, drives both a Bentley Continental as well as a Range Rover, both tuned by Platinum Motorsport.

 

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2010 Audi R8 5.2 FSI Quattro Isn't "Fully Confirmed" for U.S.
Monday, 02 February 2009

Audi celebrates the impending rollout of the Audi R8 V10 in Germany by showing off a new video of the high-performance flagship and lots of photos. But the plans for a U.S. debut of the car isn't cast in stone, the automaker tells Inside Line.

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Porsche admits it's not invincible, posts 14% sales decline
Monday, 02 February 2009

Porsche's sales for the first six months of its fiscal year (August 1, 2008 through January 31, 2009) have decreased by 27.3% for a total of 34,000 units sold. The resulting financial effect is a 14.3% drop in revenue, or around three billion euros (just under $4 billion US).

Although Porsche execs admit that the automaker isn't immune to the global economic downturn, it has no plans cut jobs. However, it will reduce the number of days worked at the Zuffenhausen plant in Stuttgart by 19 days this summer.

According to Porsche, one of the major factors contributing to the sales slump is a change in its model mix, specifically an increase in 911 variants leaving dealer lots and a decrease in Boxster sales – one of the marque's largest sellers. Strictly judging by our First Drive of the 2009 Porsche Boxster, we'd expect things to improve by the end of July.

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Chrysler: Please sir, we want some more
Monday, 02 February 2009
Chrysler CEO Bob Nardelli

Less than a month after receiving the first $4 billion from the federal government’s bailout package for the auto industry, Chrysler has revealed that it needs an additional $3 billion to help close an alliance deal with Italy’s Fiat Group. Unlike General Motors, which has been allocated up to $9.4 billion in restructuring loans, Chrysler was only given $4 billion despite the claims that it needed at least $8 billion to completely reform its operations.

The fact that the latest demand is to help facilitate an alliance with a foreign carmaker seeking to gain from the deal, lawmakers in Washington are wary to offer more money. There is also the possibility that Chrysler could one day be controlled by a foreign carmaker.

Despite this, Chrysler will have its chance on February 17 when it is scheduled to present a viability plan that the Obama administration will use to determine whether the automaker will receive more loan money.

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Street Racer Smash
Monday, 02 February 2009

 Watching idiot street racers in illegal parking lot racing videos ending with a deliciously crunchy t-boning and a declaration of "I got that shit on videotape" always adds some pep to our Friday evening! NSFW-for-language.

We're all for racing, any kind, anywhere across the wide-wide world; Strap a motorcycle engine to a shopping cart or a blown V8 onto a wheel chair, but keep it at a race track. These hooligans go hot-rodding around a strip mall parking lot where we're sure no small amount of teenage braggadocio resulted in what looks like a pretty painful and well deserved T-bone collision. Let that be a lesson to you. We all know hooning is great fun, but doing it irresponsibly inevitably ruins things for everyone.

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Video: Key support for British car industry
Monday, 02 February 2009
Britain's struggling car industry has joined banks in getting Government help but Business Secretary Lord Mandelson has denied the package is a "bail-out".  ITN's Juliet Bremner details.   (Nightly News)
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Routan Bust? VW asks Chrysler to stop building minivans for February
Monday, 02 February 2009

Evidently, early consumer feedback suggests that Fahrvergnügen is not spelled "R-o-u-t-a-n." Volkswagen has reportedly asked Chrysler Canada to temporarily halt production for the month of February on its new ported-over minivan.

Initial Routan sales have been slow, with the Windsor Star reporting that around 29,000 units have been shipped to dealers, but only a few thousand have actually been sold. The production stoppage should help stem the supply overage somewhat, but all signs point to the Routan having a rough road ahead – and not just because of the increasingly dire economic climate. VW's Brooke Shields "Routan Boom" ad campaign appears to have drawn more quizzical looks and outright scorn than potential buyers, and critics are questioning how well the vehicle lines up with VW's brand image.

If nothing else, the Routan clearly has the finest interior of any model in the Chrysler minivan family and a quick spin by this author suggests that it's the best driving, too. Still, those positive aspects don't appear to be enough to guarantee homes for the 300 or so Routans leaving the plant each day.

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Report: GM will import Chevrolet Volt engines
Monday, 02 February 2009

 With more sources confirming General Motors’ contract to build a new engine plant in the city of Flint, Michigan, for its upcoming Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid and Cruze has been cancelled, the question that now arises is where will GM source the cars' compact engines? A senior union official has now revealed that the likely option will be to source the engines from South Korea, where they are already built for the Daewoo version of the Cruze by an external supplier.

The engine in question is a new 1.4L petrol unit from an engine group called the ‘Family 0’, which includes powerplants displacing between 1.0 and 1.4L. Family 0 engines first appeared as far back as 1997 and have been in production in Europe since then. A naturally-aspirated version of the 1.4L unit was destined for the Volt, while the Cruze was to use a more powerful turbocharged version.

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Bentleys fastest & most powerful production car teased in new video
Monday, 02 February 2009

 The pressure to show an interest in the ecological impact of driving is extending ever-upwards, so high that even Bentley is working on a biofuel model. Due to arrive at the Geneva Motor Show in March, Bentley yesterday released a teaser shot of the car. Interestingly, the “Extreme Bentley” won’t be just a one-off concept as the car has already been described by the carmaker as a “production” model and latest reports indicate it will hit showrooms late in the year. Today the company released a new teaser video for the car, shown below.

Along with the teaser, Bentley released the statement: “On March 3, Bentley will reveal its fastest, most powerful production car ever. Delivering supercar performance, this new model is very much the extreme Bentley. Importantly it will run on biofuel, delivering stage one of Bentley's environmental commitment and pioneering the use of this fuel in the luxury sector.”

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Rumormill: Porsche working on 580-hp GT2 RS
Sunday, 01 February 2009


The blokes at Pistonheads supposedly got word from an inside source at Porsche that the automaker is considering a track-day version of the GT2. The hypothetical Porsche 911 GT2 RS would improve on every aspect of the standard turbocharged rear-wheel-drive coupe, beginning with an additional 50 ponies, bringing output up to 580 hp. Center-locking wheels are rumored to be part of the package, along with Plexiglas rear windows and a range of body modifications that could drop some 440 pounds from the standard GT2's curb weight. The UK-centric site reports that ten right-hand-drive examples will be produced, although it doesn't say what total global output would be. If the GT2 RS does come to fruition, expect it to debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show later this year, with sales beginning the following spring.

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