If you've ever wondered whether a Tesla Roadster can really rocket from a standstill to 60 miles per hour in just 3.9 seconds, a new custom collectors edition of the electric sports car could allow you to verify that claim with a certain degree of accuracy. As part of its 150th anniversary commemorations, TAG Heuer has teamed up with Tesla Motors and will present the first fruit of their collaboration at the Geneva Motor Show.

The foucault field gray carbon-fiber shell with branding-appropriate mismatched mirrors houses an interior that has received special treatment from Tesla's chief designer Franz von Holzhausen, incorporating design elements from the Swiss watch maker and making room for both a one-fifth second Heuer limited edition stopwatch and a TAG Heuer Meridiist mobile phone. The center console has been specifically constructed to cradle a "cutting edge concept watch" that will itself only be revealed a few weeks from now at the Baselworld watch and jewelry tradeshow. In a timely manner, please make your way past the break to peruse the press release that details their attempt to bring "technologically advanced art to life through motion."

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Infiniti's 5-series rival used to be a nice, but anonymous car. After hooning it through Southern California's canyons, that's no longer the case. Now, the 2011 Infiniti M is Japan's Jaguar.

Full Disclosure: Infiniti wanted us to drive the new M so badly they flew us out to San Diego, put us up in a fancy hotel and hired one of GQ's top ten sommeliers to serve us fancy wine. I thought the Viognier was pretty acidic and wasn't terribly impressed with the Pinot Noir either. Maybe you shouldn't believe everything you read in magazines.

Nissan's luxury brand has always been a second rate player in some of the most competitive vehicle classes in the world. They want to be BMW, but basing cars on the front-wheel drive Maxima platforms was never going to get them there. Then, starting with the 2009 G37 Sedan and more recently the Coupe and 2009 G37 Convertible, Infiniti suddenly became competitive. You don't need to make excuses for Infiniti's latest generation of cars...

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The limited-run Audi RS6 Plus is expected to make an appearance at the Geneva Motor Show and in typical Audi fashion; the Ingolstadt-based carmaker has given us a little sampling of what’s in store.

Audi released a few photos of the interior console for the RS6 Plus, providing us with a quick glimpse of what the car’s interior looks like before it breaks cover in Geneva. If you look at these photos, you’ll notice that Audi included a commemorative plaque for the RS6 Plus where it is marked ‘001/500’, a sign that the RS6 Plus will be limited to only 500 models...

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The Forcept family sheds insight on race car safety and terrifying wrecks on the strip.

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Hummer is mostly dead, but last summer, we took two H3s and joined the Hummer Club on an expedition to Michigan's Drummond Island. One local woman grabbed my ass, but for the most part, the fun happened behind the wheel.

Last summer, we hit Drummond with man-about-Hummer PR guy Nick Richards and a couple of press-fleet H3s. We originally intended to run this story whenever Tengzhong and GM came to a sale agreement — sort of a "here's what the Chinese have gotten with their purchase" story — but then the deal was delayed. And delayed again. And delayed again. Now it's completely off, and GM claims that it's going to close Hummer down. Naturally, we discovered today that it still might return to peddling the brand to the highest bidder...

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As we enter another year of F1 we can say hello to a brand new official safety car in the form of the 2010 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, which replaces last year’s SL 63 AMG and is destined to be one of the most memorable safety cars we’ve seen in a while. The SLS AMG safety car will make its debut at Bahrain’s season opener on March 12...

For most of us who don’t own a Lamborghini Gallardo, this bit of news is pretty irrelevant to us. But if you’re one of the lucky – and rich – few that does have a Gallardo, the German tuning house CDC-International has a package that can turn your Gallardo into a Lamborghini Reventon, or close to it, at least.

To be fair, CDC-International’s body kit doesn’t exactly hit every nook and cranny of the Reventon to a tee. But it comes pretty close. For starters, the protruding front bumper is a staple of the Reventon, as are those aggressive side skirts.

In addition to those Reventon styling cues, CDC International’s custom body kit for the Gallardo also comes with a rear spoiler, red mirror covers, a modified front apron, bonnet, and rear grill...

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See the world's first MP3 "Ring tones" for your horn. You get 256mb of memory for multible horn tones. 

Audi still hasn't released any images of its new electric A1 e-tron concept, but it has revealed some details of the car. Unlike the two previous e-tron sports car concepts that were both pure battery electric models, this one is a range-extended EV. Like the Chevrolet Volt, the A1 e-tron uses a smaller battery pack that allows it to go up to 31 miles on a single charge with no emissions.

Once the battery is depleted, an internal combustion engine kicks in to drive a 15-kilowatt generator and keep the A1 going. However, unlike the Volt or Fisker Karma, the A1 is using a single-rotor Wankel engine to drive the generator. While Wankels are not renowned for their fuel efficiency (much the opposite in fact), in this application it could work well thanks to its high power density.

The range with the Wankel running is bumped up by another 124 miles to a total of 155. With only a 15kW generator available to sustain the battery, it will be interesting to see how much performance is degraded in that mode. Audi claims the A1 e-tron achieves 123.8 miles per gallon (U.S.) on the draft EU standard for ER-EVs. We should have more details tomorrow, so stay tuned.

[Source: Audi]  [  Source: autoblog.com ]

Oh, look... the Ford Focus Wagon. The fifth variant of the new Ford Focus is yet another stylish, attractive and functional Euro-wagon we won't be getting stateside. America, why do you hate small, utilitarian vehicles?

Seriously, when Ford sold a Focus wagon in the U.S., the take rate was about 4%. But the hatchback five-door was about 10%. We're told by Ford that the Fiesta early reservations are running as high as 50% for the 5-door.

So America likes a big, bulky hatchback, but they hate the elongated and sleek wagon. Whatever. We're apparently an idiotic country when it comes to car-buying preferences and proud of it. Fine...

 [  Source: jalopnik.com ]

When it comes to building tuning programs for BMW cars, you won’t find a tuning house that’s more capable than AC Schnitzer. The famed German tuner has done some sort of tuning package for a lot of BMWs in the past and with the recent release of the BMW 5-Series GT, it was only a matter of time before AC Schnitzer began working on a program for 5-Series GT.

And as expected, the German tuner has once again delivered on latest project: a tuning program for the new BMW 5-Series GT. The tuning kit for the 5-Series GT is based on the six-cylinder 530d, which spikes the engine’s total output from the standard 245 horsepower to 286 horsepower.

Among the notable features of AC Schnitzer’s exterior package for the 5-Series GT includes a twin sports rear silencer, chromed "Sports Trim“ tailpipe trims and chromed "Racing" tailpipe trim, front and rear spoilers, bonnet Vents with chromed center web, side skirts, and 19" or 20" alloy forged wheels...

 [  Source: topspeed.com ]