Though we’ve been talking about an RS1 high-performance minicar from Audi for more than year now, the strongest indication yet that we might one day see such a car came from the unveiling of the Audi A1 clubsport quattro Concept at this week’s Wörthersee Tour 2011 in Austria. Packing the automaker’s potent 2.5-liter...
If you're into tough little trucks with incongruously fancy touches, flick your browser over to Craiglist, to this restoration of a 1972 Datsun pickup. It's a project done by Atlanta's Heritage Motorsports, which says its mission "is to save as many classic cars and bikes as possible." Admirable enough, right? So's the truck underneath the...
The arrival of the 2011 Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid luxury sedan in U.S. showrooms is starting to become a bit of a running joke, with the company announcing tentative release date after tentative release date only to retract it when the deadline is not met. This has now been going on for more than a year, with the latest announcement concerning...
photo via Wikimedia Creative Commons With the news this month that the last Cadillac STS rolled off the line at the Hamtramck plant preceding the DTS in the list of discarded model names, I thought it might be interesting to get into the wayback machine to look at where it started: the 1975 Seville. The Seville name had been used previously by...
There’s so much conjecture as to what will feature in the next-generation ‘C7’ Chevrolet Corvette, anything that crops up on the radar these days should certainly be taken with a grain of salt. We’ve heard everything from mid-engine platforms, dual clutch transmissions and even all-wheel drive configurations, and while...
Nissan has announced that its Leaf Nismo RC Concept electric race car concept from the recent 2011 New York Auto Show will be making a demonstration run at the Le Mans Vers Le Futur, a support event for the 79th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The Leaf Nismo RC was never meant to be a one-off concept, which is evidenced by the Japanese...
As predicted, the wraps have come off the brand new Audi R8 GT Spyder in the lead up to next week’s Le Mans 24 hours endurance race and ahead of the convertible supercar’s official world debut at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show in September. Like its R8 GT hard-top sibling that recently went on sale, Audi engineers have managed to shed...
Lexus will be out in force at social events thus summer in key cities across Europe, inviting the general public to get up close and personal with its latest offerings. London in particular will be getting special treatment, with the 2012 Lexus LFA supercar expected to be the highlight of the city’s Motorexpo at Canary Wharf next week. Also...
The latest installment of the brilliant Forza Motorsport series for Xbox 360 is about to bring a whole new sense of realism to the world of racing sims thanks to Microsoft’s Kinect interactive controller technology. Due this fall, Forza Motorsport 4 will allow players to check their side mirrors, look down at the dash or take a look into...
Chinese M3 fans sure are a lucky bunch. Not only did they receive the previous BMW M3 Tiger Matte Edition, but now they get yet another special edition M3, the new BMW M3 Carbon Edition. As its name suggests, the latest car gets a number of carbon fiber components and accessories, most of which are unpainted so onlookers can admire the pretty yet...
The first semi-official images and details on the 2012 Chevrolet Impala have leaked to the web via a 2012 model-year preview PDF on the GMFleet.com website. In addition to the photo above comes confirmation that the Impala will be powered by a 3.6-liter V-6 engine with E85 capability, but only that V-6. The new powertrain includes a standard...
Rhys Millen and Hyundai have done a lot together, including a tricked-out Equus, a drift car, a few rounds of the Rallycross Championship, and, of course, Pikes Peak. This year Rhys is bringing his father into the act with a two-car assault on Pikes Peak. Rhys will tackle the mountain and its more paved route with an upgraded version of the PM580...
Volkswagen's Golf range is already set to get a lot more exciting here in the U.S. with the impending release of the Golf R, but VW may be adding to the mix with an American version of the Edition 35, renamed for our shores. The rename would be a simple matter of counting the years since the GTI was introduced here: specifically, 30 years should...
Given enough time, a whole set of doctoral theses could probably be written about the content of this 1978 AMC AMX ad, from gender roles to car design to the evolution of marketing. But we're not concerned with all of that: the video is simply hilarious. Whether it's the Fonzie clone in the one car or the Mr. Rogers-meets-the-BeeGees guy in the...
Don't get too excited just yet, as Audi hasn't made anything official on the car, but the R4 sports coupe may be less dead than we'd feared. Reports out of the U.K. say Audi has actually given the car the official green light. Previous reports out of Germany had placed the R4 on the shelf due to potential sales cannibaliztion of Porsche's Boxster...
Though we’ve been talking about an RS1 high-performance minicar from Audi for more than year now, the strongest indication yet that we might one day see such a car came from the unveiling of the Audi A1 clubsport quattro Concept at this week’s Wörthersee Tour 2011 in Austria. Packing the automaker’s potent 2.5-liter...
If you're into tough little trucks with incongruously fancy touches, flick your browser over to Craiglist, to this restoration of a 1972 Datsun pickup. It's a project done by Atlanta's Heritage Motorsports, which says its mission "is to save as many classic cars and bikes as possible." Admirable enough, right? So's the truck underneath the...
The arrival of the 2011 Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid luxury sedan in U.S. showrooms is starting to become a bit of a running joke, with the company announcing tentative release date after tentative release date only to retract it when the deadline is not met. This has now been going on for more than a year, with the latest announcement concerning...
photo via Wikimedia Creative Commons With the news this month that the last Cadillac STS rolled off the line at the Hamtramck plant preceding the DTS in the list of discarded model names, I thought it might be interesting to get into the wayback machine to look at where it started: the 1975 Seville. The Seville name had been used previously by...
There’s so much conjecture as to what will feature in the next-generation ‘C7’ Chevrolet Corvette, anything that crops up on the radar these days should certainly be taken with a grain of salt. We’ve heard everything from mid-engine platforms, dual clutch transmissions and even all-wheel drive configurations, and while...
Nissan has announced that its Leaf Nismo RC Concept electric race car concept from the recent 2011 New York Auto Show will be making a demonstration run at the Le Mans Vers Le Futur, a support event for the 79th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The Leaf Nismo RC was never meant to be a one-off concept, which is evidenced by the Japanese...
As predicted, the wraps have come off the brand new Audi R8 GT Spyder in the lead up to next week’s Le Mans 24 hours endurance race and ahead of the convertible supercar’s official world debut at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show in September. Like its R8 GT hard-top sibling that recently went on sale, Audi engineers have managed to shed...
Lexus will be out in force at social events thus summer in key cities across Europe, inviting the general public to get up close and personal with its latest offerings. London in particular will be getting special treatment, with the 2012 Lexus LFA supercar expected to be the highlight of the city’s Motorexpo at Canary Wharf next week. Also...
The latest installment of the brilliant Forza Motorsport series for Xbox 360 is about to bring a whole new sense of realism to the world of racing sims thanks to Microsoft’s Kinect interactive controller technology. Due this fall, Forza Motorsport 4 will allow players to check their side mirrors, look down at the dash or take a look into...
Chinese M3 fans sure are a lucky bunch. Not only did they receive the previous BMW M3 Tiger Matte Edition, but now they get yet another special edition M3, the new BMW M3 Carbon Edition. As its name suggests, the latest car gets a number of carbon fiber components and accessories, most of which are unpainted so onlookers can admire the pretty yet...
The first semi-official images and details on the 2012 Chevrolet Impala have leaked to the web via a 2012 model-year preview PDF on the GMFleet.com website. In addition to the photo above comes confirmation that the Impala will be powered by a 3.6-liter V-6 engine with E85 capability, but only that V-6. The new powertrain includes a standard...
Rhys Millen and Hyundai have done a lot together, including a tricked-out Equus, a drift car, a few rounds of the Rallycross Championship, and, of course, Pikes Peak. This year Rhys is bringing his father into the act with a two-car assault on Pikes Peak. Rhys will tackle the mountain and its more paved route with an upgraded version of the PM580...
Volkswagen's Golf range is already set to get a lot more exciting here in the U.S. with the impending release of the Golf R, but VW may be adding to the mix with an American version of the Edition 35, renamed for our shores. The rename would be a simple matter of counting the years since the GTI was introduced here: specifically, 30 years should...
Given enough time, a whole set of doctoral theses could probably be written about the content of this 1978 AMC AMX ad, from gender roles to car design to the evolution of marketing. But we're not concerned with all of that: the video is simply hilarious. Whether it's the Fonzie clone in the one car or the Mr. Rogers-meets-the-BeeGees guy in the...
Don't get too excited just yet, as Audi hasn't made anything official on the car, but the R4 sports coupe may be less dead than we'd feared. Reports out of the U.K. say Audi has actually given the car the official green light. Previous reports out of Germany had placed the R4 on the shelf due to potential sales cannibaliztion of Porsche's Boxster...
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