Here’s what we know: EVI Corporation adds lights and sirens to marked and unmarked police cars for various agencies in the Northern Virginia and Washington, DC area. One of their latest projects, shown in the YouTube video below, is a 2012 Nissan GT-R, outfitted for a law enforcement agency that, for obvious reasons, wishes to remain...
Today's recap is heavy on power: Nissan has unveiled the GT-R-powered Juke-R Concept, which may hint at a slightly tamer production version of the funky hatch/crossover, Alfa Romeo is working on a 300-horsepower 1.8-liter four-cylinder, possibly to go inside the upcoming 4C, and the 2012 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor struts its stuff--plus much more. The...
Building any car from scratch, let alone a 700 horsepower mid-engine supercar, is no easy task, something New Zealand startup Hulme has found out the hard way. Despite having completed its first model last year, the CanAm Spyder (pictured below), and parading it around the world, including at the Goodwood Festival of Speed earlier this year, the...
Nissan is working on a project based around shoehorning the mighty GT-R drivetrain into the body of a Juke crossover. One might wonder why Nissan would go to such great lengths to pull off such a feat, but for the Japanese automaker and its engineers the reason is simple: to drum up excitement and gauge potential customer interest in a sportier...
Like Volvo's XC line of cars and the Subaru Outback (and to a lesser extent the upcoming Impreza XV), which are essentially toughened, high-riding versions of more mundane family station wagons, the 'allroad quattro' moniker applies to off-road enhanced vehicles based on Audi’s Avant wagon lineup. Sadly, Audi doesn’t offer its current...
Mazda will be the first automaker to implement the use of 1,800 megapascal (approximately 261,000 psi) ‘ultra-high tensile steel’ in a mainstream vehicle with the launch of its new 2012 Mazda CX-5 crossover early next year. Grouped under its range of new SKYACTIV fuel saving technologies and co-developed with Sumitomo Metal Industries...
The current generation Volvo C70 has been with us since 2006, having been most recently updated last year. But the car’s future is not looking so bright, with news from the automaker confirming that production at its dedicated plant in Uddevalla, Sweden, will come to an end in 2013 and no successor is in sight. Volvo cites low demand for the...
It’s that time of the year again. As the 2012 model year starts to roll in, the first inklings of the 2012 Car Of The Year awards season also start to creep and as always Europe’s prized event is first. Last year we saw the all-electric Nissan Leaf take top honors from a field of no less than 41 contenders. This time ‘round just...
With auto giants Ford and Toyota recently announcing a partnership for the development of a new rear-wheel drive hybrid module that will ensure their respective SUV and pickup models have a bright spot in a world of rising oil prices, it was only a matter of time until some of their major rivals did the same. Turns out General Motors and an...
Just when it seems like the going's gotten tough for Kurt Busch, the 2004 Cup champion digs deep and finds his way back into the winner's circle at the right time. After placing 22nd at Loudon, NH two weeks ago, the driver of the No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Dodge Charger clawed his way back into Victory Lane and most importantly, back into championship...
Jeremy Clarkson is many things: tall, obstinate, outrageous, British, and even, occasionally, right. But if the message in the latest Forza Motorsport 4 trailer he voices is true, he is also the harbinger of the death of driving for fun. The video, showing an Aston Martin DB9 being used in a futile attempt to escape the congestion of a modern city...
Fiat has approved a new 1.8-liter four cylinder engine for Alfa Romeo, and the specifications are impressive. While Alfa’s current high-output 1.75-liter engine makes 235 horsepower, the new Fiat engine will produce up to 300 horsepower, or nearly 167 horsepower per liter. The all-aluminum engine achieves these numbers via the use of high...
The very idea of the Ford F-150 SVT Raptor would have been nearly inconceivable not that long ago, but over the past two years it has proven a showroom stock truck can do things that were previously the sole province of purpose-built race trucks. This video gives a quick look at the new features and options for the 2012 Raptor, while also showing...
Continuing one of the longest running technical partnerships in motorsports, NASCAR and the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company jointly announced that Goodyear tires will continue as the exclusive rubber provider in Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series through the 2017 season. While it's customary for drivers and teams to complain...
The 2012 Bentley Continental GTC has just had its first round of press drives, but already word of yet another Continental variant is making the rounds. This time, it's a lighter, more powerful GT2 variant. Weighing in at 440 pounds lighter than the standard Continental GT, according to AutoExpress, the GT2 will crank out at least 650 horsepower...
Here’s what we know: EVI Corporation adds lights and sirens to marked and unmarked police cars for various agencies in the Northern Virginia and Washington, DC area. One of their latest projects, shown in the YouTube video below, is a 2012 Nissan GT-R, outfitted for a law enforcement agency that, for obvious reasons, wishes to remain...
Today's recap is heavy on power: Nissan has unveiled the GT-R-powered Juke-R Concept, which may hint at a slightly tamer production version of the funky hatch/crossover, Alfa Romeo is working on a 300-horsepower 1.8-liter four-cylinder, possibly to go inside the upcoming 4C, and the 2012 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor struts its stuff--plus much more. The...
Building any car from scratch, let alone a 700 horsepower mid-engine supercar, is no easy task, something New Zealand startup Hulme has found out the hard way. Despite having completed its first model last year, the CanAm Spyder (pictured below), and parading it around the world, including at the Goodwood Festival of Speed earlier this year, the...
Nissan is working on a project based around shoehorning the mighty GT-R drivetrain into the body of a Juke crossover. One might wonder why Nissan would go to such great lengths to pull off such a feat, but for the Japanese automaker and its engineers the reason is simple: to drum up excitement and gauge potential customer interest in a sportier...
Like Volvo's XC line of cars and the Subaru Outback (and to a lesser extent the upcoming Impreza XV), which are essentially toughened, high-riding versions of more mundane family station wagons, the 'allroad quattro' moniker applies to off-road enhanced vehicles based on Audi’s Avant wagon lineup. Sadly, Audi doesn’t offer its current...
Mazda will be the first automaker to implement the use of 1,800 megapascal (approximately 261,000 psi) ‘ultra-high tensile steel’ in a mainstream vehicle with the launch of its new 2012 Mazda CX-5 crossover early next year. Grouped under its range of new SKYACTIV fuel saving technologies and co-developed with Sumitomo Metal Industries...
The current generation Volvo C70 has been with us since 2006, having been most recently updated last year. But the car’s future is not looking so bright, with news from the automaker confirming that production at its dedicated plant in Uddevalla, Sweden, will come to an end in 2013 and no successor is in sight. Volvo cites low demand for the...
It’s that time of the year again. As the 2012 model year starts to roll in, the first inklings of the 2012 Car Of The Year awards season also start to creep and as always Europe’s prized event is first. Last year we saw the all-electric Nissan Leaf take top honors from a field of no less than 41 contenders. This time ‘round just...
With auto giants Ford and Toyota recently announcing a partnership for the development of a new rear-wheel drive hybrid module that will ensure their respective SUV and pickup models have a bright spot in a world of rising oil prices, it was only a matter of time until some of their major rivals did the same. Turns out General Motors and an...
Just when it seems like the going's gotten tough for Kurt Busch, the 2004 Cup champion digs deep and finds his way back into the winner's circle at the right time. After placing 22nd at Loudon, NH two weeks ago, the driver of the No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Dodge Charger clawed his way back into Victory Lane and most importantly, back into championship...
Jeremy Clarkson is many things: tall, obstinate, outrageous, British, and even, occasionally, right. But if the message in the latest Forza Motorsport 4 trailer he voices is true, he is also the harbinger of the death of driving for fun. The video, showing an Aston Martin DB9 being used in a futile attempt to escape the congestion of a modern city...
Fiat has approved a new 1.8-liter four cylinder engine for Alfa Romeo, and the specifications are impressive. While Alfa’s current high-output 1.75-liter engine makes 235 horsepower, the new Fiat engine will produce up to 300 horsepower, or nearly 167 horsepower per liter. The all-aluminum engine achieves these numbers via the use of high...
The very idea of the Ford F-150 SVT Raptor would have been nearly inconceivable not that long ago, but over the past two years it has proven a showroom stock truck can do things that were previously the sole province of purpose-built race trucks. This video gives a quick look at the new features and options for the 2012 Raptor, while also showing...
Continuing one of the longest running technical partnerships in motorsports, NASCAR and the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company jointly announced that Goodyear tires will continue as the exclusive rubber provider in Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series through the 2017 season. While it's customary for drivers and teams to complain...
The 2012 Bentley Continental GTC has just had its first round of press drives, but already word of yet another Continental variant is making the rounds. This time, it's a lighter, more powerful GT2 variant. Weighing in at 440 pounds lighter than the standard Continental GT, according to AutoExpress, the GT2 will crank out at least 650 horsepower...
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