The 2012 MINI Cooper Coupe has made its debut in each of its Cooper, Cooper S, and John Cooper Works trim levels, and we’ve even had a chance to bring you a first drive report of the car. However, its open-top cousin, the long-awaited 2012 MINI Cooper Roadster, is still nowhere to be seen, although a 2011 Los Angeles Auto Show debut is now...
Dodge’s long overdue small car designed to replace the aging Caliber and ride on a fuel efficient platform sourced from Fiat is almost here. This latest spy shot shows a nearly complete prototype wearing Dodge’s trademark crosshair grille and sitting at one of the automaker’s test facilities in the U.S. Additionally, it confirms...
As automakers strive to achieve gas mileage gains and prolong the life of the internal combustion engine, it’s impressive to see the new areas of efficiency improvements being developed, even some you may never have considered before. The latest is from Michigan-based supplier Federal-Mogul, which recently received a patent for a new...
High powered, rear-wheel drive cars are notoriously hard to drive on slippery conditions, which is one of the main reasons Ferrari, a manufacturer of such vehicles, decided to introduce its first all-wheel drive model, the FF shooting brake. In fact, Ferrari went to great length to show off the prowess of its new all-wheel drive system, even...
McLaren has voluntarily slowed down production of the MP4-12C supercar at its plant in Woking, UK due to niggling quality issues affecting the first batch of cars to come off the line after production first started back in February of this year. Despite two recent high-profile crashes, McLaren stresses that the issues are neither safety nor...
The 2012 Maserati GranTurismo MC Stradale is the lightest, most powerful Maserati on the road. Or at least it was, before tuner Novitec Tridente got its hands all over the limited edition Maser and made it even more extreme. Novitec Tridente straps a supercharger to the MC Stradale's 4.7-liter V-8 engine, adds a larger intake manifold and bigger...
After 10 long years at the top, silver has finally been dethroned by white as the world’s most popular color for new cars. The claim is the result of a study conducted by one of the world’s leading manufacturers of transportation coatings, PPG Industries. According to PPG, approximately 21 percent of 2011 model-year cars around the...
After feeling the urge to find myself a clean Eagle Premier last week, I got to thinking about the Chrysler products that the Premier spawned after Chrysler absorbed all that Renault DNA through its acquisition of AMC. Remember how futuristic the first LH Platform Chryslers looked? OK, now forget about the mediocre reliability and the fact that...
Updated with video below. Car crashes on Germany's Nurburgring-Nordschleife are a common occurrence, with the track’s rapidly changing elevations, blind corners, and myriad of bumps consistently proving to unsettle drivers, even those familiar with the ‘Ring. However, it’s not every day that you hear about an eight car pileup on...
The constant low rumble about the coming Ferrari Enzo replacement over the past few years is beginning to rise into a roar as it draws nearer to production. The latest info ditches the twin-turbo V-8 idea and talks about a carbon fiber chassis. The carbon fiber chassis is no surprise: that's where all of the stratospheric supercars are going these...
Mark Reuss, president of General Motors North America flew from sunny and warm Detroit to rainy and chilly Los Angeles to address media members on Wednesday. Once he arrived, the climate change was evident in the room close to Los Angeles International Airport; this man's enthusiasm for automobiles, motorsports and General Motors is evident by his...
This weekend, fans of the Viper and will get an interesting intro to the upcoming 11 weeks of Viper Cup racing coverage: a celebrity challenge, featuring top Dodge motorsports drivers including Kurt Busch, Brad Keselowski, Sam Hornish Jr., and more. The racing is in Viper ACR-X spec race cars at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah. The event...
A few days back, GT Planet reported that a major update to Polyphony’s Gran Turismo 5 for the PlayStation 3 was coming in the month of October, followed by a second downloadable content update. There was a lot of speculation on what the Spec 2.0 Update would include, but precious little in the way of details. Now we’ve got those...
Hot off the Twitter presses, General Motors' Jason Laird has relayed Mark Reuss' confirmation of a 7:41.27 Nordschleife lap time for the 2012 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1. That's not bad, all things considered: not so long ago, the Nissan GT-R was pretty proud of its 7:38 lap time. Though Godzilla has since brought its times down well into the 7:20s...
Top Gear's Stig may or may not be the most incredible, alien-talented driver on the planet, depending on the fanboy status of who you're talking to, but the 2012 BMW M5 is a known quantity. Here, the two come together in a tasty bit of teasery goodness, more info of which is detailed on the show's official website. Sliding a high-horsepower...
The 2012 MINI Cooper Coupe has made its debut in each of its Cooper, Cooper S, and John Cooper Works trim levels, and we’ve even had a chance to bring you a first drive report of the car. However, its open-top cousin, the long-awaited 2012 MINI Cooper Roadster, is still nowhere to be seen, although a 2011 Los Angeles Auto Show debut is now...
Dodge’s long overdue small car designed to replace the aging Caliber and ride on a fuel efficient platform sourced from Fiat is almost here. This latest spy shot shows a nearly complete prototype wearing Dodge’s trademark crosshair grille and sitting at one of the automaker’s test facilities in the U.S. Additionally, it confirms...
As automakers strive to achieve gas mileage gains and prolong the life of the internal combustion engine, it’s impressive to see the new areas of efficiency improvements being developed, even some you may never have considered before. The latest is from Michigan-based supplier Federal-Mogul, which recently received a patent for a new...
High powered, rear-wheel drive cars are notoriously hard to drive on slippery conditions, which is one of the main reasons Ferrari, a manufacturer of such vehicles, decided to introduce its first all-wheel drive model, the FF shooting brake. In fact, Ferrari went to great length to show off the prowess of its new all-wheel drive system, even...
McLaren has voluntarily slowed down production of the MP4-12C supercar at its plant in Woking, UK due to niggling quality issues affecting the first batch of cars to come off the line after production first started back in February of this year. Despite two recent high-profile crashes, McLaren stresses that the issues are neither safety nor...
The 2012 Maserati GranTurismo MC Stradale is the lightest, most powerful Maserati on the road. Or at least it was, before tuner Novitec Tridente got its hands all over the limited edition Maser and made it even more extreme. Novitec Tridente straps a supercharger to the MC Stradale's 4.7-liter V-8 engine, adds a larger intake manifold and bigger...
After 10 long years at the top, silver has finally been dethroned by white as the world’s most popular color for new cars. The claim is the result of a study conducted by one of the world’s leading manufacturers of transportation coatings, PPG Industries. According to PPG, approximately 21 percent of 2011 model-year cars around the...
After feeling the urge to find myself a clean Eagle Premier last week, I got to thinking about the Chrysler products that the Premier spawned after Chrysler absorbed all that Renault DNA through its acquisition of AMC. Remember how futuristic the first LH Platform Chryslers looked? OK, now forget about the mediocre reliability and the fact that...
Updated with video below. Car crashes on Germany's Nurburgring-Nordschleife are a common occurrence, with the track’s rapidly changing elevations, blind corners, and myriad of bumps consistently proving to unsettle drivers, even those familiar with the ‘Ring. However, it’s not every day that you hear about an eight car pileup on...
The constant low rumble about the coming Ferrari Enzo replacement over the past few years is beginning to rise into a roar as it draws nearer to production. The latest info ditches the twin-turbo V-8 idea and talks about a carbon fiber chassis. The carbon fiber chassis is no surprise: that's where all of the stratospheric supercars are going these...
Mark Reuss, president of General Motors North America flew from sunny and warm Detroit to rainy and chilly Los Angeles to address media members on Wednesday. Once he arrived, the climate change was evident in the room close to Los Angeles International Airport; this man's enthusiasm for automobiles, motorsports and General Motors is evident by his...
This weekend, fans of the Viper and will get an interesting intro to the upcoming 11 weeks of Viper Cup racing coverage: a celebrity challenge, featuring top Dodge motorsports drivers including Kurt Busch, Brad Keselowski, Sam Hornish Jr., and more. The racing is in Viper ACR-X spec race cars at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah. The event...
A few days back, GT Planet reported that a major update to Polyphony’s Gran Turismo 5 for the PlayStation 3 was coming in the month of October, followed by a second downloadable content update. There was a lot of speculation on what the Spec 2.0 Update would include, but precious little in the way of details. Now we’ve got those...
Hot off the Twitter presses, General Motors' Jason Laird has relayed Mark Reuss' confirmation of a 7:41.27 Nordschleife lap time for the 2012 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1. That's not bad, all things considered: not so long ago, the Nissan GT-R was pretty proud of its 7:38 lap time. Though Godzilla has since brought its times down well into the 7:20s...
Top Gear's Stig may or may not be the most incredible, alien-talented driver on the planet, depending on the fanboy status of who you're talking to, but the 2012 BMW M5 is a known quantity. Here, the two come together in a tasty bit of teasery goodness, more info of which is detailed on the show's official website. Sliding a high-horsepower...
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