So you remember the pair of KITTs we told you about that would be sold at Barrett-Jackson in West Palm Beach, Florida? Well, the two cars sold this weekend at the winning bid of $300,000. Starting off slow, the auction held steady at $160,000 until Mark Fields of Ford jumped on stage and announced that [...]
Porsche’s head of sales and marketing, Klaus Berning, said that Porsche will only offer the Americans a Cayenne diesel if they overcome their reluctance to buy diesel cars. Berning said that Porsche is looking for U.S. buyers to switch to diesel cars in big number to make it economic for the company to launch a [...]
Milking its hybrid image for all its worth, Toyota’s racing team is looking to a new hybrid race car to compete in the 24 hours of Le Mans race in France. According to Toyota’s R&D head Kazuo Okamoto, Toyota has not decided whether it will take place in the Le Mans race, but is currently [...]
GM is working on a cheap small car for developing markets which, according to suppliers, could be the Detroit automakers answer to the Tata Nano. GM is looking to China to produce a low cast car than now available in its lineup. “We aren’t interested in trying to produce a car for $2,500 because of the [...]
Hardly two months into his position as the head and lead engineer on Chrysler’s top secret Project D, Michael Donoughe has resigned and left the building. Last week, Donoughe resigned his position heading up Project D, which is in the process of developing a global mid-sized car platfrom for the Chrysler Sebring and Dodge Avenger [...]
Miss any photo galleries from this week? Don”t worry, we always compile a list of photo galleries we”ve posted throughout the week. Check out the pictures of the new 2009 Mercedes-Benz A-Class, bunch of Chevrolet Camaro spy shots, new Porsche Panamera spy shots and photo renderings of the 2010 Audi A6. Also, remember to check [...]
Car magazines have been getting their press fleet of the Nissan GT-R to test drive and race against Godzilla’s biggest competitors, the Porsche 911 Turbo and the Corvette Z06. Carrying a curb weight of 3850lb, it’s baffling to many how the GT-R is beating its closest price competitors that long held prestigious performance titles. Nissan [...]
Earlier this week WALD released its the new Black Bison Edition based on the Mercedes-Benz S 63 AMG. WALD also released teaser images of their latest project based on the new 2008 Mercedes-Benz C 63 AMG (W204 C-Class). The WALD designed C-Class gets an array of aerodynamic body parts made from carbon fiber. The body [...]
We first saw the Aston Martin Vantage GT2 racing car in January when Aston Martin Racing released its first sketch. Today Aston Martin Racing released the first studio images of the Vantage GT2. The new car makes Aston Martin the only manufacturer to offer cars in every GT category including the GT1 ““ DBR9, GT3 ““ [...]
We’ve recently been obsessed with uploading videos on YouTube. Putting that together with our obsession with the BMW 1-Series we’ve compiled a couple of videos for you where you can learn everything about the upcoming baby pocket-rocket from the German automaker. Remember to check out the BMW 135i The New Look of Fast promotional video [...]
