Branew in Japan has revealed its body styling kit for the new 2009 Nissan 370Z. The new kit seems to be anything but simple or functional consisting of a new underbody lip kit in either carbon fiber or fiberglass reinforced plastic. The Branew body kit also consists of a new front, side and rear parts. The [...]
Hyundai announced today that it will air its first two commercials for the 2010 Hyundai Genesis Coupe during Super Bowl XLIII on Sunday, February 1, 2009. The two sports will share the same theme known as “The Epic Lap.” The first commercial that will air during the first half of the game will feature high-performance [...]
The 2008 Honda Civic has topped the list of the most-researched new vehicles in 2008 on Kelley Blue Book’s Web Site. The list consisted of seven Toyota models and six Honda models. The Honda Civic was followed by the Honda Accord and the Toyota Camry. Noteworthy jumps into the top 20 most-researched new vehicles for 2008 [...]
UK’s Top Gear series will be hit by budget cuts meaning the next series will be a “cheaper affair and viewers will notice the difference.” According to Andy Wilman, the shows executive producer, the budget cuts will go into effect in 2009. In a typical Top Gear tone, Wilman said: “No point in moaning about that [...]
While Toyota won’t unveil the 2010 Toyota Prius until next month at the 2009 Detroit Auto Show, it has released a little commercial/teaser joining forces with the Blue Man Group. Not much to say here other than it’ll be pretty interesting to see who gains more traction after the show next month – the 2009 [...]
After reducing his share in FoMoCo to 4.9 percent, billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian today sold off all his remaining shares of Ford. Kerkorian’s investment firm Tracinda Corp. said in October that it had started working with bankers to sell the 133.5 million shares in FoMoCo but gave no schedule of when it planned to complete [...]
GM and Chrysler are working with the government today to make final arrangements to transfer the first installments of the $17.4 billion in emergency loans. “We’re making good progress finalizing the automaker loans and are committed to closing them on a timeline that will meet their individual near-term funding needs,” Brookly McLaughlin, Treasury Department spokeswoman, [...]
Ever wish that there was a road-going version of a race spec Lamborghini? Well, Reiter Engineering has come to your rescue. The tuning firm is well known for modifying race cars into road cars and has just unveiled its latest project based on the Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 racecar. The Reiter Engineering Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 Strada [...]
We’ll get to see the production version of the Honda Insight Hybrid next month at the 2009 Detroit Auto Show, but in the meantime you ‘green folks’ that are highly-anticipating the reveal can drool over the leaked JDM brochure of the upcoming Honda hybrid. From the images you can see that the Japanese market will [...]
Joining the first production 2010 Chevrolet Camaro at the 2009 Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale Collector Car Auction will be a 2010 Ford Mustang GT, a Shelby GT500 and the new 2010 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor. Ford will auction all three cars at the auction that will run from January 11 to the 18. The 2010 Shelby GT500 [...]
