Production of the Porsche Cayenne Diesel has started at Porsche Leipzig plant. The new Cayenne Diesel will go on sale in Europe starting February 2009 with prices started at €47,250 ($67,298 USD). The 2009 Porsche Cayenne Diesel is fitted with a 3.0L V6 turbo-diesel engine that makes a total of 240-hp supplied by Audi AG. [...]
“¢ AJ-V6D Gen III S 3.0L twin-turbo diesel with 275-hp and 443 lb-ft torque. “¢ 0 to 60 mph in 5.9 seconds; top speed of 155 mph. “¢ Estimated fuel-economy of 42mpg (35 mpg U.S.). Prior to the launch of the Jaguar XF-R which is scheduled for the 2009 Detroit Motor Show next month, Jaguar [...]
While Motor Trend picks the Nissan GT-R as its car of the year and Top Gear picks the Volkswagen Scirocco – Jeremy Clarkson, who is well known for his hatred of American automobiles, has named his car of the year as the 2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1. “Oh, it”s not built very well,” said Clarkson. “After [...]
While Honda has pulled the plug on the high-performance NSX supercar, Toyota said that it will not abandon plans to bring the Lexus LF-A to the market by 2011. Toyota recently teased the LF-A supercar at Toyota”s Motorsport Festival at Fuji Speedway. Toyota confirmed its commitment to the LF-A program as it announced that it will keep [...]
It’s not as if the Chevrolet Camaro took long enough to go from concept form to production – there may now be another obstruction for the Camaro which is scheduled to go into production in February. GM has filed a lawsuit against a bankrupt auto-parts supplier saying that it is holding necessary equipment which could [...]
About two weeks ago after Jeremy Clarkson offered his review of the Tesla Roadster, Tesla Motors spoke out about some of the “mischaracterizations” of Top Gear’s review on the electric-car. Overall, Clarkson was pretty impressed by the Tesla until he claimed the onboard battery ran out of power and had to be pushed into the [...]
Wrapping up a pretty short week (not to mention the last week of 2008) it’s time for our “This Week in Photos” post. This week, check out pictures of the new 2009 Maserati Quattroporte GT S, Innotech Chevrolet C6 Corvette, DStyle BMW Z4, G-Power BMW M5 Hurricane RS and the 2009 Hyundai Elantra Touring. Click [...]
We hope you’re enjoying spending time with your families and your new toys this morning. We wanted too take this moment to remind you not to drive if you’ve had a little to much to drink today. We also found this funny picture and thought we’ll let you come up with the caption (or speech [...]
We’d like to wish all our visitors a very Happy Holidays. Besides the horrible sales and high gas-prices earlier this year, we think Santa has been pretty generous to the auto industry this year. We’ll be taking the day off today unless something exciting happens that we feel is important enough for us to drop our [...]
GMAC LLC has won approval from the Federal Reserve today to become a bank holding company. After General Motors and Cerberus agreed to cut their stakes in the company, GMAC now has access to government lending programs, reports Automotive News. GM has reduced its stake from 49 percent to no more than 10 percent, while [...]
