The lovers of all things BMW, BimmerFile, have learned that BMW Performance will be offering an output upgrade for the N54 twin-turbo found under the hood of the BMW 135 and the 335. The N54 is the popular 3.0L twin-turbocharged inline 6-cylinder engine that BMW says produces 300-hp (on the stateside). The new BWW Performance [...]
The Chevrolet Stingray Concept made its world debut at the 2009 Chicago Auto Show last week. We now have a video of Ed Welburn, Vice President of GM Global Design, taking us around the Stingray and describing the design of the new concept in more detail. We highly doubt the Stingray Concept will enter production [...]
The 2010 Toyota Camry recently made its debut at the 2009 Detroit Motor Show and will be arriving in showrooms next month. Cosmetically there haven’t been many changes besides a new front grill, a new front bumper and enlarged lower intakes. Also, the SE grade now produces 21 more horsepower than the previous 4-cylinder version [...]
In an effort to boost sales and avoid leasing programs, BMW of North America is offering a new incentive program where BMW will make the first two payments on your brand new car – we’re not kidding. BMW announced today that it will make the first two payments on new cars that are financed including the new [...]
Ford of Europe reported an increase in its market share in January by 0.5 percent to 9.3 percent – the highest January share since 2004. The new 2010 Fiesta was the best-selling Ford car in January in the main 19 European markets. Ford of Europe said it sold a total of 98,300 vehicles in the first month of 2009. The Fiesta [...]
A Porsche test driver was killed on the German autobahn while testing a prototype for the next-generation 911 Cabriolet. The 51-year old crashed the 911 Cabriolet into a center guard rail of the A5 autobahn between Frankfurt and Heidelberg earlier this morning, dying at the scene. Porsche said that that the driver, who had 25-years of [...]
The thing is when tuning an Italian supercar, you don’t want to take things too far – and tuner IMSA seems to be pretty careful when its comes to that. There’s no doubt that the 552-hp Lamborghini LP560-4 is already a powerful bull with a 0 to 60 mph time 3.9 seconds. Leaving the engine [...]
Now that Chris Bangle is no longer head of design at BMW, he plan on opening his own design studio. According to a report by Automotive News Europe, Klaus Draeger, BMW’s development head said that Bangle is “going to make his own dream come true. He’s going to open is own design studio.” The only [...]
After just five years, Ferrari will be replacing its best selling model – the Ferrari F430. Internally known as the Ferrari F142, the car will make its debut at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show in October. Sources had told AutoCar that the new V8 Ferrari will be mostly knew with a few components being carried [...]
Everything about the new BMW Concept 5-Series Gran Turismo screams “don’t call me a minivan.” BMW’s usually weird acronym for this vehicle is PAS – which stands for Progressive Activity Sedan. We saw leaked images of the Concept 5-Series GT late last night, but BMW has now revealed all the details along with all the high-res [...]
