Archive | April, 2009
This Week in Photos – New York Style: 4-6-2009 – 4-11-2009

This Week in Photos – New York Style: 4-6-2009 – 4-11-2009

Wrapping up a busy with all the coverage from the 2009 New York Auto Show here is a list of all the live photos galleries we posted from the show floor. This week check out photos of the 2010 Nissan 370Z Roadster, 2009 Nissan Nismo 370Z, 2010 Mercedes-Benz E63, 2010 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Coupe, Mitsubishi Outlander GT [...]

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Top 10 Debuts at the 2009 New York Auto Show

Top 10 Debuts at the 2009 New York Auto Show

The curtains have closed on the press days for the 2009 New York Auto Show. We can now finally rest after all the sleepless nights of bringing you guys live coverage straight form the show floor. However, we couldn’t just leave you without pointing out what we thought were the most significant debuts of the [...]

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2011 Audi A3 lineup to have a sedan variant

2011 Audi A3 lineup to have a sedan variant

According to official sources at Audi’s Ingolstadt headquarters, the A1 minicar and the Q3 compact (very-compact) crossover will arrive after that A3 sedan. The next-generation lineup of the A3, which is set to be revealed at the end of 2010, will feature a sedan variant. Sources says that as far as design is concerned, the [...]

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Mercedes-Benz receives 50,000 orders for the 2010 E-Class sedan

Mercedes-Benz receives 50,000 orders for the 2010 E-Class sedan

Even before its launch at the end of March, Mercedes-Benz has received a whopping 50,000 orders for its new 2010 E-Class sedan. “In Germany, bookings for an E-Class saloon more than doubled in the first quarter of this year compared to the previous year,” Klaus Maier, Mercedes-Benz sales chief said in a statement. The 2010 [...]

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Last Volvo S60 rolls of the production line, new S60 to enter production in 2010

Last Volvo S60 rolls of the production line, new S60 to enter production in 2010

On March 31, the last Volvo S60 rolled off the assembly line at Volvo Cars Ghent. The ‘historic car’ was a Sapphire Black model with a 5-cylinder gasoline engine headed on its way to a customer in Taiwan. During the years 2000-2009, the Volvo Cars Ghent plants built a total of 578,292 units of the [...]

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BMW working on a 354-hp tri-turbo diesel for the X5

BMW working on a 354-hp tri-turbo diesel for the X5

Many sources have confirmed that BMW is working on a tri-turbo diesel engine based on the existing 6-cylinder turbo currently offered in BMW’s lineup. Sources say that the engine will eventually makes it way under the hood of a BMW X5 Performance Diesel. Output will be rated at 354-hp and will carry an EfficientDynamics badge [...]

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GM working on second-generation Zeta sports cars

GM working on second-generation Zeta sports cars

According to an Australian publication, General Motors has begun engineering work to keep its Zeta family of rear-wheel-drive sports cars competitive by keeping the architecture’s planned lifecycle to 2020. Both, the new 2010 Chevrolet Camaro and the Pontiac G8 use the Zeta architecture. Both vehicles were engineered in Australia, which is GM’s global development center [...]

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2009 BMW X3 xDrive 18d gets 38 mpg

2009 BMW X3 xDrive 18d gets 38 mpg

BMW today revealed a new entry-level version of the BMW X3 – the new BMW X3 xDrive 18d. Power for the new X3 xDrive 18d comes from a 2.0L 4-cylinder diesel engine that makes a total of 143-hp and 258 lb-ft of torque. The SAV gets average fuel-consumption of 6.2 liters/100 kilometers (or 38 mpg [...]

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Fisker working on vehicle that will be step above the Volt, but cheaper than the Karma

Fisker working on vehicle that will be step above the Volt, but cheaper than the Karma

Fisker had a very low-key appearance at the 2009 New York Auto Show for its Karma plug-in hybrid sedan and convertible. Nonetheless, Fisker spokesman Russell Datz confirmed to Inside Line that the company is hard at work on another vehicle that will cost much less than the 2010 Fisker Karma which start at $87,900. “One [...]

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Hyundai kills the Entourage minivan, says no to rebadging

Hyundai kills the Entourage minivan, says no to rebadging

Hyundai will finally give its slow selling Entourage the axe in the United States. The Hyundai Entourage is basically a rebadged version of the Kia Sedona. Hyundai sold 8,400 minivans last year, that’s down 50 percent from 2007 when it rolled out the Entourage. Kia sold 27,000, down 30 percent. The Hyundai Entourage was a “cheap [...]

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