For quite some time now, the replacement for the Lamborghini Murcielago has been stuck with a name that isn’t very bullish – “Jota.” We’re not sure where exactly that name came about but according to chat forums, that is not what Lamborghini plans on calling its successor to the supercar. Instead, a poster on Ferrarichat.com [...]
Jay Leno lives our dream everyday. If he doesn’t have a vehicle he wants to drive in his massive automotive collection, he can borrow it from the manufacturer straight and create a video for Jay Leno’s Garage website. Click here to read more new on the Think City. Jay recently got behind the Think City [...]
Peter Schwarzenbauer, Audi AG board member for sales and marketing, expects the A8, A6 and forthcoming A7 five-door sedan to account for 30 percent of sales in the United States within six or seven years. That’s up from the current 15 percent. On a global basis, those segments represent 25 percent of Audi’s sales. In [...]
At the 2010 Paris Motor Show, Renault unveiled the new DeZir (desire) Concept, which is the first project undertaken by the company”s new design chief Laurens van den Acker. The DeZir doesn’t really hint at a future car – instead it provides a hint at Renault’s new design language. Either way, that didn’t stop the [...]
While we won’t get to see the Jaguar C-X75 until tomorrow at the 2010 LA Auto Show, Jay Leno, a very well connected car fanatic, had the chance to see the car before it hit the show’s display. He also had the pleasure of driving it 10 or so feet… something we’ll probably never get [...]
According to Japanese newspaper Nikkei, Honda plans to end sales of the Civic sedan in Japan as soon as its existing inventories run out. The report said that Honda will continue to sell the Civic around the world and that a fully updated model is due next year. Nikkei said that roughly 3 million units [...]
Lamborghini’s replacement for the Murcielago, which will make its world debut at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show in March, will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 20 percent without sacrificing any performance. As an automaker that produces less than 10,000 units a year, Lamborghini was exempted from the European Union’s requirement to slash carbon dioxide emissions [...]
Someone, somewhere in Morocco really wanted a Rolls-Royce Phantom and decided not to cash out close to $400,000 for a new one. So what did they do? They ended up converting a Chrysler 300C into a Rolls-Royce Phantom. We heard Chrysler’s quality was improving… but by this much? Moving on… Chrysler 300C turned into a [...]
At the 2010 LA Auto Show, which kicks off tomorrow, the U.S. media will get their first chance to get behind the wheel of the Golf blue-e-motion zero-emissions electric vehicle. Volkswagen will kick off the Golf blue-e-motion with a small test fleet and will eventually bring the model to the market in 2014. However, before [...]
Audi expects its new A7 Sportback to win it some new buyers for the brand. Audi is planning on selling around 200,000 units of the first-generation A7, which already went on sale in Europe earlier this month and hits U.S. shores next spring. “We expect about two-thirds of buyers worldwide to be new customers,” said [...]
