Archive | December, 2010
Video: Audi spray paints giant A7 Sportback billboard in Berlin

Video: Audi spray paints giant A7 Sportback billboard in Berlin

A 10,800 square feet blank canvas. 200 cans of spray paint. 14 days. That’s what it took for Audi to create this giant 2011 Audi A7 Sportback billboard in Berlin. Click here for more news on the Audi A7 Sportback. Check out the video of the whole process after the jump. Refresher: The 2011 Audi [...]

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2011 Honda CR-Z wins Top Gear magazine’s 2011 Green Car of the Year

2011 Honda CR-Z wins Top Gear magazine’s 2011 Green Car of the Year

The folks at Top Gear magazine have crowned the new 2011 Honda CR-Z their ‘Green Car of the Year,’ giving the new hybrid hatchback from the Japanese automaker a total of four rewards. “Of all the cars we’ve brought to China, CR-Z is far and away the one I feel most at home with – [...]

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Wimmer RS Ariel Atom 3 goes from 0-60 mph in less than 2.8 secs

Wimmer RS Ariel Atom 3 goes from 0-60 mph in less than 2.8 secs

Tuner Wimmer RS has tuned the very light Ariel Atom 3, giving it an extra 40-hp and a drastic improvement in the vehicle’s overall performance numbers. Output on the 2.0L 4-cylinder Honda engine now produces 340-hp and 208 lb-ft of torque. With the car weighing in at just 1,034 pounds, the upgrade allows the Ariel [...]

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Chevrolet Camaro sales poised to beat Ford Mustang in 2010

Chevrolet Camaro sales poised to beat Ford Mustang in 2010

The Chevrolet Camaro may top out the Ford Mustang in muscle car sales for the first time in 25 years. With just a few weeks left in the year, Camaro is ahead of the Mustang in sales by 7,421 units. General Motors has sold a total of 75,685 units of the Camaro coupe, while Ford [...]

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Porsche to display a ‘spectacular’ model at the 2011 Detroit Auto Show

Porsche to display a ‘spectacular’ model at the 2011 Detroit Auto Show

Porsche AG will be making its return to the Detroit Auto Show in January after pulling out of the much acclaimed show in 2007 to focus its U.S. activities in Los Angeles. According to Hans- Gerd Bode, a spokesman for Porsche, the sports car maker will debut a “spectacular” model at the 2011 Detroit Auto [...]

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Obama administration purchases more Ford than GM vehicles

Obama administration purchases more Ford than GM vehicles

Back in 2009 when the American auto industry was headed to Washington to ask for bailout, FoMoCo was the only automaker that went on without requesting any loans from the United States government. With that in mind, one would think that the Obama administration would favor purchasing vehicles from Chrysler and General Motors (which actually [...]

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Lotus steals executives from Ferrari and BMW

Lotus steals executives from Ferrari and BMW

Lotus’ new CEO Dany Bahar came from Ferrari, so the brand’s move to revamp its lineup to compete with the likes of Ferrari, Aston Martin and Lamborghini is understandable. Lotus announced today that it has now stolen another Ferrari executive along with another executive from BMW that will help the company achieve it’s new vision. [...]

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NHTSA proposes new safety regulation that requires backup cameras by 2014

NHTSA proposes new safety regulation that requires backup cameras by 2014

The U.S. Department of Transportation today proposed a new safety regulation that it says may help eliminate blind spots behind vehicles that can hide pedestrians. The proposal, issued by NHTSA, would mandate back-up cameras in all passenger-cars, trucks and minivans. “The proposed rule was required by Congress as part of the Cameron Gulbransen Kids Transportation [...]

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Honda stepping out of its Element, kills production of Element after 9 years

Honda stepping out of its Element, kills production of Element after 9 years

Are you a fan of Honda’s innovative and functional crossover- the Element? Well, we have some sad news for you. The Japanese automaker announced today that the 2011 Honda Element will be the final model year of the crossover. The model made its debut in concept form, the Honda Model X, at the 2001 North [...]

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Video: 2012 Hyundai Azera spotted on the roads

Video: 2012 Hyundai Azera spotted on the roads

Around the 2010 LA Auto Show, when Hyundai Motor America unveiled the new 2011 Elantra compact sedan, the Korean parent company released a sketch of the fifth-generation Grandeur – known to us Americans as the Azera. A video has popped up on YouTube showing the 2012 Grandeur traveling down highways in what we believe is [...]

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