The battle for the small car is getting hotter. Soon after the Tatas stunned the world with a Rs 1 lakh car, Nano, Hyundai stated its intention to come out with a car that could cost less than Rs 2 lakh and hit the road by 2011. And now, auto biggie Maruti-Suzuki too is ready with Its small car. The little car could hit the road, they say, as early as the end of this year or early 2009.
No car on today's market is as iconic as the Porsche 911. Still carrying a rear-mounted engine and the same basic shape as the first model in 1963, it's like a sacred cow with wheels.
So when Porsche adds major new technology to their most famous car, aficionados take notice. The 2009 model gets not one significant push forward but two.
That newly unveiled 2010 Ford Fusion looks pretty slick and all, but today we got a chance to sit down in the Fusion Hybrid — complete with black and white jelly bean camouflage — and play around with the new twin-LCD SmartGauge display. We'll let Ford Researcher Jeff Greenberg, a Senior Technical Leader at Ford walk you through the features in the video above, but after spending a couple of minutes with it, what do we think? How about a quicky review on this new fangled tech to go along with a new-fangled Fusion?
We've given you our guess of what the 2009 Nissan 370Z will look like and, according to the first official photos below, we were fairly close. The vehicle is clearly more shapely with a more aggressive nose than the current Nissan 350Z. You'll also notice a little wedge on the C-pillar. Is that a Hoffmeister Kink? More details at the LA Auto Show, in the meantime you can enjoy the official photos and press release below.
Look at the top picture and you can see where this guy broke through
the crash barrier (right side where the people are standing on the road).
His truck left the road, traveling from right to left. He flipped
end-over-end, across the culvert outlet and landed on the left side of it. Look at this then go to main site to see where he really was.
Honda will reveal a concept version of its new small hybrid vehicle, to be named Insight, at the 2008 Paris International auto Show on Oct. 2.The new Insight Concept shares styling cues with the Honda FCX Clarity fuel cell vehicle and provides an early look at the new five-passenger hybrid vehicle due to arrive in Canada next spring.
Ever wonder what the car world is like outside of the U.S.? We often forget that there are dozens of unique models being driven around the streets of Asia and Europe. In order to show you the global market, I have put together six of the coolest, most affordable cars you can't buy in the U.S.
We are amazed and mostly delighted by the way Lotus has played so many tunes on the theme of the Elise. Lightweight cars are the thing today, so it is a surprise to learn that this thoroughly modern British sports car dates back 10 years?although it only came to the U.S. officially for 2005.
Sometimes, long-term cars arrive with little input from staff as to what options we might enjoy. Some automakers are more accommodating and allow us to build the exact car we want. Porsche is one of those. So when it came time to order a long-term Boxster S, we pored over roughly 15 pages of options and came up with a Boxster S that is the equivalent of a custom-made suit. Unfortunately, some off-the-rack staffers found the idea of a $79,075 Boxster to be wretched excess.
If there’s one thing we’ve noticed, it’s that European tuning firms are kicking more tail now than ever before by adopting not-so-exciting factory base models and transforming them into rubber-burning beasts. Similar to what Ferrari represents to Scuderia and Porsche to RUF, the big guns at BMW have teamed up with ALPINA, while Mercedes paired with AMG -- and each pairing has produced some serious performance variants on already-luxurious, high-performing vehicles.
