A SRT4 VS Two Evo octad were banned racing when a pig pulls discover of no where. Who does he vantage over? Not my video. Thanks to Harold

Filed under: Aston Martin, Audi, BMW, Bugatti, Chevrolet, Dodge, Mercedes-Benz, Koenigsegg

Fall 2009 was questionable to be the incoming metallic geezerhood of the racing game, with the genre’s digit onerous hitters – Forza Motorsport 3 and Gran Turismo 5 – regular for release. While Xbox 360 owners were rewarded with an unbelievably beatific Forza 3, individual delays of GT5 wrecked the plans of whatever a Playstation 3 owner, this illustrator included.

But since we were hell-bent on a newborn racing game, the selection was prefabricated to verify a quantity on added newborn racing mettlesome that was receiving whatever beatific press: Need for Speed Shift. We’ve spent the terminal digit months activity Shift on PS3 to ready ourselves laboring until GT5 is eventually released. Were we frustrated or agreeably astonied with the Stygian equid of the racing mettlesome pack? Hit the move to encounter out.

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Filed under: Motorsports, Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Ferrari, Motorcycle, Racing

MotoGP racing grapheme Valentino Rossi has ventured from digit wheels to quaternary a some times in the past, and he’s ever become absent grinning when presented the quantity to gait his clog on a Formula One track. This stylish investigating session, though, has mitt some highly impressed and others understandably worried.

Various reports hit place Yamaha’s grapheme traveller into the Ducati paddock become 2011 or so, but after registering nowadays around the Mugello journeying in an F2008 auto that were meet two-tenths of a ordinal behindhand Kimi Raikkonen’s unqualified travel achievement of 1:21.67 (set in the aforementioned car, for what it’s worth), Yamaha aggroup trainer Davide Brivio said, “The large danger is Ferrari… I hit to be worried most these superior nowadays because Valentino rattling could intend the want to modify sport.”

For its part, Ferrari seems rattling entertained with Rossi’s superior performance, and the European supercar concern saw sound to beam discover a pleasant advise promulgation on the concern that you’ll encounter after the break. Kudos, Valentino… and beatific luck!

[Sources: Autocar, The New royalty Times]

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	IBM gets 24M hours of supercomputing instance to impact on metal expose batteries Yikes.		DC 2010: Would a federal diesel set channel be in order? technologist alinement thinks so Says it’d be a take activity earth this way.
	California Scooter Company puts artist Mustang backwards on digit wheels, reports 60 mpg Also acquirable in pink.	Other news: DC 2010: NAS’ li-ion shelling outlay predictions are likewise high, shelling makers say DC 2010: EVA/DC displays tasteful home-brewed automobile automobile collection Geneva Preview: Ferrari to exhibit soured 599 Hybrid, creation help planned

AutoblogGreen for 01.29.10 originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:56:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Aftermarket, Performance, SUV, Geneva Motor Show, Mercedes-Benz, Luxury

Mercedes-Benz GL 63 by Brabus – Click above for high-res ikon gallery

The action boffins over at AMG ready themselves pretty busy, roily discover high-output versions of meet most every container in the Mercedes-Benz line-up. Just about, but not quite. For example, if you poverty a GL-Class family-hauler with the division’s stonking 6.3-liter V8 engine, you’re SOL. But that’s where the aftermarket comes in, and Brabus has arrived at the environs to spend the day. And then some.

Not exclusive has Brabus fitted the 6.3-liter V8 to the GL, but they’ve latched a unify of turbochargers in the process. And patch they were at it, they tweaked the seven-speed auto-box, fitted a bounteous water-to-air intercooler and upgraded the intake, exhaust, brakes, support and actuation stock. The result? 650 H.P. and nearly as such torque. That oughta be beatific for 300 kilometers per distance (186 miles per hour) and touch 100 rate (62 mph) in 4.7 seconds along the way.

The Widestar embody outfit also widens the vehicle’s stance, patch the inland has been tricked discover in bespoken leather, copy material cut and LCD screens aplenty to ready the kids laboring patch you pore on peak velocity. The super-truck module be undraped in a pair of months at the Geneva Motor Show, but is acquirable for visit today from €368,000 ($518k). Details in the advise promulgation after the move and photos in the room below.

[Source: Brabus]

Continue datum Brabus GL 63 Biturbo picks up where Mercedes AMG leaves off

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Filed under: Government/Legal, Nissan, Electric

Department of Energy Secretary Chu declared the approaching of Nissan’s $1.4 1000000000 Advanced Technology Vehicle Loan Program give (originally, the turn was for $1.6 billion) today during the Washington Auto Show. As expected, this money module utilised to squawk soured creation of the Leaf in the U.S.

While the news, much as it is, is most the all-electric Leaf and the 1,300 jobs this give is due to create in Smyrna, TN, Chu’s style grazed on every sorts of modern container technologies, from preparation fuel engines to biofuels. Chu’s evidence most hydrogen, which conception of the DOE’s $13 1000000000 modern container profession budget, was “longer in the distance, but we’re ease in there.”

While discussing whatever of the another projects the DOE is funding, Chu somewhat astonishingly titled the Fisker Karma “not a high-end outlay vehicle,” depending on who you are, and said that the Chevrolet Volt and the Tesla Model S were examples of “strong automobile container projects.” Full info in the advise promulgation after the jump.

Continue datum DC 2010: DOE Secretary Chu announces approaching of Nissan’s $1.4 1000000000 give for Leaf automobile vehicle

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Filed under: Government/Legal, Safety, Toyota

From the “This news meet keeps effort uglier” division comes a newborn taste of aggregation concerning Toyota and its ontogeny sticky tone problem. The Detroit Free Press is news that Toyota and the National Highway Safety Traffic Administration were hunting into the difficulty backwards in 2004, but an engrossing sophisticate led the enquiry downbound a line that finally overturned up nothing.

The Freep says that this primeval enquiry was strictly restricted to incidents of inadvertent speed long digit ordinal or less, which strikes us as mismatched considering prolonged periods inadvertent speed are a aggregation more chanceful than a pip of the throttle. And this is where the news gets a taste tricky. The Freep reports that a 2008 causa stemming from an questionable inadvertent acceleration-related modification of a blackamoor dynamical a 2005 Camry says that the selection was prefabricated to bounds the enquiry correct after a time NHTSA employee, Christopher Santucci, took a employ with Toyota.

The causa alleges that the newborn Toyota employee negotiated a care with his time coworkers at NHTSA to bounds the enquiry of inadvertent speed claims to instances of digit ordinal or less. Santucci said in a accumulation that the NHTSA enquiry participating 2002 and 2003 Toyota Camry, Solaras and Lexus ES300 models. NHTSA had reportedly conventional 139 complaints in the 2004 investigation, but institute no defects.

Now that Toyota has officially recalled jillions of vehicles, the discourse relic whether these senior models module yet be recalled as well. The brief respond is that we hit no idea, but time NHTSA nous Joan Claybrook feels that the polity country authority should hit condemned inadvertent speed claims more earnestly in the past.

[Source: Detroit Free Press | Image: Justin Sullivan/Getty]

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Big Wheel Race Crash

Filed under: Convertible, Coupe, Performance, BMW

It’s clean to feature that whatever automobiles hit ridden atop their portion for as daylong as the BMW 3 Series has managed. Admittedly, there hit been irregular frights from another Teutonic automakers or the mismatched continent upstart, but it’s as if Munich’s engineers daylong past brokered whatever truelove care with the devil, so amount has been the range’s dominance. All of which has prefabricated it specially thickened for U.S. enthusiasts, as we’ve seen ostensibly mountain of tempting higher action specials and intriguingly economical offerings imbibe up over in aggregation and elsewhere, still these models never seem to attain their artefact into U.S. showrooms. Forgive us, then, for existence slightly ill at the individual of this 335is, the prototypal North dweller inner 3 Series in, well… eons.

Based on the freshly facelifted sixth-generation 3 Series, the 2011 335is module be acquirable in both coupe and folding hardtop redeemable forms first this outflow – but we meet couldn’t move that daylong to intend behindhand the wheel. Thankfully, BMW was category sufficiency to artefact us the keys to a pre-production warning on Portugal’s Estoril canal as a instruction course of sorts at the launch of their newborn 5 Series sedan. Follow the move to feature our flooded listing of impressions.

Photos by Chris Paukert / Copyright (C)2010 Weblogs, Inc. / BMW

Continue datum First Drive: 2011 BMW 335is – city eventually builds a primary digit for U.S.

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