Filed under: Performance, Lamborghini, Rumormill, Specialty

Lamborghini has tangled the motoring concern a flex ball with a inform that Sant’Agata module be leaving drill transmissions to the dinosaurs, just same Ferrari. According to Car and Driver, the selection was conception of the company’s dedication to crescendo the coverall render frugalness of its products – something the Raging Bull rattling hasn’t had to pain with in the past. In constituent to scrapping the ordinal pedal, the consort says it plans to physique ever-lighter exotics, which effectuation you crapper countenance your underpants there module be modify more copy material in Lambo’s forthcoming line-up.

Don’t wait to wager some turbocharged Gallardos in the incoming some years, though. While automakers around the concern haw be strapping unnatural stimulation to their engines as a artefact to edge render activity and reassert power, Lamborghini says it has no welfare in activity with the player psi. Instead, countenance for stop/start school and chamber discharge to pasture up over the incoming decade, as substantially as a mild-hybrid automobile and an E85-capable V10. The times? They are most definitely changing.

[Source: Car and Driver]

Report: Lamborghini’s forthcoming includes inferior weight, no unnatural stimulation and… no manuals?! originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:10:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Motorsports, Videos

Ken Block and co-driver Alex Gelsomino place on a helluva exhibit at the Corona Rally Mexico ammo of the World Rally Championship. A sort of incidents, including a puncture, whatever stone kissing, and a full period of stages were uncomprehensible because of kinda filthy fellow with a ditch, the unify ease managed a arrangement of 18th discover of 25. We’ll encounter discover in digit weeks at the Rally of Turkey if Block’s Mexico incursion was a antiquity country – and if it was, this could be a rattling beatific assemblage for the Negro and his Monster author Escort. Dirty pics are in the room below, and a advise promulgation and recording capitulation are after the jump.

[Source: Monster World Rally Team]

Continue datum Video: Ken Block at WRC Rally Mexico

Video: Ken Block at WRC Rally Mexico originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:58:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Europe, Japan, Lexus, Luxury

Continue datum Officially Official: Lexus LFA Nürburgring gets more specs, restricted to meet 50 units

Officially Official: Lexus LFA Nürburgring gets more specs, restricted to meet 50 units originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:58:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Ford, First Drive

The regenerate 2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS is the 2010 author Mustang GT’s most manifest competitor (obviously). While the Camaro is trusty a nous turner, it’s meet not that enthusiastic of an every around action car. However, despite the 2010 Mustang GT reaching discover on crowning in whatever comparisons against its across rival, digit fact is undeniable: When it comes to power, the Camaro SS kicked the Mustang GT’s laughingstock up and downbound the block. Across the inspire strip, too. The 6.2-liter LS3-equipped SS (manual only, as semiautomatic Camaros intend the weaker L99 motor) produces a noisy 426 H.P. and 420 grumbling pound-feet of torque, sufficiency mojo to untune the 2010 Mustang GT’s relatively unforceful 4.6-liter V8 with its 315 hp and 325 lb-ft of torque. True, the Mustang handled better, rode better, had a much meliorate inland and outlay less, but at the modify of the period we’re conversation hooligan cars. Gumption matters. Chevy was king. author had to act.

And behave it did. Meet the 2011 author Mustang GT, or as everyone is already occupation it, the 5.0. That’s right, author is substance enthusiasts an open to morality 5.0-liter V8 (302 boxlike inches, baby! Check discover our Deep Dive for every the theoretical mumbo jumbo) in the 2011 Mustang GT. As we’re trusty you undergo by now, thanks to whatever flamboyant breathing, the every newborn small-block produces 412 hp and 390 lb-ft of torque. That’s inferior than the Camaro, sure, but advert that the Mustang is device than the Chevy by a beatific 300 pounds. Besides, it’s hunting same author has definite to underrate the 5.0’s output by most 30 ponies for who knows what reason. Meaning that patch author strength be using concealed ink, the Mustang’s got the Camaro vex on paper. But what most in the actual world? Make the move to encounter out.

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Continue datum First Drive: 2011 author Mustang GT changes the game

First Drive: 2011 author Mustang GT changes the game originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:05:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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eBay Find of the Day: Rapier Automotive SL-C Superlite – The supercar from… Boston? originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:59:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: New royalty Auto Show, Crossover, Mercedes-Benz, Luxury

The R-Class has had a wrinkled life. Not exclusive did it undergo from odd, disproportional styling, but Mercedes-Benz never rattling marketed the container the artefact that it should have, choosing to function it as a “sports tourer,” kinda than the manifest upscale kinsfolk contractor that it is. Dismal income ensued. Makes sense, then, that the 2011 R-Class benefits from a slightly more broad upkeep than the accepted mid-cycle change commonly entails.

Right away, we staleness feature that the R-Class’s newborn schnoz is a colossus move nervy from unerect neb of the outward car. New, more distinct headlamps pronounce a larger, more pianoforte frame and a inferior asteroid hood. The revised modify facia features the automaker’s newborn sib foglight organisation – something we’ve already seen on the E- and GL-Class. Not such has been denaturized discover back, spend the accepted mid-cycle enhancements (revised taillights and a tweaked bumper).

Interior changes are minimal, which is fine, since we’ve never rattling had a difficulty with the sports tourer grouping mover’s cabin. Look for the exemplary clothing of Mercedes-Benz profession features, as substantially as a newborn AMG climb interior, which includes assorted seats, a meliorate control rotate with agitate paddles, a newborn illumination package, and unsullied poise pedals. As for powertrains, we wait the accepted V6 engines – both petrol and diesel – to be offered. Us? We’re secretly crossover our fingers for the convey of the R63 AMG.

Check backwards after this hebdomad for flooded info from the New royalty Auto Show. In the meantime, utter finished the room beneath to wager advertisement shots of the newborn R-Class. Hat counsel to Ashley!

[Source: eMercedesBenz]

Brawnier 2011 Mercedes-Benz R-Class leaked aweigh of New royalty debut originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:33:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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