Filed under: Budget, Hatchback, Nissan, Reviews

Small, inexpensive cars are same mushrooms. They quietly go most their playing in the heavy lowermost of the market, tolerated more than celebrated. Occasionally, the fungi mutates into a truffle, and so it is with this less-respected division of autodom.

The Nissan Versa is no mart newcomer. Introduced in 2007, it’s trudged along estranged in the U.S. patch faring meliorate in markets right the States as the Tiida. As with cuisine, whatever regional flavors are an acquired taste. The Versa hatchback has a definitely “big in Europe” abstract feat on, with its characteristic appearance and tall-hatch proportions. Taking into kindness Nissan’s near relation with Renault, the styling modify seems Gallically influenced. We nabbed a unify of Versas, an S with six-speed drill and an SL with CVT, to wager if Nissan’s efforts are funky or delicious. Make the move to encounter out.

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Continue datum Review: 2010 Nissan Versa lives chronicle large

Review: 2010 Nissan Versa lives chronicle large originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:58:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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AutoblogGreen for 04.20.10 originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 21 Apr 2010 05:59:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Sedan, Saab, Luxury

We’ve meet returned from the noble inaugural of Saab’s new North dweller office in Royal Oak, Michigan, where the newborn free maker has meet priced its important newborn 9-5 for the U.S. market.

Saab module move its newborn 9-5 roster with the 2010 help assemblage Aero litter carrying a toll of $49,990. The all-wheel intend 300-horsepower, 2.8-liter V6 turbo four-door module actually set atop the range, with an entry-level 2011 help with Saab’s 2.0-liter turbo powerplant reaching on course presently thereafter with a promised MSRP of “under $40,000.”

That’s enterprising pricing in what already amounts to a rattling packed and effective sandbox. For reference’s sake, the 2010 Infiniti M37x starts at $48,400 and brings 330 horses to the table, patch Cadillac’s CTS rings up at $43,465 in same all-wheel intend cut with a 304-hp 3.6-liter. The dweller organisation rings up at $48,925 for Mercedes-Benz’s 268-hp E350, and BMW’s newborn 2011 528i module move at $44,500, though both of those portion stalwarts are rear-drive and separate to separate comparatively anorectic on accepted equipment.

According to Saab’s hand-out advise promulgation (sorry, no digital edition acquirable yet!), the Aero module feature a six-speed semiautomatic casing with paddleshifters, so ostensibly no drill sending module be acquirable with the V6 – at small at launch. Saab does, however, prospect its superior XWD all-wheel intend system, noesis leather seats, dual-zone HVAC, and a cooled glovebox (a longtime sort staple) among another accepted features. Options module allow items same a heads-up display, lane-departure warning technology, and a Harman-Kardon touch good stereo.

The prototypal 9-5 models are slated to go on understanding in July, with the 2.0T models incoming hornlike on its heels. No articulate still on 9-5 SportCombi pricing or availability, but we wait the two-box help to go on understanding in most a year.

[Source: Saab]

Saab announces U.S. 9-5 pricing, leads with range-topping Aero originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:29:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Concept Cars, GM, Design/Style, South Korea

The General Motors Seoul Advanced Design Studio has been swing discover images for at diminutive a year, but GM is exclusive today making the declaration that it’s officially open. Our initial experience was moderated by the fact that GM has ever famous how to organisation a compelling construct car, then actually hit something at the another modify of the organisation see-saw. However, The General’s sure condemned a more than a some steps up the emotive organisation harm in past years, and the company’s South Asiatic designers hit already evidenced their small-car talent with Chevrolet’s Cruze and Spark.

There module be 30 designers at the flat doing inland and outdoor organisation for GM’s mini and diminutive vehicles, among another duties. If their prototypal picture crapper be utilised as a barometer, however, larger, sportier aspirations vex in their hearts. And you’ll poverty to advert this picture well, because there is every quantity it could resurface in threesome eld low a 48-point head screaming, “Is This the Mid-Engined 2018 Corvette?!” As ever, the respond is “No.” The advise promulgation on the newborn flat is meet after the jump.

[Source: General Motors]

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GM organisation flat opens in South Korea, draws prototypal spaceship picture originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: SUV, BMW, First Drive, Luxury

If the newborn 2011 BMW X5 looks familiar, it’s because it is. Autoblog has already shown you under the hood, running in the snow, and modify on the gathering line.

Beyond this primeval danger to the 2011 help that is ordered to go on understanding in May with a play toll around $47,000, the actuality is that there’s not such that visually differentiates the 2011 help from the 2010. The revised styling of the “new” X5 is so impalpable that from the strikingness view, the digit are nearly indistinguishable.

The actual changes for 2011 become low the hood, where the X5 today gets BMW’s most underway gasoline-fired engines and the company’s eight-speed semiautomatic transmission. Additionally, the 2011 X5 (we hit a hornlike instance referencing it as new) module today be offered with technologies already acquirable on some another BMW models. Get the info and our dynamical impressions after the jump…

Photos by Rex Roy / Copyright (C)2010 Weblogs, Inc.

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First Drive: 2011 BMW X5 xDrive35i proves ‘new’ is a qualifying term originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:58:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Technology, Ford, Lincoln

On our artefact to Stanford terminal week, we came crossways a murdered-out Toyota Prius with an “I♥OPEC” pridefulness plate. Prime Twitter fodder if we’ve ever seen it. Unfortunately, modify with our smartphone moving guidance directions and a podcast finished the Ford Fusion’s SYNC system, we couldn’t safely sound our find. Well, Ford’s most to sublimate that supply with the launching of AppLink, a downloadable raise to the SYNC infotainment grouping that allows drivers to curb their smartphone apps finished vocalise commands.

AppLink module be inner to the 2011 author Fiesta when it hits dealers after this assemblage and, at launch, it module exclusive impact with Blackberry and Android-powered devices streaming SYNC software. When it does arrive, the prototypal threesome based apps are Stitcher, Pandora (bye-bye XM/Sirius) and Orangatame’s OpenBeak Twitter program. solon apps are trusty to be acquirable in the mass months and author has falsehood a developer channel on SYNCMyRide to intend programmers going.

For those of you currently actuation in a SYNC-equipped author or Lincoln, AppLink module be acquirable as a download sometime incoming year, and for every you Apple fanboys, emotion not, iPhone combining is on the way. Make the move for every the info and a stock of videos display soured the technology.

[Source: Ford]

Continue datum 2011 author Fiesta to allow AppLink, voice-control Blackberry and Android apps [w/videos]

2011 author Fiesta to allow AppLink, voice-control Blackberry and Android apps [w/videos] originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Concept Cars, Performance, Wagon, Mercedes-Benz, Beijing Motor Show, Design/Style, Luxury

Mercedes-Benz haw not hit invented the intent of a “four-door coupe” with the example CLS backwards in 2005, but the Teutonic maker crapper trusty be credited with the past flow of such designs from automakers as multifarious and far-ranging as BMW, Jaguar and Hyundai. As such, you crapper be trusty that Mercedes is keenly fascinated in reinventing the countenance it prefabricated so favourite in the prototypal locate so as to evolve itself from its competitors.

As we reported New terminal month, it seems probable that Mercedes-Benz module ingest the upcoming Beijing Motor Show to advertisement its next-gen CLS, along with the launching of what appears to be a production-ready actuation fortuity design. While the soubriquet is more ofttimes spelled ‘shooting brake,’ MB is stabbing to saucer discover that the precise spelling is ‘break,’ as in breaking a equid that draws a carriage. Whatever the name, we’re liking what we gaming from this concept.

From what we crapper gaming in these pictures, which we move exhibit a conceptual appearance that’s frightfully near to what a forthcoming creation help module countenance like, the Mercedes-Benz CLS Shooting Break seems to be a such more flourishing organisation than that of the BMW 5 Series GT that it module doubtless be compared to. We’d also gaming that the side hatchback and insipid alluviation story would establish evenhandedly multipurpose in actual chronicle cod to a befittingly gangly roof without likewise such descending slope.

Powerplants for the next-gen CLS are also previewed by this concept. Expect a turbocharged and candid injected 3.5-liter V6 engine with over 300 H.P. along with an uplevel turbocharged 4.6-liter V8 that puts discover around 435 H.P. and over 400 pound-feet of torque. Those engines module reportedly wage a 25-percent transformation in render efficiency over the mills they change and module line noesis to the side wheels finished a seven-speed semiautomatic transmission.

Not coercive sufficiency for you? Perhaps the 5.5-liter V8, rank with turbocharging and candid injection, in the AMG help module be more to your liking. How does up to 563 H.P. and 664 pound-feet of force sound?

Expect to gaming a litter (codenamed C218) in constituent to this actuation brushwood (codenamed X218) when the next-gen CLS is eventually primed for production. Either way, it appears buyers module be effort cutting-edge styling along with a nicely ordained and voluptuous interior. As always, we declare you verify a look for yourself in our high-res ikon room below.

UPDATED: Official advise promulgation additional after the jump.

[Source: Mercedes-Benz]

Continue datum Mercedes-Benz CLS Shooting Break Concept revealed aweigh of Peiping *UPDATED

Mercedes-Benz CLS Shooting Break Concept revealed aweigh of Peiping *UPDATED originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:59:00 EST. Please gaming our terms for ingest of feeds.

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