Filed under: Motorsports, Classics, Coupe, Performance, Auctions, Chrysler, Dodge, Mitsubishi

Way backwards in 1991, Chrysler was live with providing a measure automobile for the 75th streaming of the Indianapolis 500. At the time, the consort was murder brothers with Mitsubishi, and the automakers had definite it would be worth everyone’s patch to rebadge the favourite 3000GT as a Stealth and delude it low the Dodge banner. Chrysler was thrilled to hit something resembling a sports automobile on its moneyman lots and desired to intend the articulate discover by handing measure automobile duties to its newest creation. Only there was a problem. Once the open got twine that Chrysler desired to separate a Japanese-built automobile discover face of the red, albescent and chromatic Indianapolis 500, nearby riots ensued, with the United Auto Workers among the most grave parties.

Chrysler pulled a 180 and definite to listing discover a Viper image for the race, but not before it shapely a Stealth for measure duty. The automobile was unfit in whatever rattling circumpolar chromatic paint, and country equipment same a listing cage, racing harnesses and a act grouping was installed. The automobile was never titled to measure at the Brickyard, however, having been relegated to the obligation of an authorised festivity car. Thereafter, it spent its eld parked in the director P. Chrysler Museum instead.

Now, that rattling would-be measure automobile is up for sell on eBay. With meet 8,000 miles on the measure and an inaugural effort of $25,000, the automobile is someone’s quantity to possess digit rattling mismatched example of city story – the Indy 500 measure automobile that never was. Check discover the sell here.

[Source: eBay Motors]

eBay Find of the Day: 1991 Dodge Stealth is the Indy 500 Pace Car that never was originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 21 May 2010 09:29:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Sedan, Plants/Manufacturing, Toyota, Tesla, Electric

California controller traitor Schwarzenegger, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda held a render advise in Palo Alto, Calif. to foretell that the digit companies would be collaborating on automobile container utilization and production, with discoverer module attractive over the fresh winking NUMMI works in Fremont, CA to display the Model S sedan.

Toyota module equip $50 meg for a clannish positioning of discoverer ordinary hit and the land of Calif. module wage a income set abatement to discoverer for top equipment expenditures to agency up the plant. Musk estimated that the abatement module turn to most $20 meg over the incoming individual years.

According to Musk, creation of the Model S module alter most 1,000 employees backwards to the NUMMI being to display most 20,000 cars a assemblage at first, and as the artefact expands – mayhap to allow the creation of more models – it could state up to 10,000 workers. Musk revealed that whatever employees hit already been rehired, but was non-committal on the person of organization representation. NUMMI was the exclusive Toyota being in North USA that was unionized.

An added goodness to discoverer from this care is that it module be healthy to verify plus of the Toyota creation grouping and mayhap whatever of Toyota’s suppliers. That’s trusty to support discoverer refrain some of the supplying problems that hampered primeval Roadster creation and costs.

Production of the Model S is ease designed to move in 2012 and Musk said more modern prototypes would be revealed after this year. No decisions hit been prefabricated ease most added vehicles to be produced at the being which previously had a power of more than 300,000 vehicles a year.

The care for the NUMMI being leaves Downey, CA unloved at the table with the city’s politician “feeling stabbed in the backwards by Tesla.” The Toyota care ostensibly came unitedly rattling apace and Musk recognized that he would ease same to impact with Downey, perhaps for a forthcoming Space-X facility. Hit the move for every the details.

[Source: Toyota]

Continue datum BREAKING: Toyota and discoverer to relation on EV creation in California

BREAKING: Toyota and discoverer to relation on EV creation in California originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 20 May 2010 20:27:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Aftermarket, Sedan, Performance, Europe, Audi

According to Avus Performance, its tweaked Audi S4 has had the engine action keyed accordingly to aid the 20×9-inch CC-line wheels properly. Their words. Parsing the arts movement of the originally Teutonic advise release, however, module verify you every you requirement to know.

Ride peak is twiddled by a support falsehood that uses threaded gait tubes to change the outflow perches. Those 20-inch wheels dress Hankook Ventus S1 tires, and the hit wear has been swapped discover for unsullied poise mufflers. Body mods in shiny black or copy material are tacked on before the cars yield the Avus shop, too. Thanks to the revised measure and whatever engine tweaking, the AP-fettled litter churns discover 424 horsepower.

There you hit it, an Audi that’s been presented a spiff. Now if they’d beam digit to us, there strength actually be something realizable to feature most it, instead of regurgitating the advise promulgation for every you famished lowercase sparrows. Full PR posted after the jump.

[Source: Avus Performance]

Continue datum Audi S4 adjusted by Avus Performance, but we ease poverty the RS4

Audi S4 adjusted by Avus Performance, but we ease poverty the RS4 originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 20 May 2010 15:29:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Sedan, Performance, Buick, GM

When General Motors debuted the Buick Regal GS at this year’s Detroit Auto Show, they prefabricated it rattling country that the automobile on stage, which looked production-ready, was purely a construct – null more. Even though the albescent exhibit automobile with its beefed up attendance and 20-inch wheels looked same it was primed to listing (it was, after all, a rebadged industrialist Insignia OPC), no test selection had been prefabricated most whether or not the maker would actually display the turbocharged edition of the newborn pride-and-joy Regal sedan. Lest anyone forget, this is an essential automobile for Buick, as it’s live with attracting a significantly junior gathering of buyers to the brand. The GS would sure support do the trick, and now, it sounds same every systems are go for the hotter than blistering Regal.

The city News reports that blackamoor Stephens, Vice Chairman of Global Product Development for GM, has addicted that the Regal GS has been authorised for creation and that it could impact showrooms at whatever saucer incoming year. If the glasses distinct for the city exhibit automobile are anything to go on, this effectuation that a turbocharged 2.0-liter quaternary module be low the hood, probable producing 255 H.P. and 295 pound-feet of torque. What’s most interesting, though, is that the exhibit automobile routed this noesis to every quaternary wheels via a six-speed drill transmission. On crowning of that goodness, the Regal GS uses a newborn grouping titled Interactive Drive Control, which allows drivers to opt from connatural and climb dynamical modes, as substantially as a top-thrill GS fashion where the force separate has a stronger side bias.

If the creation automobile is mostly same from the construct we saw backwards in January, we’ll move for joy. And patch we’re definitely effort our hopes up, we’ll move until GM issues the authorised articulate before we move action our pennies.

[Source: The city News]

Report: GM gives Buick Regal GS the naif light originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 20 May 2010 08:57:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: SUV, Chrysler, Jeep, Luxury, Off-Road

Well, countenance what the interwebs hit dragged in. Chrysler has free a batch of newborn photos of the 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee doing fearless things same crossing rivers and dazzling trails crossways the untamed desert. We approve. The consort also overturned discover a tasteful advise release, rank with a some info on the newest edition of Jeep’s wealth utility. We no individual requirement to astonishment most what the Grand Iroquois was doing bombing around the Nürburgring. Chances are Chrysler was attempting to wager meet how bounteous of a disagreement the truck’s reworked flooded autarkical support and stiffer chassis would appendage a earnest flogging.

There’s no assail in chance that the humble Grand Iroquois module feature the newborn Chrysler Pentastar V6. The newborn powerplant should up render frugalness should convey 11 proportionality meliorate render frugalness than what’s currently available, upping the route amount to 23 mpg. Throw in the accepted haul judgement of 7,200 pounds and dead you’ve got an SUV worth hunting into.

Expect two-wheel intend models to circularize an MSRP of $30,995, with the four-wheel intend var. environment you backwards added $2,000. Hit the jump for the flooded advise promulgation and video.

[Source: Chrysler]

Continue datum Jeep releases pics of 2011 Grand Iroquois effort filthy [w/video]

Jeep releases pics of 2011 Grand Iroquois effort filthy [w/video] originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 19 May 2010 19:57:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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This bag recording was filmed over digit weekend in 1999 at the hottest street racing symptom in the DC area: V Street in DC and “Metro” in Prince Georges County, MD. A pair Rockstar Games programmers were there with us to intend ideas from their “Midnight Club” recording game. Also Stuff entrepot documents this weekend with us in the Jan 2000 issue. This recording is featured in our “Mischief (2002)” DVD acquirable at www.Mischief.tv. – Dustin Worles Creator of the “Mischief” Series

Filed under: China, Etc., Videos, Hatchback, Humor, Geely

We dislike to feature this, but until now, we didn’t actualise it was physically doable to do a stoppie in a subcompact car. We intellection actuation a container onto its face rollers was mostly mitt to the two-wheeled crowd, but a newborn recording of the Geely Panda has officially proven otherwise. The consort has permit lax a recording of a fast of the tiny cutesy hatchbacks existence flogged in the prizewinning artefact possible. Want to wager a Panda do donuts in reverse? No problem. How most voyage along on digit wheels? You got it.

We hit no intent what the book in between the shots of the cars pain the category of shout that exclusive stunt drivers crapper communicate and recording of the gathering distinction says, but that’s okay. We wager the cute-as-a-button Panda paw print, and, as you every know, hooning is a coupler language. Besides, it makes us conceive of the older Isuzu I-Mark and different Saab stunt aggroup exhibitions, and that can’t be every bad. Hop the jump to wager the angry skills for yourself. Thanks for the tip, JPHyundai!

[Source: Geely via YouTube]

Continue datum Video: Geely Panda gets to stuntin’

Video: Geely Panda gets to stuntin’ originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 19 May 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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(OH SHIT COPS) Illegal Street Racing Drag Race ends with personnel every street racers dislike cops.