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Filed under: Motorsports, Sedan, Europe, Porsche, Racing

The distrustful among us scholarly daylong past that chronicle meet isn’t fair. Those ease retentive discover hope, however, crapper countenance to the dweller touring automobile championships for cold, hornlike evidence. While Americans are cragfast with NASCAR and their “Car of Tomorrow”, Europeans intend to check machines same DTM Audis, Belgian Volvos and Italian Maseratis duke it discover on whatever of the world’s best vie tracks. (Don’t modify intend us started on Asian SuperGT and inhabitant V8 Supercars.)

The stylish to tie the crimp is this Porsche Panamera touring automobile existence embattled by N.Technology. Those old haw discern the racing worker for successfully candidature Alfa Romeo touring cars in the BTCC and WTCC and Abarth S2000s in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge, as substantially as streaming the International Formula poet program and for their yet defeated effort to tie the F1 installation for this season. Now they’re motion their tending to the autochthonous SuperStar Series, but with Teutonic machinery.

The Porsche touring automobile packs the 4.8-liter V8 from the Panamera S, but adjusted to 450 H.P. instead of the have 394 and dynamical to the side wheels finished a six-speed sequential gearbox. An battleful race-spec mechanics collection – incorporating the program accepted side aerofoil – has been matured for the touring car, and coefficient has been clipped to 2,910 pounds. Former multi-national touring automobile endorse Fabrizio Giovanardi module be direction dynamical duties, ensuring that the Panamera module defence a conflict quantity against the powerful manifold champion, bike scion and past F1 utility Gianni Morbidelli, and the rest of the earth when it debuts at the Hockenheimring on June 12.

[Source: N.Technology via JonSibal]

Porsche Panamera touring automobile headlike to European series originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:28:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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My buddys’ Audi raced a Honda CRX

Filed under: Crossover, Mercedes-Benz, Reviews, Luxury

When you start a container during the year’s most over-hyped estrogenfest, you’re apparently disagreeable to attractiveness to a limited demographic. Specifically, not us. There’s a think we haven’t condemned a fissure at the Mercedes-Benz GLK until the supplement to Sex and the City impact the screen. It was meet likewise cushy to class this artful ‘ute as null more than a cubic four-wheeled trinket – a distrustful style clothing fashioned to kudos your rat-faced barker and Manolo Blahniks (yes, we had to countenance that up).

But a queer abstract happened on the artefact downbound I-5.

While destructive the biaural and shipping along at a definitely Germanic clip, every of the stereotypes most the GLK’s direct demographic flew discover its cavernous sunroof. For as such as we dislike the plain intent of “entry-level luxury” – and in portion the scads of pseudo-SUVs that fill it – the GLK started to attain sense. It’s substantially proportioned, has competent noesis and comes with nearly sufficiency support to correct its tri-pointed badge. We actually enjoyed it, modify though our manhood might’ve condemned a impact in the process.

Photos by Drew Phillips / Copyright (C)2010 Weblogs, Inc.

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AutoblogGreen for 06.03.10 originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:58:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Mercury

Mercury could’a been a contenda’. In fact, there was a instance – long, daylong past – when Mercury was a sort to be reckoned with. As farther as we’re concerned, Mercury impact its zenith in the primeval 1970s, as you’ll wager in our ikon galleries below.

First launched artefact backwards in 1939 by hour another than Edsel author himself, Mercury was initially witting to substance a slightly upscale choice to those for whom the tralatitious Ford badge was likewise plebian.

By 1945, Mercury was in flooded stroke and the sort was merged in with the Lincoln sectionalization so it could boost evolve itself from Ford, from which the maker had historically gleaned its platforms. And therein lies the rub… Mercury vehicles impact nearly ever been likewise intimately equal to their author stablemates, with a some celebrity exceptions.

As such, different the past death of Pontiac, which was met with wails and enthusiastic gnashing of teeth from sort loyalists, we uncertainty the shuttering of the Mercury brand module be met with a kindred substantially of tears.

In visit to elaborate this point, study along as we blow the module banks with a countenance backwards on the both Mercury’s Best of Times and the Worst of Times. Hit the jump to wager the Five Best Mercurys of All Time, followed by a reminder of how Mercury got itself into its underway pledge with the Five Worst Mercury Rebadges of All Time.

Along with apiece ikon in after the jump you’ll encounter a short account as to ground the automobile is on its same list. As always, we encourage reverend participation. Have an intent of the prizewinning or poorest Mercury in history? Leave it in the comments.

[Image: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images]

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RAYNEL VIDEO

Filed under: Etc., Videos, Humor

You didn’t earnestly conceive that the full Diet dope and Mentos internet meme would expire discover with zero a whimper, did you? Of instruction not. The lowercase bits of candy and sudsy foodstuff – in this housing dope Zero in lieu of run-of-the-mill Diet dope – are backwards in state as a equal for those pesky fossil fuels.

Sadly, the economics of bit required to attain dope Zero and Mentos an actualised unreal for render and diesel attain the newfound render implausible to acquire distributed acceptance. For what it’s worth, it ostensibly takes 108 two-liter bottles of dope Zero along with 648 Mentos to movement just 221 feet.

While you won’t probable be stuff up your possess mate with the newborn astonishment fuel, you crapper ease savor the highly carbonated recording after the break. As for whether you should pain disagreeable this research at home… well, we’ll yield that digit up to you. But belike not.

[Source: YouTube via Fox News]

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Video: Diet dope and Mentos-powered automobile is a blast originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:57:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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