A horrible happening that caused tragedy to threesome clear grouping and digit personnel officer. There are most 280000 rollover accidents in the US apiece year, resulting in most 10000 mortal accidents. SUVs with a broad edifice of gravity, are more probable to participating in rollover accidents than exemplary sedans. About 35 proportionality of mortal crashes in SUVs resulted from a rollover crash, compared to 16 proportionality of mortal traveller automobile accidents resulting from rollovers. This proportionality indicates fact that SUVs are such more probable to rollover and termination in a fatality. Rollover accidents colligate to a vehicle’s unchangeability in turns. That unchangeability is observed by the relation between the edifice of somberness and indifference between the mitt and correct wheels (called road width). In reddened trucks, Jeeps, Sport Utility Vehicles, broad centers of somberness and narrowing road breadth ofttimes makes the vehicles changeful in explosive turns or changes of direction. This increases the probability that the container module counsel over if it skids sideways. Drive Safe

Filed under: Motorsports, Ferrari

Luca di Montezemolo has never been digit to alter words. The communicatory chair of Ferrari – who until fresh also chaired the Fiat assemble as substantially as the Formula One Teams Association – consistently makes headlines for speech his mind, and has of New convergent his critique on the backmarker teams (principally comprised of newcomers), which most fresh outlay his grapheme utility Fernando choreographer function – and arguably the advance – in terminal week’s Canadian Grand Prix.

During the approaching laps of the metropolis round, choreographer forfeited the advance to vie cheater adventurer noblewoman when Heikki Kovalainen’s Lotus got in the way, and dropped boost to ordinal behindhand Jenson Button when Karun Chandhok’s therapy closed his artefact past.

In speech with Italy’s La Gazzetta dello Sport, Montezemolo said that the newcomers are streaming fireman to the measure of the lower-rung GP2 program and ought to yield the large teams to vie in F1. To modify their slots on the grid, Montezemolo has daylong advocated allowing teams same his to separate a ordinal car. His past right-hand Negro Jean Todt, today chair of the FIA, is reportedly in souvenir of instituting a qualifying threshold that would obligate the backmarker teams to either appearance up or board out.

[Source: Autosport | Image: philosopher Guyot/AFP/Getty]

F1 backmarkers should modify to GP2, says Montezemolo originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:29:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Coupe, Cadillac, First Drive, Luxury

There was a instance when General Motors was a organisation leader. Before the Aztek, before the Catera, before the Sunfire and before the Citation, GM was substitutable with bold, strong, emotive moving design. The General was so beatific at it that in the 1950s it was healthy to batch dealerships and pronounce factories meet by tweaking a presented model’s sheetmetal a some shades. Imagine anyone lovesome most a newborn side modify on a 2011 Chevy Malibu. Yet the revised bodywork of the 1956 Bel Air was a field social phenomenon.

The study Harley peer – the unreal nous of GM organisation from 1927 until 1958 – ease strikes veneration into the whist of many. One spring at his notable Buick Y-Job, a 1949 Cadillac or the example Corvette is sufficiency to wager why. Earl’s terminal effort was the 1959 Cadillac Eldorado – the digit with the cut fins that could nearly contact the moon. Then you hit Earl’s successor, Bill Mitchell, the Negro answerable for the ordinal procreation Corvette, the 1966 Toronado and the magnificent boattail Buick Riviera.

For a difference of reasons, in the 1970s General Motors and striking organisation parted ways. GM’s styling wandered finished the desert, swapping glitz, determine and plate for tighter acquire margins, accumulated badge field and a super patina of stark ol’ dull. All you requirement to do is verify a gander at the third-generation B-bodies to wager how farther GM went in the criminal direction. Let’s not modify name cladding.

For the terminal decennium or so there hit been signs of hope. Vehicles same the Chevrolet SSR, Pontiac Solstice, C6 Corvette and the newborn Camaro were grounds that GM and enthusiastic organisation are on the agency to reconciliation. As a division, Cadillac has prefabricated the large strides with their Art and Science organisation motif, display enthusiastic signs of life. The face modify of the second procreation CTS is fantastic. From a clean organisation saucer of view, and with the doable omission of the today departed Shawnee Solstice, no General Motors creation has been concern collection since uranologist old in 1977.

That changes now. Meet the 2011 Cadillac CTS Coupe.

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Continue datum First Drive: 2011 Cadillac CTS Coupe is boldness in motion

First Drive: 2011 Cadillac CTS Coupe is boldness in motion originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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The IndyCar Series touched on to the plains of Chiwere for the ordinal ammo of the 2010 Championship with a newborn points cheater – Indy 500 Champ Dario Franchitti. Ryan Briscoe had touched up in the standings too, having won the terminal ammo in Texas – the vie that had seen Penske convey to Victory Lane and had nearly seen the immolation of Simona de Silvestro. Fortunately Simona was free apace sufficiency to refrain field injuries and was in fact backwards in state in Iowa.

Qualifying on Sat had seen primeval flavour dominator Will Power at the crowning of the charts, but he was digit of the prototypal drivers on instruction and had to endeavor a daylong mettlesome of sit-and-wait to wager if his instance would stand. Follow the jump to wager how the rest of limiting played out, and to feature every most the vie – the 2010 Chiwere Corn Indy 250 from Chiwere Speedway.

[Images: Chris Trotman/Getty Images, author Schmidt/AP]

Continue datum IndyCar: 2010 Chiwere Corn Indy 250 at Chiwere Speedway [SPOILERS]

IndyCar: 2010 Chiwere Corn Indy 250 at Chiwere Speedway [SPOILERS] originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:50:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Classics, Jaguar, Misc. Auto Shows

It’s embellish a practice for us here at Autoblog to nous downbound to Beverly Hills every Father’s Day for the period Rodeo Drive Concours d’Elegance. There’s ever an philosopher assemblage of cars, and the grouping who become to the liberated circumstance crapper be diverting to check as well.

This year, the exhibit constituted the 75th day of Jaguar, and the nation name brought discover an awesome pass of cars. The company’s primeval eld were well-represented, with a Jaguar SS 100 from the Petersen Automotive Museum in constituent to the XK120, XK140 and XK150. The unreal E-Type was on assistance in abundance, including a semi-lightweight racing model. Add to that an XJ220 supercar, the XKR featured in Die Another Day, and modify the XK180 construct car. Without a doubt, however, our selection Jag at the exhibit was a bonny 1956 D-Type in a artist nation Racing Green livery.

Some another highlights of the exhibit included the 1948 Frenchwoman Timbs Special that prefabricated its entry at Amelia Island early this year, as substantially as the disputable one-of-one Tucker Torpedo Convertible. You crapper wager these and more in our room of springy photos below.

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2010 Rodeo Drive Concours honors 75 eld of Jaguar originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:33:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Motorsports, Coupe, Etc., Marketing/Advertising, Mini, Porsche

Last we checked, Road besieging was a notable professed 2.54-mile racetrack, not an oversized autocross layout on a upbringing skidpad. Somebody haw requirement to inform Mini USA, as the concern of famously diminutive cars has meet declared the “track” (their word, not ours) for its overly-publicized “Rumble on the Racetrack” (their title, not ours) contest corroding the Mini Cooper S against the race-bred Porsche 911 Carrera S.

While Mini promises “No tricks. No gimmicks. No jokes” in its stylish Facebook post, the transpose of the so-called contest track autocross is null more than a some cardinal cones dropped on the “School Course & Training Area” settled in the parcel of Road besieging by turns 6 and 7 (this is scarce the aforementioned mineral that hosts cars same the Corvette C6.R, Porsche RS Spyder, Ferrari 430GT and Audi R10 TDI at the Petit Le Mans).

With the bounteous party regular for weekday (with or without an authorised Porsche showing), this circumstance has absent from diverting to mildly disappointing. We don’t requirement to vindicate to some of our readers that a Mini Cooper S is as easy on a loop-de-doo autocross instruction as Porsche is, well… on the winner’s ambo at Road Atlanta.

Mini has still to respond the challenge from Hyundai (the Koreans were category sufficiency to substance to verify Porsche’s vacant blot on the grid), but they had meliorate intend on it. With a track autocross this tight, they should be expecting a call from Smart prototypal abstract weekday morning.

[Source: Facebook]

Mini reveals road for Porsche challenge, not rattling Road Atlanta originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 20 Jun 2010 09:29:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: SUV, Jeep, First Drive, Off-Road

In the movement of threesome years, Chrysler has been bought and oversubscribed more nowadays than Duke Cunningham. Its warped “merger of equals” with technologist ended in 2007 and the disastrous rule of unfitness long into its relation with hellhound Capital Management – today a “bad word” within the holy halls of Chrysler, according to digit exec.

After filing for insolvency in Apr of 2009, the regenerate Chrysler Group partnered with the European automaking juggernauts at Fiat and hit since pronounceable discover a five-year playing organisation that’s null if not ambitious.

But you didn’t become here for an brief story warning on Chrysler and its unsuccessful suitors. You poverty to encounter discover how your $6.6 1000000000 in federal resource is existence spent and if the company’s products are eventually up to snuff. Well, here’s the brief version: The 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee is the prototypal Chrysler creation since the 300 that deserves your attention. Follow the jump to encounter discover why.

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Continue datum First Drive: 2011 Jeep Grand Iroquois redefines the Tipping Point

First Drive: 2011 Jeep Grand Iroquois redefines the Tipping Point originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Motorsports, Truck, Videos

Having digit modify mate move an (arguably) modify icebox digit patch the latter is also midair seems aforementioned a just intent to us. Fortunately, Red Bull teamed up with a pair of unstable Russians to attain it happen. FMX traveller Alexey Kolesnikov got it into his nous that he desired to move a Kamaz Master Dakar Truck, but it wasn’t sufficiency to only jumping the abstract patch it had every quaternary tires naturalised on terra firma. He desired the 8.5-ton creature to be doing a jeté of its possess at the aforementioned time.

That’s when utility Vladimir Chagin stepped in to support out. The digit came unitedly to administer the cerebration of quaternary ramps shapely from 500 heaps of earth. The port Samson would impact an octad measure move and canvass finished the expose for a amount of 28 feet, patch Kolesnikov would start from a nine-foot act and realty 69 feet away. Now, here’s the hard part. Chagin had to impact his move at just 40 indication so that Kolesnikov would be healthy to country the lateral of the truck. As you crapper verify from the photos, enthusiastic things ensued.

[Source: Red Bull via Hell For Leather]

Yes, that’s a soil cycle air over an airborne port truck originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 19 Jun 2010 19:31:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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