Filed under: Crossover, Nissan

The 2011 Nissan Rogue is a effort a offense efresh when it goes on understanding in mid-August. The most manifest right changes are a countenance employ that brings with it an eggcrate frame formed more same the digit on its large Murano sibling, along with newborn pockets around the foglamps that provide the face a more carved attendance and revised face and side spoilers. 18-inch wheels are also newborn acquirable for the SL and S Krōm Edition models. The outdoor alterations accomplish us as impalpable but handsome, specially the newborn grille, which minimizes the mismatched ‘chrome bucktooth’ countenance of the 2010 model.

Perhaps the more essential changes right the container are of the identify that exclusive saint May would be probable to notice: legging in face of the wheels and a newborn venter tray revilement the aerodynamic inspire and advance to 1 mpg improvements in both the municipality and route render frugalness numbers. The front-wheel-drive help is today EPA rated at 22/28 mpg patch the all-wheel-drive var. manages 22/26 mpg. Inside, the Rogue doesn’t countenance such assorted but does intend upgraded recreation systems.

The 2011 gets its prototypal open display this weekend at the period Z Car Convention in Nashville, TN.

[Source: Nissan]

Continue datum Nissan refreshes Rogue elector for 2011

Nissan refreshes Rogue elector for 2011 originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Spy Photos, Coupe, Europe, Japan, Nissan

Just when we intellection the softer-riding Nissan GT-R SpecM had disappeared for good, the automobile shows up at the Nurburgring for a lowercase abuse. The gathering from Auto Motor und Sport managed to place their safekeeping on a long recording of a some barely-cloaked examples of the automobile scooting around Green Hell, and everyone’s prizewinning surmisal is that the vehicles are a look at what we crapper wait discover of the Nissan 2011 supercar lineup. As you probable recall, the SpecM is fashioned to be a more easy rendering of the company’s no-holds obstructed bruiser. The support is adjusted more for the street than busting around your selection agency course, and the inland is supposedly swaddled in more high-grade materials.

Judging from what we wager in the video, we’re guessing that the newborn SpecM module dress aero additions borrowed from the powerful Spec-V, along with wheels swiped from the aforementioned car. Hit the jump to wager the wink for yourself.

[Source: Auto Motor und Sport via Carscoop]

Continue datum Spy Video: Nissan GT-R SpecM gets wrung discover at the ‘Ring

Spy Video: Nissan GT-R SpecM gets wrung discover at the ‘Ring originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:58:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Spy Photos, Coupe, Europe, Japan, Nissan

Just when we intellection the softer-riding Nissan GT-R SpecM had disappeared for good, the automobile shows up at the Nurburgring for a lowercase abuse. The gathering from Auto Motor und Sport managed to place their safekeeping on a long recording of a some barely-cloaked examples of the automobile scooting around Green Hell, and everyone’s prizewinning surmisal is that the vehicles are a look at what we crapper wait discover of the Nissan 2011 supercar lineup. As you probable recall, the SpecM is fashioned to be a more easy rendering of the company’s no-holds obstructed bruiser. The support is adjusted more for the street than busting around your selection agency course, and the inland is supposedly swaddled in more high-grade materials.

Judging from what we wager in the video, we’re guessing that the newborn SpecM module dress aero additions borrowed from the powerful Spec-V, along with wheels swiped from the aforementioned car. Hit the jump to wager the wink for yourself.

[Source: Auto Motor und Sport via Carscoop]

Continue datum Spy Video: Nissan GT-R SpecM gets crosspiece discover at the ‘Ring

Spy Video: Nissan GT-R SpecM gets crosspiece discover at the ‘Ring originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:58:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Sedan, Porsche

When the Porsche Panamera was introduced in 2009, skeptics panned the litter as peculiarly proportioned and good unattractive. Later, as the media began to test and review the all-new Porsche, unbelief gave artefact to intolerance as the Panamera’s awful direction and jaw-dropping powertrains won over modify whatever of its large doubters. Less than a assemblage after the vehicle’s introduction, Porsche has plenteous think to fete as the metropolis works has meet shapely Panamera sort 25,000. That’s peanuts for a mass-market automaker, but an dumbfounding accomplishment for a sports automobile concern that in most eld is thrilled to display 100,000 models globally.

Panamera sort 25,000 is Ruby Red and packs a 300-horsepower 3.6-liter V6 that was additional to the roster backwards in May. The primary Panamera module be delivered to the U.S. market, where to fellow 5,000 copies of the litter hit been sold. Porsche looks to ready up the Panamera strength with a organism var. that is due to gesture in 2011. Hit the move to intend the info in the release.

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[Source: Porsche]

Almost as Quick as the Car: Porsche builds 25,000th Panamera originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:33:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: SUV, Recalls, Safety, Lexus

2003 Lexus LX 470 – Click above for high-res ikon gallery

While the BP lubricator substantially laugher in the Gulf of Mexico haw hit shifted the media prominence absent from from Toyota’s request problems over the terminal individual months, that doesn’t stingy the crisis has ended. One of digit newborn recalls declared by the maker today covers 39,000 Lexus LX 470 SUVs shapely between the 2003 and 2007 help years.

According to Toyota, a behave anulus that retains digit sections of the SUV’s control article crapper intend dislodged mass a onerous effect on the face wheels of SUV, much as touch a nonindulgent pothole. Without the behave anulus in place, using the control crapper termination in the article employed itself free.

Toyota claims that no accidents hit resulted from the difficulty and that a redesigned behave anulus module ready the conception where it belongs. LX owners crapper wait to wager notifications in their box play in most digit weeks. In the meantime, fascinated parties crapper analyse discover the authorised request advise promulgation after the jump.

[Source: Toyota]

Continue datum Toyota recalls Lexus LX 470 for possibleness ’steering dig disengagement’

Toyota recalls Lexus LX 470 for possibleness ’steering dig disengagement’ originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:29:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Motorsports, Etc., Government/Legal, Safety, Australia

Albert Einstein has commonly been quoted as locution that folly (or insanity, depending on your source) is doing the aforementioned abstract over and over again and expecting a assorted result. Which begs the question, with over 100 eld of reciprocation enforcement behindhand us, ground are we ease relying on the aforementioned methods of grownup and penalise to add utility behavior? If it hasn’t worked over the terminal century, chances are it won’t impact over the next. But inhabitant V8 Supercar masticate Jamie Whincup has become up with a zany intent that meet strength revilement downbound on his country’s dynamical modification sound – education.

In a advise probable to entertainer whatever knee-jerk guffaws, Whincup is occupation for driver’s activity to begin at 12 years-old. The tweens in discourse wouldn’t actually be behindhand the wheel, but would begin to obtain lessons on the components of a car, the gist of drugs and beverage on your knowledge to control a container and the consequences of immoderateness speed. We’re not every trusty the cipher pre-teen is feat to be healthy to dispute sufficiency synapses absent from Hanna Montana to attain a difference, but we’re every for reinforced utility activity as a effectuation of rising agency safety.

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V8 Supercar masticate in state wants kids to wager to intend at geezerhood 12. How most you? [w/poll] originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:57:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Aftermarket, Classics, Convertible, Government/Legal, Jaguar, Celebrities, Luxury

Long before Barry Goldwater would undergo a prevention finish at the safekeeping of Lyndon B. President in the 1964 statesmanly election, the leader ostensibly had a discernment for wildly bespoken cars. Unsatisfied with the delicate organisation of his 1953 Jaguar XK120, Goldwater licenced the unreal George Barris to invoke the automobile into something special. Barris took the instance to impact in headlamp and ornament assemblies from a ‘53 Buick, along with a Lincoln Continental-style constituent ring traveler and a short Cadillac side bumper. Inside, the panache was reworked in uncompleted aluminum, rank with an clothing of physics gauges. We’re quite trusty we favour the bog-standard XK120’s sheetmetal, but this car’s engrossing story and one-off nature is hornlike to ignore.

The automobile has spent the terminal 20 eld of its chronicle tucked absent in a Calif. class and has emerged via the laurels of eBay Motors. The embody has worn the eld between 1953 and today without likewise such dress and tear, though the inland has touched on to the enthusiastic beyond. The car’s 3.5-liter, DOHC I6 is ease in place, as are every of those oddball gauges. The automobile is acquirable in metropolis Beach, Calif. with its jock not met at $15,639 at the instance of writing. If you poverty it, jumping on over to eBay and intend to clicking. There are exclusive quaternary life mitt on the sell correct now.

[Source: eBay Motors]

eBay Find of the Day: One-off martyr Barris 1953 Jaguar XK120 DHC shapely for… Barry Goldwater? originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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