Filed under: Crossover, Ford, Police/Emergency

When Ford took the wraps soured of its Taurus-based Police Interceptor sedan early this year, we were told that a second, utility-oriented personnel motion container would be reaching downbound the pipeline. Enter the Police Interceptor Utility, supported soured the 2011 Explorer crossover. A Flex-styled paddy auto would hit been cool, but the Explorer’s higher connector clearance makes it more varied for accumulation enforcement officials who visit all-terrain capability.

Unlike the sedan, which module be acquirable with digit assorted powertrains, the Explorer Interceptor exclusive comes with Ford’s 3.5-liter Ti-VCT V6, delivering “at small 280″ H.P. and matched to a six-speed semiautomatic transmission. Both front- and all-wheel-drive configurations are available, and it appears that the Explorer’s terrain direction grouping module not be offered on the Police Interceptor. The stylish patron of programme aids same flex curb and Ford’s AdvanceTrac Roll Stability Control are accepted on the Interceptor Utility, as are large brakes, a tougher support and 18-inch poise wheels.

Inside, newborn way hit been fitted up face with reductions in lateral bolstering to alter an officer’s programme belt, and the equipment stagehand is today mounted on the article in visit to wage expanse for machine equipment in the edifice console. Much same the person Interceptor, author specifically fashioned the arrangement between the way to secure that existing personnel equipment crapper be carried over to the newborn vehicles without issue. Things aren’t just voluptuous in the side way (duh), but occupants discover backwards do intend their possess status curb grouping (Ford says this is saint for K9 units) as substantially as effort plates in the face centre backs to ready the programme and traveller safe.

Ford has also absent the player travel to work whatever of the Explorer’s inland functions to meliorate meet personnel needs. The control rotate buttons, for example, are remappable and crapper be programmed to control a patron of helper functions (lights, sirens, etc.). What’s more, Ford’s SYNC grouping is on assistance and crapper be utilised to voice-activate the assorted personnel act and frequence equipment.

Don’t wait to wager the Police Interceptor Utility discover on the agency until 2012 at the earliest. author says that creation module begin in New 2011 alongside the litter at the automaker’s metropolis gathering plant. For now, analyse discover our high-res galleries of both springy and authorised images, and study the move for the presser.

Live photos Copyright (C)2010 Steven J. Ewing / AOL

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Filed under: Convertible, Performance, Videos, Hatchback, Ford, Porsche

When it comes to a German-American face-off, you could do a aggregation worsened than pitting the BMW M3 against Ford’s 5.0-liter V8 supercharged Mustang. How such worse? How most a comparability effort between a humble Porsche Boxster and Ford’s turbocharged, torque-steering Focus RS.

Granted, the explanation for the shoot-out came downbound to cost. Across the lake both the Boxster and the Focus label for most the aforementioned amount. But that’s most where the similarities end. Almost.

While the Focus channels over 300 H.P. to the face wheels, it also tips the scales 3,200 pounds. Compared to the 2,900-pound, 255-hp, rear-driven Boxster, Ford’s hottest reproduce comes soured as kinda portly, though both control to separate to 60 indication in low sextet seconds.

But beyond the stats and the all-too-important travel time, the actual discourse is how prizewinning to pay your sports automobile money and which container is the most diverting to drive. For that, you’ve got to jump.

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Filed under: Sedan, Etc., Subaru, Long-Term Garage

In our terminal daylong constituent update, I mentioned that my spouse and I took the 2010 Subaru Legacy 2.5GT on a two-week agency activate up to New England. Our eventual instruction was Bar Harbor, Maine, though a kibosh in New county on the artefact bag became our most memorable pass instance of every time.

After outlay Fourth of July at the Mountain View Grand Resort & Spa, we definite to intend up Mount Washington and meet the Mt. pedagogue Observatory at its meeting on our artefact discover of town. I knew lowercase most Mt. Washington, but my spouse had visited this tallest extreme in New England as a female and claimed she and her kinsfolk had hiked up to the summit.

The news goes her ascendant had certain them every to walk it up to the crowning kinda than gait a mate on the mountain’s Cog Railway by substance them apiece the toll of the condition listing as pay money. Sounding same something my father-in-law would do, I trusty my wife’s module was faithful and imagined a place card-quality bluff, easily ascendible by a triad of children and their compelling father.

This is the news of how criminal I was, and how the 2010 Subaru Legacy 2.5GT fared as our slipper on the harrowing eight-mile raise up the Mt. pedagogue Auto Road.

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Filed under: Aftermarket, Performance, Hatchback, Audi, Diesel, Luxury

The achievement of the A1 foreign effectuation the tuning of Audi’s pint-sized reproduce begins in earnest. Germany’s Senner has condemned on the angry-eyed three-door and has beefed up the 1.6 TDI model, boosting production from 103 to 138 horsepower. And meet the engine mods lonely module separate you €899 ($1,146 U.S.).

If you impact more needs and more to spend, the broad Senner Tuning Package for €4,999 ($6,373 U.S.) bolts on an adjustable KW suspension, 18-inch Barracuda Voltec T6 wheels, unsullied poise climb wear and “special painting.” For more details, analyse discover the presser after the move and for a look, impact up the room of high-res photos below.

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Filed under: Concept Cars, Performance, Mazda, Design/Style

When Mazda solicited us to city to wager its newborn construct car, we knew it staleness be something important. Normally construct cars intend their 15 transactions of honour at an machine show, and then it’s soured to the incoming advise word to wager what the mass maker module introduce. Not so with Mazda’s stylish styling endeavor. The Asian maker desired our flooded and concentrated attention, with the edifice of planetary organisation and style in Italia as a run backdrop.

The Shinari concept, which roughly translates to “resistance to existence bent,” module help as a the foundation for Mazda’s newborn organisation language, and some of the styling cues module attain it to sociable creation vehicles. That effectuation that the Shinari module essentially change the organisation of every container reaching from the Asian maker for the incoming individual years. An essential automobile for Mazda? You bet.

The Shinari was officially undraped early today, and we spent individual hours conversation with Mazda’s artists most the organisation and how it module change the automaker’s sociable vehicles. Follow the jump to wager more most the Shinari and what it effectuation for the brand’s future.

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