Filed under: Technology, Audi, Electric

Audi has dropped the info on heptad newborn technologies it is employed on, whatever of which are ease in primeval development, patch others module be on the agency within the incoming some years. They movement the spectrum from furthering Audi’s dedication to lightening its vehicles finished the comprehensive ingest of metal and copy material flower to newborn infotainment concepts and its continuing near for electrification finished its e-tron program.

We’ve collective every of these technologies into an easily digested gallery, outlining apiece program, what it aims to fulfill and when (or if) we’ll wager it in production. Check it out.

Audi reveals heptad forthcoming technologies in development originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Truck, Chevrolet

Four archaeologist magazine titled the Ram Power Wagon its 2012 Pickup Truck of the Year, and it’s an honor that celebrates features we assort with so-called “serious” pickups, same a two-speed designate case, dawdle action and radical flooring. But what if you poverty a Pickup Truck of the Year that’s got a lowercase inferior restorative in it? Consumer Reports holds your answer, as it chose the Chevrolet Avalanche as the 2012 Top Pick Pickup Truck.

Why? Because of, as farther as we crapper tell, its versatility and the structure it feels more same a Chevrolet Suburban than a Power Wagon: interior, fire-and-forget four-wheel drive, decorous speed and comfy ride. Or, place added way, because modify though it’s not a Chevrolet Suburban it crapper do nearly everything a Suburban crapper do as substantially as stop a kayak. But you can’t wager discover the back, because there’s a bottom there. Follow the jump for the CR recording report.

Continue datum Consumer Reports Top Pickup for 2012 is… the Chevrolet Avalanche?!

Consumer Reports Top Pickup for 2012 is… the Chevrolet Avalanche?! originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:59:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Street racers crashing hard, the man photography should also be live considering he was a participant. Expose yourself!!!

Filed under: Sedan, Chrysler, Hyundai, Luxury, Comparisons

Battle Of The Budget-Friendly Full-Size RWD Luxury Sedans

The Hyundai Genesis Sedan and Chrysler 300S are such more like than they are different.

Why study a Hyundai to a Chrysler? At prototypal glance, this pairing haw seem kinda preposterous, but a formal discussion says this rivalry has been in locate for more than a decade. In 2002, Chrysler and Hyundai were both substance full-size front-wheel-drive sedans. Hyundai had its XG350 fitted with a 194-horsepower 3.5-liter V6, patch Chrysler was touting its Concorde with a 214-horsepower 3.5-liter V6 (each mutual an EPA judgement of 16 mpg municipality and 24 mpg highway). Not exclusive were both unco kindred on paper, but both sedans started at most $25,000.

Today, Hyundai and Chrysler rest in the full-size field with products that are infinitely more interesting, significantly more coercive and infinitely more attractive to intend – they also hap to be the exclusive digit rear-wheel-drive wealth sedans mitt in this toll segment.

Sensing an engrossing fight, we amygdaliform up a 2012 Hyundai Genesis litter and a 2012 Chrysler 300S for a dynamical comparison. After individual cardinal miles of city, ravine and route had passed swiftly beneath their undercarriages, digit country succeeder had emerged.

Continue datum 2012 Hyundai Genesis Sedan vs. 2012 Chrysler 300S [w/video]

2012 Hyundai Genesis Sedan vs. 2012 Chrysler 300S [w/video] originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:57:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Concept Cars, Technology, Videos, Specialty

Another hebdomad brings added action-packed program of Translogic. Our miss place continues its journeying of aggregation with a activate to Switzerland’s Rinspeed. If there’s a automobile stuff that more resembles a behave consort for adults, we can’t envisage it.

Host politico Hasemeyer got a flooded dissent of individual important vehicles during his visit. The sQuba sub automobile is straightforward discover of saint Bond, though it’s supported on a more recent Lotus than the famous Esprit from The Spy Who Loved Me. The similarly semiaquatic Splash crapper control as either a car, dish or hovercraft. The X-Trem is an peculiarly styled restorative that crapper alluviation and deliver – you guessed it – a craft from its pushcart bed. Similarly, the Tatooo carries an underwater scooter.

But Rinspeed isn’t meet most dewy and disorderly construct cars. The consort has been pioneering deciding render vehicles, same the R One, a biofuel-powered roadster. It’s also shapely the Presto, a frankly important automobile in that it crapper alter from a auto two-seat auto to a flooded four-place container with the advise of a button. The UC is a diminutive automobile automobile shapely discover of a Fiat 500, dominated by a lever and fashioned to be carried on a commuter condition for cityfied use.

Click past the jump to check the program in its entirety.

Continue datum Translogic gets exclusive countenance at Rinspeed’s construct shop

Translogic gets exclusive countenance at Rinspeed’s construct shop originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:55:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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The Worlds Greatest Motor-Sporting Event, The Isle of Man TT. Original modify youtube.com Top pace 190-206mph over a 38 knot street and elevation circuit.

Filed under: Motorsports, Classics, Europe, Videos

The Legend Boucles de Spa is a past feat held in the plateau Forest around Spa, Belgium, and it commemorates the actualised Boucle de Spa feat races held for 37 eld from 1953 to 1990. The learn is simple: lots of drivers plotting oldness machinery at different levels of emotion finished the trees.

Hundreds of cars run, whatever same the Ferrari 308 you’d never conceive to opt for rallying, patch others same the different Lancia, author and ducktail Porsche racers are meet beatific to wager on the agency again. There’s over 11 transactions of high-def footage after the jump, and mercifully, the exclusive soundtrack are the cries of exhausts that aren’t anywhere nearby street legal. Enjoy.

Continue datum Rally legends at Spa is penalization to our ears

Rally legends at Spa is penalization to our ears originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:58:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Toyota Altezza ( LEXUS Is300 ) 2J Turbo Engine, T88 turbo kit, ECU Motec M600, 600-700whp vs Evo x , 10 Cams , turbo backwards , intake filter, intercooler, IC pipe, Tune vs 2012 White Nissan Gtr R35 Negroid edition HKS Catback , HKS Y-pipe , Intake Filter Street racing Ahmad turbo street vie BuShihab R Asian cars

Filed under: Concept Cars, Performance, Geneva Motor Show, Hatchback, Citroën, Specialty

Citroën did it before with the DS3, transfer a DS3 Racing restricted edition hatchback to the 2010 Geneva Motor Show, today it’s instance for the DS4 Racing concept. As with its predecessor it’s been matured by Citroën Racing, the limb that preps the automobile that’s won the WRC heptad nowadays running.

As you’d expect, the DS4 Racing construct is 35 millimeters modify and has a 55-mm wider track, with text same “bigger” and “more powerful” effort lots of ingest elsewhere. Go is provided by a 1.6-liter four-cylinder that gets 256-horsepower, and kibosh is handled by four-pot callipers up face on 380-mm discs – 40-mm large than on the 911 Carrera S Cabriolet we meet drove.

A advise promulgation with more glasses is after the jump, and every angles matt-gray example are in the high-res gallery. We’ll wager it springy incoming hebdomad in Geneva.

Continue datum Citroën DS4 Racing construct addicted for Geneva

Citroën DS4 Racing construct addicted for Geneva originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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