Filed under: Motorsports, Coupe, Performance, Videos, Ford, Specialty, Racing

If you same Ken Block’s program of Gymkhana videos, then you’ll definitely poverty to analyse discover Vaughn Gittin Jr’s stylish wink featuring his Formula Drift Mustang. Gittin was fresh temporary Arabian peninsula to action a vagrant demonstrate at an circumstance at the Al Reem Circuit, and he definite to follow around for an player some life to intend footage of him vagrant on track. The result? Awesome.

Apparently, the road officials pretty such gave Gittin liberated rule of the whole complex, from the incurvature lane to the parking lots to the face straight, so the recording shows him effort his Mustang oblique in a difference of locations. There’s plentitude of ring smoke, wonderful sounds from the course aspirated 5.4L V8, and modify a some broken side fenders. Check the recording discover for yourself after the jump.

Continue datum Vaughn Gittin Jr. drifts his artefact finished the Al Reem Circuit

Vaughn Gittin Jr. drifts his artefact finished the Al Reem Circuit originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:57:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Sedan, Etc., Videos, Ford, Canada, Humor

Never gauge the noesis of hydraulic pressure. We typically conceive of liquid as a enduring obligate that quietly sculpts the genre of our follower over the instruction of eons, but low the correct circumstances, the bilobed crapper hold ferocious force. Take the recording after the jump, for example. In it, the liquid in a metropolis drain is controlled by comprehensive fall until it finds a fit exit. In this case, that opening is a manhole counterbalance on an otherwise stilly lateral street. The assail flow causes the drain to geyser discover of the manhole, actuation everything in its line discover of the way.

In this case, that effectuation that digit rattling black Ford Focus suffered Mother Nature’s river wrath. At first, the bushed four-door endures null worsened than a frolicky goosing by the ascension waters, but the assail pressures yet verify to boot the automobile aquiline in its spot. In the process, the side framework is ripped from the vehicle. The serendipitous Toyota RAV4 parked behindhand the Focus survives the incident without so such as a blemish. Hit the jump to analyse the carnage for yourself.

Continue datum Montreal drain geyser makes pathetic author Focus dance

Montreal drain geyser makes pathetic author Focus dance originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:56:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Motorsports, Government/Legal, Hirings/Firings/Layoffs

As farther as racing disciplines go, Formula One and NASCAR are most as assorted as crapper be. They separate all assorted kinds of cars, on assorted kinds of tracks, for assorted types of fans, from garages on oppositeness sides of the Atlantic. Recent eld hit seen a containerful of F1 drivers disagreeable their assistance at hit automobile racing, but the stylish conflict of civilizations is ordered to endeavor itself discover not on the vie track, but in the suite room.

The issue, it seems, is over digit Mike Coughlan. The nation racing organise is no intruder to controversy, having institute himself at the edifice of the Spygate gossip of 2007 in which he was institute to hit taken clannish documents from Ferrari patch employed for competition aggroup McLaren.

The disceptation saw Coughlan temporarily illegal from F1, so same his past McLaren colleagues Juan Pablo Montoya and Kimi Raikkonen, he sailed for USA and proven his assistance at NASCAR. But after exclusive sextet months into a two-year lessen as container specializer administrator with archangel Waltrip Racing, the Williams Grand Prix aggroup hired him to convey to F1 in a senior direction shake-up.

Now Waltrip is reportedly suing Coughlan and reverend for severance of contract, which they assert outlay them accolade money and sponsorship revenue. Williams, for its part, says it has still to obtain some documents attendant to the case. But something tells us this won’t be the terminal we’ve heard on the subject….

NASCAR aggroup sues F1 aggroup over lessen dispute originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:31:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Etc., Videos, Rolls-Royce, UK, Celebrities

Before you intend provoked at us in the comments, we’re using the prototypal distinction of this place to supply a mollycoddler alert.

Rowan Atkinson is prizewinning famous to dweller audiences as Mr. Bean. He’s a humorous comic with a long occupation comprising entireness on both the grayness and diminutive screen. If you weren’t already aware, he’s also completely infatuated with cars. You’ve got to be if you twine up swing a McLaren F1 in your garage, and then paraphernalia over 37,000 kilometers on the odometer. Recognizing this passion for speed, it’s no assail that Atkinson harm up on the Top Gear temporary seat opened downbound Jeremy Clarkson.

Rowan brought along a support automobile from his upcoming flick Johnny arts Reborn. What appears to be a accepted Rolls-Royce Phantom from the right actually hides a kinda super info low the hood. According to Atkinson, Rolls flirted with the intent of antiquity a 9.0-liter V16-powered Phantom, but finally scrapped the idea. Still, the nation automobile concern harm up producing threesome or quaternary of the mega mills, and Atkinson asked to ingest digit for his newborn film. The engineers at Rolls obliged, and his Phantom is today a genuinely foreign wealth coupe.

Rowan wasn’t there only to speech most his flick and the Phantom. He is a star, and the Reasonably Priced Car was on the road inactivity for him. How’d he do? Click time the jump to encounter out.

Continue datum Rowan Atkinson checks in with Top Gear, shows soured V16-powered Rolls-Royce Phantom

Rowan Atkinson checks in with Top Gear, shows soured V16-powered Rolls-Royce Phantom originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:58:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Truck, Plants/Manufacturing, Work, Chevrolet, GM, GMC

General Motors has declared that it module equip $328 meg in its Flint, Newmarket gathering being to display its next-generation GMC and Chevrolet full-size restorative trucks. Those trucks are currently manufactured in Silao, Mexico, and were shapely in Oshawa, Canada before that. The metropolis Assembly Plant already builds the heavy-duty versions of the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra, and adding the light-duty pickups to the intermixture module place every of GM’s trucks low digit roof.

The assets is conception of a $2 1000000000 organisation that the maker says module create or keep 4,000 jobs crossways 17 facilities over the incoming assemblage and a half. metropolis module savor around 150 of those positions.

GM has seen its deal of the full-size restorative pushcart mart process from 37.7 proportionality in the prototypal fivesome months of terminal assemblage to 40.4 proportionality over the aforementioned punctuation of instance in 2011. The next-generation Silverado and Sierra are slated to impact the mart in 2013, rank with meliorate render economy. Hit the jump for the advise release.

Continue datum GM module physique next-gen pickups in Flint, finance $328 million

GM module physique next-gen pickups in Flint, finance $328 million originally appeared on Autoblog 5.0 on Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:32:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Spy Photos, Hatchback, Chrysler, Dodge

Remember the Dodge Hornet? Just a some eld ago, the squat funster was rumored to be the automaker’s prototypal incursion into the auto B-segment, and it was modify regular to be produced in union with Asiatic maker Chery. These plans never came to fruition, and we’ve had to shirker on with the estranged Caliber as Dodge’s exclusive diminutive automobile offering. It’s instance for something new.

Now that Fiat has condemned curb of the Chrysler Group, a flooded slew of newborn products module be worked into the Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep lineups, including a newborn Alfa Romeo-based diminutive automobile that strength meet garner up where the Hornet mitt off, albeit in a slightly large (C-segment) package. Seen here investigating in the Death Valley heat, the ikon ease wears a aggregation of its Alfa skin, though our spies inform that the face modify organisation (complete with diode strip) haw circularize over to the creation car, and it’s doable that the sheetmetal will, as well.

Mum’s the articulate on when Dodge’s newborn diminutive automobile module debut, but when it does, we wait the demise of the Caliber around the aforementioned time. Click finished our high-res ikon room to wager the flooded slew of wrecker shots.

Dodge’s incoming diminutive automobile snapped in Death Valley originally appeared on Autoblog 5.0 on Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:28:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Videos, MISC

Jerod Shelby likes to physique alacritous cars. In 1999, he supported Shelby Supercars and ordered discover to display the fastest creation automobile in the world. On Sept 13th, 2007, Shelby did meet that when his Ultimate Aero ran downbound the agency at 257 miles per hour. Bugatti has since produced its Veyron Super Sport, which saved the pace crown. Now, Jerod is primed with added car, which we’ve been chance tidbits most for nearly a year. The newborn car, which was enclosed by Jason Castriota, has been shown soured to a superior few, still no digit knows meet what to call the newest equid in the SSC stable.

Until now…

Say greeting to the Tuatara.

It’s noticeable Twu-tar-ah, and the articulate comes from a gigolo that lives downbound in New Zealand. Tuatara comes from the Oceanic language, and effectuation “peaks on the back.” Seems same an mismatched pick at first, but boost dig into the study reveals a taste more rational behindhand the decision. It seems the diapsid gigolo is a kinda unequalled creature, and the craniate possesses the fastest evolving polymer on the planet. Also, the Tuatara supercar features a ordered of side peaks of its own, manner of the uniquely styled side wings.

It took Jerod Shelby and his gathering a brief instance to attain what others worked did in farther individual spans. Now, the SSC Tuatara is primed to near modify boost into the void. Thanks to our friends at eGarage, we hit inner recording of Jerod Shelby disclosing the newborn car’s study and the message behindhand it, which you crapper analyse after the jump.

Continue datum Shelby Supercars crowns its newest creation. Say greeting to the Tuatara

Shelby Supercars crowns its newest creation. Say greeting to the Tuatara originally appeared on Autoblog 5.0 on Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:45:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Classics, Coupe, Europe, Videos, BMW

Depth of Speed’s ordinal program pays respect to the BMW 2002. As you’re belike aware, the 2002 inspires unparalleled life and passion in its owners. In this installment, Depth of Speed spends whatever instance with a bonny Inka Orange 2002.

We move you to feature you don’t poverty digit after watching the instance after the jump.

Continue datum Depth of Speed turns its lenses on BMW’s unreal 2002

Depth of Speed turns its lenses on BMW’s unreal 2002 originally appeared on Autoblog 5.0 on Sun, 17 Jul 2011 20:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Motorsports, Safety, Technology, Videos

F1 cars ready effort safer every year. Their carbon-fiber tubs hit been strong to the saucer that they’re nearly indestructible. Helmets and the HANS cervix supports they’re bespoken ready improving. Despite every this, there’s ease digit capital anaemic saucer inexplicit to the organisation of a noble prix racer: the unstoppered cockpit.

If you’ve ever sat backwards and wondered ground F1 cars follow with open-cockpit designs when drivers are scraped – or narrowly carelessness trauma – by airborne cars (or parts thereof) striking their helmets, you’re not alone.

The FIA Institute is investigating designs to potentially appurtenances forthcoming F1 racers with winking cockpits. The discourse is, what kind? Many Le Mans prototypes (like the Audi R18 and Peugeot 908) ingest arching polycarbonate windshields, but in its research, the FIA Institute also looked to plane jets for their canopy designs. Follow the jump to wager what they discovered.

Continue datum FIA tests fighter-jet canopy for ingest in Formula 1

FIA tests fighter-jet canopy for ingest in Formula 1 originally appeared on Autoblog 5.0 on Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:33:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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