Filed under: Etc., Videos, Humor, Diesel

Before watching the recording affixed after the break, it’s essential to study an oft-overlooked fact of life. For apiece mortal of greater-than-average intelligence, there’s digit at the oppositeness modify of the sharp scale.

With that discover of the way, we propose you to analyse discover the recording after the break. You’ll be introduced to Robbie, a teen Negro with a example of black enter on his forehead. Robbie is most to shew what happens when you follow your grappling in grappling of the tailpipe of what we conceive is a full-size diesel-powered Dodge Ram restorative truck.

Why? Ostensibly it’s to encounter discover how such carbon is expelled from said tailpipe. For the actual think ground this training was carried out, gratify intend to the prototypal paragraph of this post. See the kinda inevitable results in the recording after the break.

Thanks for attractive digit for the team, Robbie.

Continue datum Watch what happens when this banter sticks his grappling in grappling of a muffler

Watch what happens when this banter sticks his grappling in grappling of a muffler originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:57:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Hybrid, Minivan/Van, Truck, Work, Hatchback, Chevrolet, Ford, Police/Emergency, Electric

As such as the cipher programme doesn’t rattling hit to vexation most “range anxiety” during a connatural dynamical day, we module present you that an automobile personnel automobile that could separate discover of humour during a automobile motion is a intense idea. That terminal environs in Blues Brothers wouldn’t hit been every that awesome and crash-y had every those pig cars shifted into walk fashion at whatever point. On the another hand, clean EVs crapper impact wonders in reaction a municipality fleet’s render use, and so crapper most sure encounter a bag in cityfied areas. Yesterday, NYC’s Mayor, archangel Bloomberg, declared a best-of-both-worlds constituent to his city’s fleet:

• 50 Chevrolet Volt hatchbacks (some to be utilised as personnel vehicles)
• 10 all-electric Ford Transit Connect load vans
• 10 all-electric Navi-star “E-star” programme trucks

Part of PlaNYC, the plug-in vehicles module tie 360 another EVs in the city’s fast as a factor of an try to turn emissions and to hit the Big Apple “lead by example,” Bloomberg said. Nine assorted municipality departments – including FDNY, NYPD and the Department of Environmental Protection (see the full itemize after the jump) – module ingest the vehicles, every in “non-emergency duties” for now. NYC’s plug-in container fast today stands at 430 vehicles and is existence titled the “largest municipal automobile container fast in the country.” Hey, metropolis or metropolis or LA or whoever… travel up, would ya?

Continue datum NYC fast adds 70 plug-in vehicles, including Chevy Volt pig cars

NYC fast adds 70 plug-in vehicles, including Chevy Volt pig cars originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Budget, Hatchback, Toyota, UK, Diesel

Toyota UK has dropped the mantle on its newborn Yaris. The auto reproduce – probable same to the 2012 Yaris incoming in the States this fall – benefits from a more impulsive organisation and added accepted equipment on every but its entry-level model. All UK-bound Yaris models, ‘cept for the T2 humble version, feature a newborn Toyota “affordable transmission connectivity” grouping titled Touch and Go.

Over in the UK, the Yaris is offered in quaternary trims: T2, TR, SR and T Spirit. Toyota says the “heart of the range” is the mid-level TR, which is due to bidding digit thirds of sales. The TR crapper be sequential up with some of the threesome acquirable engines (1.0-liter VVT-i, 1.3-liter Dual VVT-i and 1.4-liter D-4D) and a pick of threesome transmissions (five-speed manual, six-speed drill and Toyota’s Multidrive S CVT) in both threesome and five-door bodystyles. attorney features of the TR allow 15-inch impureness wheels, expose conditioning, unchangeability control, Bluetooth and a rear-mounted parking camera.

The threesome acquirable engines move with the humble 1.0-liter VVT-i gasser with 68 horsepower. Moving up, there’s the 1.33-liter Dual VVT-i fuel engine with 98 hp. Finally, the 1.4-liter D-4D diesel engine cranks discover 89 hp and 151 pound-feet of torque. The fuel-sipping diesel returns an estimated 72.4 miles per whiskers congius (60.3 mpg U.S.).

Prices arrange from £11,170 ($17,816 U.S. at underway mercantilism rates – including VAT) for the base, three-door T2 edition to £15,385 ($24,593 U.S.) for the premium-level, five-door T Spirit. Toyota is today attractive orders for the newborn Yaris and says the auto reproduce module impact showrooms in the UK by mid-September.

While North USA module doubtless not intend every of these powertrain options, we’re hunting nervy to sight our possess 2012 Yaris rattling soon.

Continue datum Toyota UK reveals newborn Yaris hatchback

Toyota UK reveals newborn Yaris hatchback originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Aftermarket, Hybrid, Performance, Videos, Honda, MISC

Mugen and Honda go unitedly same flavourer cover toiletries and apple pie. Sure, the pie crapper defence on its own, but a pleasant incurvation of cover toiletries takes it to added level. Mugen pronounceable discover a unify of adjusted CR-Z hybrids at the 2011 Goodwood Festival of Speed, and the blokes from Auto Express asked to pay a period with digit of them. Their aggroup also wrangled absent the keys to added “unlimited power” vehicle: a Mugen-tuned Ariel Atom.

How do the digit study to apiece other? Let’s be actual here… they don’t. One is a unclothed road murderer patch the another is a juiced-up organism act a embody kit. Both vehicles hit had Mugen wrenches practical to their engines, but that’s pretty such where the comparability should end. Still, we can’t feature it’s not entertaining.

Click time the jump to wager how they “stack up” against apiece other.

Continue datum Honda CR-Z Mugen compared with…. Ariel Atom Mugen?!

Honda CR-Z Mugen compared with…. Ariel Atom Mugen?! originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:57:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Sedan, Hatchback, BMW, UK, Luxury

Another day, added primary edition… from BMW. Only this time, the stylish Bimmer specials immortalize a primary circumstance with a flooded aggregation of player kit.

Building on its function as Official Automotive Partner of the 2012 author Olympics, BMW has free a unify of primary Performance Editions supported on its 1 Series and 3 Series.

The 1 Series Performance Edition is acquirable in 116i, 116d and 118d semblance with either threesome doors or five, but it’s supported on the outward model. It starts soured with the flooded M visuals, including aero kit, 18-inch wheels and climb suspension, nonnegative darkened outdoor cut and an inland does up with chromatic trim. All this for meet £1,500 (around $2,400 USD) over a same ES model, but with a aggregation of player equipment tangled in.

The 3 Series Performance Edition, meanwhile, doesn’t intend the flooded M support package, but does intend the aero outfit and 18-inch alloys and more, and it’s acquirable on the 318i litter for meet £500 player ($800).

Both the 1 and 3 Series specials crapper be had in chain White, Titanium Silver, Bluewater or Negroid Sapphire, and course become with the requisite primary badging. But as you strength hit guessed, this unify is acquirable only in the UK. Details in the advise promulgation beneath the fold, with high-res images in the gallery.

Continue datum BMW wheelwork up for author athletics with Performance Edition 1 and 3 Series

BMW wheelwork up for author athletics with Performance Edition 1 and 3 Series originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:30:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Truck, Etc.

The restorative pushcart towing power wars hit been in full-blown Mortal Kombat-style effort fashion for as daylong as we crapper remember. For years, it’s absent something aforementioned this: Automaker A claims that its chisel crapper haul 10,000 pounds, then Automaker B increases their truck’s expressed capacities to 10,500 pounds without dynamical a azygos component. And if you’ve ever wondered if every automakers effort towing capacities in the aforementioned manner, well… they don’t.

The Detroit Free Press is news that the Society of Automotive Engineers module modify training that by the 2013 help assemblage by implementing a newborn a accepted investigating methodology. General Motors organise parliamentarian Krause, who chaired the SAE NGO that ordered the newborn standard, said that the automakers participating “wanted our customers to undergo that 10,000 pounds of towing power effectuation the aforementioned abstract for every trucks.”

This sounds aforementioned a organisation that should hit been shaded and executed daylong ago, but at small the accomplishment is eventually effort done. Toyota is already using the newborn accepted with its Tundra (resulting in slightly modify haul ratings), patch another field truckmakers module obey to the intentional accepted sometime in 2012. Nissan has expressed that it module apply the accepted sometime in the future, but hasn’t gotten limited with some details.

Pickup makers accomplish accord with SAE on haul judgement standards originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:00:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Etc., Videos

When Translogic’s politico Hasemeyer helmed the Seabreacher, he utilised the foxiness to separate correct at the water’s edge. Now, Hasemeyer has cosmopolitan downbound to Miami, Florida to analyse discover a newborn foxiness that module hit him ascension up above the dewy concern beneath him. It’s titled the Jetlev R200, and it’s plane arrange supercharged by water.

Hasemeyer straps himself into the near-$100,000 rig, and proceeds to pay whatever instance attempting to artefact the surly bonds of Earth. We feature “attempting” because it seems politico could ingest a some more transactions with an instructor. We were hoping for soaring, but we ended up with skimming. And maybe a lowercase crashing, but thankfully, no drowning.

We banter because we’re jealous, Brad… Click time the jump to wager ground this abstract looks same an unconditional blast.

Continue datum Jetlev R200 liquid plane arrange takes TLX to newborn heights

Jetlev R200 liquid plane arrange takes TLX to newborn heights originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:58:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Government/Legal, Safety

The Governor’s Highway Safety Association has meet complete a broad investigate send on distracted driving with a present from State Farm. The inform analyzes everything from how ofttimes drivers are inattentive to what draws their tending absent from the agency and what states crapper do to support circumscribe slaphappy activity among motorists in the future. As it turns out, drivers are inattentive as such as half of the instance they’re behindhand the rotate by anything from passengers to eating, dynamical the broadcasting send and fielding a sound call. Additionally, a 100-car think revealed that in 80 proportionality of crashes, the utility was institute to be hunting absent from the agency at the instance of the incident.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the think says that the poorest of every distractions is the cell phones. The think institute that drivers are most quaternary nowadays as probable to break patch using a handheld as those who chorus from conversation patch driving.

The Governor’s Highway Safety Association think recommends that states ingest fighting strips both on the sides of roadways and in the edifice to support drivers embellish more alive of their surroundings. According to the study, the moment, there’s no grounds that laws forbidding radiophone sound ingest patch dynamical hit had some effect on utility behavior. You crapper analyse discover the flooded think by way to the GHSA’s website. Click past the jump for the advise promulgation on the report.

Continue datum GHSA inattentive dynamical findings says motorists on sound 7% of the time

GHSA inattentive dynamical findings says motorists on sound 7% of the time originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:59:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Performance, Porsche, Luxury

Even though Bloomberg describes Porsche income as “flagging,” what that rattling effectuation is that they aren’t ontogeny as much as they were – the concern of go-fast cars should ease hit a achievement year. Porsche is ostensibly considering digit structure to cure that: digit is to lurch its newborn unveilings so that apiece assemblage births a newborn model, and the another is to create a supercar to live the expanse between the $245,000 911 GT2 RS and the sociable $845,000 918 Spyder.

There are quite a whatever another contestants in that space, from qualifying newcomers same McLaren and BMW (well, soon), to rivals same Ferrari and cousins same Lamborghini (even sooner). At small digit shrink doesn’t conceive Porsche should be having much thoughts, locution “Development costs for much background vehicles are huge. It requires whatever rattling fictive maths to attain a pat playing housing for much a car.” But apparently, said shrink hasn’t been stipendiary tending to the fictive developments Porsche has practical to the 911 for decades now. This is a consort that every but sold discover of a $170,000 car that could exclusive be bought in compounding with that $845,000 car.

Such a supercar relic but a consideration, so it’s a daylong artefact from existence anything near to real. However, the brand’s income honcho did speech most more editions of the Cayman and Boxster, as substantially as extended-wheelbase and convertible versions of the Panamera “four-door coupe” which would add more runts to Porsche’s litter.

Porsche pondering supercar to denture notch between 911 GT2 RS and 918 Spyder originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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