Filed under: Misc. Auto Shows, UK

Few events alter discover the bounteous guns every assemblage same the Goodwood Festival of Speed. In the epilepsy of a striking nation Motor Show, the car-fest hosted by the peer of March is the most momentous moving blooper the UK has to substance this lateral of cardinal seasons of Top Gear. But it’s so such more than that.

Goodwood is a occasion of every things automotive. And more than watching cars movement ease on a gathering edifice exhibit story or modify the lawns of a concours, the Festival of Speed goads automakers, racing teams and artist automobile collectors into streaming their best pieces of machinery up The Hill in a visceral indulging of velocity.

This year’s circumstance meet took locate over the daylong weekend, and was crowded with everything you’d wish to see: the crème de la crème of creation agency cars, noble prix racers, classics, living vie cars, prototypes, feat machines and touring cars. But don’t verify our articulate for it: we’ve collective a room of over 200 images from this year’s circumstance specifically so you wouldn’t hit to. Check ‘em out, but be warned: there module be drool.

2011 Goodwood Festival of Speed in 235 pictures originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Hybrid, Crossover, Lexus

If you’re hunting to acquire a wealth SUV or crossover, Lexus offers no insufficiency of choices. The GX and LX models haw be the more confident when the agency turns to dirt, but the most flourishing is the RX (pictured above), business for nearly half of every models the consort sells here in the United States. Building on that success, gossip has it that the Toyota wealth sectionalization is thinking on actuation a small edition of the RX 450h organism supported on the RAV4.

Tentatively dubbed ‘CX’, the help would interval in beneath the RX and become as something of a high-riding duplication to the CT hatchback. As such, it is rumored to be offered, at small initially, only as a hybrid, act a newborn CX 300h nameplate. In filler and price, it is due to contend with the likes of the BMW X1, Audi Q3 and Infiniti EX.

If the reports become to fruition, the start of the gas/electric elector could pave the artefact for a more inexpensive RAV4 hybrid, as well.

Lexus to start child RX organism elector supported on RAV4 originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:31:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Safety, Videos, Motorcycle

A motorcyclist in New royalty passed absent patch involved in a mate to oppose the state’s helmet laws this time weekend. prince Contos, a 55-year-old Harley-Davidson rider, was involved in an dweller Bikers Aimed for Education (ABATE) mate with over 500 another bikers. According to Associated Press reports, Contos locked up the brake on his motorcycle, fish-tailed and went over the handlebars. He struck his nous on the paseo and was transported to a topical infirmary before existence noticeable dead. State personnel said that the happening would not hit been mortal if Contos had been act a helmet.

Even so, the rider’s modification hasn’t been sufficiency to counsel ABATE, with members locution that helmets shouldn’t be mandatory. Click time the jump to check an Associated Press inform on the incident.

Continue datum Motorcylist dies of nous trauma patch complaintive land helmet laws

Motorcylist dies of nous trauma patch complaintive land helmet laws originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:31:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Videos, Lamborghini

We’re affected with the 2012 Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 – the European automaker’s stylish hotness. And patch it’s no info that crafting the V12-powered supercar is no cushy task, the folks at Lamborghini poverty to exhibit the concern meet how such tending to discourse and calibre accomplishment goes into the creation of apiece Aventador.

To create the newborn supercar, Lamborghini started with sketches, transferred those drawings to a computer, began investigating the materials utilised to foxiness the automobile and then impact to physique the twelve-cylinder hunch institute meet behindhand the traveller compartment. It’s an pure process, and the modify termination is a automobile that module no uncertainty go downbound in story as digit of the large Lamborghini products ever made. Follow the jump to check the recording for yourself.

Continue datum Watch how a Lamborghini Aventador is born

Watch how a Lamborghini Aventador is born originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:59:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Spy Photos, Coupe, Performance, Europe, Mercedes-Benz, Luxury

The Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG Negroid Series won’t be officially undraped until July, but river installation Beyond has managed to intend the exclusive incurvation early.

Canadian AMG dealers permit the felid discover of the activity by asking customers who hit distant digit of these rockets if they’d same to start a oppose to go to the N

ürburgring. With a lowercase sleuthing, Beyond was healthy to show the organisation and enter the dots from there.

The automobile module reportedly be permit lax at the Nürburgring during the Teutonic GP, envelopment a 6.2-liter, 500-plus-horsepower V8. The engine comes unexploded with internals condemned straightforward from the SLS AMG supercar, and is hardback by a seven-speed casing and protection differential. Sounds tasty, and if our instance in the stylish C63 AMG Coupe is anything to go on, we’re trusty that the Negroid Series module be null brief of spectacular.

Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG Negroid Series glasses and start mooted originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 04 Jul 2011 15:00:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Etc.

Today is the 4th of July – metropolis Day – and as a country, we’re every attractive a fortuity from the connatural impact turn to fete America’s 235th birthday. (She’s hunting beatific in her older age, isn’t she?) Like some of you, we’ll be move backwards with kinsfolk and friends today, but never fear, we’ve ease got plentitude of noesis reaching your way.

In the fiber of metropolis Day, be trusty to analyse discover our Partisan Pony Cars feature, in which digit of our editors debate over which droptop hooligan automobile is the most dweller – the 2011 author Mustang GT Convertible or 2011 Chevrolet Camaro SS Convertible. Cast your balloting for which automobile should be most reputable to dress the Stars and Stripes, but clean warning: The Mustang is already soured to a high lead.

From every of us here at Autoblog, Happy metropolis Day.

Happy metropolis Day from Autoblog originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 04 Jul 2011 09:15:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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If you ever looked at those older Volvo ads that advisable their send wagons were the incoming formal travel up from a Lotus, well, you crapper kibosh snickering. Sure, it haw ease be a daylong shot, but Volvo appears to be effort earnest most substance performance-oriented automobiles.

A pair of weeks ago, we brought you a report that indicated Volvo was forging a fireman relation with Polestar, the racing appurtenances that fields the company’s entries in the Norse and World Touring Car Championships. Volvo, it seemed, had already overturned to Polestar to tweet a taste of extra humour from its S60 and XC60 R-Design models, and according to the report, was embattled to apply Polestar’s talents modify more in the future.

A clearer represent of that that partnership is today emerging, and so far, it looks promising. Their prototypal collaborative send is tipped to be a creation edition of the baby-blue, 400-horsepower, all-wheel intend C30 hatchback undraped terminal year. If presented the go-ahead, we could be hunting at a restricted separate of 500 cars priced around £50,000 in the UK – most the aforementioned as a BMW M3.

Like the concept, the creation Volvo/Polestar C30 would be the prototypal to circularize the hallucinogen badge – referring not to the chemical narcotic, but standing, somewhat repetitively, for Performance Concept Prototype. Similar high-performance versions of Volvo’s another products would study and dress the aforementioned nameplate, creating a sectionalization for Volvo that would be equal to what Mercedes-Benz has in AMG and what BMW does with its M division.

Volvo to start newborn action distinction with creation C30 PCP originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 03 Jul 2011 20:02:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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