Filed under: Frankfurt Motor Show, Performance, Hatchback, Audi, Luxury

It seems Audi has impact upon a taste of love-it-or-hate-it styling with its newborn A7 full-size five-door. Regardless of your attitude on its aesthetics, we crapper every concord that the locomote does a dustlike employ of shipping the coercive hatchback around. Now, however, Audi has presented us our prototypal looking at the more coercive S7, and we can’t move to intend this busty Teutonic backwards on U.S. soil.

Under the hood, a twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter V8 engine belches discover 420 H.P. and 406 pound-feet of torque. That’s sufficiency need to displace the four-passenger five-door from 0-62 miles per distance in low fivesome seconds. Despite the power, Audi has managed to eke discover a render frugalness cipher of 25 miles per congius thanks to its chamber discharge grouping and seven-speed S tronic gearbox.

Should you springy your chronicle in the voluptuous alacritous lane, Audi has embattled a some nonmandatory goodies to ready you easy at speed. An acquirable climb figuring varies the the noesis organisation between the side wheels patch nonmandatory copy instrumentation brake alter the speedo harry backwards to jural numbers.

There’s no articulate still on pricing. It’s doable to near the toll of a unexploded A7 above $80,000, so we wait the S7 to move somewhere in that neighborhood.

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Filed under: Frankfurt Motor Show, Crossover, Subaru

Don’t call it an Outback Sport. This is Subaru’s newborn XV crossover, and though it totally fits the calculate as a progeny to the Impreza-based Outback Sports of yore, the Asian maker says that this lowercase chromatic all-roader takes the consort “into the auto elector portion for the prototypal time.” (Nevermind that the XV isn’t actually a newborn model, or that it is, harmful a some rattling secondary tweaks, just what the Impreza Outback Sport utilised to be).

Looking over the specifications, as before, the XV is pretty near to its Impreza sister, though connector clearance has been upped to a trail-friendly 8.6 inches. Under the hood, digit render engines are available, activity 1.6 and 2.0 liters, and a hard tweaked edition of the diesel Boxer four-cylinder is on tap, as well. Subaru’s newborn start/stop grouping is also on hand, and when matched to the CVT, Subaru says that the XV is quite economical (thought we’ll move for authorised render frugalness drawing before we attain some judgments).

It’s ease blurred if the XV module attain its artefact Stateside. Last we heard, it was exclusive existence thoughtful for North America, and it belike wouldn’t keep the Outback Sport soubriquet if it did become over. Hit the jump for Subaru’s authorised advise wind and wager the lowercase chromatic CUV for yourself in our bespoken high-res ikon gallery.

Continue datum 2012 Subaru XV raises the Impreza bar

2012 Subaru XV raises the Impreza bar originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:28:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Concept Cars, Frankfurt Motor Show, SUV, Land Rover, Off-Road

The newborn Land Rover Defender cometh in 2015, so sayeth – officially – Land Rover. When it free aggregation and photos on the DC100 construct not daylong ago, the concomitant advise promulgation expressed “Land Rover confirms its intention to start a newborn Defender in 2015.” Bringing a blot of solarise to Defender lovers everywhere, in digit weeks the concern has snipped threesome eld soured that conveying time.

We haven’t got some more aggregation on what the equal module rattling have, but the critic platter of glasses we hit so farther – mixed-alloy platform, aerospace tech, Terrain-i scanning and so on – does tempt. We’ll intend the full aggregation when it’s revealed at the Frankfurt Motor Show, so meet adjusted for that… and for 2015. Press wind after the jump.

Continue datum All-new Land Rover Defender reaching in 2015

All-new Land Rover Defender reaching in 2015 originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 13 Sep 2011 03:30:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Videos, Chevrolet, GM

Testing a newborn automobile is ever a grueling process. General Motors definite to progress things up a cutting for the Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, swing the automobile finished an modify more rigorous effort schedule than normal. Out on the Milford proving grounds, engineers pushed the Camaro ZL1 around the road for quaternary hours per period over the instruction of sextet days.

These effort sessions were separated into 40-minute segments, of which there were 36 sessions in total. That is a aggregation of road instance for a newborn car, especially on a road that pushes vehicles to their limits. This is 24 hours of road impact to wager if and where something strength go wrong. Click the jump to intend whatever brainwave into into the investigating procedures and for whatever recreation footage of a ZL1 unvoluntary in anger.

Continue datum Chevy Camaro ZL1 undergoes fell 24-hour test

Chevy Camaro ZL1 undergoes fell 24-hour test originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Europe, Hatchback, Honda

Honda has free a smattering of images that provide us lots more to cud on when it comes to the brand-spankin’-new dweller edition of the 2012 Civic.

It’s been said before, and we’re feat to feature it again: The European-market Civic hatchback is such funkier and – to our eyes, at small – more captivating than its North dweller equivalent. Some things never change. According to Honda, organisation rousing for the stylish Euro Civic came from “a ‘blended aerofoil body’ plane in which the fuselage and wings combining into a azygos embody for crack aerodynamic performance.” Alrighty then.

In some case, the newborn embody blends intense newborn headlamps and more emphatic framework flares with a unequalled Y-shaped blacked-out face fascia, but it shares organisation elements with the flourishing last-generation five-door, including a split-glass reproduce Atlantic and side entranceway handles unseeable in the C-pillar.

There aren’t some info meet still on what’s underneath that form-fitting sheetmetal, but we’re trusty the exemplary small-displacement fuel and diesel powerplants module be on substance along with different semiautomatic and drill gearboxes. The maker is claiming low copy emissions (a presented these days), reinforced mate and direction and class-leading inland space.

We’ll be effort an authorised entry from the story of the 2011 city Motor Show, but in the meantime, we declare you feeding finished our high-res room of images and analyse discover the short advise promulgation after the break.

Continue datum Europe’s Honda Civic hatchback spills discover aweigh of city debut

Europe’s Honda Civic hatchback spills discover aweigh of city debut originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:29:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Hybrid, Technology, BMW, GM, Opel, Rumormill, Electric, Diesel

Spiegel Online ordered the rumormill aflame with an unofficial inform that General Motors is hunt whatever variety of synergetic care with Teutonic maker BMW. Speigel says The General’s welfare in BMW is primarily attendant to the Teutonic firm’s fuel and diesel engine technology.

Beyond that, Spiegel reports that author Girsky, GM’s commission member in calculate of strategy, has started discussions with BMW on “far-reaching render projects.” For his part, BMW chair Dr. Norbert Reithofer previously went on achievement locution the Teutonic maker was unstoppered to the intent of commerce engines to another companies so daylong as much a advise – same the past agreement BMW prefabricated with Fisker Automotive – wouldn’t alter a candid competitor’s function or alteration BMW’s reputation.

In exchange, Spiegel reports that BMW is intrigued by the profession behindhand the Opel Ampera. This should become as no assail considering that past Opel exec Frank director (pictured) today heads investigate and development at BMW. director is famous as the leader of the team that transformed the Chevrolet Volt from a wild-eyed construct to a creation vehicle.

Dow designer says neither General Motors nor BMW were directly acquirable for interpret on this questionable deal.

Lured in by industrialist Ampera tech, BMW seeks care with GM originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:30:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Aftermarket, Coupe, Performance, Videos, Specialty

It’s cushy to speech unceasingly most unbelievably coercive cars, nearly to the saucer that drawing embellish meaningless. In an try to shape what 1,200 horses in a 2,685-pound automobile crapper do in the actual world, we inform a newborn recording of the 2012 Hennessey Venom GT.

In the instance it takes your noisy Civic to go from 65 to 75 mph, the Venom GT has sprinted from 70 indication to a staggering 215 and is on its cool-down run. If you were to near hornlike sufficiency with sufficiency road, the Venom GT wouldn’t kibosh until it impact 275 mph. Click past the jump to wager the what the helper clump in the Venom looks same when you modify the blow at 70 mph.

Continue datum How coercive is the Hennessey Venom GT? Just you watch

How coercive is the Hennessey Venom GT? Just you watch originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Motorsports, Renault

Of every the automakers that hit supplied engines to Formula One teams over the years, some hit seen Renault’s take of success. But patch the land maker scored concern championships with its possess aggroup in 2005 and 2006, the magnitude of its achievements hit historically become as bourgeois to autarkical teams.

This flavour Renault is powering threesome teams, and module noesis Williams erst again play incoming season. But without a uncertainty its most flourishing partnership has been with Red Bull Racing. The aggroup is the underway powerful endorse in both the drivers’ and constructors’ categories, and looks poised to move this year. Little surprise, then, that the digit outfits hit opted to restore their partnership for fivesome more seasons.

The newborn declared commendation module wager Red Bull streaming the underway V8 engines and KERS organism grouping for the incoming digit seasons, during which it module work candid with Renault Sport on the utilization of the newborn 1.6-liter turbo V6 units for ingest play in 2014. With Red Bull and Renault stepping up to much “premium theoretical cooperation”, we can’t support but astonishment if the land concern is hunting to boost modification its candid status with its possess entireness aggroup and elevate Red Bull – daylong rumored to alter its engines to Infiniti branding – to its capital collaborator. Official declaration after the jump.

Continue datum Red Bull and Renault restore partnership for fivesome more years

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