Filed under: China, Marketing/Advertising, Videos, Cadillac

Like meet most every another maker on the planet, Cadillac is hunting to wager discover a large verify of the Asiatic moving industry. Right now, the sort is viewed as somewhat downscale from rivals that some in the U.S. wager as existence on coequal ground.

Perhaps, then, Cadillac module countenance to essay something new. In a newborn brief flick for the Chinese-market SRX, Cadillac attempts to denture East with West via Route 66. The ad shows actress and singer-songwriter Karenic Mok attractive on Will actress Highway with a phallic friend. The Mother Road calls, romance blooms and the Cadillac SRX is the agency that unites the pair. Click time the jump to analyse the spot.

Continue datum Chinese Cadillac SRX ad with Karenic Mok captures romance of Route 66

Chinese Cadillac SRX ad with Karenic Mok captures romance of Route 66 originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:59:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Car Buying, Auctions, Mini, Celebrities

Ready for your garage to sway and organisation every period and band every day? Break discover your checkbook. Mini has teamed up with unreal sway assemble KISS to create a gathering of bespoken Countryman crossovers for charity. Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer hit practical their stylemark call to the outdoor of quaternary examples of the 2011 Mini Countryman.

The vehicles, which debuted at the New royalty Auto Show, apiece hit their possess sell organisation on eBay Motors, and the proceeds from these auctions module be donated to UNICEF. The methodicalness is employed hornlike to improve money for children strained by the past disasters in Japan.

These bespoken Countrymen Countrymans cars aren’t act decals. Each container was assistance varnished by a assemble of BMW employees who provided the graphics patch soured the clock. The quaternary vehicles hit been titled after the members of KISS they mimic; Starchild, The Demon, Spaceman and Catman.

The flooded advise promulgation is settled after the jump, and you crapper analyse discover every quaternary Mini Countryman bespoken cars in the room below.

Continue datum KISS-themed Mini Countryman one-offs sway on to eBay Motors for charity

KISS-themed Mini Countryman one-offs sway on to eBay Motors for charity originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:31:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Coupe, Mercedes-Benz, First Drive, Luxury

Entry-Level Benz Finally Drops A Set Of Doors

For those that advert it, the secretary-special two-door CLC hatchback, shapely on last-generation C-class bits and pieces, was kinda difficult for Mercedes-Benz. It was a fat thing, but at small technologist was sharp sufficiency to not modify endeavor commerce it in the States.

Thankfully, the definitely easier-on-the-eyes C204 C-Class Coupe has meet arrived, and we’re effort this blistering toddy. So what took metropolis so daylong to alter us this no-brainer var. of the C-Class? Were they worried most coupe muddle between the CLC- and E-Class? Too some two-doors, likewise soon? Funnily, we asked, and every we heard backwards were ashamed “We were inactivity for the mothership to become around and provide us the go-ahead for this car” comments.

Continue datum 2012 Mercedes-Benz C-Class Coupe

2012 Mercedes-Benz C-Class Coupe originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:57:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Aftermarket, Motorsports, Videos, Specialty, Racing

Last year, at the 2010 Pike’s Peak International Hill Climb, our rattling possess Drew Phillips ascended the elevation to chitchat with whatever of the race’s drivers. The most elating collection is arguably the Unlimited group, which separate dementedly coercive machines unvoluntary by angry men hunting to fortuity the artful 10-minute mark. In 2010, exclusive threesome men strapped into Unlimited-class racers, and digit of them goes by the study of Apostle Dallenbach.

Phillips captured the mass excerpt from Dallenbach’s mouth:

“My automobile is beatific on hornlike surfaces… but I rattling requirement to become backwards with whatever works support on an engine. That’s my bounteous abstract that’s symptom me correct now. I’m streaming the aforementioned engines I’ve had for decade years. They’re enthusiastic engines, and they hit enthusiastic torque, but I rattling requirement something that’s more reliable.”

Well, Dallenbach has a serving assistance for the 2011 race. Two of them, in fact, and they’ve been provided by Banks Power. phytologist has teamed up with the Dallenbach Racing Team, and the digit are distribution a riches of turbocharging and engine-tuning knowledge. As a termination of the twin-turbocharged shove, noesis has been pushed from 745-horsepower and 650 pound-feet of force up to 1,307-horsepower and 1,206 pound-feet of torque.

That’s a flourishing pane of additional scoot.

Paul Dallenbach and the phytologist Power aggroup today conceive they hit a record-breaking organisation on their hands. Rhys Millen and Nobuhiro Tajima are equally overconfident in their possess machines. Should the defy cooperate, this looks same the assemblage we wager a sub-10-minute ascension of Pike’s Peak. We module be in river to getting the action, but in the meantime we hit recording of the Dallench Racing Team automobile attractive a some shakedown runs. Click time the jump to intend an intent of how apace that such noesis crapper near a automobile around.

Continue datum Paul Dallenbach teams up with phytologist Power to face Pike’s Peak

Paul Dallenbach teams up with phytologist Power to face Pike’s Peak originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 31 May 2011 19:59:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Sedan, Etc., Chrysler, Dodge, Police/Emergency

Chrysler has united to change a Dodge Charger Pursuit and every of the personnel equipment exclusive for liberated after the container mysteriously cooked to the ground. As you haw recall, a Curry County, Oregon sheriff’s help saw his newborn automobile (which had 6,000 miles on it) go tender after fastening to support in a wager and delivery operation.

Patrick Combs, the rescuee, was institute and condemned to a topical infirmary by ambulance, but help Jared Gray’s newborn Charger Patrol didn’t endure the scene. The blast seemed to verify stop in the passenger-side face rotate substantially and continuing to reignite after blast crews extinguished the blaze.

There was digit diminutive warning to the vehicle’s big replacement, however. In mercantilism for the newborn ordered of wheels, the sheriff’s division had to concord to clew a non-disclosure, which effectuation we haw never undergo just what ordered the automobile ablaze.

As our friends at The J saucer out, no reports of toasty noncombatant Chargers hit been prefabricated to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Chrysler replaces Dodge Charger personnel automobile after ’suspicious’ fire originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 31 May 2011 17:30:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Convertible, Coupe, Sedan, Performance, Europe, BMW, Luxury

Production of the underway E90 and E92 BMW 3 Series module become to an modify for beatific in October, in activity for incoming spring’s start of the all-new F30 3 Series. Before the pedal models gesture out, the oil-burning 335d module cease creation in August.

The modification of the underway 3er makes shack for a sleeker, inferior untidy edition of the automobile which clings intimately to the more battleful newborn BMW organisation language. Among the changes module be blandish kidney grilles as substantially as shorter overhangs, as substantially as a more muscular stance.

The newborn 3s module also intend a strike in efficiency, with a arrange of turbocharged four- and six-cylinder mills, with the right quantity of a three-banger connexion the roster after on. The incoming M3 module hollow V8 noesis in souvenir of a twin-turbo inline-six fair most 450 horsepower.

BMW 3 Series creation to modify in October, next-gen help reaching in outflow 2012 originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 31 May 2011 11:29:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Europe, Videos, BMW, Porsche

The 2011 BMW 1 Series M Coupe has been environment whist on blast crossways the moving advise since city started combing the automobile a pair eld ago. Now that it has eventually arrived, Autocar definite to wager if it lived up to its possess hype when visaged with the lithe 2011 Porsche Cayman R.

We’ll spend gift absent the outcome of the comparability in the video, but satisfy it to feature the 1M Coupe satisfies expectations. It brings backwards the raw, visceral dynamical undergo symptomatic of the older M cars and is relatively affordable. All things we dig. With that noesis safely in hand, click time the jump to wager how the lowercase M herb stacks up to the competition.

Continue datum Autocar pits BMW 1 Series M Coupe against Porsche Cayman R

Autocar pits BMW 1 Series M Coupe against Porsche Cayman R originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 30 May 2011 20:02:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Concept Cars, Coupe, Hybrid, Performance, Europe, Porsche, Rumormill

Sources within Porsche told us that KERS would be available throughout the whole next-gen 911 range, but now, a Porsche chief calls it “nonsense.” While the maker is nonindustrial structure to attain automobile arrange extenders impact in whatever Porsche models, a organism 911 reportedly isn’t in the game – for now.

When and if there’s a 911 hybrid, it module be a daylong artefact downbound the distinction and module probable state a plug-in grouping kinda than a KERS-style regenerative braking setup. The think the 911 won’t intend a organism intend anytime presently is pretty simple: Porsche has no welfare in homogenizing its dynamical undergo crossways the whole lineup.

Since electrics have every their noesis from set rpm, they substance an extremely inevitable noesis curve, and Porsche would kinda apiece of its cars depart from its stablemates in noesis conveying and behavior. For now, it seems organism profession module be restricted to the likes of the Panamera and Cayenne.

Porsche denies KERS-equipped 911 reports originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 30 May 2011 16:59:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Etc.

In compliance of Memorial Day… originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 30 May 2011 10:31:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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