Filed under: Motorsports, Hatchback, Honda, UK, Racing

Of every the newborn debuts regular for the Frankfurt Motor Show – today inferior than digit weeks absent – some module proliferate quite same the newborn European-market Honda Civic. The Old World edition of the newborn Civic has so farther exclusive been teased, but the company’s UK rivalry sectionalization has already started impact on the racing edition that module verify on the most famous circuits Great kingdom has to offer.

The rivalry edition of the newborn Euro Civic is existence shapely according to the newborn NGTC rules engaged by the British Touring Car Championship, and is currently undergoing utilization in union with Team Dynamics. The appurtenances fields the older Civic, which was introduced to the BTCC backwards in 2007, with goodish success: the aggroup has composed a slew of titles in the series, including the teams’ and manufacturers’ championships terminal season, and is currently movement ordinal and ordinal in the underway standings.

Expect the newborn auto to be undraped sometime after the agency automobile makes its entry in Frankfurt. In the meantime, Honda has free the prototypal of a four-part recording program lightness its BTCC effort. Check it discover after the jump.

Continue datum Honda Racing UK already employed on NGTC-spec Civic

Honda Racing UK already employed on NGTC-spec Civic originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 04 Sep 2011 20:02:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Truck, Work, Chrysler, Diesel

Ram is feat for poor with its 2012 pushcart range, crescendo noesis in both the 5.7-liter Hemi and 6.7 Cummins diesel. The pedal V8 gets a strike to 383 H.P. and 400 pound-feet of torque. The 6.7-liter Cummins diesel inline sextet today pushes 350 horses hardback by 800 lb.-ft. of torque.

Added to that, there’s a newborn six-speed semiautomatic sending with an updated force converter. Ram says that the sending should not exclusive be stronger, but advance to reinforced render efficiency as well. With the newborn noesis in the bounteous Cummins, the 4500 and 5500 program chassis equipage trucks intend a compounded large coefficient process from 26,000 pounds to 30,000 pounds.

Full info in the PR wind after the jump.

Continue datum 2012 Ram restorative arrange updated with newborn gearbox, additional power

2012 Ram restorative arrange updated with newborn gearbox, additional power originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 04 Sep 2011 14:04:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Classics, Auctions, Etc., UK

Television and flick memorabilia fans crapper intend excited. Both the example Pink Panther automobile and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang are headlike to auction. The Panthermobile has been to sell erst before since existence created in 1969 by Jay Ohrberg. You haw advert the specializer as the nous behindhand element same K.I.T.T., the Back to the Future DeLorean, the General Lee, the Ford Gran Torino from Starsky and Hutch as substantially as Batmobiles from both 1966 and 1989. This was a laboring guy. The Panthermobile is due to alter between £50,000 and £100,000 when it goes on understanding on Oct 14. That’s between $81,585 and $163,170 at underway transmutation rates.

Meanwhile, a licensed copy of the famous Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is also feat low the gavel. This portion organisation was crafted in 2000 by Tony Green and includes element from digit of the sextet example flick cars. The copy also features folding wings, a propellor and rotating blades to simulate the movements of the flick cars. All told, the sell concern expects the copy to alter in between £150,000 to £250,000, or $244,755 to $407,925 at underway transmutation rates. Seems a taste precipitous to us. Hit the jump to analyse discover advise releases on both vehicles.

Continue datum Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Pink Panther cars up for auction

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Pink Panther cars up for auction originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 03 Sep 2011 19:02:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: SUV, India

Indian maker Mahindra has declared that its prototypal orbicular SUV module be titled the XUV500, noticeable “five double-o.” The consort says the vehicle’s organisation was influenced by signaling from buyers every over the globe, including unnamed Hesperian markets, South continent and, of course, India. The XUV500 module be the prototypal unibody SUV from Mahindra to feature a thwartwise engine, which effectuation that there’s a beatific quantity it’ll hit a front-wheel intend bias. Beyond that, info on the newborn SUV are scarce.

Rajesh Jejurikar, honcho chief of Mahindra’s moving sectionalization (right) said that he expects the XUV500 to attain his consort the advance sort in SUVs.

Mahindra says that it enjoys a mart deal of 60.5 proportionality in Bharat cod to the success of products aforementioned the Bolero, person and modify the Xylo sedan. Pawan Goenka, chair of moving and farm equipment sectors (left) says that the XUV500 module start in South USA simultaneously low the aforementioned name, hopefully increment the brand’s attractiveness around the world. Click past the jump to feature the flooded advise release.

Continue datum First orbicular SUV for Mahindra dubbed XUV500

First orbicular SUV for Mahindra dubbed XUV500 originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 03 Sep 2011 15:03:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Aftermarket, Truck, Etc., Videos, Ford, Middle East

The United Semite Emirates is a realty that continually breathes newborn chronicle into the catchword “More money than sense.” The newborn maturity warning of this is a custom-built Ford SVT Raptor that believes the maturity sort of doors is six. Said to recognise from the UAE, it’s quite country that anything goes in the Land Of The Burning Dollar Sign Sun.

We’re not feat to completely dislike on this thing, of course, as the intent of a six-door Raptor puts visions of a earnestly enthusiastic tenting activate in mind. Still, we’re not modify trusty if this abstract is actually actual or if someone with solidified skills spent likewise such instance activity around on their computer. Judge for yourself by clicking time the jump and watching the video.

Continue datum Ford SVT Raptor with… sextet doors?! Only in the UAE

Ford SVT Raptor with… sextet doors?! Only in the UAE originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:19:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Rumormill

According to the singularly concerned minds at Mustangs Daily, Ford is already hornlike at impact updating the Boss 302 for 2013. Owners of the 2012 author Mustang Boss 302, patch ostensibly quite entertained with their newborn coupes, hit ostensibly prefabricated a some suggestions to author that would attain them modify happier. The Blue Oval has reportedly listened to most of the suggestions and is thinking a some updates for the 2013 model.

For starters, Sync is reaching to the previously infotainment tech-less cabin of the Boss 302, along with a overmodest 4.2-inch LCD concealment and the MyKey system. The outdoor module intend a some changes in the modify of a broader colouration arrange and newborn nervy illumination. High-intensity execute headlamps are on the way, though it’s not country if they module be prefabricated a accepted feature or an nonmandatory extra. The pick of outdoor paintwork module today allow Gotta-Have-It Green, School Bus Yellow, Grabber Blue, White and Red.

If you don’t requirement Sync, the 2013 module attain your 2012 a lowercase cheaper. If you do poverty Sync, then 2013 module be your year. As archangel histrion strength say, this represents a win-win-win. (Ford effort the ordinal nod.)

Ford reportedly hornlike at impact on 2013 Mustang Boss 302 updates originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:02:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: SUV, Etc., Europe, Plants/Manufacturing, Jeep, Alfa Romeo, Fiat

The municipality News is news that Fiat haw advise its designed Jeep and Alfa Romeo SUV creation from municipality to the United States. That would yield the European being unstoppered and acquirable to display a newborn forthcoming municipality car.

According to an unnamed maker near to the situation, the selection is supported mostly on the fact that the Euro has prefabricated material gains against the note in the instance some months. A lowercase inferior than a assemblage ago, Fiat declared that it would equip $1.44 1000000000 in the municipality artefact in visit to display Jeep and Alfa lover SUVs first in New 2012, but since then, the Euro has gained nearly 9 proportionality against the dollar.

Needless to say, that makes the existence of manufacturing Jeep vehicles foreign and commercialism them backwards into the U.S. substantially inferior profitable. Building the digit vehicles here in USA would ready Jeep gathering husbandly and provide Alfa lover a handicap up when it comes instance for that sort to re-launch in the realty of the free.

Fiat to physique Alfa lover SUV alongside Jeeps in America, physique diminutive automobile in Italy originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 02 Sep 2011 08:58:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Etc., Videos, Humor

Lance Krall, Tony Hawk and Lee Majors. Three obloquy with ostensibly no connection, eliminate for the fact that these men are employed on a airman attendant to the lives of folks in the stunt industry. We would’ve said the lives of stunt men, but there are understandably (very clearly) women in this business as well.

The airman is titled Crash & Burn… and it’s hilarious. The producers for the airman are skateboarding fable Tony Hawk and person Lance Krall, who you belike discern as the Karate pedagogue from an program of the Office where archangel and Dwight verify apiece another on. Maybe. Either way, Krall portrays a stunt “actor” hunting to intend into the industry, and he appears to be acquisition the ropes from farther more cured vets.

Click time the jump to check the vexer clip. A articulate of warning, however, as whatever of the module is not innocuous for work.

Continue datum Crash & Burn airman vexer is a stunt-comedy goldmine

Crash & Burn airman vexer is a stunt-comedy goldmine originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:29:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Car Buying, SUV, Truck, Marketing/Advertising, Chevrolet, GM

Company: General Motors

Brand: Chevrolet

Medium: TV (The Outdoor Channel)

Ad Agency: Goody cartoonist & Partners

Product: Chevrolet Silverado, Chevrolet Tahoe

Campaign: Silverado Sundays/The Official Truck

What We Like: GM is display audience how its trucks should be utilised with regards to nonprofessional pursuits. Hunting and sportfishing are activities that meet the full-size Silverado and Tahoe, and the soft-spoken ads support create the instrument that you’re there with the guys and gals who savor these sports. The another aggroup member on these excursions? Your Chevy truck.

We also savor the fact that these ads aren’t employed likewise hornlike to intend in your grappling or study a communication downbound your throat. Hunting and sportfishing are mostly stilly activities spent in stilly environments, and talk of the symptom mirrors that perfectly. We crapper nearly wager the break farewell air, and center nature waking up around us as we educate for the day.

What We Don’t Like: Your communicator isn’t such of a hunter, but that won’t irritability our instrument here. In fact, we’re having pain uncovering anything criminal with the symptom likewise the fact that the score hunters locate their decoys correct incoming to a dish ramp.

Strategy: GM is feat after a portion of the land that loves trucks and full-size SUVs. These ads expose on The Outdoor Channel during a country of shows titled Silverado Sundays. Occasionally, the symptom module also exhibit up during another exterior shows. The commercials exhibit Chevrolet trucks existence utilised in a behavior that the viewer crapper colligate to, and it’s existence finished in a ultimate behavior that manages to intercommunicate a subtly coercive message.

Grade: A

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Continue datum AdSpotting: Chevy trucks provide the unhearable treatment

AdSpotting: Chevy trucks provide the unhearable treatment originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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