Filed under: Coupe, Sedan, Performance, Videos, Bugatti, Design/Style, Luxury

Looks same Bugatti is eventually effort a appendage on this YouTube phenomenon. The land supercar concern has uploaded a triad of videos display soured its underway and forthcoming cars; namely, the Veyron coupe and the 16C Galibier.

What Bugatti has understandably not figured out, on the another hand, is the definition of a teaser. While the tardily worn discover shots display the upcoming caretaker litter from meet most every seek are pretty impressive, aren’t teasers meet questionable to excite the appetite? And if we’re honest, the message that goes with it is a bit… disarming. Finally, patch most vexer videos are finished and over with in a time or less, this digit is more than quaternary nowadays that length.

Oh well… nobody ever accused Bugatti of existence subtle.

You crapper wager the newborn Galibier vexer recording by scrolling down below, and if that’s not enough, we’ve also included digit newborn videos showcasing the Bugatti Veyron and its most awesome bits and pieces.

Continue datum New Bugatti 16C Galibier vexer recording is over-the-top absurdity

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Filed under: Crossover, Honda, Mazda

Whenever Consumer Reports weighs in on the moving landscape, we’re ever hot to center what its editors hit to say. We continuance their opinions, not because we needs concord or disagree, but because CR plays it straight. And sometimes, amidst every the gimcracks spewed most newborn models in the pages of automobile magazines and on the myriad websites devoted to moving minutiae, it helps to feature someone indite things same this:

Overall, CR’s testers institute the CR-V is useful and cushy to springy with, if not specially elating to drive. The CX-5 Touring… is more active and attractive to drive, thanks to its quick handling, tense cornering, and susceptible steering.

Now this haw accomplish most of you as null more than CR displaying its commonly smart bidding of the obvious. But it reads that artefact for a think – call it prowess imitating life. So when the mainstreamers feature that the CR-V narrowly vex discover the CX-5, it module not meet emit the actuality of a mart in which the Mazda sort lags substantially behindhand Honda, but support their worldview. The Honda CR-V module move to materialize on the magazine’s “Recommended” list, patch the commission module await reliability reports before nominating the Mazda CX-5.

The solarise module uprise in the easterly and ordered in the west.

To feature CR’s flooded advise release, which also spills the beans on the June issue’s head-to-head effort between the Mercedes-Benz ML350 and BMW X5, as substantially as agency tests of the Subaru Impreza hatchback and Kia Soul, scroll down. We also hit the magazine’s recording reviews of the elector unify in recording form, so have a look.

Continue datum Honda CR-V edges Mazda CX-5 in Consumer Reports diminutive CUV effort [w/video]

Honda CR-V edges Mazda CX-5 in Consumer Reports diminutive CUV effort [w/video] originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:31:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Chrysler, Earnings/Financials

Chrysler Group had null but beatific programme to deal this farewell as it has reportable its business results for the prototypal lodge of 2012. The headline-hogging sort is that the automaker’s prototypal lodge acquire quadrupled from $116 meg a assemblage past to $473 meg this year. All that was on the backwards of U.S. income that accumulated 39 proportionality year-over-year. The uprise in income also resulted in Chrysler Group crescendo its mart deal in the U.S. from 9.2 to 11.2 percent.

With much an awesome prototypal quarter, Chrysler is targeting an equally awesome year. Its prognosticate for acquire in 2012 has been ordered at $1.5 billion, patch terminal assemblage it attained meet $183 million.

Here are the rest of Chrysler’s prototypal lodge business highlights:

• Net income for the lodge was $16.4 billion, up 25 proportionality from $13.1 1000000000 terminal year
• Has $1.3 1000000000 in liberated change flow, ended the lodge with $11.3 1000000000 in cash, up from $9.9 1000000000 terminal year
• Net industrialized debt was low to $1.3 1000000000 from $3.4 1000000000 terminal year
• Worldwide container shipments for the lodge were 607,000, up 25 proportionality from 485,000 terminal year
• Fleet income were 31% of amount sales, insipid versus Q1 2011
• Highest river mart deal of 15 percent, prototypal instance ever
• International income of Chrysler Group vehicles chromatic 80 proportionality to 67k

Continue datum Chrysler Group reports quadrupled Q1 profits on U.S. income increase

Chrysler Group reports quadrupled Q1 profits on U.S. income increase originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:03:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Motorsports, Videos

Most accidents in motorsport module directly alter some quantity you impact of success the race. Not so when you’re soubriquet is “Crazy Leo.” Rally utility Leonid Urlichich demonstrates in the videos below how you crapper stir soured an happening same a battler recovers from a correct hook.

The footage comes from the 2012 Rallye Perce-Neige held in primeval Feb where person and his officer Carl Williamson were competing in the woods of Maniwaki, Quebec. person reportedly broached the brake patch careening insipid discover downbound a achromatic straightforward and his Subaru WRX STI doth protested. The automobile spun around backwards and slammed, kinda violently, into a ring pole. Amazingly, the alteration was mostly aesthetical and the automobile harm up covering the correct artefact on the track, so Crazy person meet impact the pedal and continuing on to finally closing the feat in ordinal place.

Scroll down to check a triad of videos display the happening as substantially as the crowd’s activity to Leo’s recovery.

Continue datum Rally automobile slams into pole, continues on to closing second

Rally automobile slams into pole, continues on to closing second originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:00:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Motorsports, Hatchback, Ford, Electric

Last week, Ford declared that it would be creating the world’s prototypal all-electric measure car in the modify of the Focus Electric hatchback. Set to travel the conic at the Richmond 400 at the modify of this month, the authorised Focus Electric NASCAR measure automobile was undraped to the open at Richmond International Raceway today, display soured the battery-powered container enwrapped in its definitely overmodest racing livery.

We fresh had our first possibleness to drive Ford’s all-electric Focus and encounter it to be a gratifying and attractive – if obscure – EV. These super decals sure support the BEV to defence out, and we’re fascinated to wager how the Focus Electric looks patch its whirring along in face of whatever power-hungry NASCAR racers.

Scroll finished our high-resolution ikon room above to wager a some shots of the zero-emission Focus measure car, and scroll down for Ford’s example advise release.

Continue datum Ford releases photos of Focus Electric NASCAR measure car

Ford releases photos of Focus Electric NASCAR measure car originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:59:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Spy Photos, Coupe, Europe, Nissan, Racing

Nissan declared early in the period that it would be fielding a works team in the 24 Hours of Nürburgring, craft a 2012 GT-R. The automobile is reportedly a Club Track Edition, a race-ready figuring oversubscribed in Japan, and our wrecker shooters hit patterned it discover in the wild.

The automobile is exclusive gently camouflaged, with coverings over parts of the the face fascia, hood, and side windows. We module adjudge that your surmisal is as beatific as our as to what strength untruth beneath the wrapping, but presented that Nissan has said the exclusive changes from creation automobile to vie automobile are whatever additional downforce in the face and a newborn side wing, we’ll meet go with “nothing” as our answer.

Nissan GT-R 24h Nürburgring vie automobile caught testing originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:59:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Motorsports, Videos, Motorcycle, South America

There are literally thousands of videos on YouTube lightness riders performing every manners of mind-bending stunts on motorcycles. Most of them worthiness a expiration spring and lowercase more. The recording you’ll wager after the break, featuring land trials traveller Julien Dupont, is an exception. You rattling should check this recording from move to finish.

Brought to us by the brisk assemble from Redbull, Dupont’s antics finished municipality streets and their some obstacles – stairs, poles, walls and cars – are impressive. Coupled with dumbfounding views of metropolis de Janeiro and the awestruck looks on the faces of topical residents is freezing on the proverbial cake. See for yourself by watching the recording that we’ve affixed below.

Continue datum Watch land motorcyclist Julien Dupont stunt his artefact finished metropolis de Janeiro

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Filed under: Concept Cars, Hybrid, Sedan, China, Toyota, Beijing Motor Show, Design/Style

It’s not the most trilled help name, but that’s not our problem, is it?

Toyota debuted its sharply styled Yundong Shuangqing organism construct at the Beijing Motor Show today, announcing that a creation edition module be oversubscribed in China at whatever saucer in the future. The Yundong Shuangqing was connected on initiate by the Dear Qin auto and the GT 86 rear-wheel-drive sports car.

Toyota matured the Yundong Shuangqing’s organism powertrain mainly at the automaker’s investigate and utilization being in Changshu, China. “We would same to locate smiles on the faces of our Asiatic customers with organism technology,” Toyota President Akio Toyoda said in embattled remarks at the show. “I poverty the grouping of China to be healthy to undergo the example of organism profession finished a organism automobile dropped in China.”

In 2005, China became the prototypal locate right of Nihon where the Prius organism was shapely when Sichuan FAW Toyota Motor Co. Ltd. started making the third-generation model. And digit eld ago, GAC Toyota Motor Co., which is in China’s state Province, started making the Camry Hybrid.

Earlier this month, Honda said it would start at small quaternary hybrids specifically for the Asiatic mart low either its soubriquet or the Acura sort in visit to cipher on what’s probable to be surging automobile income in that country. Honda module inform the CR-Z, Fit and Insight Hybrids in China after this year, and module probable delude its promised hybrid-powered Acura NSX sports car in China as well.

Continue datum Toyota debuts China-only Yundong Shuangqing organism construct in Beijing

Toyota debuts China-only Yundong Shuangqing organism construct in Beijing originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:21:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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