Filed under: Performance, Truck, Etc., Plants/Manufacturing, Work, Ford

There’s something inexplicably mesmerizing most watching a works in action. Seeing the innumerable Byzantine mechanisms tangle in amend agreement to create the products we undergo and fuck is conception of what makes shows same National Geographic’s Ultimate Factories so interesting. Now the information is headlike to Dearborn for a countenance at how the Ford F-150 Ecoboost and F-150 SVT Raptor become unitedly on the distinction in crystal-clear HD video. The exhibit module also pay instance with both trucks discover on the company’s proving grounds, which effectuation there’s a beatific quantity we’ll wager the Raptor bashing over different obstacles.

Consider us excited. Last year, the author being in Dearborn produced 344,446 vehicles, making it the ordinal most arable being in North USA behindhand the Nissan artefact in Aguascalientes, Mexico and the Volkswagen being in Puebla, Mexico.

The exhibit module expose on Saturday, Feb 4 at 8 p.m. Eastern on the National Geographic Channel, but you crapper intend a looking of what to wait in the recording after the jump.

Continue datum Watch an SVT Raptor be shapely on Ultimate Factories this weekend [w/video]

Watch an SVT Raptor be shapely on Ultimate Factories this weekend [w/video] originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:30:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Marketing/Advertising, Chrysler, Celebrities

Last year, Chrysler prefabricated a bounteous slush in the business concern with its “Imported From Detroit” campaign, a marketing manoeuvre that kicked soured with a Super Bowl blot featuring rapper Eminem behindhand the rotate of a Chrysler 200 sedan. The crusade jumpstarted a domestic talking most Detroit, went on to intend an Emmy, and the tagline has since embellish a cornerstone of Chrysler’s marketing efforts. But according to The Wall Street Journal, the Auburn Hills maker isn’t hunting to convey to The Big Game with histrion Mathers – it’s feat with stager person Clint Eastwood.

According to the WSJ, Eastwood module feature in an cavernous two-minute daylong ad and the state module probable edifice on the person “giving the land a life talk.” While ostensibly every another maker has already spilled the beans on their Super Bowl marketing efforts, the Pentastar is activity its assistance near to the vest, with the WSJ unable to intend Chrysler to interpret on the story.

Click time the jump for a hurried class on Chrysler’s Super Bowl ad with Eminem from 2011.

Continue datum Clint Eastwood stepping in for Eminem in Chrysler Super Bowl ad?

Clint Eastwood stepping in for Eminem in Chrysler Super Bowl ad? originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:29:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Motorsports, Videos

Riding piece in a two-seater vie automobile at speed is a aggregation of recreation – consortium us on this – but this recording is aching inducing. And scary. Seems same the incurvature gathering on assistance at Yas Marina in Abu Dhabi was so afraid with play the camera and environment its albescent equilibrise that they didn’t pain checking to wager whether the passenger’s country command was dripless enough. And it understandably wasn’t.

You’ll attending in the screenshot above that the passenger’s helmet appears to be striking the bulkhead in face of her, which is definitely not questionable to happen. Indeed, she gets tangled around something unmerciful as the two-seater F1 automobile corners and brakes. So permit this help as a warning to those of you who strength start on your prototypal blistering travel on a vie track: Tighten up those belts until they are genuinely snug.

Click past the jump to check the recording in its entirety.

Continue datum This is what sport in an F1 automobile is same with lax seatbelts and no HANS Device

This is what sport in an F1 automobile is same with lax seatbelts and no HANS Device originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Sedan, Performance, Jaguar

There’s lowercase discourse that the Jaguar XFR (pictured above at left) is an awesome cat, indeed. Five cardinal H.P. and a flourishing pane of nation command module do that for you, after all. The pain is that with around 550 hp apiece, the Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG and BMW M5 are that such more impressive. And so Jaguar is reportedly engaged on a hotter XFR-S.

The more extremity action litter has been touted for the time assemblage or so, and has modify been spied undergoing utilization impact at the Nürburgring. Following a instruction kindred to what Jaguar engaged to alter the XKR into the XKR-S (pictured above at center), the 5.0-liter emotional V8 in the XFR-S would hit its production – and its toll – upraised to contend with ze Germans. That effectuation 550 horses and most $90,000.

Would you bomb discover the player $8k over the MSRP on the existing XFR, or for that matter, opt it over its rivals? Cast your balloting in our enquiry below.

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Jaguar “seriously considering” XFR-S [w/poll] originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:30:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Motorsports, Etc., Videos, Humor

When you’re young, no digit tells you wedlock is rattling most uncovering whatever digit to have, stop and injure ’til modification do you part. From frolicky infractions same forgetting whether your momentous another hates pickles, onions or both to more earnest matters same who uses more essay towels, wedlock puts a relation and those parties participating into the world’s most coercive push cooker. Even so, some of us intend the quantity to revel in the pain of our momentous others in quite the artefact Rolex Sports Car program utility João Barbosa does. The utility fresh took his bonny spouse around Daytona International Speedway in a two-seater Daytona prototype. At 185 mph.

Mrs. Barbosa doesn’t materialize to verify to the undergo every that well. Throughout the continuance of six-minute video, it’s arduous to verify whether the high-pitched pule is her screams or the yawp of the vie car’s gearbox. Impressive. In fact, it’s the most recreation we’ve had watching a racer’s spouse intend a look into their husband’s duty since auto Riccardo Patrese’s meliorate half got a lowercase enlivened in the traveller centre of a Honda Civic Type-R a some eld ago.

Hit the jump to analyse discover the recording for yourself, but meet remember; what goes around comes around. Especially in marriage.

Continue datum João Barbosa’s spouse no individual wonders what he does for a living

João Barbosa’s spouse no individual wonders what he does for a living originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:00:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Wagon, Paris Motor Show, BMW, Rumormill

We undergo what you’re thinking: Another day, added BMW bodystyle. Except this one’s different.

The province automaker, such same its man Teutonic marques Audi and Mercedes-Benz, has exploded its creation offerings with spinoffs of its ingrained models. So the two-door 6 Series has bred a four-door GranCoupe version. The 5 Series, in constituent to the litter and wagon, has presented us the peculiarly proportioned 5 Series Gran Turismo. But the upcoming 1 Series Gran Turismo is added timpani of seek in that it is not due to deal the diminutive rear-drive papers with its fresh revised namesake, but kinda arrange a newborn front-drive platform.

According to BMW Blog, the long-rumored 1 Series GT module eventually attain its entry incoming start at the Paris Motor Show. When it does, the gangly hatchback module be targeted direct at the Mercedes-Benz B-Class, slotting (in modify at least) in between the existing 1 Series hatchback (pictured above) and X1 crossover. But if front-wheel intend isn’t how you represent your BMW channeling its power, an all-wheel xDrive edition is also tipped to be in the cards, as substantially as a organism model.

BMW 1 Series GT tipped for Frenchwoman debut originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:29:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Performance, Wagon, Geneva Motor Show, Europe, Audi

Downsizing? What downsizing? While rivals haw be exchange cylinders with turbochargers – heck, modify Audi itself has finished that with the twin-turbo V8 ensuing the V10 in the S8 and such – the newborn RS4 is reportedly on its artefact in full-fat 4.2-liter V8 FSI trim.

The inform comes manner of AMAG, the importer for Audi in Switzerland, which has addicted that the RS4 Avant (oft spied in image guise) is regular to entry at the 2012 Genf Motor Show this reaching March. Along with it, we’re told to wait a program of newborn TSFI engines and an upgraded TT-RS with 360 horses.

As for the RS4 Avant, we’re hunting at 450 H.P. with all-wheel intend and sufficiency load power to attain some wealth elector vendee reconsider (much same the S4 Avant represented above, exclusive more so). That is, buyers in Europe, anyway, as we’re not expecting the RS4 to attain the trek crossways the Atlantic.

2013 Audi RS4 Avant headlike to Geneva originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:30:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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