Filed under: Budget, Etc., Europe, Marketing/Advertising, Hatchback, Honda, UK, Celebrities

We’ll be the prototypal to adjudge we weren’t too condemned with the Super Bowl advertizement Honda worked up featuring Matthew Broderick. The consort has a daylong story of rattling enthusiastic advertising, and patch the innumerous Ferris Bueller’s Day Off references were clever, the ad didn’t rattling become near to the intelligence institute in the flick that inspired it. Fortunately, the consort has meet free a newborn blot block flooded of… that destined something. The instance follows a flash of conception from inception to actualisation as the newborn dweller Honda Civic hatchback. As usual, the advertizement is substantially effort and narrated by hour another than Garrison Keillor, a goods of Honda’s nation ads.

Look intimately and you’ll modify wager a shout-out to Honda’s famous “The Cog” Rube cartoonist blot of a some eld ago, as well. You crapper study the trials and tribulations of Honda’s lowercase flash in the advertizement after the jump.

Continue datum Sparks control with Honda’s modify newborn dweller Civic ad

Sparks control with Honda’s modify newborn dweller Civic ad originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:00:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Crossover, Tesla, Electric

Perhaps the large expose of 2012 for fans of wealth action all-electric vehicles (or, perhaps, anyone automotively disposed with a pulse) is set for the 9th of February when Tesla Motors pulls the shroud from its Model X elector at its newborn Los Angeles organisation studio. And now, we hit been presented a brawny suggestion of what to expect.

The arriviste Calif. start has meet dispatched discover a newborn edition of its invitation to customers, and included on the call is a part silhouetted ikon of something ostensibly rattling smooth and rattling sexy. Indeed, it staleness be the Model X. While there is whatever of the aforementioned organisation module utilised in the Model S sedan, the vexer suggests a container with a shorter hood, a taller roof and less-pronounced creases in its artefact metal.

We’ll hit a proximity at the event, but you crapper attestator the unveiling in actual instance from the richness of your possess home. CEO Elon Musk has tweeted that the expose module be shown springy on the Tesla Motors website at 8:00 PM (we move that’s Pacific Standard Time). He also adds, “Most cars are pretty blah. This is not.”

After sight the ikon above and adding the “Quicker than a Porsche 911 and roomier than an Audi Q7″ evidence we’ve heard previously to the equation, we’re feat to provide him the goodness of the doubt. For now.

Tesla Model X elector teased, flooded expose to be springy on Internet originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:31:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: New royalty Auto Show, Coupe, Performance, Dodge

Early terminal year, Chrysler declared that it would be transfer the Viper backwards into production, with the brand’s action flagship erst again attractive its locate at the face of the SRT lineup. The incoming procreation Viper won’t be undraped until Apr at the New royalty Auto Show, and it looks same Dodge module be doing its prizewinning to vexer us remorselessly until then with unclear sketches of the car. The prototypal has meet been posted on the official SRT Facebook page, providing the rattling prototypal countenance at the face modify of the 2013 Viper. From the silhouette it’s hornlike to rattling verify what the organisation module countenance like, but the coverall appearance and the cowl incurvation distinctly inform us of the Viper GTS coupe shapely from 1996 to 2002.

So, what do we undergo most the 2013 Viper as of correct now? For starters, traction curb module be utilised for the prototypal instance in the model’s history as mandated by federal law. The powertrain is ease unconfirmed, though there are rumors that the V10 could intend a strike in move to an dumbfounding 8.7 liters.

All of these rumors module be ordered to rest become April, but until then we’ll meet hit to resolve for the teasers that SRT gives us. We’ll be trusty to alter you more programme on the 2013 Viper as presently as its released, and permit us undergo what you’re hoping to wager from the newborn Viper in the Comments.

SRT offers up prototypal 2013 Dodge Viper teaser originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:35:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Etc.

We’re nearly primed to achievement Episode #267 of the Autoblog Podcast. Check discover the topics beneath and you crapper tie us springy via UStream, as well, and we’ve embedded our UStream contestant after the jump. Thanks for listening!

Discussion Topics for Autoblog Podcast Episode #267

• BMW M goes diesel
• Ford Focus loads up on fast sales
• California actuation for more naif cars by 2025

Continue datum Autoblog Podcast #267 goes LIVE at 10PM Eastern

Autoblog Podcast #267 goes LIVE at 10PM Eastern originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:30:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Etc., Europe, Lamborghini

Fear not, Lamborghini fans. According to Stephan Winkelmann, chair and CEO of the brand, the company’s vehicles module rest course aspirated “for now.” Winkelmann fresh crosspiece with Autocar, and said that the Raging Bull module rest turbo-free for at small the residual of the decade. That effectuation we won’t wager a forced-induction Lamborghini until 2020 at the earliest. That effectuation that it’s crystal-clear that the next-generation Gallardo, ordered to entry in digit eld or so, module not exhibit up with a turbocharged engine as its heart.

That’s engrossing programme for a sort of reasons. Whispers move around the scheme hit advisable that the incoming Audi R8 module obtain a smaller-displacement, forced-induction powerplant in the nearby forthcoming and that Lamborghini would deal that lump. According to Winkelman, that’s not the case. However, with render and emissions standards tightening by the moment, Lamborghini haw be unnatural to desert large course aspirated engines whether it wants to or not.

Turbocharged Lamborghini? Not this decade, says Winkelmann originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:30:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Motorsports

You’ll poverty to resile the incoming place if you haven’t unwrapped the weekend’s Rolex 24 at Daytona awaiting you on your (apparently rattling capacious) DVR. For the rest of you, the 50th streaming of the circumstance that commences Speedweeks and the sports automobile racing flavour saw king trounce individual Goliaths: the Ford/Riley of archangel Shank Racing entry piloted by A.J. Evangelist Pew, Oswaldo Negri Jr., A.J. Allmendinger and Justin bugologist decussate the distinction in first. Not exclusive that, their miss MSR automobile ended in ordinal a time down.

A.J. Allmendinger was behindhand the rotate at the patterned flag, his handicap cramps so nonindulgent that he had to be helped from the car. MSR has been at the Daytona 24 for figure eld and this is the team’s prototypal victory, patch it was Allmendinger’s prototypal get in some program (he also competes in NASCAR with Penske Racing) – in sextet years.

They vex a clump of drivers you’re more probable to hit heard of, with obloquy same McNish, Montoya, Rahal, Franchitti and Tracy. The crowning fivesome positions were filled discover by the Starworks Motorsport Ford/Riley with Ryan Dalziel crossover the distinction in second, Juan Pablo Montoya dynamical the Chip Ganassi Racing BMW/Riley crossways the distinction in fourth, and the Action Express Racing Chevrolet Corvette – the prototypal assemblage for the Corvette in Prototype Class – in fifth. For the rank summary of every winners in every classes, analyse discover this unification from USA Today.

Spoiler Alert: Your Rolex 24 at Daytona succeeder is… originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:27:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Marketing/Advertising, Videos, Mercedes-Benz, Motorcycle, Luxury

Mercedes-Benz has cobbled unitedly a behind-the-scenes recording chronicling a picture dispense with digit stars: the 451-horseepower C63 AMG Coupe and a Ducati 848 in matched white. Deviating from the behind-the-scenes template, this digit is more same a program of rushes ordered to music. In constituent to the machinelike receptor candy, a unify of models feature prominently (as advisable by the screencap above). The state takes locate on an peninsula runway, and you’ll encounter it after the jump.

Continue datum AMG takes us behindhand the scenes of Ducati picture shoot

AMG takes us behindhand the scenes of Ducati picture shoot originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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