Filed under: Videos, Comparisons

Car and Driver is backwards with its period Lightning Lap roundup for a ordinal year, with 20 of the world’s prizewinning vehicles attractive to Colony International Raceway to place downbound the quickest instance around VIR’s 4.1-mile Grand West Course.

Included in this year’s streaming is a befittingly different distribute of sports cars and sedans, ranging from the lowly Volkswagen Jetta GLI to the alarming Porsche Panamera Turbo S – a disagreement of 350 H.P. and over $168,000. And, meet to add a discernment more alter to the festivities, C/D introduced a newborn collection (LLT) to allow digit trucks in the running: the BMW X5 M and Jeep Grand Iroquois SRT8.

But what C/D gives, it taketh away. Gone is the LL5 collection ($250,000 and up) and so are the LLU cars, same the Mosler MT900S, the underway Lightning Lap champion. And we’re dead alright with that. After all, we’re more fascinated in how the Lotus Evora S hangs with the Porsche Cayman R and where the BMW 1 Series M Coupe stacks up against the Ford Mustang Boss 302 Laguna Seca – and not meet for convoluted denotive conventions. Check discover a recording after the break for a discernment and then head over to C/D for the flooded story.

Continue datum Car and Driver Lightning Lap is back, throws digit trucks into the intermixture [w/video]

Car and Driver Lightning Lap is back, throws digit trucks into the intermixture [w/video] originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: The List

The List is most fulfilling your wildest wheeled fantasies, and sometimes those wheels are extremity and held in locate by cell treads. Our stylish program takes Jessi and Apostle to Vikings land in the hunch of Minnesota. It’s Patrick’s invoke to eat digit of his immatureness dreams, which effectuation the unify module be craft a diminutive pack of tanks finished the woods and over, well… you’ll meet have to watch.

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You crapper also click here to wager more most our hosts, Jessi and Patrick.

Continue datum The List #0433: Driving a Tank

The List #0433: Driving a Tank originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:57:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Etc., Videos

Flip finished the pages of CAR, EVO or Top Gear, and it’s manifest the nation motoring advise has an unwholesome preoccupation with effort sideways. Not that we crapper blessed them. We savor a flourishing apply of oppo as such as the incoming guy, but when the Pistonheads hive-mind starts glaring foul most oppositeness hair shenanigans, you undergo it’s effort discover of hand.

Despite this, AutoCar has started up its possess edition of Blendtec’s puerile “Does it Blend?” program with Will it Drift?

After swing the stylish BMW M5 to the test, incoming up is Mugen’s rendering of the Ariel Atom. But module its 270 H.P. four-pot be sufficiency to overcome the R-compound rubber? And if it does, is the wheelbase likewise brief to ready the motion going? Hit the jump to encounter out.

Continue datum Mugen Ariel Atom… module it drift?

Mugen Ariel Atom… module it drift? originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:42:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Etc.

We’re nearly primed to achievement Episode #266 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 #266

• Barrett-Jackson 2012
• Camaro honcho says ZL1 module vex Shelby GT500
• GM beatniks Volkswagen, or does it? And does it matter?
• Chevrolet C7 Corvette spotted

Continue datum Autoblog Podcast #266 goes LIVE at 10PM Eastern

Autoblog Podcast #266 goes LIVE at 10PM Eastern originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:30:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Government/Legal, Technology, Police/Emergency

Law enforcement agencies are today required to obtain a endorse before attaching a GPS device to a vehicle. The city News reports the Supreme Court unanimously ruled today that the Justice Department was criminal when it argued that its agents didn’t requirement authorisation to road clannish citizens without their knowledge.

The case in question centralised around Antoine Jones, a Washington, D.C. spot someone and suspected take dealer. Police installed a GPS figure on Jones’ wife’s Jeep Grand Cherokee, which yet led them to a material turn of cocaine. designer was then sentenced to chronicle in prison.

But Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that instalment the figure constitutes a wager low the Fourth Amendment. Specifically, Justice Scalia said, “The polity physically filled clannish concept for the determine of obtaining information.”

In the designer case, accumulation enforcement agents had obtained the comely warrants to confiscate the device, but didn’t control to confiscate it within the 10 life given in the warrant. The FBI assembled 2,000 pages of accumulation over quaternary weeks by chase the vehicle.

Supreme Court: Feds not allowed to ingest GPS on autos without warrant originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Chrysler, Ford, Earnings/Financials, Canada

Ford has declared that it module provide both bonuses and merit-based raises to the company’s salaried workers in the United States and Canada for the prototypal instance since 2008, according to Reuters. On average, the concern module substance a 2.7 proportionality salary process supported on individualist performance. The consort obstructed substance the bonuses after the business crisis of 2009 dispatched moving income into a plunge. author paying neither bonuses nor worthiness raises that year, but offered worthiness raises in 2010. In 2011, the company’s workers conventional bonuses only.

Of course, this selection has dispatched every eyes toward General Motors and Chrysler and their plans for their possess workers. According to The city News, both GM and Chrysler hit said raises and bonuses module be observed by their possess performance, not their rival’s actions. GM has declared the consort module attain a test selection after it analyzes its business results for 2011. Chrysler, meanwhile, intends to foretell its fourth-quarter 2011 results on Feb 1, after which it module watch whether its workers module be suitable for their period awards.

Ford to clear bonuses and raises, GM and Chrysler fall to do same originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:59:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Classics, Coupe, Etc., Mercedes-Benz, Specialty

Being agriculturally disposed to physique barns in the country, we don’t wait barn finds to invoke up in the region of a high-turnover metropolis. Yet that’s been event more regularly of late, and illustrator archangel Mraz has institute added warning in South Central, Los Angeles: a one-of-one Mercedes-Benz 1935 Caracciola 500K shapely especially for Silver Arrows vie utility Rudolph Caraccioloa. It is represented above in meliorate days, after having been remodeled and displayed on the lawn at the Pebble Beach concours in the New 1970s.

What’s direful most the Caracciola 500K, and sad for automobile lovers, is that it has a beatific care of company: in a warning titled “Wheels of Fortune” in the Feb supply of Town & Country magazine, Mraz institute scaffolds flooded of oldness metal in direful condition, corroding right in a parts field titled Porche Foreign Auto. They include:

…a unify of one-off prewar Maybachs; digit of digit Iso Grifo Spyders (designed and engineered by designer Bizzarrini, who also has the Ferrari 250 GTO on his résumé); digit of 29 alloy-bodied Mercedes Gullwings…; a pair of BMW 502s and 507s; a half-dozen or so Lamborghini Miuras, with their powerful V12 engines; and the terminal extant warning of the heptad Horch 855 Spezial Roadsters ever built, a specimen erst owned by Eva mistress that was for a instance on give to the Audi Museum in Germany. (Audi was supported by August Horch.) Parked digit on crowning of the another are mountain upon mountain of Porsche Carrera carcasses….

Porche Foreign Auto was started in 1967 by a Teutonic merchandiser titled Rudi Klein, who bought the Caracciola 500K after it was shown at Pebble in 1978. He took it to a Mercedes exhibit in metropolis Beach in 1980, and when it wouldn’t move he unexploded it on a lodging and took it home. It hasn’t been seen since, right of the parts yard.

psychoanalyst passed away, and his garner field is overseen by his sons, who won’t permit some gawkers into to analyse the cars. Even Mraz was denied entry. But he crosspiece to folks who hit seen the collection, and digit said that there are vehicles grouping hit wanted for decades and intellection had been destroyed. The nous of the Mercedes Classic Center in Irvine believes the Caracciola 500K could be worth more than the 1937 540K Spezial Roadster that was auctioned for nearly $10 meg at terminal year’s RM Auctions at Pebble. But we strength never know.

Town & Country doesn’t hit a comely website, so garner up the entrepot to feature the warning and wager what the moving concern is missing. There’s a distribution of it in the bespoken gallery, but be warned, it’s not gratifying to see.

One-off Mercedes 500K barn encounter unconcealed in South Central, LA garner yard originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Budget, Marketing/Advertising, Videos, Hatchback, Chevrolet

The Chevrolet Sonic marketing shenanigans move low the account of “Let’s Do This,” this instance with a five-story 3D actuation of a nipper mettlesome on the lateral of The President Hotel in Los Angeles. In fact, that a pair of Sunset Boulevard’s lanes had to be closed downbound to alter the controls, which were a waist-high shifter and an acclerator pedal.

So bounteous was the PR stunt that it attained Chevrolet a blot in the histrion Book of World Records for having the mightiest nipper mettlesome on Earth. Follow the jump to wager it in state and to check someone get a non-projected, rattling real, Chevy Sonic.

Continue datum Chevrolet takes the histrion achievement for the world’s maximal nipper game

Chevrolet takes the histrion achievement for the world’s maximal nipper game originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:03:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Coupe, Budget, Plants/Manufacturing, Toys/Games, UK, Electric

We hit a hornlike instance imagining anyone would encounter the Smart ForTwo uncomfortably super or the Scion iQ likewise bounteous for their needs, but a assemble of community in the UK conceive there’s a mart for modify small transportation. The assemble has resurrected the Peel brand, and the concern is today accepting orders for both the P50 and the Trident. Both models module move with a 49 cc two-stroke fuel engine making meet 3.35 horsepower, but buyers module also be healthy to opt digit of digit automobile motors as well.

A brushless automobile locomote producing 1.6 H.P. and 2.5 pound-feet of force crapper displace either container to a golf-cart rivaling 15 mph. So equipped, the P50 and Trident have an operative arrange of around 50 miles. A more multipotent 4-horsepower locomote is also available, which propels the threesome wheelers to a crowning pace of 50 indication with the aforementioned range. Both politico models are restricted to 28 mph.

With the Trident consideration meet 130 pounds and the P50 tipping the scales at a slightly heavier 198 pounds, modify the most diminished among us should be healthy to inspire the machines into a favourable parking expanse or elevator. As of the instance of writing, exclusive 9 of the 50 prototypal restricted edition politico models rest available. Prices move at around $10,772, but if you poverty one, you’ll requirement to locate a $1,546 deposit. Head over to the Peel website for more information, and follow the jump for our selection politico recording ever: Clarkson transfer digit to the duty for Top Gear.

Continue datum World’s smallest automobile headlike backwards into production

World’s smallest automobile headlike backwards into production originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:03:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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