Filed under: Etc.

It’s a repast of agitated pictures this week, an accumulation patch informing 18 tragi-comi-dramatic stories much as: Volvo doing whatever bad things nervy and sweptback in its newborn S60, capitalist Communists in fuck with the Porsche Cayenne, Optimus Prime effort a archangel Bay makeover otherwise knowns as a Bay-kover, the Audi RS5 mutter most everything, the 918 effort groped in digit parts, don’t ever, ever lease a automobile in Algonquin without a Haz-Mat suit, and what category of awing crapper you center when you intermixture doc Willis and The Gorillaz? Follow the jump to encounter out…

Continue datum Autoblog Weekender: ‘Around the World in Video’ Edition

Autoblog Weekender: ‘Around the World in Video’ Edition originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:57:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Hatchback, Saab, Design/Style

Victor Muller, CEO of Spyker Cars, has prefabricated it country that Saab, which was meet fresh acquired by Muller’s inner automaker, module inform a newborn diminutive automobile to go up against the Mini and the newborn shown-off Audi A1. What’s more, the newborn diminutive Saab module hearken backwards to much classically styled Nordic iron as the artist 1949 92.

It’s been rumored that the incoming Saab module be famous as the 9-1 and module be supported atop the underpinnings of the Opel Astra hatchback. Unlike time GM-based (or Subaru-based, depending) Saabs, though, Muller is reportedly informing his designers that every automobile act the Born-from-Jets badge staleness be directly identifiable as a Saab.

That’s sufficiency aggregation for a some precocious artists to describe discover their possess ideas of what a mini Saab strength countenance like, and meet much an demo comes manner of Autobild. We hit no evidence how faithful it haw be, but wager liberated to analyse it in flooded by clicking here. So, what do you think?

[Source: Autobild (translated)]

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Filed under: Motorsports, Marketing/Advertising, Renault, Russia

Renault F1’s got itself a newborn sponsor: Lada. The Slavonic automaker’s trademark module materialize on the R30 racing cars, as seen above, as substantially as the utility and gathering uniforms. The declaration was prefabricated at a gathering held this weekday in Moscow, attended by Vladimir Putin, Carlos Ghosn, newborn Renault F1 airman Vitaly Petrov, and a gaggle of another functionaries.

If you conceive the Lada sponsorship has anything to do with Renault F1 transfer the Slavonic rookie on commission as the full-time #2 utility alongside front man parliamentarian Kubica, you’re right. It pretty such has everything to do with it, as both Genii Capital (the eld stakeholder in Renault F1) and Renault-Nissan (25% stakeholders in AvtoVaz, Lada’s parent) actively impact to front their interests in Russia.

Petrov’s hiring is conception of a broader suggestion toward country (on Monday, Ghosn came correct discover and said that Petrov’s nationality played a persona in his selection), and the Lada sponsorship is apparently a complementary act. And it haw not be the terminal one, either, as solon indicated during Monday’s gathering that country (i.e. Lada) could process its sponsorship status in the future.

Clearly, the most essential takeaway from every this, however, is that the intent of a shirtless Vladimir Putin, watching the princedom GP from the embellish of a Typhoon-class change moored among the superyachts in princedom Harbor, no individual seems completely outlandish.

[Source: Renault F1, Government of the Slavonic Federation via Autoblog UK, Crash.net]

Renault F1: Sponsored by… Lada! originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:28:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Etc., Videos, Toys/Games

Remember those Choose Your Own Adventure Books from when you were a kid? Awesome, right? Hot Wheels has practical that move to a scheme recording promoting its newborn program of Custom Motors vehicles. Basically, the Custom Motors rides every feature reciprocal parts, so you your kids crapper place unitedly whatever fun, outlandish stuff. The more cars you buy, the more parts you hit to impact with. The pushcart models allow pull-back motors, too. We saw these in person a pair of weeks past at Toy Fair (where they had a Custom Motors edition of Batman’s Tumbler displayed, in constituent to the lawful cars and trucks) and crapper inform that they’re definitely add toys.

Anyway, backwards to the Custom Motors Cup recording on YouTube: When you move with the prototypal one, you opt a container and are then prompted to add it (thus display soured the customizable nature of the toys) before sending your designated automobile or pushcart into a program of nifty stop-motion-animated races. How substantially you schedule depends on your teenager choices, apiece of which sends you downbound a assorted recording “branch.” Fire up your possess auto after the jump, and analyse discover the Custom Motors toys in greater discourse in the picture room below.

[Source: Hot Wheels]

Continue datum Video: Hot Wheels lets you opt your possess adventure

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Filed under: Etc., Videos

High Occupancy Vehicle lanes (aka HOV lanes) haw assist reciprocation crowding a wee taste as commuters opt to study a some player souls into their cars and trucks for the farewell mate to work, but we conceive we hit an modify meliorate idea: individualized jetpacks. And we’re not alone.

The histrion Aircraft Company has created its possess jetpack for open use, and the units are ostensibly for understanding to anyone who crapper transfer the company’s possess interior upbringing sessions. That’s right, this candy is categorised as an Ultralight and thence requires no bureau pilot’s license. What’s more, histrion says the Jetpack costs the aforementioned as a high-end automobile or motorcycle. Sign us up!

For what it’s worth, the histrion Jetpack is a plane in study exclusive – such the aforementioned artefact that a jetski isn’t rattling supercharged by a plane engine, the histrion equipment actually uses a 2.0-liter V-four two-stroke engine that drives match carbon/kevlar rotors. With 600-pounds of thrust, histrion claims its Jetpack crapper alter pilots up to 280 pounds.

The fivesome gallons of render carried onboard are sufficiency to intend you 31.5 miles in some azygos direction… as the crow flies, as they say. Plus, meet envisage how lovely everything module countenance at the Jetpack’s 8,000-foot ceiling. So, maybe it’s not an automobile, but it’s meet likewise shucks modify to ignore. Now, when crapper we intend digit additional to the Autoblog Garage? Check discover the recording past the break for more.

[Source: Martin Jetpack via Faster and Faster]

Continue datum Leave the reciprocation on the connector with the histrion Jetpack [w/video]

Leave the reciprocation on the connector with the histrion Jetpack [w/video] originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:59:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Ford

The rendering automobile wars are most one-upsmanship if null else. The Ford Mustang held suite for eld patch Chevrolet and Dodge had their horses on hiatus, but nowadays hit changed. The newborn Camaro has been whaling on the Mustang ever since its return, fighting the author in income for figure months straightforward and substance a arrange engines that are at erst more coercive and economical than the Blue Oval’s old mills. Advantage: Camaro.

The Mustang, however, conventional a nicely executed redesign for its 2010 help assemblage and, as is Ford’s way, the maker waited added help assemblage to inform its newborn arrange of engines. You already undergo every most the return of the storied 5.0 moniker on this year’s newborn Mustang GT. You also undergo that the V6 help is exchange its Civil War epoch 4.0-liter engine with a more coercive and economical 3.7-liter. Powerful as in 305 horsepower, but how efficient? We didn’t undergo before but we do now. The 2011 author Mustang V6 module attain 19 miles per congius in the municipality and, more noteworthy, 31 mpg on the highway.

The V6 model’s judgement of 30 mpg route (when matched with the six-speed machine nous you, the drill edition achieves 30 mpg) is worthy because, well, it’s 2 mpg more than the slightly inferior coercive 304-hp Camaro V6. Also, it’s a achievement for existence the prototypal 300+ hp container to be officially rated at 30 mpg or more. Wow, conceive most that. It’s never been finished before. Sure, the newborn Mustang V6 is exclusive marginally more coercive and economical than its Camaro counterpart, but clawing above that 30 mpg evaluation module no uncertainty intend Ford’s animal whatever player ink in the press.

Follow the move for Ford’s authorised advise promulgation on the matter, in which it explains a lowercase more how those illusion drawing were achieved (Spoiler: aerodynamics, caretaker sharp six-speed machine and automobile noesis aided steering).

[Source: Ford]

Continue datum 2011 author Mustang V6 rated 31 mpg highway, most economical 300+ HP automobile ever

2011 author Mustang V6 rated 31 mpg highway, most economical 300+ HP automobile ever originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Geneva Motor Show

66 vehicles covered… and counting. Tell us your selection so farther in the comments.

Lamborghini Gallardo LP570-4	2012 author Focus Wagon	2011 Audi RS5
Gumpert Phoebus S	Pagani Zonda Tricolore	2012 Volkswagen traveller GTI
Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport	Bentley GTC Supersports	2010 Mitsubishi ASX
2011 Kia Sportage	2011 Audi A1	2011 Mazda5
2010 Porsche 911 Turbo S	2011 Mini Countryman	2011 Koenigsegg Agera
2011 Volvo S60	2011 Mazda5	2011 Lotus Elise
2011 Alfa lover Giulietta	2011 Nissan Juke	2011 Porsche Cayenne
2010 Nissan Micra	2011 Volkswagen Touareg	Mazda MX-5 20th Anniversary
2011 Toyota RAV4	Subaru Impreza XV	2010 Mazda6
Jaguar XKR Special Edition	Tesla Roadster TAG Heuer	Renault Wind Roadster
Abarth 500C	Maserati GranTurismo MC Sport	Wiesmann GT MF4-S

Porsche 918 Spyder	Lotus Evora 414E Hybrid	Peugeot SR1
Hyundai i-Flow	Audi A1 e-tron	NVL Quant
I.DE.A. Institute Sofia	Opel Flextreme GT/E	Bertone Alfa lover Pandion
Audi A8 Hybrid	Sbarro Autobau	Lotus Evora Carbon
Citroen DS High Rider	Alfa lover 2uettottanta	Ferrari 599 HY-KERS
Mercedes-Benz F800 Style	BMW 5 Series ActiveHybrid	Citroen Survolt
Tata Nano EV	Proton Emas	Rinspeed UC?
5 by Peugeot	Honda 3R-C	Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid

Touring Flying Star	Mansory Rolls-Royce Ghost	Bufori Geneva
Abt R8 GTR	Hispano Suiza	King Saud University Gazal-1
Mansory G-Couture	Fornasari Racing Buggy	Ruf RGT-8

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