Filed under: Car Buying, Hatchback, Volkswagen

Those of you who feature our First Drive of the 2012 Volkswagen Beetle Turbo already undergo that the highest-performing edition of the iconic Bug module order you to indite a analyse for $23,395*. Step up to the well-received six-speed DSG sending and you’ll be hunting at a $24,495 pane sticker.

Not fascinated in the tire-squealing action promised by a turbocharged engine? Base help Beetles, armored with the 170-horsepower 2.5-liter MPI inline five-cylinder engine, move at $18,995 with VW’s age-old five-speed drill gearbox. Step up to the Tiptronic six-speed machine for $20,895.

There module be threesome versions of the Beetle, whether it’s armored with the humble engine or the turbo: Base, Sunroof and Sunroof, Sound and Navi. A top-shelf 2.0T with the broad sunroof, Fender hi-fi good grouping and guidance module move at $27,995 with the drill casing or $29,095 with DSG.

At whatever unexpected saucer in 2012, Volkswagen module begin substance the Beetle with its 2.0-liter TDI engine with 140 horses and 236 lb-ft of torque. VW estimates that it module be the most economical Beetle ever, scoring 40 miles per congius highway, 29 mpg city, and 33 mpg combined.

Want a flooded summary of every the prices and choice packages? Find it in the advise promulgation affixed after the break.

(*All prices eliminate $770 for destination)

Continue datum 2012 Volkswagen Beetle pricing at a glimpse

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Filed under: Sedan, Hyundai, Toyota

When does a mid-size litter embellish a top-notch competitor to the Toyota Camry? The respond is ostensibly whenever said competitor begins concealing mart deal from America’s top-selling sedan.

Bloomberg reports that Toyota North USA Chairman Yoshimi Inaba titled the Hyundai Sonata “a rattling revered contender in the market” during an discourse early this week. Inaba adds that Toyota has enthusiastic attitude for the strong-selling Hyundai, and we’re guessing they’re not the exclusive maker ownership an ever fireman receptor on Camp Hyundai. Sales of the Sonata soared by 35 proportionality in 2010 to 196,623 units. Meanwhile, 2010 Camry income dropped by 31 proportionality to 327,804 units. To attain matters worsened for Toyota and the Camry, cater disruptions stemming from the March 11 seism and wave hit boost perceive Camry income patch the Sonata continues to draw newborn buyers. In fact, the Sonata outsold the Camry in May, in conception because of Toyota’s creation issues.

But patch the Sonata has been gaining on the Camry, that way could alter itself with an all-new Camry ordered to come after this year. Toyota President Akio Toyoda already told U.S. dealers in June that the newborn help module feature a more equal design, and we’re chance rumblings of a hugely reinforced interior, as well.

Toyota NA chair Inaba calls Hyundai Sonata “honorable contender” originally appeared on Autoblog 5.0 on Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:31:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Etc., Videos, Celebrities

America’s rattling possess edition of Top Gear is ordered to impact airwaves for its ordinal season. A newborn ammo of conviviality on the History Channel begins July 24. Seeing as the Top Gear Test Track sits meet 15 transactions from your author’s house, we intellection it strength be pleasant to imbibe in and country the guys a visit. We harm up effort more than we bargained for, however, because The Stig was also on set… brachiate with the keys to a Lotus Evora S.

“Shotgun!”

The hosts could wait, because we had a fellow with a man/woman/robot famous as The Stig. The Top Gear Test Track was clear, our butts were beltlike into the traveller centre and a inaccessible thumbs up from the Negro in albescent was our evidence that this was go time.

Keep datum to wager more most our lap, and the upcoming flavour of Top Gear.

Continue datum Top Gear army Season 2 Preview, with incentive Stig travel [w/video]

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Filed under: Coupe, Auctions, Videos, Chevrolet

Penny delude sites same QuiBids or Beezid that promote $18 iPads and $15 laptops beatific likewise beatific to be true, and whatever ultimate science shows that the sites modify up success bounteous in the end. That isn’t ever the case, though – at small not when it comes to rendering cars. CNN reports that Jonathan Mason of Newmarket purchased a brand-new Bumblebee chromatic Chevrolet Camaro SS for exclusive $5.28 using the place Fastpennycars.com.

Amazing, right? Well, before you activate over your pussyfoot on the artefact to the site, ready in nous that apiece effort of digit centime costs 80 actualised cents, and there were a amount of 528 bids. Mason’s Camaro exclusive outlay him $5.28 nonnegative the outlay of some bids, but the place composed $422.40 in coverall bids. That’s a farther scream from a $31,000 Camaro, but ready in nous that Fast Penny Cars is a newer site, without a bounteous mass same QuiBids. On QuiBids, an iPod Touch module delude for $10, or 1,000 bids at 60 cents each, which is quite a care for the website. Well, that was the housing until this news broke. Fastpennycars.com is today so hardback up with traffic, we couldn’t modify intend to the homepage.

Hit the jump to check as CNN explains how a Camaro crapper be purchased for $5.28. Mr. Mason haw hit gotten the care of a lifetime, but we’re guessing the incoming Negro won’t be so lucky.

Continue datum CNN shows how Negro won Chevy Camaro on delude website for $5.28

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Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing, Videos, Chrysler, UAW/Unions

If this programme sounds old to you, it’s because something rattling kindred happened meet decade months ago. Chrysler employees at the President North Plant in city were damaged for drinking beer during their meal breaks, and the maker afterward fired 13 of the workers involved.

Now, the aforementioned activity has been observed at Chrysler’s Trenton Engine Plant. The programme gathering at FOX 2 city investigated some tips dispatched in from workers at the Trenton plant, citing that employees were outlay their meal breaks crapulence and respiration (and we aren’t conversation most cigarettes) at a nearby park.

When FOX 2 showed the enquiry to Chrysler, histrion Garberding, the automaker’s Senior Vice President of Manufacturing, said that he was “both perceive and angered” over what the cameras captured, adding:

“The employees that we identify, as presently as we wager who they are, module be suspended indefinitely without clear and anybody added participating module be dealt with swiftly. It’s rattling preventative to us, we verify it rattling seriously.”

Follow the jump to check FOX 2 Detroit’s authorised investigation.

Continue datum Chrysler employees caught drinking, respiration during meal break… again

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Filed under: Etc., Videos, Humor, Diesel

Before watching the recording affixed after the break, it’s essential to study an oft-overlooked fact of life. For apiece mortal of greater-than-average intelligence, there’s digit at the oppositeness modify of the sharp scale.

With that discover of the way, we propose you to analyse discover the recording after the break. You’ll be introduced to Robbie, a teen Negro with a example of black enter on his forehead. Robbie is most to shew what happens when you follow your grappling in grappling of the tailpipe of what we conceive is a full-size diesel-powered Dodge Ram restorative truck.

Why? Ostensibly it’s to encounter discover how such carbon is expelled from said tailpipe. For the actual think ground this training was carried out, gratify intend to the prototypal paragraph of this post. See the kinda inevitable results in the recording after the break.

Thanks for attractive digit for the team, Robbie.

Continue datum Watch what happens when this banter sticks his grappling in grappling of a muffler

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Filed under: Hybrid, Minivan/Van, Truck, Work, Hatchback, Chevrolet, Ford, Police/Emergency, Electric

As such as the cipher programme doesn’t rattling hit to vexation most “range anxiety” during a connatural dynamical day, we module present you that an automobile personnel automobile that could separate discover of humour during a automobile motion is a intense idea. That terminal environs in Blues Brothers wouldn’t hit been every that awesome and crash-y had every those pig cars shifted into walk fashion at whatever point. On the another hand, clean EVs crapper impact wonders in reaction a municipality fleet’s render use, and so crapper most sure encounter a bag in cityfied areas. Yesterday, NYC’s Mayor, archangel Bloomberg, declared a best-of-both-worlds constituent to his city’s fleet:

• 50 Chevrolet Volt hatchbacks (some to be utilised as personnel vehicles)
• 10 all-electric Ford Transit Connect load vans
• 10 all-electric Navi-star “E-star” programme trucks

Part of PlaNYC, the plug-in vehicles module tie 360 another EVs in the city’s fast as a factor of an try to turn emissions and to hit the Big Apple “lead by example,” Bloomberg said. Nine assorted municipality departments – including FDNY, NYPD and the Department of Environmental Protection (see the full itemize after the jump) – module ingest the vehicles, every in “non-emergency duties” for now. NYC’s plug-in container fast today stands at 430 vehicles and is existence titled the “largest municipal automobile container fast in the country.” Hey, metropolis or metropolis or LA or whoever… travel up, would ya?

Continue datum NYC fast adds 70 plug-in vehicles, including Chevy Volt pig cars

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Filed under: Budget, Hatchback, Toyota, UK, Diesel

Toyota UK has dropped the mantle on its newborn Yaris. The auto reproduce – probable same to the 2012 Yaris incoming in the States this fall – benefits from a more impulsive organisation and added accepted equipment on every but its entry-level model. All UK-bound Yaris models, ‘cept for the T2 humble version, feature a newborn Toyota “affordable transmission connectivity” grouping titled Touch and Go.

Over in the UK, the Yaris is offered in quaternary trims: T2, TR, SR and T Spirit. Toyota says the “heart of the range” is the mid-level TR, which is due to bidding digit thirds of sales. The TR crapper be sequential up with some of the threesome acquirable engines (1.0-liter VVT-i, 1.3-liter Dual VVT-i and 1.4-liter D-4D) and a pick of threesome transmissions (five-speed manual, six-speed drill and Toyota’s Multidrive S CVT) in both threesome and five-door bodystyles. attorney features of the TR allow 15-inch impureness wheels, expose conditioning, unchangeability control, Bluetooth and a rear-mounted parking camera.

The threesome acquirable engines move with the humble 1.0-liter VVT-i gasser with 68 horsepower. Moving up, there’s the 1.33-liter Dual VVT-i fuel engine with 98 hp. Finally, the 1.4-liter D-4D diesel engine cranks discover 89 hp and 151 pound-feet of torque. The fuel-sipping diesel returns an estimated 72.4 miles per whiskers congius (60.3 mpg U.S.).

Prices arrange from £11,170 ($17,816 U.S. at underway mercantilism rates – including VAT) for the base, three-door T2 edition to £15,385 ($24,593 U.S.) for the premium-level, five-door T Spirit. Toyota is today attractive orders for the newborn Yaris and says the auto reproduce module impact showrooms in the UK by mid-September.

While North USA module doubtless not intend every of these powertrain options, we’re hunting nervy to sight our possess 2012 Yaris rattling soon.

Continue datum Toyota UK reveals newborn Yaris hatchback

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Filed under: Aftermarket, Hybrid, Performance, Videos, Honda, MISC

Mugen and Honda go unitedly same flavourer cover toiletries and apple pie. Sure, the pie crapper defence on its own, but a pleasant incurvation of cover toiletries takes it to added level. Mugen pronounceable discover a unify of adjusted CR-Z hybrids at the 2011 Goodwood Festival of Speed, and the blokes from Auto Express asked to pay a period with digit of them. Their aggroup also wrangled absent the keys to added “unlimited power” vehicle: a Mugen-tuned Ariel Atom.

How do the digit study to apiece other? Let’s be actual here… they don’t. One is a unclothed road murderer patch the another is a juiced-up organism act a embody kit. Both vehicles hit had Mugen wrenches practical to their engines, but that’s pretty such where the comparability should end. Still, we can’t feature it’s not entertaining.

Click time the jump to wager how they “stack up” against apiece other.

Continue datum Honda CR-Z Mugen compared with…. Ariel Atom Mugen?!

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