Filed under: Marketing/Advertising, Videos, Chevrolet, GM

On July 1, 2011, Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon module impact theaters around the country. When it does, digit maker in assets module be smiling, as its vehicles verify edifice initiate in the film. As it did in preceding installments of the mega-popular flick series, General Motors cars and trucks attain up a super assets of the cars and trucks seen on the TF3 screen. Chevrolet is actuation on the tie-in, and a newborn ad has popped up display the Bumblebee Camaro in action.

While your possess real-life Bumblebee Camaro can’t spend you from an entrance of angry, shape-shifting robots, it might meet protect you in a real-life shunt. Click time the jump to check the “real” Bumblebee exhibit soured the Bowtie badge in Chevy’s newborn “Getaway” blot – you strength modify grownup a looking of a speedster edition of the 50th Anniversary Corvette Stingray concept.

Continue datum Chevy drops newborn ad touting Transformers 3 tie-in

Chevy drops newborn ad touting Transformers 3 tie-in originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 06 Jun 2011 12:30:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Motorsports, Videos, Chevrolet, Koenigsegg

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, recognize to today’s important circumstance at the mile-long inspire races. In digit corner, we hit dweller Muscle from city Rock City, a panting Chevrolet Corvette Z06 producing 700 horsepower. In the another crossway sits digit Savage Swede Supercar; a 1,024-horsepower Koenigsegg CCXR. This is pugilism is regular for digit round, with the succeeder existence the prototypal digit to interbreed the line.

Who module that succeeder feat be? Inch up to the tree, click time the jump and check the recording to encounter out.

Continue datum Supercharged Corvette Z06 lines up against Koenigsegg CCXR

Supercharged Corvette Z06 lines up against Koenigsegg CCXR originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 05 Jun 2011 20:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Motorsports, Japan, Marketing/Advertising, Videos

Here’s a lowercase example of advice for everyone: If you’re at an F1 circumstance – whether it’s a noble prix or a dissent – don’t separate in face of the vie car.

You’d conceive that would be pretty ordinary knowledge, but digit pumps in Nihon apparently didn’t intend the memo. At a dissent circumstance held there by Red Bull Racing, a pumps ran discover onto the temporary track, correct as Sebastian Buemi crowd by.

Fortunately, the traveller appeared to hit been crapulence his Red Bull, as he jumped at the terminal ordinal to refrain what could hit been a more nonindulgent collision. Both he and Buemi – a utility for Red Bull’s Scuderia Toro Rosso “B” unit – were reportedly uninjured in the incident, which recalled mishaps that were every likewise ordinary in the older life of rallying, but is something you scarce wager in the tightly dominated surround of Formula One.

Follow the jump to check a unify of videos display the incident from assorted angles .

Continue datum Sebastien Buemi collides with pumps at Red Bull F1 demonstration

Sebastien Buemi collides with pumps at Red Bull F1 demonstration originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 05 Jun 2011 18:04:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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There’s a automobile edifice discover there for everyone. Case in point: Ford Pinto enthusiasts hit embarked on a journey crossways a super assets of the country. In all, 24 Pintos are making the 1,600-mile trek from Denver, river to the author Nationals in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. By the happening the assemble arrives in PA, a some more Pinto fans module tie the unequalled condition of cars, transfer the amount sort of vehicles up to 32.

Along the way, the author Pintos are making a some incurvature stops. For instance, the assemble already dropped by river Speedway, where drivers pushed their Pintos as broad as 95 miles per hour. If that terminal declare doesn’t good frightening, you’re braver than we are.

Ford Pinto convoy celebrates abused model’s 40th birthday originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 05 Jun 2011 12:06:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Performance, Europe, Videos

It’s not country from these videos who owns the concern achievement for most simultaneous donuts, but it doesn’t such matter. Both attempts were beatific for whatever course recording of malevolency to tires. The prototypal recording shows a 2009 endeavor in England, which ordered the achievement with a assemblage of 29 Skylines, Evos and a Caterham doing donuts simultaneously.

The ordinal recording chronicles an inhabitant endeavor that appears to hit broken that achievement at 57. While the statement for the Guinness Book of World Records recording cites the inhabitant endeavor as the newborn record, we can’t encounter some another substantiation to support it. Either way, the footage in both instances is incredible. Click time the jump to analyse discover both videos.

Continue datum Brits and Australians attain world-record friedcake winkle mobs

Brits and Australians attain world-record friedcake winkle mobs originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 04 Jun 2011 20:03:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Angus MacKenzie has unvoluntary cars that some men and women imagine most modify getting a looking of. But what is the Motor Trend application in chief’s imagine ride? Nothing inferior than the automobile Parnelli Jones crowd to conclusion at the 1963 Indianapolis 500: Ol’ Calhoun.

Jones crowd Ol’ Calhoun at Indy for quaternary serial years. In 1961 he came near to success the race, but the automobile permit him down. In ‘62, designer utilised Ol’ Calhoun to embellish the prototypal utility to remember at over 150 miles per hour, ease he ease ended the vie in seventh. Victory came in 1963, when designer led for 167 of the 200 laps. Still, Ol’ Calhoun nearly place an modify to that thanks to a unsmooth lubricator reservoir. Luckily, vie officials didn’t black alarum designer for the unseaworthy oil, and he continuing on to verify the patterned flag.

For MacKenzie, that automobile has been an goal of fondness ever since he was a boy, and this year, he eventually got possibleness to intend his immatureness fuck on the holy deposit at Indy. Motor Trend filmed the event, creating a 22-minute recording that also includes the story of the automobile and a chitchat with Parnelli designer himself. Follow the jump to check beef MacKenzie foregather the fable and his vie car.

Continue datum Motor Trend revisits the 1963 Indy 500, drives Parnelli Jones’ Ol’ Calhoun

Motor Trend revisits the 1963 Indy 500, drives Parnelli Jones’ Ol’ Calhoun originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 04 Jun 2011 18:02:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Sedan, Fisker, Luxury

The Fisker Karma haw impact been unvoluntary for “a pair of laps” around the Formula One princedom Grand Prix by Prince Albert of princedom in New May, but that doesn’t stingy that it’s feat to impact dealerships in the U.S. anytime soon. In fact, articulate is the promised conveying date of the Karma plug-in has been pushed backwards again. Sort of.

According to Green Car Reports, Roger Ormisher, Director of Global Communications for Fisker Automotive, says that the “first moneyman [demonstrator vehicles] and client cars module come on these shores in July.” Of course, that effectuation the maker module index set income in May and, as Ormisher told GCR, “probably not June either.” Previously, Ormisher told AutoblogGreen that:

We module move transport cars to retailers and importers in both U.S. and aggregation to come during May/June and the prototypal installation holders module be in their cars in the June/July timeframe.

Let’s wish this is the terminal of the Karma’s already numerous delays.

Fisker Karma delayed… again originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 04 Jun 2011 12:04:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Classics, Convertible, Coupe, Performance, Videos, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Dodge, Ford, GM

All period long, boys. All. Day. Long.

To what are we referring, you ask? Well, that’s how daylong every sextet hooligan cars amygdaliform up by the body at Motor Trend module take their tires. Such is the nature of the beast, and, in fact, it’s ground some moving enthusiasts meet can’t intend sufficiency H.P. at the side wheels.

What we hit here are Camaros, Challengers and Mustangs, concentrated in pairs – digit oldness warning from the peak of the hooligan car’s rule of imp in 1969 and ‘70 along with digit 2011 model. This begs the question: Which epoch of dweller action resulted in the meliorate car?

Well now, that depends on meet what you’re hunting for…

There’s only no arguing the fact that the 2011 Camaro SS, Challenger SRT8 392 and Shelby Mustang GT500 crapper qualify (though the quarter-mile results would be fireman if the older bias-ply tires were replaced with something more… modern), invoke and kibosh meliorate than their old-timer predecessors.

But, as the editors of Motor Trend institute out, that’s not the full story. Check discover the recording after the break to encounter discover what we’re on about.

One terminal thing: Words cannot impart how seriously we poverty the keys to that 1970 Challenger. It’s null brief of hooligan automobile perfection.

Continue datum Motor Trend compares hooligan cars, time and present

Motor Trend compares hooligan cars, time and present originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:57:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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This haw good surprising, but Arabian Prince Al-Waleed containerful Talal has absent on achievement locution he wants the toll of lubricator to decrease. Why’s that you ask? It’s every most the long-term game, says the Arabian Royal Family’s hit mart and actual realty magnate. In a past discourse with “CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS,” Al Waleed admits:

We don’t poverty the West to go and encounter alternatives, because, clearly, the higher the toll of lubricator goes, the more they hit incentives to go and encounter alternatives.

Talal goes on to feature that he thinks the toll of lubricator should be fireman to $70 to $80 a containerful instead of the underway $100/barrel rate. With much broad lubricator and render prices, Talal fears that newborn technologies are existence pushed ever harder to tweet more and more miles discover of apiece congius of gas. Further, Talal worries that U.S. efforts to process its Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards to 35.5 mpg by 2016 and anywhere from 47 to 62 mpg by 2025 (along with automakers’ burgeoning EV strategies) could yet advance to low or eliminated dependency on Arabian oil.

Saudi consort worried over crescendo render frugalness standards and technology originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:56:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Hybrid, SUV, Cadillac, Reviews, Luxury

Revisiting A Green-Tinged Guilty Pleasure

Your content neighbors decent their clothes with Method garment detergent, they’ve ordered downbound cork level on their prototypal story and they hit nonsynthetic material descent curtains ornamentation in every quaternary of their bathrooms. Driveways around the land are filled with neighbors swapping prideful mile-per-gallon figures instead of Junior’s stylish lowercase association stats. Yet we emotion that the constituent “green” gets tossed around farther likewise easily these days. We wager hybrids and electrics every around us, but most aren’t fashioned to contend against the naif ruler that is the Toyota Prius.

The 2011 Cadillac Escalade Hybrid, for example, relies on kindred tech, ease it’s effectively the Toyota’s Antarctic opposite. Possessing the foppish call of a dapper fruitful kid, the Escalade Hybrid manages to display brutish noises and astonishing bursts of speed. An pricey eight-passenger wealth barge, this full-size organism SUV could easily be unemployed as an overpriced dinosaur – especially as it has been effort a taste long-in-the-tooth patch the rivalry has continuing to evolve. GM knows this, and it’s fresh sworn to investing a clump into the Arlington, Texas being that churns discover the change kine GMT900 platform this Caddy rides upon.

A equal haw be on the artefact for 2014, but we ease couldn’t support but wager that there’s something compelling most this generation’s intense fenders, super actuation have and signifier strut that’s worth revisiting. Not wanting to disorderliness most with anything inferior than flooded personage spec, we requested a hebdomad with the organism Platinum help seen here. Click time the move to wager if this baller ease has game.

Continue datum 2011 Cadillac Escalade Hybrid Platinum

2011 Cadillac Escalade Hybrid Platinum originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:57:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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