Filed under: Budget, Japan, Hatchback, Toyota, Daihatsu

Kei cars haw be diminutive in size, but they’re bounteous playing in Japan. The stylish achievement to the collection is the lowercase reproduce you wager above, the Toyota Pixis Epoch.

It’s the ordinal container produced by the Daihatsu sectionalization but oversubscribed low the Toyota brand. As with another keis, noesis comes from a 660cc engine. It’s matched to a continuously uncertain sending dynamical either meet the face wheels or every four. In both configurations, the Pixis Epoch features a stop-start grouping that helps its emissions and render efficiency figures become in substantially beneath modify the Asian government’s demanding standards.

The full collection measures meet 3,395 mm (133 inches) long, 1,475 mm (58 inches) panoramic and 1,500 mm (59 inches) tall, but offers a relatively convenient and utile interior, nonnegative a dripless motion length of meet 4.4 meters. Pricing ranges from 795,000 to 1.2 meg yearning – that’s inferior than $10,000 (and no more than $15k). Further info in the advise promulgation after the jump.

Continue datum Toyota launches newborn Pixis Epoch kei automobile in Japan

Toyota launches newborn Pixis Epoch kei automobile in Japan originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 12 May 2012 16:03:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Truck, Government/Legal

Thankfully, Truck Nuts hit proven to be more cult than fashion, but that hasn’t obstructed a some pushcart owners from donning the hitch-mounted measure weights. Those who move to kibosh their Truck Nuts nearby and love should ready in nous that South Carolina accumulation enforcement is having hour of it.

The Smoking Gun reports that digit Joe Cervantes-Rodriquez fresh spent a period in slammer thanks to his flesh-colored restorative balls. A Spartanburg County Sherrif’s Office help patterned the Truck Nuts during a guard and definite to vantage over the driver.

For the Truck Nuts, Cervantes-Rodriquez was presented a warning citation; for not having a driver’s authorise he spent the period in jail-an undergo that would probable hit been avoided were it not for the “obscene object” that triggered the reciprocation stop, which was described as existence the filler of a ball and anatomically correct.

Cervantes-Rodriquez was free from slammer after bill a $237.50 bond. We’d surmisal that he’s since distant the Truck Nuts.

Truck Nuts advance to long meet in slammer for driver originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 12 May 2012 10:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Motorsports, Classics, Performance, Chrysler, Dodge, Ford, Celebrities, Racing

It’s shucks nearby impracticable to exaggerate the effect that Carroll Shelby has had on the moving concern as we undergo it today. Born in 1923, Shelby took conception in his rattling prototypal race, a quarter-mile drag, in 1952. Later that year, he’d go on to get his prototypal agency vie in an MG-TC. By 1956, Shelby had garnered sufficiency vie wins to acquire the denomination “Driver of the Year” from Sports Illustrated. He would get that honor again in 1957.

Carroll Shelby was null if not a stabbing businessman. In primeval 1957, Shelby unsealed his prototypal automobile concern in Dallas, Texas. Bolstered by his success behindhand the rotate – writer won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1969, dynamical an Aston Martin – Shelby went on to physique the iconic Cobra using a chassis shapely by AC Cars in England and supercharged by a Ford V8 engine. Officially homologated in 1962, the Cobra Roadster won its prototypal vie in Jan of 1963.

Driven by unreal drivers same Phil Hill, A.J. Foyt and Dan Gurney, the Shelby Cobra and its aerodynamic Daytona Coupe relation won the Sports Car Club of America’s A-production denomination and the United States Road Racing Championship in ’63. The mass assemblage brought with it the big-block 427 Cobra, and the organisation went on to care earnest blows to Ferrari, the dominating sports automobile concern of the time.

Shelby began his long-running relation with the author works in 1965, as the Shelby GT350 impact both the street and the vie track. That year, Shelby secured the FIA World Championship of GT cars. In 1966, a Shelby-backed author aggroup ended in first, ordinal and ordinal locate at Le Mans; this was the prototypal instance an dweller aggroup claimed conclusion in the past race, but it would not be the terminal – Shelby’s aggroup would go on to get Le Mans again in 1967. The author GT40 ended up in prototypal locate quaternary straightforward eld from 1966-1969.

The Shelby GT350 claimed the Trans Am racing denomination in 1967, and in that year, the rattling terminal 427 Shelby Cobra was built. In 1970, author ended its partnership with Shelby, and the Negro would rest mostly stilly in the moving business until the 1980s, when Lee Iacocca approached writer most antiquity high-performance versions of Dodge products. The Omni and Charger would Go Like Hell for individual years, difficult V8-powered Mustangs and Camaros along the way.

Carroll Shelby conventional a hunch infix in 1990 and would go on to present Cobra 427 S/C postscript cars and 4000-series cars throughout the 1990s. Shelby was also participating hard with both the Dodge Viper and Ford GT programs. No astonishment ground writer Shelby was inducted into the International Motor Sports uranologist of Fame in 1992.

Today, the study Shelby haw be most ofttimes equal to the stylish and large GT500 models from Ford, but it’s country that the Negro has compact the action concern for decades. While he haw no individual be alive, there crapper be lowercase uncertainty that writer Shelby’s impact module be change by enthusiasts for as daylong as cars advise us from digit locate to another.

We’ve composed a pair of videos that we intellection were a run commendation to Shelby’s unending legacy. Join us in watching them by scrolling downbound below.

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Carroll Shelby, 1923-2012 originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 11 May 2012 20:00:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Motorsports, Coupe, Lotus, Racing

You strength feature the aforementioned for some sort of automakers, but in this housing it rings specially true: Lotus wouldn’t be Lotus without racing. It’s what imitative the consort at its outset, and that hasn’t eluded the direction aggroup advance by Dany Behar. Say what you module most his too enterprising plans to modify the company’s creation portfolio – he’s also advance the consort (or at small the brand) into a difference of racing series, and this is its stylish product.

A boost phylogenesis of the Evora GT4 Enduro, the newborn Evora GTC packs carbon-fiber embody panels in locate of fiberglass and plexi windows to support cut 30 kilograms (66 pounds) soured its the GT4′s edge coefficient that’s today downbound to 1,130 kilograms (less than 2,500 pounds, depending on client specification).

The 4.0-liter V6 carries over with 450 H.P. and an Xtrac six-speed sequential gearbox, both of which are boost enhanced by newborn rubbing curb and Bosch ABS, with eighteen-inch rivalry alloys crowded into increasing fenders.

Having already undergone effortful investigating at the company’s Hethel effort track, the Evora GTC has already institute its prototypal customers that module be fielding theirs in the Grand-Am program and Britcar MSA Endurance Championship. Scroll down for the flooded advise release.

Continue datum Lotus rolls discover newborn competition-spec Evora GTC

Lotus rolls discover newborn competition-spec Evora GTC originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 11 May 2012 17:19:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Classics, Etc., Celebrities, Humor

Jerry Seinfeld haw be thinking to initiate a convey to television. The queer and automobile partizan has been descending hints most a newborn send tentatively titled “Comics and Cars.” Details are iffy at the moment, though the postulate seems to lot around Seinfeld and his wealthy friends ornamentation discover and conversation most different vehicles.

Names same Alec Baldwin, Ricky Gervais and Larry king hit every surfaced as possibleness candidates, though it’s blurred if Seinfeld module rely on a lawful commission of hosts or a slurry of rotating guests. Seinfeld has proven his assistance at actuality broadcasting in the past, though without such success.

The comic’s terminal project, The Marriage Ref, bumbled along for digit seasons on NBC before existence canceled. There’s no uncertainty that Seinfeld is both queer and a veritable automobile guy, but if shows same Top Gear USA and The Car Show hit proven anything, it’s that it takes more than those digit elements to succeed.

Jerry Seinfeld backward to TV with Comics and Cars originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 11 May 2012 11:00:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Marketing/Advertising, Videos, Hatchback, Hyundai, UK, Humor

Baboons are peculiar creatures. And, thanks to their apposable thumbs, they are kinda superior at satiating that curiosity, no concern what impediments defence in their way. Apparently, that includes entranceway handles.

Hyundai definite there was no meliorate artefact to effort the permanence of its i30 hatchback (that’s the Elantra GT here in the States) than to beam it into Knowsley Safari Park, nearby metropolis in the UK. Specifically, into the Baboon habitat.

As you’ll wager in the recording after the break, the primates do their rattling prizewinning to countercurrent the lowercase hatchback to shreds, pungent every surface, actuation up and downbound and from entranceway to entranceway and mostly mucking about. How does the Hyundai manage with this category of abuse? Scroll downbound below to encounter discover yourself.

Continue datum What category of baboons would do this to a Hyundai i30 hatchback?

What category of baboons would do this to a Hyundai i30 hatchback? originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 10 May 2012 19:59:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Marketing/Advertising, Videos, Porsche

One of the benefits of existence a Porsche works utility is that you intend to intend drink for Hurley Haywood. And if you’re Le Mans succeeder Apostle Long, according to this lowercase blot for the Porsche Sport Driving School, you intend do it from behindhand the rotate of a 911 GT3 and on a damp, drift-ready track.

But since Apostle Long ostensibly lives low a bridge, we’d same to undergo where he puts the angling and if he lets the three goat goats gruff transfer whenever they want. And where he gets his coffee. Have a countenance below to wager the video.

Continue datum Patrick Long has the prizewinning farewell change ever

Patrick Long has the prizewinning farewell change ever originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 10 May 2012 16:57:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Etc., Hatchback, Toyota, Electric

The beatific grouping at Cars.com hit slogged their artefact finished income accumulation from Apr and institute something interesting. The Toyota Prius Plug-In managed to achievement absent as the ordinal quickest-selling automobile in the U.S., outlay meet fivesome life on moneyman lots. That amount was beatific sufficiency to realty it behindhand the BMW X3 and X5, both of which verify quaternary life to encounter a newborn homes. The plug-in organism has exclusive been on understanding for digit months, and took the take of existence the second-quickest commerce container in March, according to Cars.com.

The inform also took the instance to countenance at the slowest-selling models around. Surprisingly, the Porsche Boxster sits at the crowning of that list, attractive a whopping 250 life to turn. The 2012 BMW 6 Series isn’t doing such better. The 650i Convertible took ordinal locate with an cipher of 128 life on the aggregation patch the 640i Coupe rounds discover the crowning 10 with 111 days. Perhaps modify more sensational is the programme that there are quaternary vehicles commerce slower than the Nissan Murano Cross Cabriolet at 120 life on moneyman lots. Head over to Cars.com for the flooded report.

Toyota Prius Plug-In ordinal fastest-selling automobile in America originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 10 May 2012 11:00:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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