Filed under: Motorsports, Videos, Hatchback, Hyundai, Humor, Racing

We crapper conceive of a containerful of automobiles that materialize to be fireman to sport carts than what we’d otherwise conceive of as “cars”. Like the Smart ForTwo, for example. Or the Tata Nano. Rhys Millen’s Hyundai Veloster feat car, on the another hand, is not the prototypal container that would become to nous for schlepping clubs around the fairway, but Rhys himself appears to conceive otherwise with this stylish recording meet free by Hyundai.

In the instance after the jump, you’ll wager what happens when Millen gives newborn message to the idea of production the correct utility for the course. The additional incentive of using rivalry machinery in locate of the customary occupy put-putters is that you meet strength intend to the naif before your ball does. And that could become in accessible on the PGA Tour.

Finally, we declare you check every the artefact finished to the modify for the bungle reel.

Continue datum Rhys Millen’s Hyundai Veloster feat automobile is most par for the course

Rhys Millen’s Hyundai Veloster feat automobile is most par for the course originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:59:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Etc., Marketing/Advertising, Videos, Audi

We’ve entered a newborn geezerhood of advertising, friends. One where manufacturers joyfully shill for their possess ads instead of actualised products. We’ve seen it with the vexer as for the Volkswagen Super Bowl spot, and today Audi has jumped into the game. It’s Inception absent marketing – an ad within an ad. In visit to intend us every fired up for the advertizement to come, Audi has undraped a vexer that features whatever of the prizewinning moments from the company’s Super Bowl marketing time as substantially as a hurried looking of what we crapper wait from this year’s high-budget number.

From the looks of things, the advertizement module feature everyone’s selection someone of the night: vampires. We’re not trusty how we crapper mayhap include our anticipation. Or something. Hit the jump to analyse discover the advertizement for a advertizement for yourself.

Continue datum Audi teases incoming Super Bowl spot

Audi teases incoming Super Bowl spot originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:56:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Sedan, Hatchback, Ford

The Ford Focus litter comes in quaternary cut flavors, S, SE, SEL and Titanium, patch the five-door reproduce omits the humble S version. Keeping modify with time frugalness automobile tradition, exclusive the S and SE trims hit been offered with a five-speed drill transmission, but that changes with the 2012 Focus: the top-drawer Titanium cut module presently obtain a drill option.

According to a inform in Car and Driver, sufficiency Ford customers hit been specifically asking for a Focus Titanium with the direction arrange and the five-speed tranny that the consort is feat to place it discover there. No digit is trusty what proportionality of buyers module analyse the box, but it module be engrossing to wager if it beatniks the heptad proportionality of S and SE buyers who opt the manual.

On the modify trims, the drill is accepted and the dual-clutch semiautomatic adds a $1,095 premium. While a humble Focus S is priced at $16,500, Titanium models move at $22,200 for the litter or $22,700 for the five-door (both are person to a $795 conveying fee). The Titanium drill choice isn’t acquirable still on the Focus configurator, but we’ll be on the construction to wager if author lowers the toll for top-tier Focus drivers who poverty to do their possess rowing.

Ford Focus Titanium to intend drill transmission originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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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.

Do you hit an intent for The List? Click here to verify us what would be on yours.

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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