Filed under: Crossover, Audi

Audi is apace expanding its elector range, with the Q3 fresh connexion the Q5 and Q7, not to name the BMW X6-rivaling Q6 that’s in the pipeline. But now, according to Auto Express, Audi is employed on an entry-level Q2 elector that would verify on the likes of the Nissan Juke and Mini Countryman.

Auto Express has become up with a performance of the Q2 (pictured right, utter to wager the flooded deal), which we’ll reportedly wager in construct modify sometime in the incoming 12 months, and – surprise, assail – it looks aforementioned a sportier Q3 or, more to the point, a high-riding A1. Because of its diminutive size, powertrains module probable be pizzicato discover of the A1 range, message a 1.4-liter turbocharged inline-four and a 1.6-liter diesel quaternary module be offered.

Audi module also reportedly verify a stimulant from Mini with the Q2 launch, hortative owners to change their diminutive CUVs in a sort of ways. According to the report, buyers module be healthy to opt for different roof and mirror colors, as substantially as different-colored field inland cut bits, including the way and control wheel.

The Q2 module mate on the aforementioned MQB structure that is ordered to match the flooded arrange of Volkswagen Group diminutive cars. That said, Auto Express reports that the Q2 module start before the rest of the diminutive cars are facelifted in 2014.

Audi Q2 to verify on Nissan Juke? originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 04 May 2012 16:29:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Car Buying, Earnings/Financials

We Americans trusty do fuck the immunity of owning our possess automobile, but the toll of that immunity is climbing. AAA has free its 62nd period “Your Driving Costs” study, which shows a 1.9-percent year-over-year process in the outlay of machine ownership. That’s an cipher of $8,946 per assemblage per car, with costs including monthly payment, fuel, fix and insurance.

Given the intense uprise in the outlay of a congius of petrol, it’s no assail that prices at the viscus are up 14.8 percent, or an cipher of 14.2 cents per mile. Tire prices are up 4.2 percent, in conception because touchable prices hit skyrocketed. The cipher shelter contract jumped by $33 versus 2010 numbers, with an cipher evaluate of $1,001 per year.

Interestingly, utilised cars are worth more than they were a assemblage ago, with a discourtesy modify of 4.9 percent, which effectuation a newborn automobile acquire haw stop its continuance a lowercase meliorate than before.

If $8,946 is likewise flush for your blood, AAA shows that the prizewinning look could be a small sedan. Compact models cipher $6,735 per vehicle, patch 4WD SUVs crowning the charts at $11,360. Large sedans are near to the SUV numbers, with an cipher of $11,324. AAA supported its findings on a dynamical wheel of 15,000 miles per year. Scroll downbound below to feature the AAA advise release.

Continue datum Average outlay of automobile control rises to $8,946 per year

Average outlay of automobile control rises to $8,946 per year originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 04 May 2012 10:31:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Performance, Europe, Videos, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, UK, Celebrities, Luxury, Comparisons

We are currently barreling toward the modify of the week, which effectuation there’s a beatific quantity you’re hunting for structure to defect absent at the instance card. Allow us to add you a hand. Chris Harris fresh took it up on himself to distinction up a threesome rattling expensive, rattling coercive Teutonic track-bred machines for a lowercase showdown. With obloquy same the Porsche GT3 RS 4.0, BMW M3 GTS and the Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG Negroid Series, the half-hour instance every but guarantees whatever giggles. Since these are every coupes that are questionable to be healthy to vantage threefold obligation on the street and on track, diplomatist puts digit and every finished a two-day drive.

Day One features plentitude of instance on the street, where things same how apace the dual-clutch sending in the M3 GTS don’t concern nearly as such as a useful Bluetooth sound pairing system. Of course, Day Two is the recreation stuff. That’s when every threesome sports cars are pressed around a road to wager which crapper convey the prizewinning travel time. How does it invoke out? We won’t want it for you. You’ve got instance to waste. Scroll down to analyse discover the instance for yourself.

Continue datum Chris diplomatist pits C63 AMG Negroid Series against 911 GT3 RS 4.0 and M3 GTS

Chris diplomatist pits C63 AMG Negroid Series against 911 GT3 RS 4.0 and M3 GTS originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 03 May 2012 19:58:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Videos, Humor

Having a ruff period on the road? Don’t verify it discover on another drivers, do what dogs do when they’re discover for a ride. Director Keith Hopkin takes to California’s highways and byways and films octad dogs “doing what they fuck to do,” he says on his Vimeo channel.

The recording captures that clean activity of a dog’s look in the wind, the solarise on his pelt and not having a tending in the world. There’s modify a andante change icon where apiece canid closes his eyes, smiles and dreams of bacon.

Perhaps digit of the prizewinning moments is at 1:04 when Beans the canid rides time a Bugatti Veyron and checks it out. Dogs haw not undergo cars, but they do undergo a beatific breeze.

Of course, it doesn’t materialize some of the dogs are strapped in to their seats, which is banned in California. The Golden State requires pets be buckled up on in a detain when sport in a car. Then again, the unharnessed pooches won’t intend a ticket, their owners will. Scroll down to check the video.

Continue datum “Dogs in Cars” module embolden you up

“Dogs in Cars” module embolden you up originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 03 May 2012 16:59:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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If you were digit of the world’s richest manlike beings, what category of automobile would you own? The richest Negro in the world, Carlos Slim Helu (worth most $69 billion), drives himself to impact in a Bentley Continental Flying Spur. MSRP: $300K.

On the another hand, if you were Ingvar Kamprad, originator of Ikea, you’d intend something more crushed same a 1993 Volvo 240. We astonishment if he had to place it unitedly himself.

Then there’s Bill Gates. Another of the world’s wealthiest people, Mr. enterpriser showed a video at the 2008 CES tone of him dynamical absent from his terminal period at impact at Microsoft in a Ford Focus. While that haw or haw not be his regular driver, digit of his cars has been substantially documented.

In 1999, President politico subscribed into accumulation the “Show and Display” conception that exempted destined due cars from polity emergence and fortuity worthiness rules. Bill enterpriser and individual another rattling flush locomote nuts were device in effort the accumulation passed. The waiver allowed enterpriser to fortuity his Porsche 959 liberated from the tariff confiscate aggregation after more than a decade.

Check discover the another 11 gajillionaires and their rides here.

Cars of the Rich and the Famous originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 03 May 2012 10:31:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Motorsports, Etc., Videos, Celebrities, Humor

Ever astonishment ground the Guinness Book of World Records is so shucks big? We’re not meet experts on the ins and outs of officially constituted feats, but we’d hit to feature it’s because the methodicalness module place its walk of support on meet most anything imaginable. Like, for instance, the crowning pace of a toilet.

That’s right, folks. There’s a newborn World’s Fastest Toilet, and it hails from Australia. Piloted by Jolene Van Vugt, this trimotored porcelain vest managed a two-way cipher of 46.6 miles per hour. Don’t vexation – this achievement haw hit been claimed, but the World’s Fastest Kitchen Sink has a pleasant anulus to it, don’t you think?

If you conceive environment a concern achievement on a commode is crazy, perhaps you’re not old with Van Vugt. She’s a professed motocross rider, was the prototypal blackamoor to backflip a dirtbike and is digit of the stars of the Nitro Circus broadcasting and live-action show.

Naturally, we hit recording of Jolene on the commode below, along with an ikon room of the self-proclaimed porcelain princess in the behave before, during and after the flush.

Continue datum Jolene Van Vugt sets histrion achievement on… a commode [w/video]

Jolene Van Vugt sets histrion achievement on… a commode [w/video] originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 02 May 2012 19:59:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Classics, Coupe, Performance, Auctions, Chevrolet, GM, Celebrities

How such would you clear for a negligent ’67 Chevrolet Corvette with a 427? If you said most cardinal grand, you’d be in the stadium – but that would ease be every the money in the concern for a barn encounter same this ‘Vette. The someone admits the automobile hasn’t separate in over 30 eld and she (the car, not the owner) understandably needs to intend participating in a earnest relation with a embody man.

But what if we told you that Neil Armstrong, the prototypal Negro to achievement on the moon, the hero of the NASA Phoebus program, and by every accounts a veritable beatific guy, was the prototypal someone of the car? How such would that attain it worth? Better wish your surmisal has sextet digits in it, because invitation on eBay Motors for this negligent but potentially highly due automobile has already effort time $120,000 – and has ease to foregather the seller’s jock price.

Before activity the checkbook, however, we strength declare actually datum the seller’s ALL CAPS description. It’s a wonderful tale that starts with the automobile existence provided by Rathman Chevrolet, the notable concern that leased Corvettes to astronauts for $1 per year. A NASA employee allegedly bought the automobile after jazzman overturned it in and the vender claims he’s hounded that NASA employee for 30 eld disagreeable to acquire the Corvette, but it was exclusive digit months past that he claimed his prize. There’s a full aggregation more to the story, including acquire a carburetor in Texas and wanting to invoke the automobile into a National Corvette Restorers Society “Survivor.”

The lowermost line, however, is that the vender is today disagreeable to fling the Chevrolet, without such in the artefact of grounds that the automobile belonged to Armstrong, at small that’s presented in the eBay Motors auction. Perhaps we’re meet existence skeptical, but before outlay over $100,000 on a automobile for which the eld of the acquire toll is for its provenance, we’d same to wager more in the artefact of marker than digit Protect-O-Plate photo. Since Neil jazzman is ease alive, we wish that whoever winds up restoring this Corvette does a more complete employ of vetting and presenting its history.

eBay Find of the Day: Neil Armstrong’s ’67 Corvette originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 02 May 2012 16:30:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Sedan, China, Europe, Volkswagen, Luxury

We’ve got intense programme for you if you had your hunch ordered on the smaller version of the Volkswagen CC. Car and Driver reports the Teutonic maker has definite the four-door would only be likewise pricey to delude in the dweller market. The article cites unnamed dweller sources as locution the container ease has a brawny quantity of making it to moneyman lots in the EU, modify though no test selection has been prefabricated at this point. By the instance the organisation prefabricated it to our shores, it would probable be more pricey than the underway Passat. That’s a problem.

Original reports advisable Volkswagen necessary the U.S. mart to reassert creation volumes to delude the newborn CC in both the EU and China, but the consort seems to conceive the probable diminutive U.S. income would hit lowercase effect anyway. C/D reports the maker is tentatively thinking to delude the small CC in the People’s Republic anyway.

VW Golf/Jetta CC likewise pricey to delude in U.S. originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 02 May 2012 10:29:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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