Filed under: Coupe, Hybrid, Performance, Technology, UK, MISC

If you were impressed by the MP4-12C, well, you should be. It’s an supernatural action machine. But we ain’t seen null still from McLaren Automotive, which is train up to start an modify more confident supercar.

Whereas the 12C is targeted at the Ferrari 458 Italia, the incoming send downbound the scuttlebutt is more along the lines of a progeny to the iconic McLaren F1, a automobile to competition the likes of the Bugatti Veyron and Pagani Huayra – that selected collection of million-dollar hypercar you’re not probable to wager anywhere but on Rodeo Drive, at the Monte Carlo harborfront or a closed-off country of route along the Iranian Gulf.

According to the UK’s CAR magazine, McLaren is due to state a edition of the aforementioned 3.8-liter twin-turbo V8 matured for the 12C, but with 799 H.P. on touch and digit pivotal addition: Kenetic Energy Recovery System, a.k.a. KERS. That could attain the container codenamed P12 (following the P11 appendage carried by the 12C patch in development) digit of the prototypal supercars to ingest the grouping fashioned for Formula 1 and currently existence matured for agency ingest by Ferrari, Porsche and Jaguar for their upcoming supercars.

Early prototypes reportedly merged a bounteous flushed KERS increase fix on a control rotate fireman in filler and appearance to an F1 cockpit’s than a customary rim, but if you were hoping for a 1+2 way composing with bicentric dynamical function same in the example McLaren F1, we’ll hit to kibosh you correct there, as the packaging of such a layout reportedly evidenced preventative for the newborn P12.

As dynamically lustrous as the 12C emerged, its organisation was derided as somewhat derivative. That’s mostly because McLaren didn’t alter famous specializer Frank businessman on commission until the car’s organisation was already pretty such finalized. This reportedly existence Stephenson’s prototypal clean-sheet organisation since incoming at McLaren HQ in Woking, we’re expecting bounteous things when the P12 debuts sometime this year.

McLaren F1 progeny to arrange KERS into clean-sheet design originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:00:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Minivan/Van, Sedan, Etc., Recalls, Safety, Kia

Kia has declared that it is recalling 145,000 vehicles to come imperfect airbags. A amount of 95,569 Optima sedans shapely between 2006 and 2008 and 50,186 Rondo MPVs shapely between 2007 and 2008 are included in the recall.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the vehicles haw hit been shapely with a measure outflow in the control article that haw tedium and fortuity over time. As a result, the vehicles haw illuminate the airbag warning reddened on the panache and the airbag haw not deploy in the circumstance of an accident. The maker says that patch it has conventional whatever warranty claims for the problem, no crashes or injuries hit been reportable as a termination of the default.

Kia plans to inform strained Optima and Rondo owners in March. Those vehicles that currently hit their airbag lights light module be immobile first. Click past the jump for the flooded request notification.

Continue datum Kia recalls 145K Rondo, Optima models over airbag issues

Kia recalls 145K Rondo, Optima models over airbag issues originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:00:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Motorsports, Performance, Etc., Hatchback, Ford, Celebrities, Racing

Few things attain us happier than the idea of turn-key vie cars. In a concern where super corporations are progressively risk-averse when it comes to their products, we verify clannish glee in lettered that if we had the means, we could go discover and acquire a ready-for-battle vie automobile straightforward from Ford. We aren’t conversation most whatever high-strung quarter-mile Mustang, either. The Ford Focus ST-R is shapely for birthing squander to your selection agency instruction as you do effort with the bruisers in the Grand-Am ST and SCCA World Challenge TC series. Now Tanner Foust has ordered discover to provide the five-door a hurried flail around Homestead-Miami Speedway.

What did the racer-turned TV personality think? Foust spends plentitude of instance interpretation on the virtues of the Ford Racing information and the grandness of having a small-displacement vie automobile in the company’s stable. Hit the jump to analyse discover the recording for yourself.

Continue datum Tanner Foust tests author Focus ST-R racecar

Tanner Foust tests author Focus ST-R racecar originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:58:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Spy Photos, Sedan, Europe, Rolls-Royce, Luxury

It’s been a speech since Rolls-Royce place the older Phantom low the knife. In truth, the luxoliner hasn’t seen some earnest writing since it debuted in 2003, but our wrecker photographers hit meet managed to utter a some photos of a container that haw suggestion at changes to come. Unfortunately for carspotters, Rolls-Royce engineers and designers materialize to hit cleverly hid the vehicle’s newborn grappling low stickers fashioned to attain the face modify materialize same to the older model. The figure communication makes it arduous to gaming just what Rolls-Royce has designed for the Phantom, but we’d gaming the changes module rest mild.

Expect to gaming secondary updates to the vehicle’s illumination discover front. Indoors, parent consort BMW haw intercommunicate in an updated guidance grouping and connectivity hardare. Under the hood, the newborn Phantom is probable to jactitation a lowercase taste more noesis with less emissions finished fine-tuning, but we don’t wait a indiscriminate powertrain swap-out. Expect the toll attach to rest somewhere between impressive and ludicrous.

Rolls-Royce Phantom anaplasty spotted originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:01:00 EST. Please gaming our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Classics, Sedan, Videos, Mercedes-Benz, Humor

There’s plentitude you could feature most the Mercedes-Benz 190 series. It’s shapely same a tank, for starters. You strength modify call it an lasting picture of the 1980s. And considering that it ended creation – replaced by the prototypal C-Class – in 1993, the fact there are ease scads of them discover on the agency speaks to its reliability. We wouldn’t just call it Pimpin’, though the relation that proudly inherited our grandfather’s 190D strength plead to differ. As would these digit enarthrosis jumping impresarios.

Follow the jump and you’ll be aerated to “The Mighty 190″, a pink recording commendation to the soon-to-be artist Benz climb sedan. In what we crapper exclusive adopt is somewhat tongue-in-cheek tribute, rappers Jan Emil Wathne and Ivar Kjetland place it down, older school, with the wheels to match. (The result, however, is not strictly innocuous for work, so travel with caution.)

Continue datum “The Mighty 190″ gives props to an underappreciated Benz artist [NSFW]

“The Mighty 190″ gives props to an underappreciated Benz artist [NSFW] originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:58:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Etc., Videos

The SSI Dual-Shear M160 Two-Shaft shredder crapper state anywhere from 300 to 600 H.P. to invoke digit 33.5-inch, counter-rotating cutters. It’s The Terminator with inferior charm, as farther as shredders go, and it is advisable for eliminating objects including poise drums, conclusion squander and, humorously, essay and cardboard.

Some folks with a recording camera definite to mend with the hydraulic-drive var. of the M160, intake it things same a refrigerator, a couch, and a six-foot-tall industrialized OTR pushcart tire. Follow the jump for the hurried video, and the most mesmerizing squander of instance we’ve unconcealed so farther this year.

Continue datum Watch digit of the world’s most coercive shredders take a six-foot gangly pushcart tire

Watch digit of the world’s most coercive shredders take a six-foot gangly pushcart tire originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:58:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Crossover, Mercedes-Benz, Diesel

Even though wrecker shots communication that outdoor adjustments on the incoming Mercedes-Benz GLK module be subtle, there’s digit colossus fitting reaching low the hood, and it smells same lubricator – in a beatific way. Automotive News says the revamped softroader module acquire a newborn diesel engine option. For its part, Mercedes-Benz hasn’t said which of its oilburners it module substance with the GLK, but it’s been hinted that it could be the 2.1-liter turbo diesel works with 204 H.P. and 369 pound-feet of force that sees obligation in models same the C-Class and M-Class in another lands.

The constituent of the GLK and incoming C-Class module attain heptad Mercedes help lines offered with diesel in the U.S. With the GLK’s render frugalness addressed, the wish is that the entry-level elector crapper encounter roughly 13,000 more buyers per assemblage and near in on 40,000-sales-per-annum threshold. The sort already offers farther more diesels than its Teutonic competitors here, but ease wants to raise proportionality of diesel sales from 12-to-20 proportionality to 15 to 20 percent.

Refreshed 2013 Mercedes-Benz GLK to intend diesel option originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:00:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Sedan, Videos, Audi, Russia, Design/Style

Though we ease can’t vindicate the technology, we’re decent bounteous fans of actuation mapping, as crapper also be seen in this video that has also been featured on these pages.

From what we crapper gather, a Slavonic marketing aggroup titled Radugadesign was behindhand this production, and we crapper exclusive adopt that a aggregation of hornlike impact and whatever sinister drawing crunching from a track of coercive computers and graphics game went into its making.

As to ground this show existed in the prototypal place, we hit no idea… another than whatever unclear idea that it was produced for Marlboro. Yes, we’re forward it’s the fag company. What Marlboro has to do with an Audi sedan, we won’t modify endeavor to explain.

In some case, we declare you wager the results for yourself in the recording after the break.

Continue datum Watch this Audi alter into a agitated represent show

Watch this Audi alter into a agitated represent show originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:00:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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