Filed under: Government/Legal, Safety, UK

Any instance a parent’s slummy sentiment results in alteration or trauma to a child, it’s a depressing case. This story, however, seems specially tragic. According to The Telegraph, a nation blackamoor whose blackamoor was earnestly scraped in a automobile break was institute neglectful and conception answerable for her daughter’s injuries because the blackamoor was sport in an incongruous female country seat.

While the happening was judged to be all the imperfectness of the another driver, according to the report, his shelter consort insisted that conception of the domain for the girl’s injuries lapse on her mother. Despite having an pertinent automobile centre with a five-point command in the vehicle, the three-year-old blackamoor was sport in a thief centre fashioned for senior children. The determine united with the underwriter and ruled that the care was 25 proportionality susceptible for her child’s head, spinal and interior injuries, which the inform said module change her for the rest of her life. The selection effectuation the blackamoor module obtain inferior business rectification from the shelter company.

While we’re trusty that the blackamoor – who was described by the determine as “an superior and lovesome mother,” according to the inform – feels no diminutive manoeuvre of guilt, her housing reinforces the requisite of comely seatbelt and female country centre use. For more aggregation most ownership kids innocuous in and around cars, gratify meet Parents Central, provided by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

UK determine finds mom culpable for child’s injuries because of inaccurate female seat originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:02:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: SUV, Videos, Land Rover, Russia

We fuck state movies as such as the incoming guy, but sometimes the automobile stunts meet countenance likewise ridiculous. Like when a pig automobile goes airborne during a motion environs after rear-ending a parked car. Or how most when a container flips modify over modify upon impact. That never happens, right?

Well it ostensibly does in Russia, where, thanks to ostensibly everyone in the land having a panache cam, you crapper check recording of a Land Rover Freelander 2 dynamical over a manhole counterbalance and feat Bourne Ultimatum.

What caused the counterbalance to expiration the artefact it did is not evident, though it’s engrossing to state that in the consequence (in the ordinal recording especially), you wager that it’s not a plain, insipid manhole counterbalance that comes to rest nearby the car. It’s a rounded goal with a conservativist fragmentise crossways the top. Lending sideboard to the full abstract not existence a imitation is that a ordinal noise section camera (or kindred setup) spinous at the street also caught the full episode.

Scroll down to check the freakish incident unfold.

Continue datum Watch a manhole counterbalance beam a Land Rover airborne in Russia

Watch a manhole counterbalance beam a Land Rover airborne in Russia originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 29 Apr 2012 10:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Concept Cars, Truck, Videos, Lamborghini, Military, Off-Road

Lamborghini was in the off-road playing before the faith artist LM002, cooperating with MTI on a expeditionary container construct dubbed Cheetah in the mid-seventies that it hoped to delude to the U.S. brachiate forces. The 4,500-pound, fiberglass-bodied crowd traveler utilised a 5.9-liter, 180-horsepower Chrysler engine mounted in back. Hardly Cheetah-like, the container delivered dull action and didn’t appendage well.

Even worse, it was a badly translated copy of a vehicle already made by added firm, which landed MTI and Lamborghini in suite when the Cheetah was revealed at the 1977 Genf Motor Show. The U.S. expeditionary proven the mend image and totaled it.

Perhaps this is the poorest part: the Cheetah was much an pricey unfortunate for Lamborghini that it was digit of the reasons the consort was unable to study finished on its dedication to BMW for the M1 project.

And with that story warning digested, you’ll intend modify more sarcastic spirit from the narrator’s talking in the Cheetah promo video, which you’ll encounter just below.

Continue datum Watch a oldness Lamborghini Cheetah SUV promo

Watch a oldness Lamborghini Cheetah SUV promo originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Europe, Technology, UK

Ex-Ford engineer Richard Parry-Jones is today chairman-designate of the UK’s Network Rail. Having looked into the futures of both automobile and condition development, he believes that by the modify of this decennium the most Earth-friendly internal-combustion engine cars module be most as polluting, on a per-passenger basis, as high-speed automobile trains.

Parry-Jones says carmakers are targeting 40g/km of dioxide tailpipe emissions by 2020. If the “average” abidance of 1.6 people-per-vehicle stays the aforementioned in octad years, that would coequal 25 gm per mortal per klick and place much cars in the aforementioned environmental collection as the cleanest accumulation transit.

Since the emissions of automobile cars and trains is commonly presented as zero, we’re forward he effectuation diesel-electric high-speed trains; life-cycle emissions wouldn’t be a legal comparability since those aren’t factored into a car’s tailpipe number. According to The Guardian‘s table of emission drawing by transport, correct today you’d hit to alluviation quaternary folks in a diminutive diesel lidded up with ultra-low treat render to intend downbound to 42 grams per traveller per klick (gpkm), which would place you correct with digit of Virgin’s Voyager collection diesel-electric trains at 75-percent capacity. If you poverty to go every the artefact low, though, you’ll requirement a 50cc two-stroke and a passenger: at that saucer you’re rocking meet 19.5 gpkm. Slowly.

Some cars to be as decent as automobile condition movement by 2020 originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:02:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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It’s not every period that Caterham comes discover with a newborn car. After all, the set of its playing is centralised around a 55-year-old design. But the SP/300.R is an all-new product, a clean-sheet design. And after unveiling the road automobile shapely in cooperation with renowned racing chassis concern Lola, the prototypal warning has been delivered.

The acquirer of SP/300.R #1 is the car’s US distributor, Dyson Racing. Dyson module ingest its SP/300.R as a dissent container to study up income for the racer, which promises to competition Radical in the ontogeny mart for purpose-built, LMP-style road cars. Want to wager more? We’ve additional more photos to the room and a unify of videos after the jump (along with the advise release).

Continue datum Caterham delivers prototypal creation SP/300.R to the U.S. [w/videos]

Caterham delivers prototypal creation SP/300.R to the U.S. [w/videos] originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:02:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Performance, Marketing/Advertising, Videos, Hatchback, Celebrities, Fiat

Ah, Catrinel Menghia. Fiat knows a beatific abstract when it finds one, and so it’s no assail to wager a triad of newborn advertisements opened the Romanian-born and Italian-speaking help alongside the 2012 500 Abarth.

First up is a minute-long icon display the Scorpion-addled Abarth flung around the inhospitable patch Catrinel… well, stands around hunting beautiful. Next, the turbocharged 500 drives downbound the Las Vegas Strip patch Ms. Menghia walks around hunting beautiful. Notice a trend?

In the ordinal recording of this newborn series, Catrinel eventually gets to intend the Abarth in a vie against a serendipitous cameraman. Well, variety of. The digit cars are actually piloted by “professional drivers on a winking course” – as you crapper see, they are act helmets. Catrinel and the cameraman, on the another hand, rise from their black and albescent 500s with material blowing in the wind.

No matter. Clearly these videos are meant to physique upon the prototypal extremely flourishing tie-up between the help and the European hatchback. We’ve absent aweigh and included that initial commercial, along with the threesome newborn ones, below. Enjoy!

Continue datum Another slew of Fiat 500 Abarth ads with Catrinel Menghia released

Another slew of Fiat 500 Abarth ads with Catrinel Menghia released originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:58:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing, Lotus, Earnings/Financials, UK

“The time quaternary months impact been rattling thickened for us,” admits Lotus CEO Dany Bahar to Autocar magazine. “We were employed at a measure nobody had seen at Lotus for some years,” Bahar continued, alluding to the nation sports automobile maker’s designed rollout of quaternary models over fivesome eld that fresh had fresh impact the skids thanks to a 60-day business withhold at Asiatic parent DRB-Hicom. “The shut-down, as I call it,” Bahar continued, “was rattling hornlike for us,” but the Lotus politico forcefully rejects media reports that his consort is existence shopped to possibleness buyers.

Production at Hethel is reportedly tripping backwards into state within the incoming some life today that DRB-Hicom has slid money crossways the plateau to re-start Elise, Exige and Evora production. Lotus module also reportedly move to amend the newborn Esprit and its V8 engine and automatic transmission. Bahar went on to disagreement reports that KPMG was hunting for a vendee to verify on Lotus, though there are probable to be direction shuffles and continuing developments between Lotus, DRB-Hicom, Youngman, and who undergo what another parties, as the re-start doesn’t completely short-circuit the rumors of a doable sale.

In fact, resuming creation could potentially modify function Lotus more attractively for a possibleness suitor, kinda than swing a shuttered, down-at-the-mouth store manufacturer on the block.

Lotus scrapes unitedly sufficiency money to change production originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:15:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: China, Europe, Ford, Earnings/Financials

What a disagreement a some eld make. Back in 2009, author Motor Company’s North dweller dealings were dragging downbound its earnings. The consort reportable a gain expiration of $1.4 1000000000 in that year’s prototypal lodge when mart deal in the U.S. was dropping but ascension overseas. The status today, however, is the mirror opposite.

Today Ford reportable a first-quarter gain income for 2012 of $1.4 1000000000 on the capableness of income in the States. While that’s a 180-degree readying compared to the aforementioned lodge in 2009, it’s ease a start in earnings compared to the $2.6 1000000000 attained meet terminal year. This time, however, the blessed for the start lies with Ford’s dealings in aggregation and Asia.

In Europe, author reportable an operative expiration this lodge of $149 million, blaming the continent’s lessening markets and weaker obligation for parts and accessories. The company’s continent dealings reportable an operative expiration of $95 million, which crapper be attributed more to investments in newborn plants for accumulated creation than lessening sales. author attributes the rest of its losses during the prototypal lodge to higher set expenses and primary charges.

Fortunately, Ford’s North dweller dealings were healthy to equilibrize most of the company’s losses elsewhere. The location reportable a pre-tax operative acquire of $2.1 billion, up from $1.8 1000000000 terminal assemblage and the maximal quarterly acquire here since 2000. Revenue in this location lonely was $18.6 billion, up $700 meg from the aforementioned lodge terminal assemblage and the maximal accumulate of the automaker’s orbicular quarterly income of $32.4 billion, which was downbound $700 million.

Continue datum Ford books $1.4B, profits dragged downbound by aggregation and Asia

Ford books $1.4B, profits dragged downbound by aggregation and Asia originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:30:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Crossover, Ford

When we drove the all-new Escape recently, Ford was ease awaiting authorised EPA authorisation for render economy. Now, though, the drawing are in, and the Blue Oval crapper confidently land that it offers the most fuel-efficient container in the diminutive elector segment… with an semiautomatic transmission, that is.

The hero engine for the newborn Escape is Ford’s newborn 1.6-liter EcoBoost inline-four, substance up 178 H.P. and 184 pound-feet of torque. Combined with a six-speed semiautomatic transmission, this engine is beatific for 23 miles per congius in the municipality and 33 mpg highway, besting the route drawing of the Chevrolet Equinox, Honda CR-V, Toyota RAV4 and others. At 33 mpg, this effectuation the newborn Escape is not exclusive more economical than the outward four-cylinder model, but it bests the drawing of the older Escape Hybrid, too.

But again, this exclusive pertains to semiautomatic transmission-equipped vehicles (the Escape does not substance a drill sending with whatever of its powertrains). The 2013 Mazda CX-5 with its 2.0-liter Skyactiv inline-four and six-speed drill ‘box is rated at 35 mpg highway, but opting for the six-speed machine drops that sort to 32 mpg.

The another powertrains offered in the Escape are backward whatever pretty awesome render frugalness numbers, too. The course aspirated 2.5-liter humble engine is rated at 22/31 mpg, and the range-topping 2.0-liter EcoBoost with 240 hp and 270 lb-ft of force is beatific for 22/30 mpg. Scroll down for the flooded info in Ford’s advise release.

Continue datum 2013 author Escape 1.6L EcoBoost officially rated at 23/33 MPG

2013 author Escape 1.6L EcoBoost officially rated at 23/33 MPG originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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