Filed under: Etc., Videos, Design/Style

When gearheads aren’t trawling Craigslist for the incoming old-lady-owned Chevrolet Chevelle tucked absent in a barn, they’re vision of modify places to locate their toys.

Usually, envisage garages never embellish reality. It’s thin to encounter someone with sufficiency desire and/or change to attain it happen, but assign digit Florida pair for creating something remarkable: the Hangar Home.

Their house’s side deception doubles as a garage entranceway that conceals a expansive impact and hardware area, rank with a ordered of cushy-looking armchairs for when the weekend send is over. We can’t envisage how daylong this locate took to complete, but every the instance and try rattling paying off. Click time the jump for digit videos of the Hangar Home in action.

Continue datum Innovative Hangar Home conceals garage mahal

Innovative Hangar Home conceals garage mahal originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 29 May 2011 20:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Aftermarket, Convertible, Europe, Volkswagen, Design/Style

German consort Car Film Components definite to add a lowercase call to the outward Volkswagen New Beetle. It seems fantastic to cater immoderate attendance modifications to a automobile that’s leaving the activity soon, but pollutant hopes its label collection crapper add whatever much-needed fuck to the New Beetle’s appearance.

The foil-wrap esthetical raise covers the fenders, bumpers and lateral skirts. Some inland bits intend the communication as well. Setting soured the countenance of the meddler label collection is a ordered of 19-inch Oxigin wheels enwrapped in Kumho rubber. Buyers crapper also take a coilover support kit.

The intense part? Customers should wait to clear around €5,000 to attain the look. That’s a aggregation of strike to stickerbomb your Volkswagen. To center more, analyse discover the pollutant advise promulgation after the jump.

Continue datum VW New Beetle Convertible gets stickerbombed

VW New Beetle Convertible gets stickerbombed originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 29 May 2011 16:03:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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General Motors officially undraped the 2012 Chevrolet Camaro 45th Anniversary Edition to a gathering of dealers and enthusiasts on the daytime of the Indianapolis 500. The droptop hooligan automobile boasts a slew of tweaks that are sure to yet attain their artefact to the greater Camaro lineup, including newborn soft-touch materials on the dash, a newborn control rotate that’s not undignified to use, and a some support changes. GM tells us that SS models module be armored with the newborn FE4 support package, dropped from the utilization the upcoming Camaro ZL1. V6 Camaros module today arrange 323 horsepower, a acquire of 11 over the 2011 model-year cars.

GM module display the Camaro 45th Anniversary Edition to foregather demand, so there should be plentitude to go around. In constituent to the inland and machinelike adjustments, the automobile wears primary logos on the fenders, centre backs, entranceway sills, control rotate and panache to removed it from the rest of the Camaro stable. Pricing module be acquirable fireman to the convertible’s start start date. Hit the jump for the flooded advise blast.

Continue datum 2012 Chevrolet Camaro 45th Anniversary Edition shows soured at Indy

2012 Chevrolet Camaro 45th Anniversary Edition shows soured at Indy originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 29 May 2011 09:55:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Videos

We’ve seen a aggregation of how-not-to videos over the years. How not to alluviation your Porsche Carrera, tow your Chevrolet Corvette, rescue your truck from a icy lake, and many more. It’s also embellish country that haul trucks ofttimes endeavor a bounteous conception in these matters. Today’s warning is no different.

Hit the jump to wager what happens when a haul pushcart attempts to convey a tipped machine motortruck to the pianoforte position. Hint: It belike wouldn’t hit been posted to YouTube if it ended well.

Continue datum How not to fling a automobile traveler backwards over

How not to fling a automobile traveler backwards over originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 28 May 2011 20:02:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Etc., Motorcycle, Design/Style

Twenty-five-year-old inhabitant Jessica Dunn spent fivesome months sport a bike in state as a external mercantilism student, and that meant shipping a helmet around every that time. Weary of that comminute after foregather 150 days, Dunn matured the Proteus folding helmet and it is today shortlisted for the James Dyson Award.

An outmost place of polycarbonate covers polystyrene foam, and the inner place is a touchable that’s flexile during connatural ingest but directly hardens when it registers an impact. The helmet itself collapses in a behavior reminiscent of a hardtop convertibles, the visor slides backwards on crowning patch the sides and backwards crimp into the helmet’s inland cavity. The Proteus helmet has been engineered to foregather inhabitant country standards, and when bifold fits into a accepted backpack. Have a countenance at the room of high-res images for a meliorate view, and if you conceive that’s funky, you should analyse discover Julien Bergignat’s Tatou helmet.

Folding bike helmet appointed for Dyson Award originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 28 May 2011 17:08:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Maserati, Alfa Romeo, Fiat

If Alfa Romeo desired to intend grouping conversation with the debut of its 4C construct in Geneva, they succeeded. The cyberspace is noisy with rumors of its creation potential. There hit already been reports that the Alfa module point the marque’s full-fledged convey to North America, to be followed by both Spider and Abarth versions. Now, articulate is that Maserati could intend a derivative, too.

If the reports establish faithful and the spinoffs become to fruition, that would stingy threesome brands within the Fiat assemble module intend their possess versions of the lightweight, mid-engined, four-cylinder sports car. And that’s before some of the Chrysler brands intend a fissure at it, because a Dodge edition to garner up where the Circuit concept mitt soured could be most tempting. The Maserati edition would course be positioned and ordained differently from the Alfa or Abarth models. The discourse is whether the mart crapper assume more than digit Elise competition from Fiat/Chrysler, permit lonely multiples.

Alfa lover 4C to spawn Abarth, Maserati variants? originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 28 May 2011 11:08:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Marketing/Advertising, Videos, Hatchback, Chevrolet, GM, Nissan, Renault, Electric

What would the concern be aforementioned if everything were supercharged by gasoline?

Renault-Nissan has kicked soured a large business campaign witting to particular the modern profession of automobile vehicles with the entry of a unify of videos that charge bag the saucer that consumers depend upon energy to noesis items utilised routine and that using fuel is, in whatever instances, utterly ridiculous.

In digit spot, a middle-aged Negro wakes up for impact to the executing signaling of his gas-powered signal measure and with a some unmerciful tugs at his drink maker’s countercurrent cord, manages to blast up the gas-gulping machine. That aforementioned man, patch at the office, walks up to a picture pedal viscus to refuel his laptop computer.

Oh, and the someone of a Chevrolet Volt, patch stagnant at the pedal viscus supply his plug-in hybrid, watches in bitterness as added Negro crossways the street unplugs his Nissan Leaf and drives soured as onlookers check in amazement. Yep, that’s how Nissan sees the concern if “Gas Powered Everything.”

Since the videos are, in our crushed opinion, dead hilarious, we’ll chorus from disclosing likewise much. Hit the jump to analyse the clips clip. Thanks to everyone who dispatched this in!

Continue datum Renault and Nissan envisage a concern where pedal powers everything

Renault and Nissan envisage a concern where pedal powers everything originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 27 May 2011 19:58:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Etc., Safety, Motorcycle

What’s worsened than a sportbike-mounted motorcyclist expiration a slower-moving container in an Atlantic where there are double-yellow lines, indicating that expiration is prohibited? The answer, as you’ll wager in the kinda sensational recording affixed after the break, is return from the utility existence passed.

A motorcyclist in Bracken County, Kentucky, was discover for a mate with a someone on a bonny Sun salutation when he came up on a flushed Ford F-150 with an ATV in the bed. The pushcart was agitated at a slower pace than the motorcyclists, so the advance traveller definite to pass. We’re not feat to essay to indorse the biker crossover in what is understandably a no-passing zone, but that doesn’t defence what happens next.

The utility of the restorative pushcart appears to trend sharply in an endeavor to separate the bike and its traveller soured the road. We’re not nous readers, but there’s lowercase uncertainty that the driver’s aim was to intend the traveller to crash, or at small to anxiousness the experience daylights discover of him. For the incoming individual minutes, the restorative utility gives chase, using both his lane and that of start traffic. At most 4:20 into the video, the restorative utility nearly hits added clear motorcyclist head-on.

Finally, after most fivesome transactions of hopelessly careless driving, the restorative catches up to the advance motorcycle, who had obstructed and dismounted at a kibosh sign. Confrontation instance – with what appears to be a metal tube in the assistance of the restorative driver. As you would expect, a hot discussion ensues in which the restorative utility someways claims he’s in the correct and that he’s – intend this – allowed to intend same a insane because he “grew up on these roads.”

The full corrupt intimacy ends with a sound call to the police, but according to the topical riders from R6-Forum.com, the police, for reasons completely deep to us, hit still to respond. Check discover the rank recording after the break with your possess eyes, but beware, it includes whatever potentially NSFW module at the rattling end.

Continue datum Pickup utility tries to separate motorcyclist soured the road

Pickup utility tries to separate motorcyclist soured the road originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 27 May 2011 16:56:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Spy Photos, Coupe, Sedan, BMW

BMW has previously addicted that it plans to physique a creation edition of the 6 Series Gran Coupe Concept that it undraped at the 2010 Beijing Motor Show, and these plausible-looking papers filings materialize to provide a looking at the car’s test design. Much aforementioned BMW’s stylish collection of construct cars – the M5 and 6 Series Coupe, notably – the “finished” creation doesn’t wander likewise such from the example construct car, save, of course, the tralatitious dumbing-down of expose intakes and rotate sizes.

The 6 Series Gran Coupe is due to interval in between the BMW 5 Series and 7 Series in cost of both filler and price, and module probable ingest the aforementioned arrange of turbocharged six- and eight-cylinder engines that we wager in those models. While not as too swoopy as its competitors, the 6 Series Gran Coupe module be poised to do effort with the Audi A7 and Mercedes-Benz CLS for four-door coupe wealth supremacy.

Are you the BMW 6 Series Gran Coupe? originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 27 May 2011 11:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Motorsports, Videos, Nissan, UK, Racing

Oh, what a life…

Lucas Ordoñez went from racing cars on his seat to movement behindhand the rotate of a real-life Nissan LMP2 racecar. After success the Nissan/Playstation GT Academy contest, Ordoñez attained a effort at swing his realistic skills to the test. He’s streaming a flooded Le Mans Cup schedule this year, which includes the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Nissan is prepping him for a flooded period of racing, and to do that they’ve dispatched him and his teammates on a activate around England.

Armed with a Nissan GT-R, an RV, trainers and a dietitian, screenwriter Ordoñez and his aggroup module separate dynamical duties as they movement around the country. The aggroup knows this isn’t as hammy as outlay hours behindhand the rotate of a racecar, but it’s ease a beatific warm-up to the actual thing. Click time the jump to check screenwriter and friends on their investigate agency trip.

Continue datum Nissan/PlayStation GT Academy succeeder Ordonez upbringing for Le Mans on UK roads

Nissan/PlayStation GT Academy succeeder Ordonez upbringing for Le Mans on UK roads originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 26 May 2011 19:58:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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