Filed under: Concept Cars, Motorcycle, UK, Design/Style

We don’t bitterness the designers who enclosure bikes for the likes of Triumph or Harley-Davidson. Machines same the Bonneville and Sportster are inherently favourite for their unhappy looks, and die-hard fans are the prototypal to scream dishonor when the bikes stray likewise farther from the example recipe. As the Triumph Bonneville Speed Twin Concept elegantly illustrates, that’s a glaring shame. As the production of arts designers Roy Norton and blackamoor Kasher, the Speed Twin is a recent verify on the artist Bonneville. The digit started with a Bonnie as a humble papers and proceeded to update the machine’s philosophy accordingly.

The pridefulness began with the ultimate idea of what the Bonneville could hit evolved into were it not so saddled with the nostalgia millstone. The digit contacted Triumph patch employed for a organisation flat presently after college, and Triumph Product Manager saint Warburton gave the construct the go-ahead. The termination is what you wager here.

The construct uses a hard restricted Bonneville inclose in union with muscular-looking girder forks. Barbour textile covers both the artefact and the grips. With an 865cc engine, Thruxton brake and unequalled gauges and levers, the Speed Twin is distilled awesome. Warburton is ostensibly entertained with the test termination as well, and says whatever of the elements haw attain their artefact to forthcoming Triumph models. Head over to BikeExif for the flooded story.

Triumph Bonnevile Speed Twin Concept is what two-wheel dreams are prefabricated of originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:13:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Sedan, Etc., Work, Chevrolet, Police/Emergency, Australia

The solarise has daylong since ordered on the Ford Crown Victoria and the bounteous sedan’s Police Interceptor variants, but some parts of the land ease haven’t seen the next-generation of motion vehicles verify to the street. In the housing of the Chevrolet Caprice Police Patrol Vehicle, that’s because General Motors has impact a retard in providing the Holden-based sedans. According to the DuPont Registry, the retard is two-fold. Shipping from Australia is attractive individual than expected, and Chevrolet dealers aren’t outfitting the vehicles apace sufficiency to sated demand.

The inform quotes Deputy Chief Jeff Undestad of the Largo Police Department in Largo, Florida as locution his duty waited more than octad months for GM to have their Caprice Patrol Vehicles to the dealer. Undestad should study himself lucky. A neighboring division waited 10 months for its newborn guard cars. Chrysler, meanwhile, commonly takes digit to threesome months to have its police-duty Dodge Charger models.

GM, meanwhile, says that the consort is employed to come the transport issues. The consort today has a bet of Caprice Patrol Vehicles at port, which should support cut the move time.

Why haven’t you seen some newborn Chevy Caprice personnel cars? GM delays. originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:30:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Marketing/Advertising, Chrysler

How do you study up a Super Bowl ad opened Eminem’s penalization and digit of 2011’s most flourishing taglines? If you’re Chrysler, you call in Clint Eastwood and revisit the municipality of Detroit’s comeback news for a advancement update.

Appropriately named “Halftime in America,” Chrysler’s Super Bowl ad prefabricated its impactful entry directly mass the game’s halftime show. Starring dweller picture Clint Eastwood, the ad’s thought mimics the mettlesome itself, reminding Americans that modify though nowadays are tough, city has proven that comebacks are possible.

Stirring? We conceive so. See for yourself after the jump and permit us undergo in the comments if you conceive Chrysler has created a commendable study up to terminal year’s commercial.

Continue datum Chrysler debuts “Halftime in America” Super Bowl ad

Chrysler debuts “Halftime in America” Super Bowl ad originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:44:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Classics, Sedan, Volvo

When you conceive of old-school Volvos – you know, those cubic designs that pre-date the more curvaceous models of today – what do you picture? The 240? The 850? Or do you conceive of the eventual in squared-off Nordic design, the 760?

The help credited with action Volvo was introduced in February, 1982, making it 30 eld older this month. Reflecting on the occasion, Volvo looks backwards at the 760’s development, when it necessary a automobile that would be reliable, efficient, durable, easily serviceable, quiet, somewhat attractive, and be a decorous entertainer (in that order). The termination was a rear-drive litter quaternary inches individual in wheelbase than the 240, still a beatific 220 lbs lighter.

And that cubic design? That selection was as business in nature as it was stylistic. After considering a sort of organisation proposals, the test countenance was designated to be as cost-effective to display as possible. In the end, those budgetary restrictions mitt us with a automobile that was, patch not specially elating to behold, sure an lasting picture of its time. Follow the move to feature the flooded retrospective, and fling finished the images in the bespoken gallery.

Continue datum Volvo marks 30th day of the 760

Volvo marks 30th day of the 760 originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:02:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Renault, UK

Renault has a panoramic clothing of products in its portfolio. In its bag mart it offers a baker’s dozen help lines, and when you intend downbound to bodystyles the arrange ratchets up time 20.

While we don’t intend some of them in North America, the United Kingdom relic a alive mart for the land automaker. But nation buyers haven’t been purchase Renaults as such as they utilised to, suasion a drastic agitate in strategy. As a result, Renault is selection the Modus, Kangoo, Wind, Laguna, Espace and the whole Gordini distinction from its UK lineup, .

So what does that yield for UK shoppers? The Twingo, Clio, Megane, Grand Scenic and Traffic. Renaultsport models rest on offer, finished the Twingo RS is today acquirable in exclusive digit version. Those module presently be connected by the Fluence ZE and Twizy, as substantially as the Dacia range. Regardless, this represents a drastic revilement in a alive mart for digit of Europe’s maximal automakers. Details in the advise promulgation after the jump.

Continue datum Renault chops UK roster in half

Renault chops UK roster in half originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:31:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Videos, Acura, Honda, Luxury

Let’s verify a time to approval the example Acura NSX, a previously unimaginable coupe from an equally unimaginable concern that, as Lexus did with luxury, place every supercar concern on notice. Only the NSX went boost than anything Lexus ever did; after all, there’s no clamour today for Lexus to attain added automobile in the fiber of the LS 400.

Now, enthusiasts and NSX owners wait, hoping that the 2015 Acura NSX channels everything that prefabricated its (by then) 25-year-old antecedent so great.

And that’s ground Honda has compiled more than heptad transactions of NSX recording receptor candy, with primary tending paying to the Le Mans automobile and the NSX-Rs. You’ll encounter it after the jump.

Continue datum Honda explores NSX’s time with an receptor toward the future

Honda explores NSX’s time with an receptor toward the future originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Motorsports, Hybrid, Diesel, Racing

The diesel epoch at Le Mans haw not be over yet, but already we’re sight the beginning of a newborn feat trend: hybrids. Toyota fresh declared the TS030 Hybrid LMP1, Peugeot was employed on a organism edition of its 908 image before it killed the vie program, and today Audi has addicted a organism edition of the R18 TDI.

Few info were released, but what we crapper verify you is that Audi module earth quaternary cars at Le Mans this year: digit with organism support and digit without. One module be headlined by Allan McNish, digit by jazzman Jarvis, digit by Timo Bernhard and digit by André Lotterer, with added drivers to be declared sometime before the 80th streaming of the 24 Hours of Le Mans kicks soured in June.

Audi also declared a two-car entry for the speech FIA World Endurance Championship, with quaternary cars to be separate at superior racers same Spa and Sebring. Expect more info on the R18 organism to be free after this month, but in the meantime you crapper analyse discover the authorised declaration after the jump.

Continue datum Audi confirms R18 organism as conception of 2012 living racing program

Audi confirms R18 organism as conception of 2012 living racing program originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:33:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Budget, Europe, Videos, Hatchback, Hyundai, UK

Based on the can’t-make-enough status of the Hyundai Elantra, the open hasn’t gotten bushed of Hyundai’s “fluidic sculpture” organisation theme. Based on this advertizement for the Hyundai i30, we adjudge that we haven’t either. The five-door oversubscribed in aggregation and supported on the Kia Cee’d papers shows us what we crapper mostly wait from the upcoming Elantra Touring replacement.

The terminal Elantra auto didn’t intend bounteous endeavor here threesome eld ago, but neither the Elantra nor Hyundai were in the function they’re in now. In Europe, the i30 five-door module intend a pick of quaternary engines and threesome transmissions, but we shouldn’t wait to be so stale for choice. Follow the jump to wager the video.

Continue datum Hyundai i30 advertizement gives beatific countenance at reaching Elantra five-door

Hyundai i30 advertizement gives beatific countenance at reaching Elantra five-door originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:33:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Classics, Videos, Design/Style

There are rattling some things that intend the unvaried support of everyone here at Autoblog. One of them is Icon 4×4, which makes impossibly pricey ease worth-every-penny reimaginings of history’s prizewinning off-roaders. For this year’s SEMA Show, Icon debuted something newborn that had null to do with off-roading, ease still had our full aggroup salivating.

Christened a “Derelict” by Icon originator and specializer Jonathon Ward, this 1952 Chevy Coupe looks same an insulted whole from a instance not worth remembering. Knowing Icon same we do, however, it’s anything but. The Derelict is fitted with a 6.2-liter V8 from General Motors producing 430 H.P. and an inland upholstered in gorgeous oldness briefcase leather, but the outdoor is as example and chromatic as it was when Icon institute it. What we didn’t undergo at SEMA is that the ‘52 Chevy isn’t the prototypal Derelict that Icon produced.

Our friends at eGarage hit produced an superior recording most how the digit Derelicts came to be, including how Jonathon environmentalist and his consort prefabricated them. Spoiler alert: It wasn’t as cushy as descending a newborn engine into an older automobile and redoing the leather. The Derelicts were meant to be high-performance ease sure regular drivers, which requires more intellection and field than we ever imagined.

Follow the jump to be digit of the prototypal to check this stylish recording from eGarage.

Continue datum Jonathon environmentalist talks most his Icon Derelicts in stylish eGarage video

Jonathon environmentalist talks most his Icon Derelicts in stylish eGarage video originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:57:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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