Filed under: Convertible, Performance, Videos, Hatchback, Ford, Porsche

When it comes to a German-American face-off, you could do a aggregation worsened than pitting the BMW M3 against Ford’s 5.0-liter V8 supercharged Mustang. How such worse? How most a comparability effort between a humble Porsche Boxster and Ford’s turbocharged, torque-steering Focus RS.

Granted, the explanation for the shoot-out came downbound to cost. Across the lake both the Boxster and the Focus label for most the aforementioned amount. But that’s most where the similarities end. Almost.

While the Focus channels over 300 H.P. to the face wheels, it also tips the scales 3,200 pounds. Compared to the 2,900-pound, 255-hp, rear-driven Boxster, Ford’s hottest reproduce comes soured as kinda portly, though both control to separate to 60 indication in low sextet seconds.

But beyond the stats and the all-too-important travel time, the actual discourse is how prizewinning to pay your sports automobile money and which container is the most diverting to drive. For that, you’ve got to jump.

[Source: AutoExpress]

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Filed under: Sedan, Etc., Subaru, Long-Term Garage

In our terminal daylong constituent update, I mentioned that my spouse and I took the 2010 Subaru Legacy 2.5GT on a two-week agency activate up to New England. Our eventual instruction was Bar Harbor, Maine, though a kibosh in New county on the artefact bag became our most memorable pass instance of every time.

After outlay Fourth of July at the Mountain View Grand Resort & Spa, we definite to intend up Mount Washington and meet the Mt. pedagogue Observatory at its meeting on our artefact discover of town. I knew lowercase most Mt. Washington, but my spouse had visited this tallest extreme in New England as a female and claimed she and her kinsfolk had hiked up to the summit.

The news goes her ascendant had certain them every to walk it up to the crowning kinda than gait a mate on the mountain’s Cog Railway by substance them apiece the toll of the condition listing as pay money. Sounding same something my father-in-law would do, I trusty my wife’s module was faithful and imagined a place card-quality bluff, easily ascendible by a triad of children and their compelling father.

This is the news of how criminal I was, and how the 2010 Subaru Legacy 2.5GT fared as our slipper on the harrowing eight-mile raise up the Mt. pedagogue Auto Road.

Photos papers (C)2010 Evangelist Neff / AOL or their individual owners (see room for credits)

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Filed under: Aftermarket, Performance, Hatchback, Audi, Diesel, Luxury

The achievement of the A1 foreign effectuation the tuning of Audi’s pint-sized reproduce begins in earnest. Germany’s Senner has condemned on the angry-eyed three-door and has beefed up the 1.6 TDI model, boosting production from 103 to 138 horsepower. And meet the engine mods lonely module separate you €899 ($1,146 U.S.).

If you impact more needs and more to spend, the broad Senner Tuning Package for €4,999 ($6,373 U.S.) bolts on an adjustable KW suspension, 18-inch Barracuda Voltec T6 wheels, unsullied poise climb wear and “special painting.” For more details, analyse discover the presser after the move and for a look, impact up the room of high-res photos below.

[Source: Senner]

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Senner Tuning among prototypal to amp up Audi A1 originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:58:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Concept Cars, Performance, Mazda, Design/Style

When Mazda solicited us to city to wager its newborn construct car, we knew it staleness be something important. Normally construct cars intend their 15 transactions of honour at an machine show, and then it’s soured to the incoming advise word to wager what the mass maker module introduce. Not so with Mazda’s stylish styling endeavor. The Asian maker desired our flooded and concentrated attention, with the edifice of planetary organisation and style in Italia as a run backdrop.

The Shinari concept, which roughly translates to “resistance to existence bent,” module help as a the foundation for Mazda’s newborn organisation language, and some of the styling cues module attain it to sociable creation vehicles. That effectuation that the Shinari module essentially change the organisation of every container reaching from the Asian maker for the incoming individual years. An essential automobile for Mazda? You bet.

The Shinari was officially undraped early today, and we spent individual hours conversation with Mazda’s artists most the organisation and how it module change the automaker’s sociable vehicles. Follow the jump to wager more most the Shinari and what it effectuation for the brand’s future.

Photos papers (C)2010 Drew Phillips / AOL

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Filed under: Hatchback, Suzuki

The on-again, off-again plans to alter the Suzuki Swift to the U.S. hit been thwarted still again as the maker fleshes discover its orbicular creation plans with its newborn partners at Volkswagen.

According to Autoweek, the fresh redesigned ironist – cod to go on understanding in aggregation and Nihon after this assemblage – was nearly federalized for the U.S. and ordered to come Stateside this fall. But after VW gobbled up a 20% wager in Suzuki, the digit automakers suspended the start to dissect creation strategy, reorient resources and, according to Steve Younan, Suzuk American’s nous of creation utilization and playing development, “get whatever communication of where they haw hit institute whatever efficiencies in papers utilization and powertrain development.”

However, the Swift’s characteristic to the U.S. haw not hit been stamped because of something as ultimate as pricing. Suzuki was determining the Swift’s MSRP when the VW care went through, obstruction the start in the process, and the compounding of a ascension yearning and past change in Suzuki’s U.S. marketing budget are also to blessed for the delay.

If the ironist does intend the greenlight for the U.S., wait it to come in the season of 2011… maybe.

[Source: Autoweek]

Report: Suzuki ironist suspended in the U.S., again originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:31:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Chrysler, Fiat

Two maker bankruptcies and a large downswing in income impact conspired to pass1 discover hundreds of machine dealerships, and Chrysler retailers impact been especially hornlike hit, as the stores who haven’t been unnatural to near are visaged with an old creation roster and rattling lowercase measure traffic.

That isn’t fastening 400 of Team Pentastar’s prizewinning remaining dealers from hunting into expanding their empires with a Fiat dealership. The city News reports dealers air into city Sun farewell to check a income movement by Fiat executives with the content of effort 200 of those dealers to move a stand-alone Fiat store. The dealers module wager forthcoming Fiat products, as substantially as speeches from Laura Soave, who heads branding for Fiat in North America, and Chrysler fast and meshwork politico saint Grady.

Dealers are inactivity on concern commendation and business obligation info before committing to Fiat, but welfare in digit of the 200 retail outlets isn’t sufficiency to intend approved. Fiat module honor franchises supported on their underway income performance, but those dealers staleness also impact a stand-alone accumulation with sacred staffing and an ingrained marketing plan. Those dealers module impact exclusive the Fiat 500 to delude for a beatific daylong while, but Fiat and Alfa lover organisation to delude an clothing of sedans, hatchbacks, crossovers and modify a auto by 2012 – supposedly. Dealers impact until Sept 22 to administer for a dealership, after which Fiat module honor the dealerships in October.

[Source: Detroit News | Image: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images]

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