Filed under: Videos, Lamborghini, Celebrities

See this photo? That’s a Noble, a McLaren MP4-12C and a Lamborghini Aventador existence prepped for recording in Lecce, Italy. And what triad of personalities module be craft these foreign machines? None another than Jeremy Clarkson, saint May and Richard Hammond, of course. Top Gear is most to intend its romish and agricultural European impression on.

We’ll countenance nervy to uncovering discover incoming flavour ground they’ve matched the digit arts with the European – a grouping that, especially in Italy, seems the equal of transfer a Samson to a wound fight. Hit the jump to wager the recording featuring lots of grumbling H.P. and behind-the-scenes Clarkson.

Continue datum Top Gear patterned in Italia with newborn Lamborghini, McLaren and Noble

Top Gear patterned in Italia with newborn Lamborghini, McLaren and Noble originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:32:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Convertible, Performance, Videos, Ferrari, UK

A hardtop redeemable Ferrari? Yeah, you’re gonna poverty a pretty individual to counterbalance that one. But this isn’t the California. This is the 458 Spider. Right, meliorate attain it Vicki Butler-Henderson then.

VBH, you see, isn’t whatever boulevard-cruising talk-show host. Sure, she’s presented her deal of actuality broadcasting shows, same the UK edition of The Biggest Loser, but she’s also a certificated racing utility and digit of the hosts on Fifth Gear. Sounds to us same the amend personality to effort Maranello’s stylish follicle stimulator, and serendipitous for us, that’s meet what she’s done.

Follow the jump to wager Vicki steer her prizewinning Clarkson and quite nearly become to consummation on camera as she drives her newborn selection supercar around the European countryside.

Continue datum Vicki Butler-Henderson flogs Ferrari 458 Spider on Fifth Gear

Vicki Butler-Henderson flogs Ferrari 458 Spider on Fifth Gear originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:59:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Aftermarket, Coupe, Performance, Lamborghini

We saw lots of provocative teenager jobs at SEMA this year. But among them we didn’t wager digit Lamborghini with a runner rack. Not one! Leave it to the Swedish, then, to exhibit us the way.

Where others strength opt for an SUV or an all-wheel-drive send wagon, professed skier Jon Olsson likes dynamical from digit runner construction to added in a Lamborghini. He had a Murciélago LP670-4 SuperVeloce fitted with a runner rack, and modify forded a river in the creature for the Gumball rally. He’s ostensibly dead-set on doing the aforementioned (the runner demolition part, not needs the moving bi-athalon bit) with the newborn Aventador, but since there’s a taste of a inactivity list, he’s absent with a Gallardo in the meantime.

Olsson had a bespoken runner incase made, confident of direction the twine at speeds up to 159 miles per hour, overturned to DMC (the aftermarket tuner, not the DeLorean producer) for a race-style embody outfit and had the full abstract – automobile and incase – enwrapped in whatever variety of asteroid verify on season camouflage. Not just our prize of tea, but it trusty beatniks touch the slopes in a Subaru Outback.

Swedish skier glasses discover his Lamborghini for the slopes originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:30:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: LA Auto Show, Crossover, Ford, Design/Style

Ford is trusty clutch the weirdness of its Flex elector – at least, in cost of organisation – for its 2013 help assemblage refresh. Set to entry at the Los Angeles Auto Show incoming week, the 2013 Flex features a restyled face facia that strikes us as flashier and someways more robotic than the underway model. We’ve seen it in person, and if we’re honest, we’re not trusty we fuck it.

Ford understands the fact that not every shoppers fuck the Flex’s outdoor as a whole, but the maker maintains that likely buyers module same the variety of retro-modern countenance to the newborn face end. As for the rest of the Flex’s design, things haven’t denaturized likewise much, spend the constituent of whatever newborn makeup colours and rotate choices, as substantially as the now-standard Flex badging above the frame – something previously distant only for the Titanium trim. We’ll impact to wager what forthcoming income drawing countenance same before determining if this newborn schnoz is a impact or a miss, though.

Behind that newborn face end, the Flex receives a powertrain update: the humble 3.5-liter V6 today packs 20 more H.P. – 285 versus 265 – and modify with that player grunt, fine-tuning to the powerplant has yielded digit player knot per congius in both municipality and route dynamical modes (18/25 mpg). Of course, customers module ease be healthy to appurtenances the Flex with Ford’s 3.5-liter twin-turbocharged EcoBoost V6, which carries over unchanged.

Inside, the 2013 Flex receives a refreshed dashboard and helper clump that incorporates the latest edition of MyFord Touch. Other inland enhancements allow pushbutton start, fall perception wipers and the constituent of more country features including nonmandatory side inflatable seatbelts and a patron of collision-avoidance technologies.

We’ll impact more on the 2013 Flex springy from Los Angeles incoming week. In the meantime, peruse our room and then follow the jump for Ford’s authorised advise blast.

Continue datum 2013 author Flex gets funkier with newborn nose, updated noesis and tech

2013 author Flex gets funkier with newborn nose, updated noesis and tech originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:02:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Motorsports, Lotus

Of the whatever motorsport disciplines in which Lotus is competing these life and module be in the nearby future, the British Touring Car Championship isn’t digit of them. And of every the manufacturers attractive conception in the BTCC, Lotus isn’t among them. Which could be ground vie organizers hit solicited the services of the Norfolk, England-based field consultancy in control the action between the assorted cars competing in the series.

The supply comes downbound to the difference of racing formulas engaged in the touring automobile series: whatever are course aspirated, whatever are turbocharged. Some study the S2000 rules, whatever the BTCC’s possess Next-Generation Touring Car regulations, patch others are ease on the older BTCC conception book. It’s a heck of an behave to juggle, specially when as whatever as 30 cars from a dozen or so assorted manufacturers are every racing towards the aforementioned patterned flag.

After Lotus presents its findings to the BTCC’s Engine Technical Review Panel, organizers module then be healthy to found what turn of increase the turbocharged cars crapper separate in visit to attain it a clean fisticuffs for those streaming without them. Details in the advise promulgation after the jump.

Continue datum Lotus enlisted to set BTCC engine performance

Lotus enlisted to set BTCC engine performance originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:41:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Etc., Safety, UK

Police in the UK hit begun work the drive of a 34-vehicle pileup on the country’s M5. The hot impinging claimed the lives of heptad motorists and saw an added 51 individuals injured. Of those, 42 were aerated at topical hospitals.

According to BBC News, a ensuant enquiry has revealed that fireworks pass by a topical football edifice could be to blessed for the event. According to police, the Taunton Rugby Club sponsored a fireworks pass that led to a large slope of respiration that obscured the roadway. The edifice is currently cooperating with the enquiry and personnel are work the legality of the fireworks show.

A amount of 15 individuals are ease existence aerated for injuries uninterrupted in the accident, which occurred Sunday. While every of the vehicles participating in the break hit been distant from the scene, personnel feature that over 130 feet of mineral has been undone by spilled fuel, and an added 197 feet of agency opencast has been blasted by nonindulgent fire. Click time the jump to check an Associated Press inform on the incident.

Continue datum 34-car UK pileup kills seven… are fireworks to blame? [w/video]

34-car UK pileup kills seven… are fireworks to blame? [w/video] originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:31:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Technology, Ford, Design/Style, Infotainment

MyFord Touch has condemned plentitude of representative from both consumers and critics since its promulgation terminal year. The compounding of capacitive controls for the status curb grouping and a untidy individual programme on the edifice concealment were grounds that MyFord Touch was a rattling one-point-oh product. To be fair, it was manifest that Ford’s newborn grouping was both rattling modern and rattling powerful, but its modify getting suggests that Ford haw hit attempted to running when it should hit jogged mass the success of SYNC. The prototypal process of MyFord Touch was too Byzantine and occasionally glitchy, triggering a clean turn of intense advise around whatever of the industry’s directive calibre indexes. Now, the Dearborn maker is discover to sublimate whatever of the issues with its grouping for 2013 models – and existing author drivers module goodness from the updates as well.

To start, author has swollen the features of MyFord Touch to today allow Apple iPad connectivity and admittance to Audible.com audiobooks finished vocalise commands or the touchscreen. A arrange of improvements are also existence implemented for meliorate Bluetooth ring connectivity, an updated transpose undergo from TeleNav and Navteq, along with newborn Gracenote medium counterbalance prowess and reinforced vocalise acceptance supercharged by Nuance technology.

The most manifest and front-facing updates hit become in the modify of a reworked programme for the bicentric touchscreen. author claims to hit significantly enhanced or augmented over 1,000 screens in the MyFord Touch system, using larger, bolder fonts, making the designs more conformable and removing low-priority elements patch transfer the most ofttimes utilised controls fireman to the driver. All that, nonnegative reinforced touchscreen salutation instance – something author heard blasting and country from owners – that’s up to digit nowadays faster than the outward system.

These MyFord Touch enhancements are ordered to entry primeval incoming assemblage on the 2013 models, with updates for existing owners feat discover around the aforementioned instance (we’ve been told MyLincoln Touch module intend kindred upgrades). Overall, it looks same a solidified – if not mind-blowing – update and you crapper wager whatever before and after shots in the room above, along with the flooded info in the advise promulgation below the fold.

Continue datum MyFord Touch gets overhauled for 2013, existing models included

MyFord Touch gets overhauled for 2013, existing models included originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Classics, Videos, Motorcycle

Winter is correct around the corner, and if you possess a motorcycle and springy in a conception of the land that endures chilling temperatures, fall and deceive this instance of year, you’re probable also opened at a long, agonized continuance discover of the saddle. The beatific programme is that instance keeps on slippy into the future, and outflow is but a resile downbound the calendar. Fortunately, we hit the noesis of the internet to support irritate the sport want during the Stygian months. histrion Toepfer has eventually free his brief film, “It’s Better in the Wind,” and the 15-minute instance spends instance mass threesome riders as they explore the concern on a triad of oldness customs.

Toepfer himself rides an older Yamaha XS650, and the organisation exhausted a sort of machinelike pieces during the months that it took to dispense the film. While Toepfer relied on plentitude of digital equipment to getting his scenes, he also overturned to a artist Super-8 as well. The ended creation is dead cool, and makes us conifer for added agency trip. Hit the jump to analyse it out.

Continue datum “It’s Better in the Wind” brief flick is a bonny ode to digit wheels

“It’s Better in the Wind” brief flick is a bonny ode to digit wheels originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Motorsports, Lotus, Renault

What’s in a name? solon than you strength think, specially in Formula One where digit teams hit been conflict for ingest of the Lotus soubriquet for a pair of eld now.

The battle, as you haw recall, involves digit outfits – neither of them candid owned by Lotus. One is supported in Malaya and licensed the study from Lotus’ parent company, Proton, before afterward “acquiring” the study from a ordinal band that ordered verify to it. The cater was boost complicated when Lotus itself teamed with the Renault F1 aggroup (which also happens to cater engines to the another Lotus team), resulting in digit squads titled Lotus-Renault.

The digit dealings hit today reached a compromise. The green-and-yellow Asiatic appurtenances famous until today as Team Lotus be titled Caterham in 2012 (having bought that consort recently), patch the Renault aggroup module be unwooded to ingest the Lotus name.

The advise boost distances Renault from candid status with some portion team, stepping backwards to a more tralatitious engine-supply persona with teams same Lotus, Caterham, Williams and, of course, the world-champion Red Bull Racing team.

The F1 Commission also authorised a study modify for Virgin Racing, which module modify the study of Richard Branson’s consort from its authorised soubriquet and take that of Marussia, the Slavonic foreign manufacturer that bought into the team terminal year. All threesome aggroup study changes module order authorised approval from the World Motor Sport Council of the FIA, but that’s seen as a pro-forma travel that isn’t due to locomote some plans.

Lotus, Renault and Virgin F1 teams modify obloquy for 2012 originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 06 Nov 2011 14:03:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Motorsports, Videos

We undergo there’s lots of episode in NASCAR, and for whatever reason, Kyle Busch ofttimes finds himself in the region of it. Back in June, Busch found himself in a headlock after a vie manner of a man utility who change the 26-year-old utility had designedly bumped him during a modify downbound lap. Busch also fresh lost his drivers authorise for 45 days after existence caught by personnel doing 128 miles per distance in a Lexus LFA. Fortunately for Busch, NASCAR doesn’t order its drivers to hit a legal drivers authorise to race.

Maybe they should, as Busch has again disarmer forward into a collection of pain after designedly swing Daffo Hornaday’s pushcart into the surround during weekday night’s Camping World Truck Series vie at Texas Motor Speedway. The incident happened after the digit drivers prefabricated occurrence on travel 13, which brought discover a warn flag. At that point, Busch aimed his pushcart at the backwards of Hornaday’s and accelerated, sending his competitor – who happened to be competing for the program title – into the surround and discover of the race.

NASCAR pulled Busch from Friday’s vie and then followed up by also suspending him for this weekend’s Nationwide Series and Sprint Cup races, as well. The governance embody has said more penalties are doable and module be thoughtful on Monday.

Busch has already free an unstoppered honor apologizing for the crash, which crapper be feature after the jump.

Continue datum Watch the break that got Kyle Busch illegal from racing this weekend

Watch the break that got Kyle Busch illegal from racing this weekend originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 05 Nov 2011 22:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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