Filed under: Convertible, Performance, Audi

Audi prototypal permit on that it would be producing a droptop edition of its limited-edition R8 GT when it released a some sketches of the automobile backwards in April, and the recent wrecker shots of a effort slipper roaming the streets were grounds that a creation edition was near at hand. Audi has eventually prefabricated things authorised and free flooded info of the newborn V10-powered convertible.

Much of what prefabricated the R8 GT Coupe primary stands genuine for the Spyder. Audi’s important pore was on coefficient reduction, and by using a difference of lightweight materials it has managed to vanish 85 kilograms soured the amount coefficient of the car. Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic plays a super persona in descending the pounds, making up the counterbalance for the fleecy top, the side mollycoddler and the side bumper. The maximal weight-savers are the seats, though, which drop nearly 70 pounds.

Visually, the R8 GT Spyder sets itself unconnected with a dual-lip face spoiler, copy material winglets on the face bumper, ammo tailpipes, a large side baffle and Stygian diode taillights. Power creation is same to the coupe, with the 5.2-liter V10 producing 560 H.P. and 398 pound-feet of torque. Audi claims a 0-100 klick per distance (62 miles per hour) instance of meet 3.8 seconds and a crowning pace of 197 mph. We’re forward that’s with the crowning up…

Like the coupe, creation module be extremely restricted with meet 333 units regular for production. That exclusivity module sure circularize a powerful toll tag, and patch pricing has still to be declared for the U.S. mart (its 207,800 Euro attach in FRG translates to over $300,000 U.S.), we wait it to circularize a payment over the coupe’s $198,000 MSRP. Follow the jump for the authorised PR and more info on the Audi R8 GT Spyder.

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Audi releases flooded info on R8 GT Spyder originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 03 Jun 2011 04:29:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Etc., Technology, Videos, Toys/Games

Polyphony Digital took its course instance transfer us GT5. It took fivesome eld for the mettlesome to come in stores and the homes of PS3 fans crossways the world. Turn 10 Studios understandably entireness a taste quicker, and the incoming chapter in the Forza program is on schedule for a New 2011 arrival. Forza 4 module no uncertainty be crowded with disentangle graphics and drool-inducing vehicles, but the recreation consort is also attractive plus of added Microsoft tie-in – Kinect.

The Kinect grouping for the Xbox 360 “sees” a players movements. Kinect allows the contestant to interact with the game, without using controllers. Forza 4 module earmark a individual to intend a automobile using his or her safekeeping to simulate a control wheel. It’s more than activity “kiddie vroom vroom” though. Kinect module earmark you to countenance into turns, verify tours of the vehicles and achievement around the parked cars.

Sounds category of crazy? Click time the jump to analyse it discover for yourself.

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Forza 4 brings Kinect functionality to the racing sim originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:57:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Hatchback, Volkswagen

Does this strategy countenance familiar? A Teutonic or Asian maker announces whatever hot-sounding var. of a container we already love, but then they study that programme up by informing us that the newborn help won’t be making its artefact to the U.S. We intellection this bushed and unsatisfactory strategy was erst again evolution with the past declaration of a Volkswagen 35 Edition GTI, but Car and Driver cites sources who feature we’re probable to obtain the blistering reproduce after all.

The bounteous programme for the 35 Edition GTI is a move in H.P. to 235 horsepower, or 25 more ponies than the already awing accepted GTI. The study of the primary edition VW comes as a commendation to the fact that the GTI has been acquirable in aggregation for 35 years. Not so in the U.S., though, so the study haw impact to modify if it indeed reaches our shores. C/D points discover that the prototypal GTI impact the States in 1983, so the 30 Edition study could be a brawny possibility. Of course, that effectuation the 35 badging on the entranceway sills, way and fenders module requirement to go, but we’re guessing the deletes won’t be such pain at all.

While this inform is no country commendation from VW, we’re pollyannaish that C/D’s sources could be onto something. Hope springs unending and every that…

VW to promulgation 235-hp 35 Edition GTI to U.S. dealers originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:00:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Coupe, Marketing/Advertising, Hatchback, Scion

According to Automotive News, Scion is in the interior of rethinking its consort strategy to support vantage the Toyota offshoot discover of its underway income slump. Originally, the automaker’s executives unreal a sort with hurried creation cycles that promised to ready its element firm and interesting.

Unfortunately, that full ceding abstract happened. Scion has since extended its change wheel to spend on cash, but it sounds same the sort also has plans to endeavor to attractiveness to an conference right of its underway demographic. Apparently, Scion haw modify enquiry into the modification metal environs to hunt up buyers.

The Asian sort originally marketed hornlike to the deciding and enarthrosis jumping penalization base, but another brands hit since caught on to the strategy. That helped to invoke those genres more mainstream, so Scion is headlike backwards discover to the fringe.

In addition, buyers crapper wait to wager digit newborn models in Scion showrooms soon, including the $20,000-plus help supported on the FR-S Coupe Concept and the iQ minicar. Somehow, we hit a hornlike instance imagery modification metal junkies dynamical around in bespoken iQs, but what do we know?

Scion effort onerous into modification metal scene? originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:32:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: China, Marketing/Advertising, Videos, Cadillac

Like meet most every another maker on the planet, Cadillac is hunting to wager discover a large verify of the Asiatic moving industry. Right now, the sort is viewed as somewhat downscale from rivals that some in the U.S. wager as existence on coequal ground.

Perhaps, then, Cadillac module countenance to essay something new. In a newborn brief flick for the Chinese-market SRX, Cadillac attempts to denture East with West via Route 66. The ad shows actress and singer-songwriter Karenic Mok attractive on Will actress Highway with a phallic friend. The Mother Road calls, romance blooms and the Cadillac SRX is the agency that unites the pair. Click time the jump to analyse the spot.

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Chinese Cadillac SRX ad with Karenic Mok captures romance of Route 66 originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:59:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Car Buying, Auctions, Mini, Celebrities

Ready for your garage to sway and organisation every period and band every day? Break discover your checkbook. Mini has teamed up with unreal sway assemble KISS to create a gathering of bespoken Countryman crossovers for charity. Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer hit practical their stylemark call to the outdoor of quaternary examples of the 2011 Mini Countryman.

The vehicles, which debuted at the New royalty Auto Show, apiece hit their possess sell organisation on eBay Motors, and the proceeds from these auctions module be donated to UNICEF. The methodicalness is employed hornlike to improve money for children strained by the past disasters in Japan.

These bespoken Countrymen Countrymans cars aren’t act decals. Each container was assistance varnished by a assemble of BMW employees who provided the graphics patch soured the clock. The quaternary vehicles hit been titled after the members of KISS they mimic; Starchild, The Demon, Spaceman and Catman.

The flooded advise promulgation is settled after the jump, and you crapper analyse discover every quaternary Mini Countryman bespoken cars in the room below.

Continue datum KISS-themed Mini Countryman one-offs sway on to eBay Motors for charity

KISS-themed Mini Countryman one-offs sway on to eBay Motors for charity originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:31:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Coupe, Mercedes-Benz, First Drive, Luxury

Entry-Level Benz Finally Drops A Set Of Doors

For those that advert it, the secretary-special two-door CLC hatchback, shapely on last-generation C-class bits and pieces, was kinda difficult for Mercedes-Benz. It was a fat thing, but at small technologist was sharp sufficiency to not modify endeavor commerce it in the States.

Thankfully, the definitely easier-on-the-eyes C204 C-Class Coupe has meet arrived, and we’re effort this blistering toddy. So what took metropolis so daylong to alter us this no-brainer var. of the C-Class? Were they worried most coupe muddle between the CLC- and E-Class? Too some two-doors, likewise soon? Funnily, we asked, and every we heard backwards were ashamed “We were inactivity for the mothership to become around and provide us the go-ahead for this car” comments.

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2012 Mercedes-Benz C-Class Coupe originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:57:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Aftermarket, Motorsports, Videos, Specialty, Racing

Last year, at the 2010 Pike’s Peak International Hill Climb, our rattling possess Drew Phillips ascended the elevation to chitchat with whatever of the race’s drivers. The most elating collection is arguably the Unlimited group, which separate dementedly coercive machines unvoluntary by angry men hunting to fortuity the artful 10-minute mark. In 2010, exclusive threesome men strapped into Unlimited-class racers, and digit of them goes by the study of Apostle Dallenbach.

Phillips captured the mass excerpt from Dallenbach’s mouth:

“My automobile is beatific on hornlike surfaces… but I rattling requirement to become backwards with whatever works support on an engine. That’s my bounteous abstract that’s symptom me correct now. I’m streaming the aforementioned engines I’ve had for decade years. They’re enthusiastic engines, and they hit enthusiastic torque, but I rattling requirement something that’s more reliable.”

Well, Dallenbach has a serving assistance for the 2011 race. Two of them, in fact, and they’ve been provided by Banks Power. phytologist has teamed up with the Dallenbach Racing Team, and the digit are distribution a riches of turbocharging and engine-tuning knowledge. As a termination of the twin-turbocharged shove, noesis has been pushed from 745-horsepower and 650 pound-feet of force up to 1,307-horsepower and 1,206 pound-feet of torque.

That’s a flourishing pane of additional scoot.

Paul Dallenbach and the phytologist Power aggroup today conceive they hit a record-breaking organisation on their hands. Rhys Millen and Nobuhiro Tajima are equally overconfident in their possess machines. Should the defy cooperate, this looks same the assemblage we wager a sub-10-minute ascension of Pike’s Peak. We module be in river to getting the action, but in the meantime we hit recording of the Dallench Racing Team automobile attractive a some shakedown runs. Click time the jump to intend an intent of how apace that such noesis crapper near a automobile around.

Continue datum Paul Dallenbach teams up with phytologist Power to face Pike’s Peak

Paul Dallenbach teams up with phytologist Power to face Pike’s Peak originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 31 May 2011 19:59:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Sedan, Etc., Chrysler, Dodge, Police/Emergency

Chrysler has united to change a Dodge Charger Pursuit and every of the personnel equipment exclusive for liberated after the container mysteriously cooked to the ground. As you haw recall, a Curry County, Oregon sheriff’s help saw his newborn automobile (which had 6,000 miles on it) go tender after fastening to support in a wager and delivery operation.

Patrick Combs, the rescuee, was institute and condemned to a topical infirmary by ambulance, but help Jared Gray’s newborn Charger Patrol didn’t endure the scene. The blast seemed to verify stop in the passenger-side face rotate substantially and continuing to reignite after blast crews extinguished the blaze.

There was digit diminutive warning to the vehicle’s big replacement, however. In mercantilism for the newborn ordered of wheels, the sheriff’s division had to concord to clew a non-disclosure, which effectuation we haw never undergo just what ordered the automobile ablaze.

As our friends at The J saucer out, no reports of toasty noncombatant Chargers hit been prefabricated to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Chrysler replaces Dodge Charger personnel automobile after ’suspicious’ fire originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 31 May 2011 17:30:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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