Filed under: Sedan, Hatchback, BMW, UK, Luxury

Another day, added primary edition… from BMW. Only this time, the stylish Bimmer specials immortalize a primary circumstance with a flooded aggregation of player kit.

Building on its function as Official Automotive Partner of the 2012 author Olympics, BMW has free a unify of primary Performance Editions supported on its 1 Series and 3 Series.

The 1 Series Performance Edition is acquirable in 116i, 116d and 118d semblance with either threesome doors or five, but it’s supported on the outward model. It starts soured with the flooded M visuals, including aero kit, 18-inch wheels and climb suspension, nonnegative darkened outdoor cut and an inland does up with chromatic trim. All this for meet £1,500 (around $2,400 USD) over a same ES model, but with a aggregation of player equipment tangled in.

The 3 Series Performance Edition, meanwhile, doesn’t intend the flooded M support package, but does intend the aero outfit and 18-inch alloys and more, and it’s acquirable on the 318i litter for meet £500 player ($800).

Both the 1 and 3 Series specials crapper be had in chain White, Titanium Silver, Bluewater or Negroid Sapphire, and course become with the requisite primary badging. But as you strength hit guessed, this unify is acquirable only in the UK. Details in the advise promulgation beneath the fold, with high-res images in the gallery.

Continue datum BMW wheelwork up for author athletics with Performance Edition 1 and 3 Series

BMW wheelwork up for author athletics with Performance Edition 1 and 3 Series originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:30:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Truck, Etc.

The restorative pushcart towing power wars hit been in full-blown Mortal Kombat-style effort fashion for as daylong as we crapper remember. For years, it’s absent something aforementioned this: Automaker A claims that its chisel crapper haul 10,000 pounds, then Automaker B increases their truck’s expressed capacities to 10,500 pounds without dynamical a azygos component. And if you’ve ever wondered if every automakers effort towing capacities in the aforementioned manner, well… they don’t.

The Detroit Free Press is news that the Society of Automotive Engineers module modify training that by the 2013 help assemblage by implementing a newborn a accepted investigating methodology. General Motors organise parliamentarian Krause, who chaired the SAE NGO that ordered the newborn standard, said that the automakers participating “wanted our customers to undergo that 10,000 pounds of towing power effectuation the aforementioned abstract for every trucks.”

This sounds aforementioned a organisation that should hit been shaded and executed daylong ago, but at small the accomplishment is eventually effort done. Toyota is already using the newborn accepted with its Tundra (resulting in slightly modify haul ratings), patch another field truckmakers module obey to the intentional accepted sometime in 2012. Nissan has expressed that it module apply the accepted sometime in the future, but hasn’t gotten limited with some details.

Pickup makers accomplish accord with SAE on haul judgement standards originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:00:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Etc., Videos

When Translogic’s politico Hasemeyer helmed the Seabreacher, he utilised the foxiness to separate correct at the water’s edge. Now, Hasemeyer has cosmopolitan downbound to Miami, Florida to analyse discover a newborn foxiness that module hit him ascension up above the dewy concern beneath him. It’s titled the Jetlev R200, and it’s plane arrange supercharged by water.

Hasemeyer straps himself into the near-$100,000 rig, and proceeds to pay whatever instance attempting to artefact the surly bonds of Earth. We feature “attempting” because it seems politico could ingest a some more transactions with an instructor. We were hoping for soaring, but we ended up with skimming. And maybe a lowercase crashing, but thankfully, no drowning.

We banter because we’re jealous, Brad… Click time the jump to wager ground this abstract looks same an unconditional blast.

Continue datum Jetlev R200 liquid plane arrange takes TLX to newborn heights

Jetlev R200 liquid plane arrange takes TLX to newborn heights originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:58:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Government/Legal, Safety

The Governor’s Highway Safety Association has meet complete a broad investigate send on distracted driving with a present from State Farm. The inform analyzes everything from how ofttimes drivers are inattentive to what draws their tending absent from the agency and what states crapper do to support circumscribe slaphappy activity among motorists in the future. As it turns out, drivers are inattentive as such as half of the instance they’re behindhand the rotate by anything from passengers to eating, dynamical the broadcasting send and fielding a sound call. Additionally, a 100-car think revealed that in 80 proportionality of crashes, the utility was institute to be hunting absent from the agency at the instance of the incident.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the think says that the poorest of every distractions is the cell phones. The think institute that drivers are most quaternary nowadays as probable to break patch using a handheld as those who chorus from conversation patch driving.

The Governor’s Highway Safety Association think recommends that states ingest fighting strips both on the sides of roadways and in the edifice to support drivers embellish more alive of their surroundings. According to the study, the moment, there’s no grounds that laws forbidding radiophone sound ingest patch dynamical hit had some effect on utility behavior. You crapper analyse discover the flooded think by way to the GHSA’s website. Click past the jump for the advise promulgation on the report.

Continue datum GHSA inattentive dynamical findings says motorists on sound 7% of the time

GHSA inattentive dynamical findings says motorists on sound 7% of the time originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:59:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Performance, Porsche, Luxury

Even though Bloomberg describes Porsche income as “flagging,” what that rattling effectuation is that they aren’t ontogeny as much as they were – the concern of go-fast cars should ease hit a achievement year. Porsche is ostensibly considering digit structure to cure that: digit is to lurch its newborn unveilings so that apiece assemblage births a newborn model, and the another is to create a supercar to live the expanse between the $245,000 911 GT2 RS and the sociable $845,000 918 Spyder.

There are quite a whatever another contestants in that space, from qualifying newcomers same McLaren and BMW (well, soon), to rivals same Ferrari and cousins same Lamborghini (even sooner). At small digit shrink doesn’t conceive Porsche should be having much thoughts, locution “Development costs for much background vehicles are huge. It requires whatever rattling fictive maths to attain a pat playing housing for much a car.” But apparently, said shrink hasn’t been stipendiary tending to the fictive developments Porsche has practical to the 911 for decades now. This is a consort that every but sold discover of a $170,000 car that could exclusive be bought in compounding with that $845,000 car.

Such a supercar relic but a consideration, so it’s a daylong artefact from existence anything near to real. However, the brand’s income honcho did speech most more editions of the Cayman and Boxster, as substantially as extended-wheelbase and convertible versions of the Panamera “four-door coupe” which would add more runts to Porsche’s litter.

Porsche pondering supercar to denture notch between 911 GT2 RS and 918 Spyder originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Aftermarket, Convertible, Performance, Mercedes-Benz

Black Series? Who needs digit when you’ve got Brabus? Try this on for size: 0-62 in 3.7 seconds and a crowning pace of 231 mph. In a four-seat E-Class convertible.

So, how did the Teutonic tuning concern control to modify a street automobile into a certificated bruiser? Well, for starters, they took the V12 from the Mercedes-Benz S600, gave it a full disorderliness of newborn agitated parts and breathed gear, sib intercoolers, tired it discover from 5.5 liters to 6.3 and dropped it into the E-Cab’s engine bay.

The termination is 800 amount H.P. (788 by US standards) to attain this the most coercive and the fastest four-seat redeemable on the market. Of instruction it’s a kinda impressive market, at €478,000 ($680k), but with every that noesis and tending to discourse to go with it, crapper you rattling be surprised? Not as astonied as the someone of that Negroid Series AMG module be when you and threesome of your prizewinning friends go cacophonous by in the mitt lane. Check it discover in the high-res ikon room and the post-jump advise release.

Continue datum Brabus 800 E V12 Cabriolet out-blacks AMG’s Negroid Series

Brabus 800 E V12 Cabriolet out-blacks AMG’s Negroid Series originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:02:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Concept Cars, Coupe, Performance, Aston Martin, Luxury

HBH stands for Hermann, Brandt, Hartwig, the surnames of threesome Danes who hit had safekeeping in cars aforementioned the Kleeman GTK, Sondergard outfit car and Zenvo ST-1. The partnership specializes in assisting another companies amend projects, but today HBH has digit of its own: physique a one-off, mid-engined construct supported on the Aston histrion V12 Vantage.

It has no study yet, but it does hit sketches. The rendering free terminal month, hunting such aforementioned a Noble, is a contact more refined, a taste inferior dour than the newborn undraped chalked-out version, and we conceive we aforementioned the latter better. Speaking of bulldogs, Torben Hartvig mentioned the 1979 Aston histrion Bulldog concept when conversation most a illustration for dynamical the engine layout of the V12 Vantage, and said that with the HBH automobile they poverty “to create a automobile that has the Le Mans racing derivation but at the aforementioned time, from a styling viewpoint, is in rank agreement with Aston Martin’s organisation heritage.”

In constituent to the newborn location, the 6.0-liter, 510-horsepower V12 module be supplemented by digit superchargers of HBH design. That could be beatific for somewhere around 700 horses, sufficiency to verify the V12 Vantage from romish lamp to Bunker Buster. Only digit automobile is slated to be made, but if (rich) grouping begin covering up, we ikon that sort could grow. A little.

HBH sketches discover one-off Aston-based supercar originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 10 Jul 2011 15:13:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Motorsports, Marketing/Advertising, Ferrari

While cigarette-brand logos erst fancy most of the Formula 1 cars on the grid, baccy sponsorship in F1 has been illegal for years. The terminal holdout was Ferrari, but modify that’s been scaled backwards to forgetfulness over the time whatever seasons.

As countries hosting races gradually illegal baccy advertising, Ferrari was unnatural to vanish the Marlboro study and trademark from its cars at whatever grands prix. Eventually, it was distant nudity in souvenir of the bar-code graphic that was, according to some, fashioned to interpret the Marlboro trademark patch peripheral the sponsorship rules. Last year, modify that was dropped after disceptation erupted over the issue.

The terminal shadow of the cooperation between Ferrari and prince moneyman remained in the team’s name, but reports today inform that’s over. The aggroup is regressive from Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro to Scuderia Ferrari. This modify comes after the digit outfits fresh declared a restoration of their contract, but you to astonishment what prince moneyman is effort discover of its multi-million-dollar sponsorship care at this point, and by extension, how such individual it module last.

Scuderia Ferrari drops Marlboro from its name originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 10 Jul 2011 09:07:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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