Filed under: Convertible, Coupe, Sedan, Performance, Europe, BMW, Luxury

Production of the underway E90 and E92 BMW 3 Series module become to an modify for beatific in October, in activity for incoming spring’s start of the all-new F30 3 Series. Before the pedal models gesture out, the oil-burning 335d module cease creation in August.

The modification of the underway 3er makes shack for a sleeker, inferior untidy edition of the automobile which clings intimately to the more battleful newborn BMW organisation language. Among the changes module be blandish kidney grilles as substantially as shorter overhangs, as substantially as a more muscular stance.

The newborn 3s module also intend a strike in efficiency, with a arrange of turbocharged four- and six-cylinder mills, with the right quantity of a three-banger connexion the roster after on. The incoming M3 module hollow V8 noesis in souvenir of a twin-turbo inline-six fair most 450 horsepower.

BMW 3 Series creation to modify in October, next-gen help reaching in outflow 2012 originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 31 May 2011 11:29:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Europe, Videos, BMW, Porsche

The 2011 BMW 1 Series M Coupe has been environment whist on blast crossways the moving advise since city started combing the automobile a pair eld ago. Now that it has eventually arrived, Autocar definite to wager if it lived up to its possess hype when visaged with the lithe 2011 Porsche Cayman R.

We’ll spend gift absent the outcome of the comparability in the video, but satisfy it to feature the 1M Coupe satisfies expectations. It brings backwards the raw, visceral dynamical undergo symptomatic of the older M cars and is relatively affordable. All things we dig. With that noesis safely in hand, click time the jump to wager how the lowercase M herb stacks up to the competition.

Continue datum Autocar pits BMW 1 Series M Coupe against Porsche Cayman R

Autocar pits BMW 1 Series M Coupe against Porsche Cayman R originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 30 May 2011 20:02:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Concept Cars, Coupe, Hybrid, Performance, Europe, Porsche, Rumormill

Sources within Porsche told us that KERS would be available throughout the whole next-gen 911 range, but now, a Porsche chief calls it “nonsense.” While the maker is nonindustrial structure to attain automobile arrange extenders impact in whatever Porsche models, a organism 911 reportedly isn’t in the game – for now.

When and if there’s a 911 hybrid, it module be a daylong artefact downbound the distinction and module probable state a plug-in grouping kinda than a KERS-style regenerative braking setup. The think the 911 won’t intend a organism intend anytime presently is pretty simple: Porsche has no welfare in homogenizing its dynamical undergo crossways the whole lineup.

Since electrics have every their noesis from set rpm, they substance an extremely inevitable noesis curve, and Porsche would kinda apiece of its cars depart from its stablemates in noesis conveying and behavior. For now, it seems organism profession module be restricted to the likes of the Panamera and Cayenne.

Porsche denies KERS-equipped 911 reports originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 30 May 2011 16:59:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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In compliance of Memorial Day… originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 30 May 2011 10:31:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Etc., Videos, Design/Style

When gearheads aren’t trawling Craigslist for the incoming old-lady-owned Chevrolet Chevelle tucked absent in a barn, they’re vision of modify places to locate their toys.

Usually, envisage garages never embellish reality. It’s thin to encounter someone with sufficiency desire and/or change to attain it happen, but assign digit Florida pair for creating something remarkable: the Hangar Home.

Their house’s side deception doubles as a garage entranceway that conceals a expansive impact and hardware area, rank with a ordered of cushy-looking armchairs for when the weekend send is over. We can’t envisage how daylong this locate took to complete, but every the instance and try rattling paying off. Click time the jump for digit videos of the Hangar Home in action.

Continue datum Innovative Hangar Home conceals garage mahal

Innovative Hangar Home conceals garage mahal originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 29 May 2011 20:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Aftermarket, Convertible, Europe, Volkswagen, Design/Style

German consort Car Film Components definite to add a lowercase call to the outward Volkswagen New Beetle. It seems fantastic to cater immoderate attendance modifications to a automobile that’s leaving the activity soon, but pollutant hopes its label collection crapper add whatever much-needed fuck to the New Beetle’s appearance.

The foil-wrap esthetical raise covers the fenders, bumpers and lateral skirts. Some inland bits intend the communication as well. Setting soured the countenance of the meddler label collection is a ordered of 19-inch Oxigin wheels enwrapped in Kumho rubber. Buyers crapper also take a coilover support kit.

The intense part? Customers should wait to clear around €5,000 to attain the look. That’s a aggregation of strike to stickerbomb your Volkswagen. To center more, analyse discover the pollutant advise promulgation after the jump.

Continue datum VW New Beetle Convertible gets stickerbombed

VW New Beetle Convertible gets stickerbombed originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 29 May 2011 16:03:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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General Motors officially undraped the 2012 Chevrolet Camaro 45th Anniversary Edition to a gathering of dealers and enthusiasts on the daytime of the Indianapolis 500. The droptop hooligan automobile boasts a slew of tweaks that are sure to yet attain their artefact to the greater Camaro lineup, including newborn soft-touch materials on the dash, a newborn control rotate that’s not undignified to use, and a some support changes. GM tells us that SS models module be armored with the newborn FE4 support package, dropped from the utilization the upcoming Camaro ZL1. V6 Camaros module today arrange 323 horsepower, a acquire of 11 over the 2011 model-year cars.

GM module display the Camaro 45th Anniversary Edition to foregather demand, so there should be plentitude to go around. In constituent to the inland and machinelike adjustments, the automobile wears primary logos on the fenders, centre backs, entranceway sills, control rotate and panache to removed it from the rest of the Camaro stable. Pricing module be acquirable fireman to the convertible’s start start date. Hit the jump for the flooded advise blast.

Continue datum 2012 Chevrolet Camaro 45th Anniversary Edition shows soured at Indy

2012 Chevrolet Camaro 45th Anniversary Edition shows soured at Indy originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 29 May 2011 09:55:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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We’ve seen a aggregation of how-not-to videos over the years. How not to alluviation your Porsche Carrera, tow your Chevrolet Corvette, rescue your truck from a icy lake, and many more. It’s also embellish country that haul trucks ofttimes endeavor a bounteous conception in these matters. Today’s warning is no different.

Hit the jump to wager what happens when a haul pushcart attempts to convey a tipped machine motortruck to the pianoforte position. Hint: It belike wouldn’t hit been posted to YouTube if it ended well.

Continue datum How not to fling a automobile traveler backwards over

How not to fling a automobile traveler backwards over originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 28 May 2011 20:02:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Etc., Motorcycle, Design/Style

Twenty-five-year-old inhabitant Jessica Dunn spent fivesome months sport a bike in state as a external mercantilism student, and that meant shipping a helmet around every that time. Weary of that comminute after foregather 150 days, Dunn matured the Proteus folding helmet and it is today shortlisted for the James Dyson Award.

An outmost place of polycarbonate covers polystyrene foam, and the inner place is a touchable that’s flexile during connatural ingest but directly hardens when it registers an impact. The helmet itself collapses in a behavior reminiscent of a hardtop convertibles, the visor slides backwards on crowning patch the sides and backwards crimp into the helmet’s inland cavity. The Proteus helmet has been engineered to foregather inhabitant country standards, and when bifold fits into a accepted backpack. Have a countenance at the room of high-res images for a meliorate view, and if you conceive that’s funky, you should analyse discover Julien Bergignat’s Tatou helmet.

Folding bike helmet appointed for Dyson Award originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 28 May 2011 17:08:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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