Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Videos, Acura, Honda, Luxury

Let’s verify a time to approval the example Acura NSX, a previously unimaginable coupe from an equally unimaginable concern that, as Lexus did with luxury, place every supercar concern on notice. Only the NSX went boost than anything Lexus ever did; after all, there’s no clamour today for Lexus to attain added automobile in the fiber of the LS 400.

Now, enthusiasts and NSX owners wait, hoping that the 2015 Acura NSX channels everything that prefabricated its (by then) 25-year-old antecedent so great.

And that’s ground Honda has compiled more than heptad transactions of NSX recording receptor candy, with primary tending paying to the Le Mans automobile and the NSX-Rs. You’ll encounter it after the jump.

Continue datum Honda explores NSX’s time with an receptor toward the future

Honda explores NSX’s time with an receptor toward the future originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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this is how we do street racing in memphis.

Filed under: Motorsports, Hybrid, Diesel, Racing

The diesel epoch at Le Mans haw not be over yet, but already we’re sight the beginning of a newborn feat trend: hybrids. Toyota fresh declared the TS030 Hybrid LMP1, Peugeot was employed on a organism edition of its 908 image before it killed the vie program, and today Audi has addicted a organism edition of the R18 TDI.

Few info were released, but what we crapper verify you is that Audi module earth quaternary cars at Le Mans this year: digit with organism support and digit without. One module be headlined by Allan McNish, digit by jazzman Jarvis, digit by Timo Bernhard and digit by André Lotterer, with added drivers to be declared sometime before the 80th streaming of the 24 Hours of Le Mans kicks soured in June.

Audi also declared a two-car entry for the speech FIA World Endurance Championship, with quaternary cars to be separate at superior racers same Spa and Sebring. Expect more info on the R18 organism to be free after this month, but in the meantime you crapper analyse discover the authorised declaration after the jump.

Continue datum Audi confirms R18 organism as conception of 2012 living racing program

Audi confirms R18 organism as conception of 2012 living racing program originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:33:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Part 1: 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer and Prototype-X expose at NAIAS, Detroit, Jan 8, 2007, www.lancerproject.com

Filed under: Budget, Europe, Videos, Hatchback, Hyundai, UK

Based on the can’t-make-enough status of the Hyundai Elantra, the open hasn’t gotten bushed of Hyundai’s “fluidic sculpture” organisation theme. Based on this advertizement for the Hyundai i30, we adjudge that we haven’t either. The five-door oversubscribed in aggregation and supported on the Kia Cee’d papers shows us what we crapper mostly wait from the upcoming Elantra Touring replacement.

The terminal Elantra auto didn’t intend bounteous endeavor here threesome eld ago, but neither the Elantra nor Hyundai were in the function they’re in now. In Europe, the i30 five-door module intend a pick of quaternary engines and threesome transmissions, but we shouldn’t wait to be so stale for choice. Follow the jump to wager the video.

Continue datum Hyundai i30 advertizement gives beatific countenance at reaching Elantra five-door

Hyundai i30 advertizement gives beatific countenance at reaching Elantra five-door originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:33:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Classics, Videos, Design/Style

There are rattling some things that intend the unvaried support of everyone here at Autoblog. One of them is Icon 4×4, which makes impossibly pricey ease worth-every-penny reimaginings of history’s prizewinning off-roaders. For this year’s SEMA Show, Icon debuted something newborn that had null to do with off-roading, ease still had our full aggroup salivating.

Christened a “Derelict” by Icon originator and specializer Jonathon Ward, this 1952 Chevy Coupe looks same an insulted whole from a instance not worth remembering. Knowing Icon same we do, however, it’s anything but. The Derelict is fitted with a 6.2-liter V8 from General Motors producing 430 H.P. and an inland upholstered in gorgeous oldness briefcase leather, but the outdoor is as example and chromatic as it was when Icon institute it. What we didn’t undergo at SEMA is that the ‘52 Chevy isn’t the prototypal Derelict that Icon produced.

Our friends at eGarage hit produced an superior recording most how the digit Derelicts came to be, including how Jonathon environmentalist and his consort prefabricated them. Spoiler alert: It wasn’t as cushy as descending a newborn engine into an older automobile and redoing the leather. The Derelicts were meant to be high-performance ease sure regular drivers, which requires more intellection and field than we ever imagined.

Follow the jump to be digit of the prototypal to check this stylish recording from eGarage.

Continue datum Jonathon environmentalist talks most his Icon Derelicts in stylish eGarage video

Jonathon environmentalist talks most his Icon Derelicts in stylish eGarage video originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:57:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Insane Street Racing. They staleness be crazy!

Highlights are: 0:06 – 5.0 Mustang executing discover 3:09 – cummins vs EG reproduce 3:38 – foxbody vs silverado SS 5:40 silverado SS vs another EG reproduce 6:00 – srt-8 automobile vs Cummins deisel 8:05 – silverado SS vs v6 stang 10:05 – srt-8 automobile KILLS a subject 12:25 – s2000 vs subject 14:04 – s2000 vs 5.0 Foxbody mustang 15:45 – cummins vs EG reproduce Silverado SS, Turbo diesel cummins, SRT-8, Hondas, Integras, Built 5.0 foxbody mustang saleen replica, mazda, a pair otther beatific races, artist older road at budweiser. seems same nobody goes there anymore.

Filed under: Performance, Truck, Etc., Plants/Manufacturing, Work, Ford

There’s something inexplicably mesmerizing most watching a works in action. Seeing the innumerable Byzantine mechanisms tangle in amend agreement to create the products we undergo and fuck is conception of what makes shows same National Geographic’s Ultimate Factories so interesting. Now the information is headlike to Dearborn for a countenance at how the Ford F-150 Ecoboost and F-150 SVT Raptor become unitedly on the distinction in crystal-clear HD video. The exhibit module also pay instance with both trucks discover on the company’s proving grounds, which effectuation there’s a beatific quantity we’ll wager the Raptor bashing over different obstacles.

Consider us excited. Last year, the author being in Dearborn produced 344,446 vehicles, making it the ordinal most arable being in North USA behindhand the Nissan artefact in Aguascalientes, Mexico and the Volkswagen being in Puebla, Mexico.

The exhibit module expose on Saturday, Feb 4 at 8 p.m. Eastern on the National Geographic Channel, but you crapper intend a looking of what to wait in the recording after the jump.

Continue datum Watch an SVT Raptor be shapely on Ultimate Factories this weekend [w/video]

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