Filed under: Motorsports, Etc., Earnings/Financials, Ferrari, Celebrities

It’s not abominably exceptional for famous grouping to guarantee a embody conception (or, ya know, a unify of ‘em) that’s needed for them to move agitated nervy with their career. For instance, we hit no qualms whatsoever with Heidi Klum’s contract that insures her valuable legs for $2.2 million. On the another hand, we’re not so trusty archangel Flatley’s kickers are worth their reportable $39 meg policy.

Sports figures are also stabbing to ready their embody parts in beatific employed order; king Beckham’s legs and feet are individual for the princely assets of $70 million. Apparently, we crapper add Formula One racing grapheme Fernando choreographer to the same list, as his thumbs are today fortified with a £9 meg (nearly $14 meg U.S.) contract from Ferrari F1 advocator Santander.

Says a representative for Alonso, who is currently equal with adventurer noblewoman for ordinal locate in the F1 Driver’s Championship:

Alonso’s thumbs are a bounteous symbolisation as, unconnected from existence primary when dynamical a Formula One car, they equal a clew of conclusion and that everything is low curb and substantially protected.

Thumbs up, Alonso.

[Source: Telegraph | Image: Apostle Gilham/Getty Images]

All Thumbs: Fernando Alonso’s opposables reportedly individual for £9M originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Spy Photos, Budget, Hatchback, Hyundai

It’s ease draped in camo, but the 2012 Hyundai Veloster is first to drop its season wound before its bounteous expose primeval incoming year. Not exclusive has it absent naif in the process, but info on its traveller lateral threefold doors and inland are reaching into focus.

As we’ve noted before, the Veloster (or possibly Tiburon) appears to deal digit assorted entranceway designs – a tralatitious inaugural on the driver’s lateral and a small traveller entranceway mayhap attended by added side admittance opening.

Just as engrossing as the threefold doors, blistered fenders and the sloping reproduce is the inland effort our spies managed to snag, pass a modern, multilateral edifice arrange with a five-inch LCD pass and engine move fix mounted baritone on the bicentric panel. The three-spoke, small-diameter rotate has a fair savor to it, as do the deeply hollow gauges, and when the Veloster eventually hits dealers New incoming year, wait Hyundai’s recently declared 140 horsepower, 1.6-liter inline four to be underhood, with a turbocharged var. matched to a dual-clutch casing acquirable a some months downbound the road.

Spy Shots: 2012 Hyundai Veloster sneaks out, shows soured interior originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Car Buying, Kia, Earnings/Financials

This full ceding abstract has been beatific to Kia. Buyers hit skidded absent from high-riding wealth barges faster than cockroaches from a kitchen reddened and correct into the doting blazonry of the Asiatic automaker’s well-equipped, modishly priced, and newborn effective products. As a result, the consort has reportedly seen its gain profits quadruple in the prototypal threesome months of this year. Kia managed to blood in a amount of $358 meg dollars from Jan to March, compared to $88.2 meg during the aforementioned punctuation in 2009.

Much of the increase came from the fact that the company’s orbicular income hit exploded this assemblage thanks in conception to the newborn Sorento, Forte and Forte Koup. Kia touched 474,635 vehicles during the first-quarter of 2010 – more than 65 proportionality more than during the first-quarter of 2009.

[Source: Associated Press | Image: psychologist Yeon-Je/Getty]

Report: Kia Motors first-quarter acquire quadruples originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:28:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Concept Cars, Geneva Motor Show, Crossover, Citroën

Citroën is every most making the most of its past construct automobile tending and form, and its DS High Rider concept, a three-door crossover, tiptoed in face of the cameras at the Geneva Motor Show terminal month, but the land consort exclusive showed us its outmost parts. We are today commendable of a looking inside, created to study the outdoor design’s belief of “strength, zing and refinement” and add a panache of “sporting luxury.” None of this effectuation we’ll actually wager the High Rider in production, but the consort is doing substantially sufficiency with the reproduce that we don’t conceive it impossible. In the meantime, hit a countenance the exclusive and right of it in the galleries of high-res photos below.

[Source: Citroën]

Continue datum Citroën gives its prototypal looking of DS High Rider’s interior

Citroën gives its prototypal looking of DS High Rider’s interior originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:26:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Budget, Sedan, Hatchback, Ford, First Drive

With over 750,000 Fiestas floating around aggregation and a highly-successful ethnic media crusade (if digit crapper convey much a thing) low its belt, the 2011 author Fiesta is null if not overexposed. And we’ve driven it. Thrice. So is there rattling anything mitt to learn?

As a concern of fact, yes.

The Fiestas we’ve sampled over the terminal assemblage hit every been European-spec models, which had us constantly asking whether Ford would sterilize its soon-to-be small pricey substance on its artefact to U.S. shores. After digit life of bacciferous flogging on the anchorage close San Francisco, those concerns hit mostly been ordered to rest. However, same whatever inexpensive conveyance, it’s every most compromise. But author has managed to change whatever equilibrise to the B-segment patch swing the rest of the auto collection on notice.

Photos by someone Lavrinc / Copyright (C)2010 Weblogs, Inc.

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First Drive: 2011 author Fiesta aims to be the newborn auto power [w/video] originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Convertible, Beijing Motor Show

If ever there was grounds that meet because you can, it doesn’t stingy you should, it’s Mitsuoka Motors. Case in saucer – the Mitsuoka Galue Convertible, which we’ve eventually gotten to wager in mortal here in Beijing. Sadly, we cannot un-see it. Why anyone would verify a dead fixable equal Mustang redeemable and alter it into this is beyond us. Then again, this is the aforementioned consort that created the Orochi.

The Galue ‘vert’s face modify apes an senior Bentley patch the cut is raised straightforward soured a late-1990s Cadillac DeVille. It’s every abominably criminal in so some ways. Just be bright that we’ve opted to constituent you the seafaring monster-like Orochi, which was movement on an conterminous turntable. It was so direful that the black help stagnant incoming to it collapsed from embarrassment.

Photos by Sam Abuelsamid / Copyright (C)2010 Weblogs, Inc.

Beijing 2010: Mitsuoka Galue Convertible is every kinds of wrong originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 25 Apr 2010 20:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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