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Chevrolet Volt is for HOV lane access until mid-2012 account
Prospective owners of the Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf shouldn’t get too excited about driving in California carpool lanes as soon as they take delivery. Late Tuesday night California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed SB 535 into law, extending access to the high-occupancy-vehicle (HOV) lanes to certain very low and zero emissions vehicles. This new class [...]
Heico SPORTIV aggression added new Volvo S60 [w/video]
Heico SPORTIV reworks the 2011 Volvo S60-click above for high-definition image gallery We have a look at it not long time ago in rendering, now Heico SPORTIV made umgestimmt 2011 its Volvo S60 to track down and brought us some souvenirs of the day. changes are still reluctant aggressive outside, with additional front lower lip [...]
Prototype MAZDA3 with 2.0 L sky G module gets 30 / 40 mpg
2010 MAZDA3 – click above for high-definition image gallery Mazda gave us a look on its next generation sky G (gas) and sky D (diesel) powertrains at the Tokyo Motor Show 2009, as well as his new Sky drive six Automatikgetriebe.Diese are engines that tests gauntlet, currently running, as the first applications expected, as early [...]
Report: McLaren planning of five new models over five years
McLaren MP4-12 C – click above for high-definition image gallery When we with Antony Sheriff in Pebble Beach, put, bombed we McLaren CEO with a series of questions about the MP4 12C.Ordnungsgemäß geeked on Ferrari 458 fighters, we asked what, otherwise McLaren in his search for some sort of full line sports car HM become [...]
Volkswagen Amarok camper conversion ready for adventure
Volkswagen Amarok with Bimobil camper – click above for image gallery Have your heart set on a Volkswagen Amarok before that the truck was clearly made heading to North America, prepare your wounds to have salted that easily. A camper conversion for the handsome pickup is a company called Bimobil gone through the effort to [...]
Spy shots: Ford Fiesta-based crossover headed for the United Kingdom
Spy shots: Ford Fiesta-based crossover Mule – click above for high-definition image gallery Ford enjoys early success with Fiesta here in the U.S., but in Europe, where the Fiesta on sale years since, it is time to think about the future.Our made friendly neighborhood snapper on CarPix, spy shots a high riding Fiesta-based crossover seems [...]
Volkswagen Touareg is R in USA with a diesel until 2012 sold
2011 Volkswagen Touareg – click above for high-definition image gallery Last time we about the next-generation Volkswagen Touareg R languages was to relay rumors that the high-performance SUV of automaker venerable 5.0 – liter – diesel – v10 TDI – fall motor from a V8 hybrid drive could car and driver is the ball no [...]
Report: Next-Gen Boxer engine from Subaru this year
According to Automotive News, Subaru is set to release a new, more fuel-efficient version of its boxer four-cylinder engine. The powerplant should be available in both 2.0-liter and 2.5-liter configurations and will be able to offer up a 10-percent boost in fuel economy over its predecessors. The report doesn’t detail exactly how the engine goes [...]
Spy shots: Subaru test his version of FT-86 “Toyobaru” Coupe in the death Valley heat
Subaru FT-86 RWD Coupe spy shots – click above for high-definition image gallery We have many reports that with Toyota FT-86 rear-wheel drive to do sports coupe recently read with but we must not forget that Subaru their own version of this new two-door pillared always will – a joint venture, this apparently Subaru-bodied Mule [...]
Aston Martin CygNET could come to the States.
Aston Martin CygNET – click above for high-definition image gallery We are not quite sure why the Aston Martin CygNET exists. What was once an economical Toyota iQ is now a fuel sipping Aston Martin (weird) equipped with a spacious interior and a price tag that your heart a blow to skip.We understand that vehicles [...]
Video: 2011 Ford Fiesta is so pimping, so sexy
Ford Fiesta “you to pimping, you so sexy” ad film riot – click above to watch the video after the jump May your own ad campaign for the Fiesta, but we are easily amused Ford, this unique, three minutes long ad, created by the folks at film riot, an online-how to show about Filmemachen.Die blue [...]
Chevrolet Volt production begins November 11
General Motors confirmed this morning that November 11, 2010 has been set as the official Job 1 date for the Chevrolet Volt. The news initially reported by Translogic was verified to AutoblogGreen by GM spokesman Rob Peterson. November 2010 has always been the targeted production launch timing for the Volt, but a specific day couldn’t [...]
Norster 600R is a Finnish designed, built, British frogEye throwback
Norster 600R is a Finnish designed Chinese built the British frogEye Throwbackby Zach Bowman (RSS feed) on Sep 2nd, 2010 at 8: 29 pm Norster 600R – click above for high-definition image gallery There were many reasons, the Austin-Healey sprite to love. Apart from the fact that when you debuted light and location out handling [...]
Reports of steering problems in 2011 Hyundai Sonata prompt NHTSA investigation
Federal safety regulators have opened an investigation into reports of steering problems in the hot-selling 2011 Hyundai Sonata sedan. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is looking into whether the vehicles can sustain a separation in the steering shaft assembly that results in a loss of steering capability. Regulators are also examining whether a bolt [...]
Texas Supreme Court rules against Toyota in rollover case
Toyota Motor Corp. must face charges that it acted in contempt of court in a 2007 lawsuit involving a paralyzed woman, the Texas Supreme Court has ruled.Pennie Green, permanently injured five years ago when her Camry rolled over, originally settled the personal injury suit for $1.5 million. But last fall she filed a motion in [...]
Toyota recalls Corolla, Matrix models because of an engine defect
Toyota has recalled more than 1 million of its Corolla and Matrix cars, just days after U.S. auto safety regulators stepped up a probe into the risk that the vehicles could stall because of defective electronic engine control units. The recall also affects 200,000 Pontiac Vibe models built by a joint venture between General Motors [...]
Ford vehicles with a cadaver’s help making it safer
Ford inflatable seat belts – click above for high-definition image gallery Are accustomed while we all see crash, the vehicles with adorable Dummies packed to test which is the truth that manufacturers are not high-tech dolls leave can get the information you need.Sometimes need access to other testing how new security research tech points out [...]
2011 Ford Mondeo gets to improved.
2011 Ford Mondeo – on, click above for high-definition image galleryIf a car with a 48-page press release, now comes, you know its manufacturer has some special things in mind for you.the 2011 Ford Mondeo, 5-door wagon only a car is and styles, with the blue oval called it “the most elegant and most technologically [...]
Stalling risk in Toyota Corolla, Matrix vehicles gets more scrutiny
U.S. auto safety regulators have stepped up a probe into the risk that up to 1.2 million Toyota Corolla and Matrix vehicles could stall because of defective electronic engine control units. Regulators began an engineering analysis Wednesday into the reports of stalling in Corolla and Matrix cars from the 2005, 2006 and 2007 model years. [...]
Restorer resurrects classic concept cars, symbols of Detroit’s might
Reporting from Detroit — Almost accidentally, Joe Bortz became the custodian of a fleet of forgotten automotive masterpieces. Along the way, he became an expert on General Motors Co.’s history and a staunch believer in its future. The retired Chicago biochemist and restaurateur is a self-described automotive archeologist, rescuing classic concept cars from junkyards and [...]
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