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Opel Meriva MPV Concept
2008-03-03 14:56:00 BY JENS MEINERS A preview of the next generation of this popular multipurpose vehicle. These days, we are presented with a remarkable batch of cars and crossovers touted as urban vehicles, most of which present a rather grim view of urban life, decked out as they are with four-wheel drive, powerful multicylinder engines, and menacing styling seemingly ... More About: Concept Car , Opel , Flex , Concept , Doors
Opel Meriva MPV Concept
2008-03-03 14:56:00 BY JENS MEINERS A preview of the next generation of this popular multipurpose vehicle. These days, we are presented with a remarkable batch of cars and crossovers touted as urban vehicles, most of which present a rather grim view of urban life, decked out as they are with four-wheel drive, powerful multicylinder engines, and menacing styling seemingly ... More About: Concept Car , Opel , Flex , Concept , Doors
Pininfarina Sintesi Concept Design
2008-03-02 09:40:00 BY STEVE SILER Pininfarina reinvents everything but the wheel. Boutique carmakers and coachbuilders are in the spotlight at every Geneva auto show. This year, Pininfarina demonstrates it can fashion more than Ferraris with its radical four-door Sintesi. The fuel-cell-powered Sintesi concept?s slippery styling utilizes as many aero devices and forms on its underside as on its body, with ... More About: Design , Concept Car , Concept Design , Concept
Pininfarina Sintesi Concept Design
2008-03-02 09:40:00 BY STEVE SILER Pininfarina reinvents everything but the wheel. Boutique carmakers and coachbuilders are in the spotlight at every Geneva auto show. This year, Pininfarina demonstrates it can fashion more than Ferraris with its radical four-door Sintesi. The fuel-cell-powered Sintesi concept?s slippery styling utilizes as many aero devices and forms on its underside as on its body, with ... More About: Design , Concept Car , Concept Design , Concept
2009 Tata Nano Super Cheap Car
2008-03-01 14:22:00 BY JAKE HOLMES The people?s car is super-cheap, super-tiny, and super-efficient. Nestled among the fast and luxurious debuts at the 2008 Geneva auto show is the $2500 Nano show car from India?s Tata Motors. This so-called people?s car caused quite a stir when it was unveiled in India in January as a car for its domestic market. Although ... More About: Super , Cheap , Tata Nano
2009 Tata Nano Super Cheap Car
2008-03-01 14:22:00 BY JAKE HOLMES The people?s car is super-cheap, super-tiny, and super-efficient. Nestled among the fast and luxurious debuts at the 2008 Geneva auto show is the $2500 Nano show car from India?s Tata Motors. This so-called people?s car caused quite a stir when it was unveiled in India in January as a car for its domestic market. Although ... More About: Super , Cheap , Tata Nano
Review Test Of 2008 Tesla Roadster
2008-02-22 15:06:00 BY CSABA CSERE, PHOTOGRAPHY BY MORGAN SEGAL Nikola Tesla was a genius who, more than 100 years ago at the dawn of the electric age, invented alternating electrical current, the radio, and the AC motor, among other things, that are instrumental to our modern life. Now, in the 21st century, Tesla Motors is trying to reinvent ... More About: Review , Tesla Roadster , Test , Electric Car
Review Test Of 2008 Tesla Roadster
2008-02-22 15:06:00 BY CSABA CSERE, PHOTOGRAPHY BY MORGAN SEGAL Nikola Tesla was a genius who, more than 100 years ago at the dawn of the electric age, invented alternating electrical current, the radio, and the AC motor, among other things, that are instrumental to our modern life. Now, in the 21st century, Tesla Motors is trying to reinvent ... More About: Review , Tesla Roadster , Test , Electric Car
New Acura RL For Year 2009
2008-02-16 14:31:00 BY ALISA PRIDDLE, PHOTOGRAPHY BY AARON KILEY, JAMES MERTES, AND THE MANUFACTURERS We always look forward to world debuts and the Acura RL?s entrance at the 2008 Chicago auto show was no different. The luxury flagship was redesigned inside and out, and we were anticipating more flash for a car that had some character, but didn?t provoke ... More About: Sport , Chicago Auto Show , Sedan , Shift
New Acura RL For Year 2009
2008-02-16 14:31:00 BY ALISA PRIDDLE, PHOTOGRAPHY BY AARON KILEY, JAMES MERTES, AND THE MANUFACTURERS We always look forward to world debuts and the Acura RL?s entrance at the 2008 Chicago auto show was no different. The luxury flagship was redesigned inside and out, and we were anticipating more flash for a car that had some character, but didn?t provoke ... More About: Sport , Chicago Auto Show , Sedan , Shift
GMC Denali XT Concept in Auto Shows
2008-02-07 19:38:00 BY STEVE SILER A slick, silver streak of hope for GM with a GMC badge. The Chicago Auto Show is a truck-heavy show, and with the truck business in a state of flux, all eyes are on the domestic brands?which have felt the greatest squeeze in the face of falling demand for full-size pickups and SUVs?for some ... More About: Concept Car , Denali , Hybrid car , Pickup
GMC Denali XT Concept in Auto Shows
2008-02-07 19:38:00 BY STEVE SILER A slick, silver streak of hope for GM with a GMC badge. The Chicago Auto Show is a truck-heavy show, and with the truck business in a state of flux, all eyes are on the domestic brands?which have felt the greatest squeeze in the face of falling demand for full-size pickups and SUVs?for some ... More About: Concept Car , Denali , Hybrid car , Pickup
The Features Of 2008 Toyota Prius
2008-02-02 08:09:00 What?s new, trim levels, optional equipment, and safety info for the 2008 Toyota Prius . Introduction Toyota wasn?t the first to bring a hybrid car to the U.S. market, but it?s been by far the most successful, prompting hybrid competition from just about every major carmaker, some of them using Toyota?s own system under license. The Prius continues ... More About: Features , Hybrid car , Hatchback
The Features Of 2008 Toyota Prius
2008-02-02 08:09:00 What?s new, trim levels, optional equipment, and safety info for the 2008 Toyota Prius . Introduction Toyota wasn?t the first to bring a hybrid car to the U.S. market, but it?s been by far the most successful, prompting hybrid competition from just about every major carmaker, some of them using Toyota?s own system under license. The Prius continues ... More About: Features , Hybrid car , Hatchback
Mitsubishi Prototype S Concept in Auto Shows
2008-02-02 07:43:00 BY STEVE SILER The Lancer hatchback becomes a slick reality. The ongoing feud between Subaru and Mitsubishi over whose rally-bred econorocket is more cultworthy is about to get even hotter. Of course, we?re talking about the Mitsubishi Evo versus the Subaru WRX. Well, say hello to the latest warrior to enter the battle: the Mitsubishi Prototype S, making ... More About: Concept Car , Auto , Concept
2009 Ford Escape and Mercury Mariner
2008-02-02 07:20:00 BY STEVE SILER Before you buy that new Escape , more power and more gears are coming in 2009 for Ford ?s compact SUVs. In the face of increasingly refined, stylish, and younger competition in the compact-SUV class, Ford?s aging Escape and its Mercury twin, the Mariner, received major updates for 2008 involving pretty much everything you can see ... More About: Hybrids , Ford Escape
Cadillac CTS Coupe Concept
2008-01-26 11:19:00 PHOTOGRAPHY BY JEFFREY G. RUSSELL AND THE MANUFACTURER Imagine! A genuine surprise at an auto show: Cadillac broadens its purview with a CTS coupe concept. In an age of spies and Web-site advance releases, Cadillac was able to spring a genuine surprise for the North American International Auto Show press-preview crowd, rolling out a rakish coupe version ... More About: Concept , Coupe , Dill
2009 Mitsubishi Lancer Ralliart
2008-01-26 11:01:00 Think of it as Evolution Lite. In a nutshell, the Mitsubishi Lancer Ralliart is to the Lancer Evolution as the Subaru Impreza WRX is to the Impreza WRX STI. If, however, that last sentence isn?t totally clear to you, allow us to explain. The ?09 Ralliart is an intermediate step between the 168-hp Lancer GTS and the ... More About: Sedan
2009 Mercedes-Benz CLS550 and CLS63 AMG
2008-01-26 10:47:00 BY JARED GALL New lipstick and eye shadow for Mercedes ? sexy four-door. On the heels of press days at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, which saw the official debuts of two more ?four-door coupes??the Volkswagen Passat CC and the BMW X6?Mercedes-Benz announced a series of minor upgrades to the original in that oxymoronic category, ... More About: Mercedes Benz , Sedan
2008 BMW M3 Convertible
2008-01-18 12:04:00 BY ERIK JOHNSON So long, SMG. The M3 droptop will get BMW’s long-rumored, seven-speed double-clutch transmission—as will the M3 coupe and sedan. Like any good discount shopper, we appreciate the value of a good two-for-one deal, and BMW just gave us a whopper of a blue-light special. Besides the skinny on the BMW M3 droptop, the Bavarians have also graced us with a bevy of details on their new transmission, the long-rumored dual-clutch automated manual. Double the Clutches, Half the Broken Vertebrae Since the M3 convertible has been on our radar for some time, let’s first dive into the transmission, which BMW calls M Double-Clutch Transmission (M DCT). In addition to placing the fancy new box in the M3 convertible, BMW confirms that it will simultaneously debut in the M3 coupe and sedan, too. Possessed of seven forward speeds—equal to the number found in the herky-jerky single-clutch SMG currently used throughout the M portfolio—the M DCT is similar to Volkswagen’s DSG ... More About: Convertible , 2008
Audi R8 V-12 TDI Concept
2008-01-16 14:50:00 BY JARED GALL, PHOTOGRAPHY BY JEFFREY G. RUSSELL You torquing to me? Are you?torquing to me?! Torque, as we all know, is a twisting force. It?s what gives us Indian burns, sort-of-dry dishrags, and long black streaks on industrial-park streets late at night. It?s also a hoot and a half, particularly when presented in quantities on level ... More About: Audi , Concept , Luxury Car
2009 Dodge Ram
2008-01-16 14:15:00 BY MARK GILLIES, PHOTOGRAPHY BY JEFFREY G. RUSSELL AND THE MANUFACTURER Bye-bye, leaf springs. Hello, more powerful Hemi. Even though large-pickup-truck sales have been falling of late, due mainly to relatively high gas prices, they are still hugely important cash cows to the Detroit automakers. The 2009 model year is going to be vital to Ford and ... More About: Diesel , Dodge , Pickup , Dodge Ram
Ford Verve Concept
2008-01-15 15:14:00 BY ALISA PRIDDLE Do you have the ?Verve ? to be in a car this size? Ford has been promising a subcompact B-segment car for North America for what seems like forever. So we embrace the arrival of the sheetmetal that is the Ford Verve concept and the news it will go into production in 2010. At the 2008 ... More About: Concept Car , Hatchback , Concept
Lincoln MKT Concept
2008-01-14 11:55:00 BY ALISA PRIDDLE This Flex-based family vehicle is surprisingly innovative. Being a Lincoln family vehicle, this cousin to the Ford Flex crossover isn?t the kind of vehicle we would expect to get overly excited about. But the Lincoln MKT concept at the North American International Auto Show is a pleasant surprise. For starters, chief designer Peter Horbury and ... More About: Concept Car , Sedan , Concept
2008 Subaru Impreza WRX STI - Road Tests
2008-01-13 16:44:00 BY AARON ROBINSON, PHOTOGRAPHY BY MORGAN SEGAL Still Terrifically Impudent: More civilized than ever, the STI retains the power to offend. No car in this author?s experience provokes single-digit salutes as effectively as the 2008 Subaru Impreza WRX STI. Numerous hearty flip-offs were received on a plow through central California when the traffic was light, the sightlines ... More About: Road , Tests , Hatchback , Subaru Impreza
2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1
2008-01-12 14:19:00 BY MIKE AUSTIN, ERIK JOHNSON, AND ALISA PRIDDLE, PHOTOGRAPHY BY JEFFREY G. RUSSELL Head for the fallout shelter: The beastly Corvette ZR1 is gonna wreak some havoc. The ZR1 is the most expensive and most powerful production Corvette in history, with a price of about 100 grand ($110,000 for the loaded 4LZ trim level) and an estimated ... More About: Chevrolet , Luxury Car , Coupe , Vette
2008 Honda Civic Mugen Si Sedan Road Tests
2008-01-11 17:23:00 BY MARK GILLIES All the bells, but no more whistle. Mugen, which means ?without limits,?is Honda ?s tuner of choice and has been since 1973. Although Hondas with Mugen goodies have been sold in the homeland for a quarter-century, the 2008 Civic Si sedan is the first such vehicle officially exported to the U.S. Basically, it?s an Si with ... More About: Sedan , Road , Special Edition , Tests
Buick Riviera Concept
2008-01-11 16:54:00 BY ALISA PRIDDLE AND STEVE SILER Buick brings its Shanghai showstopper to North America. Buick uses the Detroit auto show to show North Americans what gets the Chinese market all fired up: the Riviera concept that was designed and engineered in China, and made its world debut at the 2007 Shanghai auto show. And while Buick has made ... More About: Concept Car , General Motors , Concept
Ford Explorer America Concept
2008-01-09 13:22:00 BY ALISA PRIDDLE As important as the new body is the turbo direct-injection gasoline engine. Not long ago, it would have been unthinkable that Ford , the automaker that defined the mid-size SUV with its Explorer in 1990, would even consider abandoning the category in which it once reigned as sales king. But exit signs have been growing ... More About: America , Concept Car , Concept
2009 BMW 335d and X5 xDrive35d
More articles from this author:2008-01-08 12:49:00 BY STEVE SILER BMW wishes us a torquey new year with plans to make a 425-pound-foot splash in the U.S. diesel market next fall. BMW uses the North American International Auto Show to finally confirm which vehicles will be the first Bimmers to have diesels in the U.S. market. Come fall of 2008, customers in all 50 ... More About: Performance , Drive , Sedan , Blue 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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