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Test 2008 Maserati GranTurismo
2008-05-27 13:48:00 BY JOHN PHILLIPS, PHOTOGRAPHY BY TOM DREW Tracing its genetic code to the Ferrari F430, the Alfa Romeo 8C, and Andrea Pininfarina himself, Maserati ?s latest luxo-coupe is a Modenese masterpiece. Of the seven Maserati brothers, six became renowned mechanics and engineers. The black sheep of the family?Mario?instead became a painter, although he left an indelible mark on ... More About: Test , Luxury Car , Coupe , 2008
News From Honda to Add Three New Hybrids For 2010
2008-05-26 13:21:00 BY ALISA PRIDDLE Three new hybrids alongside the Civic hybrid will bring total to half a million per year for Honda . Honda plans to sell half a million hybrids per year globally with three new vehicles supplementing the Honda Civic hybrid in its lineup. The automaker?s hybrid strategy includes a hybrid version of the Honda Fit, production of ... More About: News , Hybrids , Batteries , Hybrid car
5 Best Trucks Of The Year 2008 - 2
2008-05-13 13:03:00 2008 Mercedes-Benz GL Class Last year, the Mercedes GL450 emerged as the most desirable luxo ute in a very desirable field. Facing an equally strong challenge for 2008, Mercedes responded by expanding the GL-class from a class of one to a family of three. For those who seek thrift and torque, there?s the GL320 CDI turbo-diesel, ... More About: Trucks , Year , 2008
5 Best Trucks Of The Year 2008 - 1
2008-05-12 13:12:00 BY TONY SWAN, PHOTOGRAPHY BY AARON KILEY Trucks are still mighty popular in America, although the herd is getting complicated by hybrids and crossovers and tall wagons. Despite a rapidly changing sales environment?escalating fuel prices and concerns about exhaust-gas content previously regarded as innocent?trucks still claim a big chunk of our new-vehicle market. Does this seem strange? ... More About: Toyota , Mazda , Year , 2008
News For 2010 Saturn Aura and Opel Insignia
2008-05-10 16:50:00 BY JENS MEINERS First official look at the future of GM?s mid-size car lineup. Details are emerging on the Opel Insignia, which is essentially the next-generation 2010 Saturn Aura for North America. The Insignia replaces the Vectra in the Opel lineup and will be the first model from GM?s new Global Midsize Vehicle Architecture (formerly known as ... More About: News , European
Performance Tests 2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8
2008-05-03 12:46:00 BY STEVE SILER, PHOTOGRAPHY BY AARON KILEY AND THE MANUFACTURER We finally slap our test gear onto the potent Challenger SRT8 to see if it?s actually up to the challenge. With so much presale buildup, we?ve told you bit by bit pretty much everything about Dodge ?s old-meets-new Challenger SRT8. By now, the fundamentals should be familiar. The ... More About: Performance , Tests , Dodge Challenger , 2008
2010 Audi S4 to Get Supercharged V6
2008-05-01 16:35:00 BY ALISA PRIDDLE Audi maintains performance while increasing efficiency by 20%. Those who assumed the 2010 Audi S4 would share its powertrain with the S5 were incorrect. Instead, look for an all-new forced-induction 3.0-liter V-6 that will generate something close to the 340 horsepower found in the outgoing S4?s 4.2-liter V-8. Why is the Audi S4 moving from ... More About: Quattro
Review 2008 Lotus Elise SC 220 Supercharged
2008-04-30 14:16:00 BY STEVE SILER These are the only senses the Lotus Elise Supercharged (Lotus also calls it the Elise SC 220) stimulates. Even taste: At various points during our spirited drive of the spunky supercharged two-seater along the asphalt ribbons of northern San Diego County, we found ourselves picking sand out of our hair, shirts, and, yes, ... More About: Review , Roadster , 2008
Road Test 2009 Infiniti FX50
2008-04-29 14:41:00 Infiniti?s original FX moon buggy debuted in 2003 intending to be a sports sedan wearing a fanny pack. It handled well, accelerated smartly with the optional V-8, and looked particularly glam on its optional 20-inch wheels. It also rode as if its axles were welded directly to the body. Averaging 23,000 sales per year, the ... More About: Infiniti , Test , Road
Review Of 2009 Honda Pilot
2008-04-29 13:39:00 BY DAVE VANDERWERP Honda reskins and rethinks its brilliantly packaged eight-passenger SUV. When the Pilot launched in 2002 as an ?03 model, it was a little ahead of its time. Back then, trucky, body-on-frame SUVs such as the Ford Explorer were the big sellers, and fuel economy wasn?t in the forefront of anyone?s mind. The Pilot?s innovative ... More About: Photos , Review
Audi A3 and S3 for 2009
2008-04-26 13:45:00 BY JENS MEINERS Affirmed class consciousness with the latest upgrade of this posh little car. For more than two decades, the Volkswagen Golf?or Rabbit in the U.S.?has been the classless car par excellence in Europe, driven by students, the common worker, and the top executive who appreciates the anonymity of the compact hatchback. The demographics of the Golf ... More About: Audi , Quattro , Hatchback
2009 Volkswagen New Bora and Lavida
2008-04-24 15:30:00 BY JENS MEINERS VW introduces new vehicles for the Chinese market as it works to restore its dominance in the region. Struggling to keep its position as the Chinese market leader and faced with the task of keeping two very different joint-venture partners happy, VW unveils two new cars at the Beijing auto show that look familiar ... More About: Volkswagen , Shanghai
Nissan and Chrysler Partner to Build Versa and Ram
2008-04-17 12:59:00 BY ALISA PRIDDLE The increased scope of vehicle sharing refuels speculation of a greater merge. Speculation refuses to die down about a potential merger of Nissan and Chrysler , and announcements such as plans to collaborate on small cars and full-size pickups only adds fuel to the flames. Nissan already signed an agreement with Chrysler to build a version ... More About: Partner , Build
Review 2008 BMW X6 xDrive35i and xDrive50i
2008-04-15 13:23:00 BY DAVE VANDERWERP A 5000-pound SUV has no business driving this well. Take an extra-close look at the pictures of the new X6, because the success of this new X5-based SUV depends on it. Is the X6 beautiful? Ground breaking? Fashionable? Or does it come across as a lifted five-door hatchback? To arrive at the X6, BMW took ... More About: Drive , Review , Luxury Car , 2008
Road Test 2009 Nissan GT-R
2008-04-15 12:54:00 BY AARON ROBINSON, PHOTOGRAPHY BY MORGAN SEGAL Big, Heavy, and Incredible: Nissan ’s big gun punches high-caliber holes in our expectations. At first glance, the Nissan GT-R seems a totem for everything wrong with modern sports cars. It?s much too big, way too heavy, far too complex, and damnably too expensive for mere wage earners, especially after inevitable ... More About: Test , Road , Engineer , Coupe
Toyota and Subaru RWD Sports Cars for 2011 With Boxer Engines
2008-04-13 09:34:00 BY ALISA PRIDDLE AND PETER LYON, PHOTOGRAPHY BY MORGAN SEGAL New Suba-yota in the works furthers the relationship between Toyota and Subaru . Toyota confirms that its partnership with Subaru will spawn a small and affordable rear-wheel-drive sports car with a boxer engine that each Japanese automaker will badge as its own. The long-rumored two-door is a necessity ... More About: Sports , Cars , Engines
Audi R8 Sport Under Consideration
2008-04-09 14:46:00 BY STEVE SILER Pole-dancing? Audi ?s next lightweight supermodel might be a bit more of a stripper. The Audi R8 is great. But as evidenced by the R8 V-12 TDI (nee R8 TDI Le Mans) concept car on display at this year?s Detroit and Geneva auto shows, Audi is clearly thinking about proliferating the R8 lineup. The next R8 ... More About: Sport , Quattro , Luxury Car
Test 2008 Lexus GS460
2008-04-08 13:59:00 BY K.C. COLWELL, PHOTOGRAPHY BY MORGAN SEGAL The model lineups of luxury automakers are fairly predictable. The six-cylinder is the entry-level car and the bestselling. The V-8 is a more powerful, higher-performing version and costs more. Then there?s Lexus , which until now had reversed this logic with its GS, a competitor to the BMW 5-series, Mercedes ... More About: Test , 2008
Review 2009 Acura TSX
2008-04-07 12:45:00 BY STEVE SILER Acura keeps the best of it, does the rest of it. One of the signature numbers in the musical A Chorus Line features a struggling starlet justifying a bevy of elective medical procedures to bring her looks up to par with her talent. ?T*ts and *ss,? she claims, are all she?ll need to bring ... More About: Review , Sedan , Powers
2011 Chevrolet Volt Concept
2008-04-06 13:07:00 BY ALISA PRIDDLE GM checks off milestones in the development of its gasoline-electric plug-in vehicle. General Motors is developing the Chevrolet Volt electric vehicle and its lithium-ion battery pack on parallel paths?and both have passed significant milestones en route to a targeted November 2010 launch. Larry Burns, GM vice president of research and development and strategic planning, tells ... More About: Concept Car , Concept , Electric Car
2007 Mazda CX-7 Touring AWD Long Term Test
2008-04-05 14:10:00 BY DAVE VANDERWERP, PHOTOGRAPHY BY AARON KILEY Mazda ?s five-place crossover surprises us with its nimble rally-car impersonation. Now how about adding a V-6? Mazda adapted to the U.S. car-buying public?s desire for lighter and more agile carlike ?crossovers??a slightly encouraging shift away from large, heavy gas-guzzling SUVs?by launching the five-passenger CX-7 for 2007. The similarly spacious and ... More About: Test , Long , Touring , Wagon
Road Test Of 2008 Cadillac CTS
2008-04-02 15:06:00 BY JOHN PHILLIPS , PHOTOGRAPHY BY AARON KILEY Like God and Congress, Car and Driver sometimes moves in mysterious ways. Which perhaps explains why the initial 2008 Cadillac CTS we tested was powered by the optional 304-hp direct-injection (DI) V-6, after which we moved to the monster 550-horse CTS-V. And now?ta-da!?we revert to the starter-kit CTS, ... More About: Sedan , Test , Road
Oldsmobile Is Returns!
2008-04-02 14:42:00 BY JARED GALL Oldsmobile fans rejoice! (Or revolt?we suspect most will choose revolt.) Your brand lives again, and you?ll never guess how. Nearly four years to the day that the final Oldsmobile rolled off the assembly line in Lansing, Michigan, comes word that Oldsmobile is back. More startling than the announcement itself is its origin?not from Lansing, ...
Saleen S5S Raptor Concept
2008-03-21 13:08:00 BY ERIK JOHNSON, PHOTOGRAPHY BY RICH CHENET, CHRIS MONROE AND THE MANUFACTURER Saleen sharpens its supercar talons with a supercharged concept that it?s likely to build. American tuner and boutique automaker Saleen, the producer of the prodigiously powerful and prodigiously expensive S7 and S7 Twin Turbo, used the New York auto show to debut its new supercar ... More About: Concept Car , Raptor , Concept , Luxury Car
Road Test Of 2008 Pontiac G8 GT
2008-03-11 13:02:00 BY AARON ROBINSON, PHOTOGRAPHY BY MORGAN SEGAL Fair Dinkum! A BMW impersonator from down under shakes up the wide-track franchise. The lights went dim in GM?s rear-wheel-drive department about the time Saddam Hussein took over Iraq. It?s been hell in a hatbox ever since. Power?plowing, tire-torturing, torque-steering, steering-numbing power?has driven the front axles of nearly every GM ... More About: Pontiac , Sedan , Test , Road , 2008
Road Test Of 2008 Pontiac G8 GT
2008-03-11 13:02:00 BY AARON ROBINSON, PHOTOGRAPHY BY MORGAN SEGAL Fair Dinkum! A BMW impersonator from down under shakes up the wide-track franchise. The lights went dim in GM’s rear-wheel-drive department about the time Saddam Hussein took over Iraq. It’s been hell in a hatbox ever since. Power—plowing, tire-torturing, torque-steering, steering-numbing power—has driven the front axles of nearly every GM sedan for the past three decades. Throughout the great front-drive flood, GM’s Holden division in Australia was the ark for big sedans with prop shafts pointed at six o’clock. Holden Commodores and Ford Falcons are a mainstay in Oz and have received continually updated engineering despite the small market. (A good Aussie sales year—a record 1.05 million new vehicles in 2007—equals a disastrous sales month in the States.) Robert Lutz became the GM product sheriff in 2001, with a directive to inject car-guy sparkle into the insipid, fluorescent-lit catalog. All car guys know that fun li... More About: Pontiac , Test , Road , 2008
Review Of 2008 Aston Martin DBS
2008-03-09 14:01:00 BY BARRY WINFIELD For a car that looks like a million bucks, $265,000 sounds like a steal. When the Aston Martin DBS made its debut as James Bond?s car in the 2006 movie Casino Royale, it got wadded into a ball during an avoidance maneuver. Aston?s people were unruffled by the destruction of their car. They knew ... More About: Review , Luxury Car , Coupe
Review Of 2008 Aston Martin DBS
2008-03-09 14:01:00 BY BARRY WINFIELD For a car that looks like a million bucks, $265,000 sounds like a steal. When the Aston Martin DBS made its debut as James Bond?s car in the 2006 movie Casino Royale, it got wadded into a ball during an avoidance maneuver. Aston?s people were unruffled by the destruction of their car. They knew ... More About: Review , Luxury Car , Coupe
AMG?s Green Initiatives Include Possibility of Diesels, Hybrids, and Turbo
2008-03-07 14:51:00 BY JENS MEINERS Mercedes-Benz performance brand AMG shows its environmental side. Mercedes?s AMG performance division wants to offer guiltless pleasure for those who love performance cars but are tired of being criticized for a lack of commitment to save the planet. On the eve of the 2008 Geneva auto show, AMG boss Volker Mornhinweg boldly announced that the ... More About: Hybrid , Hybrids , Green , Blue
AMG?s Green Initiatives Include Possibility of Diesels, Hybrids, and Turbo
More articles from this author:2008-03-07 14:51:00 BY JENS MEINERS Mercedes-Benz performance brand AMG shows its environmental side. Mercedes?s AMG performance division wants to offer guiltless pleasure for those who love performance cars but are tired of being criticized for a lack of commitment to save the planet. On the eve of the 2008 Geneva auto show, AMG boss Volker Mornhinweg boldly announced that the ... More About: Hybrid , Hybrids , Green , Blue 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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