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First Drive: 2011 Hyundai Equus

Damon Lavrinc — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:01:00 +0000

Filed under: Sedan, Hyundai, First Drive, Luxury The Ultimate Four-Wheeled Value Proposition 2011 Hyundai Equus - Click above for high-res image gallery If the Genesis sedan was Hyundai's opening salvo to bring the pain to Lexus, the Equus is a set ...

Lagonda crossover reportedly scrapped in favor of Rapide-based sedan

Noah Joseph — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:25:00 +0000

Filed under: Sedan, Performance, Aston Martin, Luxury Aston Martin Rapide - Click above for high-res image gallery Aston Martin Lagonda hasn't lacked for four-door models in its history, but its latest efforts have had us all scratching our heads in ...

Las Vegas campaigning for Indy season closer

Noah Joseph — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:27:00 +0000

Filed under: Motorsports It's been a few years since single-seaters roared through America's Playground, but they could be back before we know it. And back in a big way, if the latest reports from the world of motorsport materialize. The Las Vegas Mo...

Lamborghini teases new supercar ahead of Paris debut

Noah Joseph — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:03:00 +0000

Filed under: Spy Photos, Coupe, Performance, Paris Motor Show, Lamborghini Lamborghini teaser - Click above for high-res image Step-by-step unveilings of new car models can be a painfully slow affair, but when it's something as exciting as a new Lambo...

Happy 100th birthday to the RV

John Neff — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:29:00 +0000

Filed under: Classics, Etc. 100th Anniversary of the RV - Click above for historical high-res image gallery (69 images) It seems appropriate while we celebrate the last vestiges of summer on this Labor Day weekend that we also acknowledge the 100th an...

Infiniti SUVs

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Pirelli reportedly withdraws from World Rally Championship

Noah Joseph — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:28:00 +0000

Filed under: Motorsports Pirelli may be used to sticking to its territory, but the latest development has the Italian rubber company voluntarily ceding ground to its rivals. After having secured the exclusive contract to provide tires to Formula One, ...

Hyundai giving $200 a car to children’s cancer charity this month

Michael Harley — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:31:00 +0000

Filed under: Etc., Hyundai, Earnings/FinancialsWith National Childhood Cancer Awareness month underway, Hyundai Motor America has announced plans to donate $100,000 to 68 hospitals and non-profit organizations ($6.8 million total) in the form of "Hope ...

Isuzu

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IndyCar: 2010 Kentucky Indy 300 comes down to fuelish decisions [SPOILERS]

Frank Filipponio — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:25:00 +0000

Filed under: Motorsports, Honda, Racing 2010 Kentucky Indy 300 from Kentucky Speedway - Click above for high-res image gallery For the IRL IndyCar Series, the 2010 Kentucky Indy 300 was all about the number "200." It was the 200th race in IRL history...

Report: Toyota plans budget sports car line

Damon Lavrinc — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:27:00 +0000

Filed under: Aftermarket, Concept Cars, Coupe, Budget, Hybrid, Japan, Hatchback, Toyota Toyota MR2 Sports Hybrid Concept - Click above for high-res image gallery Akio Toyoda may want to bring driving excitement back to Toyota, but he and his team have...

U.S. to limit foreign investors in GM IPO?

Chris Paukert — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:29:00 +0000

Filed under: Government/Legal, GM, Earnings/Financials According to The Wall Street Journal, members of the U.S. Treasury are worried about General Motors' upcoming IPO. They aren't concerned for the automaker's stock price, or how even how many inves...

Moto2 rider Shoya Tomizawa killed in San Marino Grand Prix crash

Damon Lavrinc — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:31:00 +0000

Filed under: Motorsports Less than a week after 13-year-old Peter Lenz was killed in a crash at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, another motorcyclist's life has been claimed at the track. Shoya Tomizawa was on his 15th lap at the Misano circuit during th...

SSC Ultimate Aero II: Red, white and blue Bugatti killer

Alex Nunez — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:33:00 +0000

SSC Ultimate Aero II - Watch the "unveiling" teaser video after the jump Shelby Supercars' Ultimate Aero TT used to be the fastest production car in the world, its 256-mph record speed eclipsing even the mighty Bugatti Veyron. Then, as of a few weeks...

UK street racers boosting nitrous canisters from ambulance stations?

Jeff Glucker — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:36:00 +0000

Filed under: Aftermarket, Motorsports, Etc., Technology, UK Nitrous oxide - the preferred go-fast gas of many speed freaks - delivers its substantial power boost by cooling the surrounding air, which in turn becomes denser. The denser air's higher oxy...

Why the Stig outed himself

Jeff Glucker — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:46:00 +0000

Filed under: Etc., Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, UK, Celebrities, Rumormill The Stig, as we're all now aware, is portrayed by talented wheelman Ben Collins. Stiggie, like the three Top Gear presenters, is beloved by fans around the globe. It's hard to atte...

Video: Japanese trailer for Ayrton Senna documentary

Jeff Glucker — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:50:00 +0000

Filed under: Motorsports, Videos, Racing Ayrton Senna biopic trailer - Click above to watch video after the jump Ayrton Senna da Silva was born on March 21, 1960. To our knowledge, he won his first competition when he cut his umbilical cord before his...

21-year-old with giant supercar collection makes us jealous

Jeff Glucker — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:45:00 +0000

Filed under: Car Buying, Coupe, Sedan, Performance, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Mercedes-Benz, Rolls-Royce, Ferrari, Middle East, Luxury, Koenigsegg When we were 21, we were happy to ditch the fake ID and score cheaper insurance rates. Life's a little diffe...

2012 Ford Focus EV to use liquid-cooled lithium-polymer battery

Autoblog Staff — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:41:00 +0000

Filed under: Sedan, Technology, Hatchback, Electric Ford Focus EV - Click above for high-res image gallery When the 2112 Ford Focus Electric debuts in late 2011, it and the Chevrolet Volt will have a common feature in addition to their LG Chem lithium...

Will the next Stig be a woman? UK bookies lay odds

Jeff Glucker — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 16:34:00 +0000

Filed under: Etc., Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, HumorIs the Stig about to get a sex change? William Hill, one of the UK's largest bookmaking operations, places the odds of the next Stig being a lady at 4-1 and has reportedly seen a good amount of action on...

Hybrid sales plummet 40% in August; Prius records 37.5% decline

Autoblog Staff — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:33:00 +0000

Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Toyota 2010 Toyota Prius - Click above for high-res image gallery One month of dreary sales figures doesn't signal the end of the hybrid, but the numbers reported for August hint that without a rise in gas prices, hybr...

Video: Sheik’s custom six-wheeled Nissan SUV is a thing that makes us go ‘Hmmm’

Zach Bowman — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:00:00 +0000

Filed under: Aftermarket, SUV, Etc., Videos, Nissan, Middle East, Design/Style, Off-Road Sheik, hydro and roll - Click above to watch video after the jump Well, this is certainly different. We've seen our fair share of wild vehicle modifications over ...

Spy Shots: 2012 Honda Civic prototype holds on to two-tier dash

Steven J. Ewing — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:30:00 +0000

Filed under: Spy Photos, Budget, Sedan, Honda 2012 Honda Civic spy shots - Click above for high-res image gallery After seeing a handful of spy shots of the next-generation Euro-spec Honda Civic, the North American car is finally starting to show up o...

Daily U-Turn: What you missed on 9.3.10

John Neff — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:18:00 +0000

Officially Official: Ford F-150 SVT Raptor gains SuperCrew, loses 5.4L V8 for 2011 Ford's off-road beast, the F-150 SVT Raptor, has only been on sale for a year, but it's already getting a few upgrades for the 2011 model year. Many reports and a fe...

Vancouver using 3D optical illusion to scare motorists into safer driving?

Zach Bowman — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:01:00 +0000

Filed under: Safety, CanadaSafety organizations and the District of West Vancouver, Canada are joining forces to build awareness about careful driving during the start of the school year. Thanks the work of the BCAA Traffic Safety Association, drivers ...

Mexico’s Mastretta releases a few lines about MXT sports car for Paris

Chris Paukert — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:14:00 +0000

Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Specialty, South America Mexican sports car intender Mastretta has officially announced that it will reveal the production version of its MXT at this month's Paris Motor Show. Longtime Autoblog readers may recall tha...

Mitsuoka Orochi now available to rent in Osaka

Zach Bowman — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:30:00 +0000

Filed under: Convertible, Coupe, Performance, Japan Mitsuoka Orochi Premium Gold - Click above for high-res image gallery So you're headed to Japan and need to rent a car. What to choose? The island nation is a smorgasbord of metal foreign to American...

Chevrolet Cruze configurator goes live

Zach Bowman — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:46:00 +0000

Filed under: Car Buying, Budget, Sedan, Chevrolet Heads up, compact fans; the configurator for the 2011 Chevrolet Cruze has officially gone live. If you've got a few hot seconds to spare as your work week comes to a close, you can build up your new Bo...

Consumer Federation of America calls for 60 mpg CAFE standard by 2025

Autoblog Staff — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:56:00 +0000

Filed under: Etc., Government/Legal, Technology Now that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Environmental Protection Agency have established fleet fuel economy standards of 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016, the government agencies are...

U.S. to limit foreign investors in GM IPO?

Chris Paukert — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:29:00 +0000

Video: Cadillac CTS-V “Competition” commercial

Steven J. Ewing — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:12:00 +0000

Filed under: Sedan, Performance, Marketing/Advertising, Videos, Cadillac Cadillac CTS-V "Competition" commercial - Click above to watch the video after the jump Recently, we showed you a behind-the-scenes look at Cadillac's newest commercial featuring...

Chevrolet signs Tim Allen as brand’s new voice

Steven J. Ewing — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:29:00 +0000

Filed under: Marketing/Advertising, Chevrolet, GM, CelebritiesGeneral Motors has officially announced that television and movie star Tim Allen will be the new "voice of Chevrolet," starting with a series of ads that will begin airing on September 7. Th...

Some say that Top Gear will viciously kill off The Stig

Zach Bowman — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:45:00 +0000

Filed under: Etc., UK, Celebrities When murmurings began hitting the web that the man who plays The Stig was itching to publish his memoirs, we knew it was only a matter of time before the character met his end on the BBC's Top Gear. According to The ...

Report: Rattner bio reveals Obama Administration wanted Ghosn to run GM

Zach Bowman — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:01:00 +0000

Filed under: Government/Legal, GM, Celebrities Steven Rattner, former automotive adviser to President Barack Obama, has just written a juicy account of last year's automotive bailout, complete with insights on the coming and goings of CEOs, courting f...

Rumormill: Toyota working on FT-86 sedan?

Zach Bowman — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:28:00 +0000

Filed under: Sedan, Performance, Japan, Toyota, RumormillThat's what the crew at Car Guide would have us all believe. According to the website, Toyota is looking to hedge its bets by producing a second model on the same platform as the upcoming FT-86. ...

Spy Shots: BMW M5 prototype gets towed off the ‘Ring

Zach Bowman — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:00:00 +0000

Filed under: Spy Photos, Sedan, Performance, Europe, BMW, Luxury BMW M5 prototype gets towed home - Click above for high-res image gallery Occasionally, we find ourselves wondering why manufacturers continue to insist on testing their prototype vehicl...

Paris Preview: GM unveils Chevrolet Cruze hatchback for Europe

Steven J. Ewing — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:28:00 +0000

Filed under: Concept Cars, Budget, Europe, Paris Motor Show, Hatchback, Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze Hatchback - Click above for high-res image gallery General Motors will be expanding Chevrolet of Europe's lineup by adding a five-door Cruze, and while w...

Report: Former GM CEO Fritz Henderson to lead Sunoco spinoff

Zach Bowman — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:58:00 +0000

Filed under: Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, GM If you've been wondering what former General Motors CEO Fritz Henderson has been up to since getting the boot, The Detroit News has the skinny for you. Henderson is now headed to Sunoco to fill in as the compan...

Ford settles $131m Explorer rollover case

Dan Roth — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:29:00 +0000

Filed under: SUV, Government/Legal, Safety, Ford Ford's second-generation Explorer has just cost the company $131 million. Despite the popularity of the seminal SUV, it's had more than its fair share of legal scrapes regarding its rollover resistance....

Who pays the highest auto loan interest rates in the country?

Zach Bowman — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:58:00 +0000

Filed under: Car Buying, Etc., Earnings/FinancialsMap Powered by Tableau It's that time of the year again, kids. Manufacturers are busy trying to put people in cars in order to move leftover stock and make room for incoming models, and many are doin...

Cities under consideration for Fiat 500 sales outlets listed?

Chris Paukert — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:31:00 +0000

Filed under: Car Buying, Budget, Hatchback, Chrysler, Fiat Fiat 500 receives a model introduction - click above for high-res image gallery We've been anxiously awaiting the availability of Fiat's 500 bubble bauble in the States for so long that we're ...

Mercedes-Benz updates Mbrace app with ‘Concierge’ service

Damon Lavrinc — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:58:00 +0000

Filed under: Technology, Mercedes-Benz, LuxuryMercedes-Benz and its partners at Hughes Telematics have released an updated version of its Mbrace app for the iPhone, and 2.0 brings along a new line of location-based services. In addition to the usual a...

Report: Toyota gets overwhelming response for new hires at Mississippi plant

Chris Shunk — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:29:00 +0000

Filed under: Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Toyota If you want a job at Toyota's still under construction Mississippi assembly plant, you'd better get in line. In fact, you'd best fill out an application post-haste, because the Japanese automaker reportedly...

AutoblogGreen for 09.03.10

Sebastian Blanco — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:55:00 +0000

	Tesla Roadster eligible for $38,000 clean energy rebate in Japan Not a bad discount, right?		GM says Chevy Cruze Eco with an automatic will hit 36 mpg highway This slushbox won't hurt too bad at the pump.
	Coda will sell electric sedan in Hawaii in late 2011 The line is forming that-a-way.	Other news: Donnie Bowles scores first win in propane-powered Roush Mustang Motive doesn't Bogart cannabis car info, passes us more details Mazda's "uniquely engineered" Sky engines will offer best-in-class fuel efficiency

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Officially Official: Ford F-150 SVT Raptor gains SuperCrew, loses 5.4L V8 for 2011

Steven J. Ewing — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:01:00 +0000

Filed under: Truck, Ford, Off-Road 2011 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor SuperCrew - Click above for high-res image gallery Ford's off-road beast, the F-150 SVT Raptor, has only been on sale for a year, but it's already getting a few upgrades for the 2011 model ...

Poll: 2011 Ford Explorer vs. 2011 Dodge Durango – What’s your pick?

Steven J. Ewing — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:58:00 +0000

Filed under: Crossover, Dodge, Ford The SUV is dead. Long live the SUV! The 2011 Dodge Durango and Ford Explorer are big departures from the models that they replace. Aside from the usual styling and refinement differences, the biggest changes for th...

Video: Spectre Performance Speedliner takes to the salt

Zach Bowman — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:25:00 +0000

Filed under: Aftermarket, Motorsports, Videos Spectre Perfromance Speedliner hits 366 mph - Click above to watch video after the jump Spectre Performance has been busy. The team made impressive progress toward its goal of toppling the 400 mph barrier ...

Daily U-Turn: What you missed on 9.2.10

Autoblog Staff — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:20:00 +0000

First Drive: 2011 Kia Optima It's hard to imagine comparing an Optima to the cream-of-the-crop, but with sharp new styling and some compelling powertrains, Kia has a mid-size winner of its hands. Video: Top Gear USA runs with the bulls Judging by ...

Survey: Allstate lists America’s safest driving cities [w/video]

Zach Bowman — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:01:00 +0000

Filed under: Etc., Safety, Videos Allstate has officially ranked the country's 200 largest cities by the likelihood of their drivers to get into an accident. The annual report singles out localities with the best drivers, and this year, Fort Collins, ...

Video: Well, you don’t see a classic diesel Mercedes E-Class wagon drift everyday

Steven J. Ewing — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:01:00 +0000

Filed under: Wagon, Videos, Mercedes-Benz, Diesel Vintage diesel Mercedes-Benz E-Class wagon drifting - Click above to watch the video after the jump This might be one of the coolest things we've ever seen... this year. There are hundreds of videos fl...