Articles Archive for August 2008
Posted in Automotive News on 28 August 2008
The writing has been on the wall for some time. Although the Lexus flagship graduated from “concept” to “prototype” when it campaigned in the 24 Hours of Nurburgring, Toyota has refused to even hint at a production date for the V10 supercar. Then Toyota declined to plonk an LF-A silhouette on their Super GT racer, [...]
Posted in Automotive News on 27 August 2008
Hurst is no stranger to offering up special edition Mopars. The 1970 Chrysler 300 Hurst packed a 440ci “TNT” V8 with 375 horsepower, as well as a fiberglass hood and trunk, Satin Tan leather interior, and a Spinnaker-White paint scheme with gold trim. Ok, that was nearly 40 years ago, but Hurst is still going [...]
Posted in Automotive News on 27 August 2008
Being that my family’s in the motor home business, I know a thing or two about RVs. One thing I know is that they don’t like going off road. Hell, they don’t like potholes and speedbumps. Being constructed mostly of balsa wood and tinker toys, modern RVs tend to shake like an earthquake over anything [...]
Posted in Automotive News on 27 August 2008
The McLaren P11 will still be powered by a 6.2-liter Mercedes AMG unit, but nobody knows yet what the car that goes around the engine is going to look like. Frank Stephenson, recently of Fiat fame, has been given instructions to completely redesign the car when he starts at McLaren. However, he can’t take up [...]
Posted in Automotive News on 26 August 2008
The Moscow Auto Show is underway and Damon’s on site with camera in hand. The car you see here is the Lada C-Cross Concept, which looks kinda like a Chinese knock-off of a last-gen Euro Ford Focus with added ground clearance. The C-Cross show car presumably gives a sneak peek at what a future AvtoVAZ [...]
Posted in Automotive News on 26 August 2008
It’s been over 60 years since the Americans have so thoroughly trounced the Germans, but Inside Line has the numbers to prove it. The Edmunds news service had a chance to take the new Cadillac CTS-V (which we’re driving in upstart New York as we speak) and its supercharged V8 for a spin around GM’s [...]
Posted in Automotive News on 26 August 2008
Despite earlier assertions to the contrary, all indications are now that BMW is preparing its first batch of M-tuned sport-utilities, including an X5 M and X6 M. Advanced-stage test mules for both have now been spied by a keen photographer right here in the United States, at BMW’s Performance Center test track in Spartanburg, South [...]
Posted in Automotive News on 25 August 2008
Midnight Club: LA is on its way, and the developers at Rockstar Games just released a new video of an Audi R8 doing its thing through the concrete jungle. The name of the game: arcade. Or better names might be ‘free-for-all’ and ‘pedestrians, watch out!’ It’s cut like an MTV video, so it’s hard to [...]
Posted in Automotive News on 25 August 2008
A quick glance at Pontiac’s (rumored) future product plans reveals just how much fuel prices have affected plans for an all rear-wheel drive lineup. Let’s see, we’ve got the Solstice and the G8, and, um… that’s it. Sure, we’re expecting the G8 ST soon, but the El Camino-come-lively will never sell enough to keep bean [...]
Posted in Automotive News on 25 August 2008
It’s not often that an automaker invites the press to drive a developmental test mule, but that’s just about what happened recently at the Ricardo test circuit in Valencia, Spain, where Audi brought out four examples of what’s being called an S5 Evo for select members of the automotive press to sample.
While Audi is expected [...]


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