I. Jaguar is putting its 272 hp diesel V6 in the XK. The engine debuts in Europe this spring in the XF saloon sedan, but a thinly disguised XK was caught testing at Nurburgring with a distinctive diesel rattle. Hooray for torques. [Surce: Autocar]
II. NASCAR rookie Tony Logano will become the youngest ever driver to [...]
January, 2009
I can best Dr. Lieberman’s statement that he hates Superbowl ads by saying I’ve never in all my long years watched the game. Ever. Keep your comments on my masculinity/sanity to yourselves and hop the jump for a look at Hyundai’s crack at multi-million dollar ad space. The quick commercial shows the Hyundai Genesis Coupe [...]
Renault’s rolled out a slick new coupe for 2009, called the Leguna. The car boasts 3-series fighting muscle in the way of a wide variety of beating hearts, the most powerful of which is 240 pony V6. Of course, we could care less about all of that because just like every other Renault, the Leguna [...]
Under normal circumstances, the Chevrolet Matiz is the kind of car we would sentence our worst enemies to drive for eternity. The car is crappy like LeCar could only hope to be, which is why it’s the perfect candidate for an LS7 swap. Think I’m crazy? Talk to the founder of Fourdin Auto Sport, Yves [...]
Mitsubishi just unleashed a blatant poke in Subaru’s Pleiades-speckled eyes. For a good while now, Mitsubishi has been content to let Subaru manhandle the AWD sport-hatch segment here in the states. Not no more, Fiends. Mitsubishi just confirmed the Lancer Sportback GTS and Ralliart are headed our way in a hurry — as in middle [...]
I don’t think I could come up with a title guaranteed to raise fewer eyebrows, but stick with me. The king of FoMoCo speed, Carol Shelby, has partnered with ford to create a new race-only version of the Shelby GT Mustang. One of the many cool parts is that the car isn’t just for straight [...]
I know its no WRC, but America’s national rally championship, the Rally America series, kicks off today in upstate Michigan. The more than appropriately named Sno*Drift rally is under way as we speak. Last year’s (now three time) champion Travis Pastrana and Subaru Rally Team USA team mate Ken “Gymkhana King” Block are back on [...]
All this Audi talk got me thinking about Audis that excite me. There’s the RS4, of course. And I suppose the R8, though I still think it looks like a mutated Dolphin. The A5 and S5 are quite attractive. A6? Not so much. Ooh, but the A8… That’s quite a handsome machine. I mean, Transporter [...]
While it may look like a Ferrari F430’s snout grafted onto a Lamborghini Gallardo from the A-pillar back, this is in fact the upcoming McLaren P11. You are to think of it as McLaren F1 light. Instead of a 600+ hp V12 sourced from BMW the P11 will sport a 550-ish horsepower 6.2-liter V8 sourced from [...]
Right, so these aren’t actually “pictures” — they’re renderings. Meaning really good looking computer images of what Autocar.co.uk thinks the upcoming Rapide supersaloon will look like. They are claiming the above images were “released” early by Astin Martin. Of course, why would Aston Martin release these two computerized drawings to only Autocar? Right, they wouldn’t. [...]
