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The Ford folks are out in LA to intro the 2010 Fusion, Fusion Hybrid and 2009 Ford Mustang. Today we got a look at the Fusion Hybrid and were turned loose on the streets of Los Angeles to test its economy in the real world. First up, the reskin makes for a smarter and modern [...]
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2009 Audi S4 and S4 Avant: First Look
Elite members of the world’s automotive press are off to Europe this week to run the 2009 Audi S4 around the Mediterranean island of Mallorca. Unfortunately we aren’t elite members so had to dig deep into the Audi Media site to get the details ourselves from afar of the hopped up Audi A4. So here [...]
Car Of The Week: 2008 Mini Clubman S
I grew up surrounded by the original British Leyland (RIP) version of this car in the home counties of England. They weren’t exactly the cool kid car to have, but here in Los Angeles you can’t swing a cat without hitting a Mini by BMW driven by everyone from yummy mummies to studio execs. Finally [...]
TFEV: Tanner’s Car For Friday: Pagani Zonda F
The third day on the ground for Tanner Foust’s European Vacation and we woke to some photos from his iPhone of his car of the day: the Pagani Zonda F. Tanner left a message on my voicemail of the monstrous AMG V12 being revved to the limiter. Sounds like the hounds of hell turned up [...]
TFEV: Tanner’s Day On Italian Back Roads With the Lamborghini Reventon
Tanner Foust’s European Vacation (TFEV) continues along with his exclusive blog for Autofiends with his second day on the ground in Italy. As an honored guest of Lamborghini, and filming for Speed TV’s Supercars Exposed, Tanner is getting to live our dream. Fortunately it seems its his dream too and he’s making the most of it, [...]
TFEV: Tanner Foust Gets First Look at Lamborghini Reventon
First day on the ground for Tanner on his ultimate autofiend European vacation filming for upcoming episodes of Supercars Exposed on Speed TV, and quite the way to start. Tanner rolled up to an empty Lambo factory — Italy goes on holiday for the month of August and they tossed him the keys to a [...]
2009 Infiniti G37 Convertible Sneak Peek
You’ve gotta love auto exec’s slippery fingers. How else would we have clear looks at gems like Infiniti’s G37 convertible well ahead of its intended launch? The company’s first convertible in years will rock an automated folding hard top and a super svelte sound system to drown out highway noise, but otherwise remains fairly close [...]
2011 Nissan Silvia First Look
According to a newsletter put out by Fox Marketing, Nissan are aiming to bring their new front engined/rear drive sports competitor to the recently rumored Subaru/Toyota collab to market in the ‘latter half’ of 2010 and beat Toyota to the punch. Nissan have acknowledged the lack of an entry level sports car to appeal to younger [...]
2009 Lincoln MKS in Georgetown: First Pics
We’re in Washington DC for the launch of the 2009 Lincoln MKS. Its an important car for Lincoln debuting the new design DNA with the new look twin grill front end inspired by Lincoln’s venerated sedans of the ’30s, when the brand was one of America’s leading luxury carmakers. The MKS is touted as offering [...]
2008 BMW M3 Convertible
Seriously, are any of us really surprized by this? We went nuts for the coupe, drooled over the sedan, and now we can daydream about the drop-top. Besides the retractable hard top there isn’t much difference between the M3 convertible and the coupe. Although you can probably expect the vert to cost at least a [...]