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| Posted: 15 Jan 2012 12:41 AM PST  Toyota iQ Supercharger e Yaris Turbo Concept al Salone di Tokyo 2012 Toyota sarà presente al prossimo Salone di Tokyo con molte novità, tra cui due concept sportive su base iQ e Yaris. Il prototipo basato sulla Toyota iQ e curato da Gazoo Racing, monterà un 1.33 litri con compressore volumetrico che porterà la potenza fino a 128 cavalli e 180 Nm di coppia.... |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2012 11:53 PM PST  Ventas 2011: Suiza (+8,4%) Filed under: Industria Durante el año 2011 las matriculaciones de vehículos nuevos en Suiza se incrementaron en un 8,4% en comparación con el mismo periodo del 2010, alcanzando un volumen total de 318.958 unidades vendidas. Por marcas las más destacadas fueron: SUBEN Hyundai +59,6% Jeep +55,7% SsangYong +30,8% BAJAN Chrysler -65,4% Dodge -54,2% Saab -52,4% Continue reading Ventas 2011: Suiza (+8,4%)Ventas 2011: Suiza (+8,4%) originally appeared on Autoblog Español on Sun, 15 Jan 2012 02:19:00 EST.... |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2012 10:24 PM PST  Lexus: la LFA Roadster vista al Tokyo Auto Salon è una "semplice" one-off Gli appassionati giunti a Tokyo per l'annuale Auto Salon hanno guardato con sorpresa alla Lexus LFA Roadster partecipante alla D1GP Kick Off, ovvero una gara di traversi e drift fra automobili più o meno preparate che ha inaugurato il programma di eventi e show collaterali al salone. La vettura giapponese ha suscitato non poco stupore ed ha catturato fin da subito l'attenzione dei numerosi spettatori.... |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2012 05:47 PM PST  Super-rare Jaguar XJ220S heading to Arizona auction Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Auctions, Jaguar With only 350 cars built, the Jaguar XJ220 is a collector's item, but some examples are rarer than others. Having relied heavily on Tom Walkinshaw Racing for the development of the XJ220 in the first place, Jaguar turned to the outfit when it came time to assess the possibility of a competition version.... |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2012 04:14 PM PST  Nissan Micra Nismo Per definire l'identità di un marchio sconosciuto ai più è fondamentale promuovere iniziative sorprendenti e d'impatto. Nissan ha quindi realizzato un prototipo su base Micra, modificato con gli accessori ufficiali del catalogo Nismo che in futuro saranno proposti a listino. Il reparto Nismo verrà dunque trasformato in realtà indipendente e dalla spicca personalità, seguendo la formula già intrapresa da Audi, BMW e Mercedes con i rispettivi brand RS, M e AMG.... |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2012 04:14 PM PST  McLaren rolls out special edition MP4-12C High Sport As if the McLaren MP4-12C isn't special enough already, a meaner-looking and more muscular version has surfaced: the MP4-12C HS, or High Sport. Prepped by McLaren Special Operations, the MP4-12C HS wears an improved aero package that borrows heavily from the MP4-12C GT3 racer. The car has a new nose, rear bumper, enlarged vents, bigger diffuser and a modified rear wing, as well as new wheels.... |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2012 04:14 PM PST Shin Adachi departs Kyosho Japanese star Shin Adachi has announced his departure from Kyosho, a company he has seemed so closely linked to for so long. In a message on his FB page the multiple National Champion explained that he will depart the Red Army on January 20th. We contacted him for further details but he wasn't remaining tight [...] |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2012 04:14 PM PST Shin Adachi departs Kyosho Japanese star Shin Adachi has announced his departure from Kyosho, a company he has seemed so closely linked to for so long. In a message on his FB page the multiple National Champion explained that he will depart the Red Army on January 20th. We contacted him for further details but he wasn't remaining tight [...] |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2012 04:14 PM PST Shin Adachi departs Kyosho Japanese star Shin Adachi has announced his departure from Kyosho, a company he has seemed so closely linked to for so long. In a message on his FB page the multiple National Champion explained that he will depart the Red Army on January 20th. We contacted him for further details but he wasn't remaining tight [...] |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2012 04:14 PM PST Shin Adachi departs Kyosho Japanese star Shin Adachi has announced his departure from Kyosho, a company he has seemed so closely linked to for so long. In a message on his FB page the multiple National Champion explained that he will depart the Red Army on January 20th. We contacted him for further details but he wasn't remaining tight [...] |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2012 04:14 PM PST Centro C4.1 & B4.1 brass options Further brass options from Centro have been released for the C4.1 and B4.1 in the form of a 18 gram brass front suspension brace, 15 gram ackerman plate and 10 gram under bellcrank weight. These new options further increase the tuning options for both... |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2012 03:26 PM PST Massachusetts Charging Hundreds to Fight Tickets, Win or Lose Two hundred seventy-five bucks to fight a $15 ticket? Welcome to Massachusetts—and a properly lousy day for Vincent Gillespie (pictured). Back in July 2005, Gillespie received a parking ticket while he was walking to a parking-enforcement office to fight a ticket for the same infraction. After getting the duplicate citation thrown out, he wanted to [...] |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2012 03:26 PM PST Massachusetts Charging Hundreds to Fight Tickets, Win or Lose Two hundred seventy-five bucks to fight a $15 ticket? Welcome to Massachusetts—and a properly lousy day for Vincent Gillespie (pictured). Back in July 2005, Gillespie received a parking ticket while he was walking to a parking-enforcement office to fight a ticket for the same infraction. After getting the duplicate citation thrown out, he wanted to [...] |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2012 03:25 PM PST The Physics Of: How the HANS Device Saves Lives In the dark ages of motorsports, relatively minor accidents were often fatal. Case in point: Patrick Jacquemart's 1981 head-on collision into a dirt bank at Mid-Ohio while testing his Renault 5 Turbo IMSA GTU racer. Even though damage to the car was minor, Jacquemart died from a basilar skull fracture—a break in the bones at [...] |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2012 03:25 PM PST What I'd Do Differently: Danica Patrick C/D: You are sponsored primarily by GoDaddy, the website registry, but you're doing a lot of work for COPD—chronic obstructive pulmonary disease—and the website Drive4COPD.com. DP: My grandmother died from COPD. She was in a wheelchair, on oxygen 24 hours a day. She struggled to just breathe. COPD kills more people than breast cancer and [...] |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2012 03:25 PM PST What I'd Do Differently: Danica Patrick C/D: You are sponsored primarily by GoDaddy, the website registry, but you're doing a lot of work for COPD—chronic obstructive pulmonary disease—and the website Drive4COPD.com. DP: My grandmother died from COPD. She was in a wheelchair, on oxygen 24 hours a day. She struggled to just breathe. COPD kills more people than breast cancer and [...] |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2012 03:25 PM PST Four High-Def Action Video Camera Test From smartphones to digital cameras, the world is awash in video-capturing devices that will document your particular brand of hoonage. But you can't—okay, shouldn't—drive while holding an iPhone out the window, and you don't want to break your dedicated home-movie camera ghost-riding the Fairmont wagon your uncle left you in his will. |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2012 03:25 PM PST Four High-Def Action Video Camera Test From smartphones to digital cameras, the world is awash in video-capturing devices that will document your particular brand of hoonage. But you can't—okay, shouldn't—drive while holding an iPhone out the window, and you don't want to break your dedicated home-movie camera ghost-riding the Fairmont wagon your uncle left you in his will. |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2012 02:38 PM PST  Video: Dumbest Stuff on Wheels compilation makes Season 1 reruns redundant Filed under: Videos, Humor Speed TV's Dumbest Stuff on Wheels is coming back for a second season later this month, and in case you don't know what you're in for, they've put together a "Best Of" compilation from Season One. It's a simple concept, though: really bad ideas + wheels. We're sympathetic toward the folks attempting trics, because after all, crashing is part of perfecting.... |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2012 02:38 PM PST  GM estudia fabricar algunos Chevrolet en Europa Filed under: Chevrolet, Industria, Monovolúmenes y MPV, Familiares, Hatchbacks Los chicos de General Motors todavía no lo tienen claro pero ya están haciendo números para que la oferta de Chevrolet sea más rentable en Europa. Con la producción casi total de los productos vendidos en el viejo continente llegando desde Europa, parece que las cifras no terminan de cuadrar y se podrían mejorar deslocalizando algunos modelos. Según parece los candidatos para su manufactura... |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2012 01:50 PM PST  Two Tesla execs leave, TSLA stock drops, Elon Musk not worried Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Tesla Motors Tesla is promoting 2012 at the Year of the Model S, but things are starting off with a bit of a set-back. Tesla spokesman Ricardo Reyes revealed that both Tesla vice president and chief engineer Peter Rawlinson and Nick Sampson, the Model S vehicle and chassis engineering supervisor, have left the company.... |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2012 01:50 PM PST  Video: Corvette ZR1-powered Chevrolet Silverado has us feeling sleepy Filed under: Aftermarket, Performance, Truck, Etc., Videos, Chevrolet Here we have the kind of sleeper that'll wake you up no time: a short-bed, four-wheel-drive Chevrolet Silverado with an LS9 from the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1. With dyno numbers of 510 horsepower and 504 pound-feet of torque, there's a jump of at least 205 hp and 169 lb-ft over the most powerful factory engine you can get in that truck. The result?... |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2012 01:50 PM PST Corvette ZR1-powered Chevrolet Silverado has us feeling sleepy Filed under: Aftermarket, Performance, Truck, Etc., Videos, Chevrolet Here we have the kind of sleeper that'll wake you up no time: a short-bed, four-wheel-drive Chevrolet Silverado with an LS9 from the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1. With dyno numbers of 510 horsepower and 504 pound-feet of torque, there's a jump of at least 205 hp and 169 lb-ft over the most powerful factory engine you can get in that truck. The result?... |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2012 12:13 PM PST  Vídeo: El LFA Roadster se deja ver por el Tokyo Auto Salon Filed under: Lexus, Toyota, Descapotables, Cupés, Deportivos La muestra más importante de preparaciones de Japón, el Tokyo Auto Salon, ha sido el lugar elegido por Lexus para dejar echarle un ojo al LFA Roadster, que se espera en producción antes de que acabe el año. El coche hizo acto de presencia en un evento de drifting organizado por Toyota con los GT86 y sus ancestros AE86, un trabajo por otra parte digno... |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2012 12:13 PM PST  Official: Ford says SYNC base is now 4M, will reach 13M by 2015 Filed under: Technology, Ford Ford SYNC is a success. The connectivity software has found its way into four million cars since its introduction in 2007. With European and Asian buyers getting SYNC for the first time this year, and North American offerings like the Fusion and Flex getting it as standard equipment, Ford expects to add nine million more users by 2015. The prediction isn't solely based car buyers' increased access to SYNC;... |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2012 11:24 AM PST  Curiosidad: Así fueron las ventas de vehículos eléctricos e híbridos en Francia en 2011 Filed under: Industria Poco a poco los vehículos eléctricos van llegando al mercado y cada vez son más las opciones disponibles. Sin embargo los altos costes de producción repercuten en precios finales que incluso con ayudas los alejan de todos los bolsillos. En Francia el 2011 cerró con 2.636 unidades entregadas (sólo turismos, a los que habría que sumar 36 Volt/Ampera si se consideran en este segmento). A pesar de esa cifra, relativamente... |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2012 10:36 AM PST  Video: Dual power windows... emphasis on "dual" Filed under: Etc., Technology, Videos To paraphrase the Almond Joy commercial, sometimes you feel like a tint, sometimes you don't. In states like California, having any tint on your front windows is verboten. It's only casually enforced, but it's still illegal. In that case, something like this setup might come in handy: a Russian gent on installed two power windows in one door, and tinted one of them. We don't know how much... |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2012 10:36 AM PST  Tokio 2012: Toyota Vellfire G Sports Concept Filed under: Toyota, Tuning y preparaciones, Monovolúmenes y MPV, Salón del Automóvil de Tokio Haz clic en la imagen para ampliarla G Sports parece tener la solución para aquellos padres cansados y aburridos de sus Station Wagon y monovolumen faltos de carácter y chispa. En el Salón del Automóvil de Tokio muestra su particular visión de lo que es un ágil, llamativo y al mismo tiempo amplio vehículo de transporte. Sobre la base del... |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2012 09:47 AM PST  Renault 5: nuove voci su un possibile remake I vertici Renault stanno pianificando la riproposizione di un modello storico per la Casa francese: potrebbe infatti tornare a breve la Renault 5. La vettura si andrebbe a posizionare a metà strada fra la nuova Twingo e la futura Clio, il cui arrivo è previsto per la seconda metà del 2012.... |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2012 09:47 AM PST  Video: Supercars hoeken stevig op snelweg Allemaal leuk en aardig, zo'n pk-monster, maar het wordt pas echt leuk als je het potentieel ook een beetje benut. En als je even geen circuit of vliegveld tot je beschikking hebt, dan moet het maar op de openbare weg. Bij voorkeur als het een beetje druk is, dan kan je overal lekker tussendoor, en komt het snelheidsverschil goed tot zijn recht.... |
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