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Nissan 370Z's Trick Tranny – F1 Style Shifting For The Rest of Us
Is this even fair? Am I just being too much of a purist? Who knows, I’ll let you, and the people that buy Nissan’s new, uprated 370Z decide. In addition to the (slightly) bigger engine, styling tweaks (the less said about those headlights, the better (but boy are they hideous)) the newest Z has a […]
Read More »VW Brings 4MOTION To Mark VI Golf
Well hallelujah and it’s about frickin’ time. VW, in their infinite wisdom, has finally put their 4Motion all wheel drive setup into their current gen Golf (that would be the sixth generation). The 4Motion, essentially a VW’s equivalent to (parent? sister?, geez, it can be like Chinatown when it comes to VW, Porsche & Audi, […]
Read More »Cadillac Volt Coming To Detroit?
Now, this is just a rumor at the moment, but it’s a pretty good one, so why not spread it? The rumor is that GM, via its Cadillac brand, will be bringing a Volt platform Caddy to this years Detroit show. This is important. Why? Two reasons: 1 – Car manufacturers have been dropping out […]
Read More »Alfa Romeo 8C Competiziones Turning Up Stateside
Oh purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr … whether I like it or not, as an Italian American, I think I’m probably obligated to like this car. Luckily, I like it regardless. Quite the stunner, the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione, huh? Turn out that the lucky, er, few that were able to come up with the scratch and also get […]
Read More »AM General Just Not Into HUMMER
The news continues to swirl around GM concerning what they are going to “do” with Hummer, and by “do” I mean, ‘who are they going to unload it on’. Recently a lot of this has been tied in with the possibility of government bailouts, but GM has been looking to get rid of Hummer for […]
Read More »BMW M-Model Sales Up More Than 50% In 2008
OK, someone please explain this to me. The car world is looking like the last reel of Ghostbusters “Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!” the whole lot, but for some reason, sales of BMW’s M-cars are up. WAY up. Honda just axed the upcoming NSX, Subaru pulled out of the WRC, Honda […]
Read More »Tickets For Left Lane Campers?
According to Edmunds, “People who cruise in the left lane without regard for their speed or the number of cars piled up behind them could find themselves pulling over to the right for the police.” Please let this be true. It seems to me that 90% of traffic inefficiencies is due to people not doing […]
Read More »The Suzuki Equator
A question: Is this about as practical as a vehicle can get? No, not the Suzuki Equator specifically, we’ll get to this neat and affordable little truck in a bit, but I mean four door pickup trucks in general. I had seen pictures of these things in the home market and from places like Australia […]
Read More »Ferrari to Cut Workforce By 10%
Uh-oh … more signs that the world economy is not in the best of shape comes from Maranello, Italy, where Ferrari (makers of the best cars in the world) has announced that they are going to lay off 10 percent of their workforce. Ferrari says that there’s no financial crisis, they’re just being proactive. Luca […]
Read More »Audi R8 V10 5.2 FSI with 525HP
What a frickin’ brute. Pictured here is Audi’s top of the line R8 with the new, and long awaited V10 engine. Said mill cranks out a very respectable 525 horses and over 390 foot pounds of torque, all of which is sent to the ground via Audi’s Quatro all wheel drive system. It has enough […]
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