Auto Avio Costruzioni is an Italian tuner with a lot more heritage in the name than meets the eye as well as a typical flamboyant presence. The tuner's history isn't very relevant right now, what we're more bothered about is how they've just unveiled a new version of the Alfa Romeo 159 saloon. The 159 has been killed off a...
The Audi R8 has something special about it, for a supercar it manages to cover just about every aspect of daily life and doesn't feel outdated very fast. Age is beginning to catch up to it though, so the Germans are preparing us for the upcoming facelift and for the complete makeover due to be unveiled in 2013. Knowing a...
If your Christmas tree may be a little low to fit a new car underneath and the RC options have long lost your interest the British may have a solution for you. Mini, makers of some of the smallest cars around has one very ambitious man on their team, one who's not too shy about sharing his thoughts. I'm talking...
Mercedes announced, not that long ago if we're honest, that they will finally be killing off the Maybach brand since it doesn't make financial sense any more. Naturally, when hearing of a dying car brand, you'd expect the final products to be made to go cheap so that they can dispose of stocks and so on. Not quite, the Germans...
The Germans specialists from JE Design unveiled today a new tuning package for Audi Q7. To be more precise, the tuners opted for the Q7 S-Line version as a base model and brought several styling improvements. From the list we can enumerate new front and rear spoilers, side skirts, wheel arch extensions and a new four-pipe exhaust system. JE Design...
The South Korean company released today all the important details along pricing for the 2012 Hyundai Sonata hybrid. Under the bonnet, Hyundai uses the same hybrid powertrain with a 2.4-liter engine offering 169 horsepower and a 30kW electric motor. The model uses a six-speed automatic transmission while a 270V lithium polymer battery pack stores the energy for the electric motor....
Nissan offers a new special edition of the current X-Trail SUV in the UK, namely the Platinum edition. The Japanese company decided to introduce the X-Trail Platinum Edition in the United Kingdom in a limited series of 200 units. The model can be ordered only with a 2.0-liter dCi diesel unit offering 170 horsepower, linked to a manual or automatic...
ASMA Design decided to develop a tuning package for the new Porsche Cayenne, the second generation of the German SUV. The base model is the Turbo variant, an important decision as the tuner brings only aesthetic improvements, and therefore the model needs enough power from the factory. The styling package is called "The Giant" and brings several upgrades such as...
It seems like Kia's plan for their four door coupe, the GT Concept are even bigger than we originally expected. A couple of Kia USA insiders have told InsideLine reporters that not only are the Koreans going to send the GT Concept into production, they're thinking about adding two more models along side. The new models would be a full...
Schmidt Revolution decided to showcase some of their tuning prowess by having a stab at the Volkswagen Golf GTI. They've decided to focus on the fifth generation of the model. There's no openly published reason for this decision so we'll just assume the German tuner picked the Mark V GTI because it was the model that put the fun back...
