In what's known as one of the most fierce battles fought in the automotive industry you'll find GM and Ford fighting for the pony car crown. After some considerable delays, GM pushed out the hottest version of the Chevrolet Camaro, the ZL1, just a few weeks before Ford announced a whole new level of the Mustang, the 2013 GT500. Wishing...
Not everything coming from the news box these days is happy. You can console yourself with the season but you know it's going to take more than that. These bad news come from the British are Mini, or rather the British at Prodrive. They handle the Mini Countryman rally project and they've got bad news in double figures. After having...
Manhart Racing revealed today an extreme tuning package for the BMW M3 Coupe, a model codenamed E92. The German model receives a more powerful engine along several appearance improvements for a brand new look. To begin with, the tuners replaced the original 4.0-liter V8 unit with the more powerful 4.4-liter engine from BMW's X5 and X6 M models. If the...
TRD, the racing division of Toyota decided to unveil today the Sport Package for the Prius C hybrid, a model known and sold in Japan as Aqua hybrid. At the exterior, TRD prepared an aerodynamic package including LED daytime running lights, side skirts, roof spoiler, new front apron with air vents but also a rear apron. The Japanese hybrid model...
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something special about it, for a supercar it manages to cover just about every aspect of daily life and doesn't feel outdated very fast.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....
