The new year brought almost in the same time the 2011 Dakar competition. More exactly it started on January 2nd, 2011, that is yesterday. The Dakar rally will have as Official Organisation Vehicle the new Volkswagen Amarok pickup. Namely, a fleet of 45 vehicles will help the organizers to maintain the safety over there in the wilderness. In the official...
The Japanese people from Nissan decided to introduce a new system that manages to collect a bunch of details about Leaf's energy consumption, traveled distance and other details of this kind. Nissan announced that even a ranking will be available, thus, if you manage to obtain good figures, your achievement will be shared with the other Leaf customers. You can...
The current Audi A4 generation, launched three years ago will benefit from a performance version, namely the RS4, expected to debut next year or early 2013. According to the latest rumors, we had the opportunity to worry as there were some signs that Audi won't develop anymore a performance version of the A4 sedan. The plans turned 180 degrees and...
The recent speculations about the Martin Winterkorn's contract with Volkswagen got confirmed today when the actual VW Chief renewed his contract with the German group for the next five years. Martin Winterkorn managed to renew his agreement with the Germans from Volkswagen, an agreement which will expire in 2016. Until then, the Chairman of the Board of Management will continue...
With big sales goals in mind for the Nano, the Indians at Tata weren't going to be deterred by a few fire incidents. The Indians upped their game, offering "a free safety upgrade" and a four year warranty for the Tata Nano. All of these together somehow managed to convince buyers into hitting dealerships again. Apparently, December 2010 saw a...
Some enthusiast East Germans, and East Europeans for that matter, were chuffed to bits a while back when Herpa announced that they would be bringing back the Trabant brand. With a new iteration as the Trabant nT, Herpa promised a new EV car with an older nostalgic effect. But that was then, this is now and we have a new...
Whether some of us like it or not, China is still going to be the place to go for new car launches in the near and immediate future. Toyota proves my point by sending over the 2011 Zelas to the People's Republic of China. Don't feel neglected, while the 2011 Toyota Zelas is a new car in China, it's been...
Of course there are many other ways to turn your tires to ash but doing a burnout it's a stylish way indeed. However, doing a burnout needs more than a car, you actually need some experience and thinking to this I really realize why they decided to bind the car to the concrete block. The guy behind the steering wheel...
All of us probably associate Bugatti with the proud automotive term "supercar". It seems that starting the next years, more exactly 2014, according to the rumors supported by the Germans from Spiegel Online, the Molsheim-based manufacturer will slowly quit manufacturing high performance supercars and will start making more "usual" and affordable models. The same source claims that by 2014 we...
Here is an interesting proposal coming from the Japanese tuners from Noblesse. They decided to create a tuning kit for a Japanese hatchback, the Honda CR-Z Hybrid Sport. Although we talk about a hybrid model, the tuners fron Noblesse fitted the model with variou tuning components, this way increasing the appearance of the model. Together with the photos revealing the...
