Bavaria build some of the best road cars out there, but they don’t exactly mess about when it comes to their racing program either. This is confirmed by BMW’s efforts on updating their Z4 GT3 racer for the arduous 2011 season.
The 2011 Honda Odyssey already had a recall this year and it was one of the weirdest ever, one I blamed on users more than Honda. Honda’s previous recall was related to some wiper problems, but this time the 2011 Odyssey has trouble with the front windows.
Due to the updates within the 2011 BTCC regulations every single of the teams running in this competition have had to make significant changes to their cars. Toyota’s efforts at the competition are handled by the privateer teams Dynojet Racing and Hughes Motorsport/Speedworks.
Even tho’ the Chevrolet Corvette is a pretty capable machine, the recent crisis of the automotive industry and the problem of rising fuel costs have really hit it hard. Therefore, the fastest American made production car has been steadily dropping sales for several months but it seems 2011 brought a change in trends.
Jeep’s Wrangler may have not needed a recall for the alleged fuel leak problems but Chrysler didn’t really get into the clear. The 2010-2011 Jeep Wrangler is still going to be called in for a recall for a different matter, one that’s equally serious.
Apart from fuel economy, nowadays it’s almost impossible to find anything more important among the car buying public than safety. Kia’s 2011 Optima scored top points with the NHTSA testing so Mini’s Contryman wining appraisal from the IIHS ‘Top Safety Pick’ couldn’t have gone unnoticed.
Safety matters and safety sells. This is something the engineering squad behind the 2011 Kia Optima took into serious consideration. Now we have proof of that as the NHTSA testing system just awarded the Korean sedan a maximum five star rating which means that if crashing is your passion, this is the car to go
Abt Sportline is a pretty capable and successful tuner that specializes in Audi products that has dropped out of public view recently. In hoping to get back in the game they came to the 2011 Geneva Motor Show with a tuned version of the Ingolstadt’s flagship Audi R8 V10 Spyder.
Mansory is a German tuner that’s renown for making cars which have one thing that makes them stand out, they are incredibly ugly. After ruining the look of the Maserati GranTurismo S and the Range Rover among others.
We were told it was coming, we even had a preview of the Rolls Royce 102 EX and with the Geneva Motor Show starting for 2011, we finally got to meet it. Yes, boys and girls, the battery powered version of the Rolls Royce Phantom has come among us. Well, in concept form at least
The 2011 Geneva Motor Show has barely been open for a few hours and yet we already have so much to “show and tell”. One of my favorite entires from this year’s presentation is the Saab PhoeniX Concept. It’s this new Swedish concept car that attracted my attention the most from this event so far.
I’m a bit sympathetic for Audi, they are clearly trying to escape the realm of the boring business buyer’s market and yet they have to make cars that do awfully well in this segment. No matter the reason, the Ingolstadt based Germans are coming up with designs that struggle somewhere between the lines of interesting
Yes fans and addicts, the Geneva Motor Show has opened its doors for 2011 and there’s lots of exciting stuff to see behind them. There’s also plenty of stuff there that doesn’t breathe fire like the Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 or some sort of Pikes Peak contender from Dacia.
Like all the editions held before it, the 2011 Geneva Motor Show promises quite the set of surprises. Weirdly, this year, the 2011 Audi A3 may be one of them. After the Ingolstadters have released some sketches and information we’ve found that the 2011 Audi A3 may not be as familiar a shape as you’d
The Geneva Motor Show may be far away, but its importance is so great that many manufacturers can’t afford to sustain from showing off their Swiss stand products before it. The British at Lotus are no exception and they’ve decided to show us a special version of their Evora. In its current form, the Evora
Overall, I’d say the 2011 Chicago Motor Show is turning out to be more of a surprise than I originally thought and the cherry on top of it is Kia’s latest release at the event. Don’t think I’ve lost my mind and that I plan to rave on about how the Koreans are taking over
Last year, sometime in the middle of it, Mazda came out with a range of special edition models called the Takuya lineup. The Japanese have now decided to beat themselves to the punch and release a 2011 Takuya lineup earlier on in the year. Perhaps they’re making up for something.
The British motor industry seems to be in quite a lot of buzz at the beginning of this year we call 2011. Not only have they announced the Mini Coupe and Paceman coming into production soon, we’ve now also got word on how the chaps at Noble will do the same for their M600 in
The Koreans have grown immensely over a recent period of time and this was based not only on great pricing but on better and better cars. While all of that is going on, the management is really conquering world, only sometimes, they get it wrong. Kia has given us a great example.
The Ingolstadters have hit a bit of a problem and still the management at Audi was kind enough to share the information. It seems that the German luxury manufacturer may not be able to hit its sales target this year.
