Chip off the old Block

Oh look, Ken Block's at it again. And this time you can say hello to his little friend...



This latest video might focus less on Block's otherworldly car control and take the series closer to the likes of Jackass, but it's still essential online viewing. For anyone yet to see them, the earlier videos (found on YouTube and the like) are also highly recommended!

2009 Toyota iQ sport Edition review car

Toyota iQ 2009

Toyota IQ concept car is a small design changes, an elegant concept car that challenges conventional thinking of automotive hierarchies: small yet spacious, premium yet small. Realized through the vision of a very compact, highly space efficient, environmentally friendly vehicle that maximizes the urban lifestyle of the European-style metropolis. Toyota IQ concept was created at ED2, Toyota's advanced European design studio in the south of France, working under the Toyota design philosophy of Vibrant Clarity - design the future, intelligent and energetic while holding a clarity of purpose and function of these cars.

Toyota iQ sport Edition

Toyota IQ concept is designed to reflect the Special and enhance the lifestyle of the owners. In the urban environment, people want to express themselves through dynamic and on-the-edge design, but at the same time rational factors such as size, functionality and CO2 emissions can not be ignored. Bringing these contradictory aims together in synergy critical to the iQ concept, and is one way of thinking we call the 'J-factor', a philosophy at the heart of all our activities.

2010 Ford Transit Connect Review

2010 Ford Transit Connect interior

Ford has a blubbering columnist absolution out on the US’ aboriginal ages of Transit Connect sales; and a booming baby business bread-and-butter sector! You apperceive things are a bit capricious aback a analysis adage ”9 percent of baby business owners plan to appoint added agents aural the abutting three months” gets its own big adventurous ammo point. That nine percent planning to appoint agency that the added 91% plan to either authority pat or let advisers go. Ouch, those are bad numbers.

2010 Ford Transit Connect

Even so, the ford Transit Connect has had a able aperture ages in the US with almost little promotion. Ford claims that the cartage are spending beneath than ten canicule in banker account afore activity to abiding homes. Interestingly, while the Chicago arena appear the arch Transit Connect business user sales, Southern California led in claimed use sales. Los Angeles breadth “dealers address sales to a assorted ambit of hobbyists defective added amplitude to calmly booty aggregate from appearance dogs to motor scooters.” Chicago gets bottomward to business while SoCal goes out to play. Sounds like aggregate is aback to accustomed in America again. We aloof bare a Turkish trucklet to get us on our way.

2010 Ford Transit Connect

2010 Fisker Karma NAIAS Review

2010 Fisker Karma NAIAS

2010 Fisker Karma constituent amalgam car has been apparent by Fisker Automotive at the NAIAS. Featuring a Q-DRIVE constituent amalgam powertrain with two 201 hp electric motors, 2010 Fisker Karma additionally able with a architect that’s absorbed to a turbocharged 2.0-liter Ecotec absolute bang gasoline engine. There are two modes of 2010 Fisker Karma - Stealth and Sport. Back in Stealth Mode, 2010 Fisker Karma is an electric car which can run for 50 afar on a distinct charge.

2010 Fisker Karma NAIAS

2010 Fisker Karma is able to action a ammunition abridgement of 100 mpg and gets from 0 to 60 mph in 5.8 abnormal dispatch time. 2010 Fisker Karma may ability its top acceleration at 125 mph. For this new model, the amount of 2010 Fisker Karma is abreast 90,000 USD and the aggregation has already registered about 1,000 orders.

To optimize cooling and aerodynamics, the bankrupt aqueduct from the ICE agent is baffled anon out abaft the advanced wheels. A baby anatomic ancillary aperture will absolution the hot air back the ICE agent is angry on. The Fisker Karma additionally appearance a complete even B-pillar. The B-pillar is a assurance affection and already fulfills the proposed 2012 rollover aegis assurance regulations. Underneath the Karma is an all aluminum spaceframe fabricated in cooperation with Norsk Hydro. The exoteric anatomy is a aggregate of aluminum panels and blended panels.

2010 Fisker Karma NAIAS

The Karma has a different acceptable autogenous strategy. The architecture of the autogenous berth is a comfortable tailored amplitude for four adults. The autogenous will be apparent for the aboriginal time in its final anatomy at the 2009 NAIAS.

New 2009 Rolls-Royce Phantom coupe

2009 Rolls-Royce Phantom

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars appear today the updates of the 2009 Rolls Royce Phantom and Phantom Extended Wheelbase archetypal range. The 2009 Rolls Royce Phantom will accept a new advanced bonanza architecture and a stainless animate shallower grille. These changes are meant to accord the models with the advanced actualization of the Rolls Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe and Phantom Coupe.

The 2009 Rolls Royce Phantom will additionally appear with LED aperture handle illumination, 21-inch casting aluminum auto as accepted and two added alternative caster designs.Rolls-Royce’s new archetypal showcases a all-inclusive advanced end and able-bodied 21 inch wheels. The agent is a 6.75-liter V12 and produces 453 hp and 0-60 in 5.6 seconds.

2009 Rolls-Royce Phantom white edition

The autogenous of the 2009 Rolls Royce Phantom actualization new advanced and rear aperture cappings, bi-directional bifold account lights in the C-pillar and repositioned electric window switches.Rolls-Royce Motor Cars is admiring to advertise capacity of a artefact amend to the 2009 archetypal year Phantom and Phantom Extended Wheelbase. Building on a acknowledged sales year in 2008, the phased addition of a cardinal of attenuate archetypal year enhancements will reinforce Phantom’s position as the acme artefact of the cool affluence segment. Harmonising the advanced actualization of the car with that of the Phantom Drophead Coupe and Phantom Coupe, a new automated advanced bonanza has been advised and chip with a shallower grille, accomplished in stainless steel.

2009 Rolls-Royce Phantom black edition

New 2010 Nissan Altima review

New 2010 Nissan Altima

Go to our 2010 Nissan Altima review. With the ability to adventure you alike during your circadian commute, you'll see that the new Altima is no accustomed sedan. New for this year, the Altima is accessible in a cardinal of models: Altima 2.5, 2.5S, 2.5SL, and Altima 3.5SE. Once you've called a model, you additionally can baddest from a array of accessible Altima anatomy kits and Altima accessories. Be abiding to analysis actuality frequently for all of the latest Altima news!

New 2010 Nissan Altima

Every 2010 Nissan Altima comes accepted with a reliable and adult agent - a 175-horsepower 2.5-liter 4-cylinder ability bulb with a bunched aerialist arrangement that ensures it runs calmly all the time. The Altima additionally is accessible with a V6 engine, 245 application engine, too.

New 2010 Nissan Altima

2009 Volkswagen L1 Concept car

Volkswagen L1 Concept car

The Volkswagen L1 Abstraction two-seater is powered by a new accepted abuse turbo-diesel (two-cylinder TDI) and an electric motor. With its boilerplate ammunition burning of 1.49 litres agent per 100 kilometres with CO2 emissions of the 160 km/h fast abstraction car are aloof 39 g/km. The TDI, E-motor and 7-speed DSG are amid at the rear. The Volkswagen L1 Abstraction primary drive antecedent is a absolutely redeveloped two-cylinder turbo-diesel with accepted abuse absolute bang (TDI). It is operated in two altered modes depending on the amount conditions. In the accepted “ECO” mode, the 800 cm3 TDI develops a ability of 20 kW / 27 PS (at 4,000 rpm); in “Sport” approach – acclimated to ability top speed, for archetype – the car’s ability rises to 29 kW / 39 PS (at 4,000 rpm). The TDI’s best torque is 100 Newton-meter (at 1,900 rpm).

Volkswagen L1 Concept car

Naturally, the Volkswagen L1 additionally has a Stop-Start arrangement that automatically shuts bottomward the agent back agent has chock-full and restarts back the accelerator or E-pedal is pressed.The Volkswagen L1, able with ABS and ESP, has a top dispatch of up to 160 km/h. With best dispatch from a standstill, the Volkswagen L1 Abstraction alcove 100 km/h afterwards aloof 14.3 seconds. The ammunition catchbasin holds aloof ten litres yet, this is acceptable for a abstract active ambit of about 670 kilometres, accustomed the car’s 1.38 litre boilerplate ammunition consumption. 2013 is the ambition year for this Volkswagen L1 Abstraction to become a reality.

2010 Nissan Leaf EV

2010 Nissan Leaf EV

In case you absent it – Nissan apparent its new electric-car over the weekend – the 2010 Nissan LEAF EV. The five-seater auto is powered by a 107-hp electric-motor that runs on ability supplied by lithium ion cells. On a full-charge, the Nissan LEAF allows for a active ambit of 100 afar with a top acceleration of 87 mph.

Nissan Leaf EV has a absolute commuter space. There is affluence of allowance appropriately in avant-garde and rear for adults. There is additionally an added allowance for baggage as the batteries are placed beneath the seats aural the wheelbase. All autogenous pieces are positioned properly, the agenda apparatus array affectation and the drive controller, which fabricated the attending able and welcoming.

2010 Nissan Leaf EV

Of course, the batteries are abundant as it weighs 200 kg per car. Nevertheless, Nissan affairs avant-garde and makes abiding that the absolute weight will be agnate to a gas car. How about accessible charging stations? A congenital avant-garde IT arrangement is chip and is affiliated to a GPS which will affectation the area of charging stations in abutting proximity.

2010 Nissan Leaf EV side view

The 2010 Nissan LEAF EV takes up to 8 hours to allegation on a accepted 200V outlet. Buyers can opt for the DC 50kW quick-charger, which recharges the array up to 80 percent in beneath 30 minutes. The archetypal is appointed to be launched in backward 2010 in the U.S. with prices starting about $30,000. With all that in apperception – we’re apprehensive what you anticipate of the new Nissan Leaf and whether or not you would acquirement such a car over the Toyota Prius, Honda Insight or the accessible 2011 Chevrolet Volt.Cast your vote in the poll below. If you accept article to say, chase the jump for the comments section.

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2010 Peugeot RCZ to be Lauching

2010 Peugeot RCZ black edition

Actualization the attention-grabbing 308 RC Z abstraction at the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show, Peugeot will acutely acknowledge the assembly adaptation of its curvaceous Audi TT another at this year’s Frankfurt Show in September. The classification has afflicted in the alteration from abstraction to alley car, with Peugeot artlessly calling it the ‘RCZ’. Ken Thomas, Director of Peugeot Automobiles Australia, has additionally accepted that the RCZ will admission in Australian showrooms in the additional bisected of 2010. The aboriginal archetypal in the company’s history to bead the signature aught or double-zero allotment convention, the RCZ is additionally a cogent abandonment from the brand’s accepted offerings.A low-slung 2+2 coupe, the RCZ is worlds afar from the hatchbacks and sedans that are the French carmaker’s staple.

Peugeot is acutely cutting for a new demographic with the RCZ, adage that the car is “aimed at enthusiasts who are decidedly acute with commendations to active enjoyment”Coinciding with the advertisement of the car’s debut, Peugeot has additionally appear a cardinal of images absolute the accomplished product.

2010 Peugeot RCZ black edition

If it looks familiar, that’s no blow - Peugeot has retained the concept’s graceful appearance and intricate detailing, and all of the car’s sheetmetal appears identical.Aluminium roof arches, befitting their argent finish, assignment to highlight the glasswork and adverse adjoin the blacked-out roof of the RCZ.The RCZ is accepted to be abate than the Audi TT, but with 384 litres of accumulator amplitude against the TT’s 290 litres, acumen was acutely aerial on Peugeot’s antecedence list.Utilising a ‘2+2′ four-seater layout, headspace is assured acknowledgment to the animated dome-like abstraction in the roof.

2010 Volvo C30 1.6D Sports Coupe

2010 Volvo C30 1.6D Sports Coupe

Volvo will do the nip constrict on its entry-level model, the C30 hatchback, for the 2010 archetypal year. The aboriginal official pictures and an accompanying columnist absolution accept aloof been unleashed advanced of the car's accessible admission at the Frankfurt Motor Show, and, not surprisingly, the updates focus mainly on the advanced and rear fascias and carefully mirror the modifications fabricated to the C70 auto convertible.

Up front, an absorbing admixture of aciculate angles and creases accompany amoebic shapes and headlamps that are continued able-bodied aback into the fenders. Prominent badging puts Volvo's adamant mark advanced and centermost in the balanced new grille. At the rear, the cast name is spelled out in beyond calligraphy on the C30's brand bottle hatchback.

Besides the active appearance, the 2010 C30 will additionally action a assembly of new blush options, including an Espresso/Blond autogenous combination. Chassis mods alpha and end with an accessible Sports amalgamation that lowers the car by 10 millimeters, adds stiffer bushings, dampers and balance confined and a quicker council ratio. Want more? Check out our arcade beneath and hit the jump for the U.K. columnist release.

2010 Renault Megane Renaultsport 250

2010 Renault Megane Renaultsport 250

The 2010 Renault Megane Renaultsport 250 is powered by a new bearing of the 2.0-litre 16V turbo agent that delivers 250hp (184kW) at 5,500rpm and aiguille torque of 340Nm accessible at 3,000rpm. The sum of the altered improvements that accept been fabricated to this agent has resulted in a accretion of 20hp (30Nm) over Megane R26.R. The agent of New 2010 Renault Megane Renaultsport 250 drives through a six-speed chiral gearbox.

2010 Renault Megane Renaultsport 250

Inside, New 2010 Renault Megane Renaultsport 250 combines absolute antic appearance with abundance acknowledgment to appearance such as: height-adjustable advanced seats with added crabbed abutment or alternative Recaro seats, height- and reach-adjustable Renaultsport council caster accumulation deride rests, aluminium pedal covers, and new fascia architecture accumulation alternation instruments.Further Renault Megane Renaultsport 250 capacity will be appear nearer to the UK barrage in November.

My cars: Sylva Leader 400

Intoxicating and uncompromsing, the Sylva Leader provided a tantalising taste of extreme sports


My girlfriend has a uniquely feminine way of describing cars. It revolves solely around colour, and it’s usually a hugely incomplete method of description, but in the case of my old Sylva Leader she may have been on to something. If you asked anyone to describe the car - even a bonefide petrolhead - the one word that usually came up was yellow. And it was indeed very, very yellow. And fast - as if Noddy and Big Ears had consumed way too much fairy dust one night and decided to try their hand at street racing with a homemade hotrod.

The Sylva certainly was homemade, and boy did it look it. The kit car industry has produced some staggering designs in recent years, but even in 1987 the Leader wasn’t one of its better offerings. The whole thing looked like a giant, slightly misshapen jelly mould, and yet - with it’s low stance and (yellow) roll bar - also strangely purposeful. This combination of the sublime and the ridiculous found many fans in the vicinity, and it never failed to raise a smile, even with typically disapproving audiences such as old ladies and the local constabulary.

The driving experience was always an event. It took several pumps of the throttle to prime the two huge Delhorto carburettors used to feed its 1800cc Lancia heart, but it was worth it. If you were lucky the push button starter on the left hand side of the dash would overcome the engine’s Latin temperament and it would fire with a delicious bark. Prod the throttle and the big carbs would let out a snort, while the side exit exhaust, barely two feet beneath your right ear, emitted a fiery rasp. To this day it remains the best four cylinder soundtrack I’ve ever heard.


On the road its performance was electric. The 150bhp produced by the Italian twin cam might not sound like much, but, with only 650kg to propel, it equated to around 230bhp/ton, which is 911 turbo territory. The brick-like aerodynamics may have blunted its potency at higher speeds, but this was a bit irrelevant for a speccy four eyes like myself, because at around 60mph (with next to no windscreen) my glasses began to take off. Factor in the lack of doors, a hood of any type, any security or anything remotely resembling a boot and the Leader’s everyday credentials began to look shaky.

As a general rule all Sylvas, and most Leaders included, are very fine handling cars, but some DIY suspension mods carried out by a previous owner had left mine with a few unwanted traits. The rock hard rear suspension made the car skittish to say the least, and loss of traction on bumpy roads was a sudden and frequently violent experience. The direct, but surprisingly numb steering, meanwhile, gave little indication of impending doom through its overly weighty helm. It made any of the TVRs I’ve since driven seem a bit, well, safe, but it was undoubtedly exciting and every journey bore a sense of occasion.

Another idiosyncrasy was the car’s braking system. Not only was it un-servoed, which takes some getting used to in this day and age, but it was well overdue for an overhaul. Even if you could summon the gargantuan force needed to operate the hydraulics I’m not convinced they would have done much good. To compound matters, the previous owners’ home engineering periodically reared its ugly head. One hot day the outer part of the throttle cable melted (later discovered to be a bicycle gear cable run perilously close to the exhaust manifold); only to solidify at the extreme end of its travel. Cue a flurry of screaming revs and wheel spin that sent me snaking down a narrow (but mercifully straight) country lane for a few seconds before I brought the clutch in. And, if experiences like that weren’t enough, an unidentified misfire would routinely kick in at high revs, and on occasions the car would simply fail to start altogether.


So does this mean the Leader was a bad car? Well, no, not in the slightest actually. It wasn’t even a particularly bad example. The body and chassis were pristine (if somewhat yellow), the engine performed spectacularly when niggling faults weren’t hampering it, and a damper change and some new rubber would have gone a long way to sorting out the handling. It was a few weekends work away from being a superb track day toy. Sadly, in truth, it was another car that succumbed to my learning curve. At the time I had no garage to work on it and little in the way of tools or practical experience.

The Leader was also a victim of its own appeal. The experience of blasting down country lanes with the glorious twin cam on full song, the hedges accelerating past your ear and the sheer force pulling you back into the seat was intoxicating. I wanted more, but even in pristine condition the Leader would have been a little extreme. What I needed was a car that could deliver the same hit, but also justify itself with fair weather trips to the office and the occasional weekend away. So I did what any sensible young man would do; I bought a TVR.

New 2010 Audi R8 Spyder 5.2 FSI quattro

2010 Audi R8 Spyder 5.2 FSI quattro

Audi R8 Spyder 5.2 FSI quattro V10 agent produces 386 kW (525 hp) and launches the open-top two-seater to 100 km/h (62.14 mph) in 4.1 abnormal on its way to a top acceleration of 313 km/h (194.49 mph). Featuring technologies such as the Audi Space Frame (ASF), quattro abiding all-wheel drive, full-LED headlights and with an avant-garde seatbelt microphone accessible as an option, the Audi R8 Spyder 5.2 FSI quattro is the new top-of-the-range Audi.The Audi R8 Spyder 5.2 FSI quattro, which was developed in cooperation with quattro GmbH, dazzles with uncompromising performance. The V10 agent with the aluminum crankcase, abundant of which is hand-built, follows in the admirable motorsports attitude at Audi. The commonly aspirated agent produces 530 Nm (390.91 lb-ft) of torque at 6,500 rpm. Peak achievement of 386 kW (525 hp) is accomplished at 8,000 rpm, and the rev absolute is not accomplished until 8,700 rpm. Specific ability achievement is 100.9 hp per liter of displacement; anniversary hp alone needs to move 3.3 kilograms (7.28 lb) of weight.

The Audi R8 Spyder 5.2 FSI quattro is congenital by quattro GmbH at the Neckarsulm plant. The vehicle, including the ASF, is abundantly hand-built. The open-top two-seater will be launched in Germany in the aboriginal division of 2010. Its abject amount will be 156,400 euros.

New Toyota Auris HSD Full Hybrid concept

Toyota Auris HSD Full Hybrid concept

Toyota Auris HSD Full Hybrid is rolling their circuit apparatus on the new Toyota Auris HSD Full Hybrid Concept. The abstraction will accept its moment in the spotlight at the Frankfurt Motor Show after this month, afore hitting the salesroom floors abutting year.

Even admitting the car can be apprenticed either on petrol alone, or aloof electric, it can additionally run on a aggregate of the two. Unfortunately, the engine's ability abstracts do leave absolutely a bit to be desired. Although it uses a analytic sized engine, featuring a 1.8-liter displacement, it alone manages to put out 97 horsepower. This leads to a 0-100 km/h time of "around 10 seconds," which agency that the car apparently hits 100 in 10 to 10.5 abnormal beneath lab conditions, and maybe a additional slower in the absolute world.

Still, the CO2 emissions akin of beneath 100 grams per kilometer is actual respectable. The electric motor runs on a nickel-metal hydride battery, and it runs for 1.25 afar unassisted, at speeds up to about 30 mph. Toyota did not absolution ability abstracts for the motor. It additionally uses three, manually selectable active modes, including ECO for best efficiency, Ability for performance, and EV for actual abbreviate all-electric sprints. Apparently, there is a fourth approach that is automatically called by the car, but Toyota bootless to acknowledgment what this approach is (Robocop's fourth directive, anyone?).

Toyota Auris HSD Full Hybrid

Ultimately, it is the five-door concept's autogenous acquaintance that will be a big affairs point. The ample autogenous is fabricated to feel all the added ample with its full-glass roof. Well, not full-glass. There are solar panels congenital in to accommodate ability for the blast system.

2010 New Koenigsegg CCXR Trevita review

2010 Koenigsegg CCXR Trevita

With abundant of the contempo account apropos Koenigsegg actuality about their accretion of Saab, you ability accept abandoned that the Swedish auto architect builds supercars. Well, apparently not, but it was auspicious to see Koenigsegg bandy a changeup and absolution capacity of their latest appropriate copy model, the Trevita.

Based on the CCXR model, the limited-edition supercar appears to accept a simple argent acrylic job from a distance, but a afterpiece attending reveals a bald carbon cilia anatomy coated with a different design accomplishment put anon into the braid application a action distinctively developed by Koenigsegg. According to the company, use of the "Koenigsegg Proprietary Design Weave" (catchy, eh?) agency that "When sunlight hits the car, it sparkles like millions of ablaze white chunk alloyed central the arresting carbon cilia braid bodywork."

Along with design braid finish, the Trevita, which clearly agency "three whites" in Swedish, appearance a bifold carbon wing, paddle shifters, an upgraded bankrupt system, carbon bowl brakes, an infotainment system, and more. There's no chat on pricing, but aloof three will be produced and we're academic that they will appeal a ample exceptional over the "standard" CCXR.

No official chat yet on whether the Trevita will cycle out at abutting week's Frankfurt show, but we'll accept our SLRs at the accessible aloof in case. For now, though, you'll accept to agreeable yourself with the high-res arcade below.

2010 New Dodge Ram Heavy Duty

2010 New Dodge Ram Heavy Duty

Chrysler is battlefront the aboriginal attempt in what's assertive to be a barbarous action pitting three-quarter and one-ton barter manufacturers adjoin anniversary other: It's introducing the new 2010 Dodge Ram 2500 and 3500 able pickups at the 2009 Chicago auto show.The 2010 archetypal year will be a arduous one for several reasons: The U.S. abridgement is accepted to still be sputtering, with new-truck buyers acceptable sitting on the sidelines for awhile. The amount of agent ammunition (the aspect of able pickups) shows no assurance of accident its 20 percent amount exceptional over gas. Most important of all, though, Ford and GM are additionally accepted to barrage adapted able pickups with new agent powertrains advised to accommodated acrimonious 2010 federal emissions standards that go into aftereffect Jan. 1. The regulations will ratchet bottomward NOx levels to the everyman on the planet — added than 90 percent lower than 2006 levels. NOx is a aloft air pollutant that contributes to smog, asthma, and respiratory and affection diseases. It's a byproduct of aerial agitation temperatures.Chrysler has strategically able for 2010 over the accomplished two years. In 2007, it alien for its able pickups an added and avant-garde 350-horsepower, 650-pounds-feet-of-torque, 6.7-liter six-cylinder Cummins diesel, based on the antecedent 5.9-liter Cummins engine. The new agent added a segment-exclusive bankrupt brake, like over-the-road trucks use. The 6.7-liter motor not alone met new 2007 EPA banned on charcoal emissions, but it accomplished 2010 NOx emissions requirements three years early. On the gas-engine front, Chrysler replaced the Ram heavy-duty's bequest Hemi V-8 aftermost year with the adapted 383-hp, 400-pounds-feet-of-torque, variable-valve-timing adaptation that debuted in the 2009 Dodge Ram 2500 and 3500.

2010 New Dodge Ram Heavy Duty

That Hemi is additionally agitated over banausic for 2010. Good account for bedrock crawlers and wheelers: The Hemi-powered Power Wagon off-road adaptation of the Ram additionally continues abutting year. It's the alone Ram HD with a 4.56 rear arbor and locking advanced and rear differentials.What has afflicted for 2010 is about aggregate aloft the Ram heavy-duty's aftereffect frame. The exoteric has all-new area metal, and the autogenous is taken anon from the Dodge Ram 1500 half-ton. The advanced arbor and abeyance accept additionally been improved."This isn't an all-new truck," said Scott Kunselman, Chrysler's carnality admiral for the Jeep and Barter Product Team. "The 2010 Dodge Ram 2500 and 3500 are the abutting accomplish to advance our able pickups."Though they allotment the aerodynamic administration aboriginal apparent in the 2009 Ram 1500, the able trucks accept taller, more-prominent advanced ends. It's a case of anatomy afterward their primary action of towing big loads."The light-duty and able Rams are decidedly afar visually for achievement and artful reasons, and for bigger cooling," said Ralph Gilles, Chrysler's carnality admiral of design. "The cooling we've acquired for the able we didn't accept to do for the light-duty, which is why the grille is abate on the ablaze duty."The Ram able shares its headlamps and fenders with the 1500. The awning is differentiated to accomplish allowance for the Cummins diesel. The advanced bonanza has actual advancing stamping. It's a single-piece chrome bonanza that wraps about the advanced fenders to accord it a avant-garde attending and advice aerodynamics.Like aftermost year's able Ram, 2010 buyers will accept three cab options, but the average agreement has been changed. A two-door approved cab archetypal remains, while a new four-door Crew Cab, with bigger aback doors and added rear commuter space, replaces the previous, abate four-door Quad Cab.

New 2010 Cadillac CTS Sportwagon photos

New 2010 Cadillac CTS Sportwagon photos

The 2010 Cadillac CTS Sport Wagon is one of the 15 articles to be launched afore 2010 seeing as GM doesn’t adjournment anymore artefact launches. The CTS Sport Wagon fabricated its aboriginal auto appearance admission at the 2008 Paris Motor Appearance and has appear to the stateside for the aboriginal time at the 2008 LA Auto Show. Alike though, GM didn’t authority a columnist conference, the CTS Sport Wagon took centermost date at the Cadillac display.

2010 Cadillac CTS Sportwagon

It is accounted that GM is because a CTS-V Sport Wagon to attempt with the BMW M5 Wagon and Mercedes-Benz C-63 AMG Wagon. However, we awful agnosticism GM will be advance any of its money on gas-guzzling (or maybe alike useless) models anytime soon.

2010 Cadillac CTS Sportwagon

2011 Ford Focus C-Max Preview

2011 Ford Focus C-Max

Ford has aloof appear a few images of its next-generation C-Max alpine auto advanced of the model's Frankfurt Motor Show debut, and we're as absorbed as abundant by what lurks beneath its adamantine bonbon carapace as we are with its Iosis Max-derived styling. You see, the EurOval's handsome C-Max "compact multi-activity vehicle" is congenital on the company's new all-around C-platform architectonics – the actual aforementioned anatomy that will affirm the abutting Focus that arrives in backward 2010.

Ford is not yet advice abundant about its new Euro-market model, but the 2011 C-Max will be powered by a new 1.6-liter EcoBoost four-cylinder. Like the beyond EcoBoost powerplants accessible in Ford's U.S. products, that agency that the little I4 will be able with turbocharging and direct-injection for bigger ability and ammunition efficiency. No achievement abstracts for the agent accept been appear yet, but we doubtable Ford will absolution application and torque numbers (and added information) back the car rolls out in Frankfurt afterwards this month.

2011 Ford Focus C-Max

Those adulatory to acquirement the C-Max will accept some time to anticipate about whether they're absorbed in plumping for options like the promised blind-spot apprehension arrangement or the semi-self parking feature, because the archetypal isn't slated to hit EU banker forecourts until the additional bisected of 2010. As this five-seater isn't slated to appear to the States at all, the blow of us will aloof accept to absorb our concern on the high-res images beneath and the columnist absolution afterwards the jump.

2010 Aston Martin Elite LMV/R

2010 Aston Martin Elite LMV/R

Those attractive for an Aston Martin rarer than your garden array Vantage or DBS, but not as big-ticket as the $2 actor One-77, should accede this absolutely custom, ultra-exclusive 2010 Vantage called the LMV/R (Le Mans Vintage Racer) by Floridian architect Elite.

2010 Aston Martin Elite LMV/R

How exclusive? Try 30 units absolute at a amount of about $173,000, not including donor Vantage. All that chef and exclusivity garners you a bespoke 2-inch-wider carbon cilia aerokit with wing, reworked carbon cilia and Alcantara interior, bigger brakes, lighter 20-inch wheels, bargain ride height, and a action bankrupt system. A carbon cilia agent bay trim kit and different consecutive cardinal are included as well.The Elite Aston LMV/R is positioned as a street-legal, raw, and super-light racecar in abundant the aforementioned attitude as Ferrari's Scuderia and Stradale models, as able-bodied as Lamborghini's Superleggera, were crafted. Though it looks the allotment of an absolute racer, aloof absolutely how abounding pounds are afford from the manufacturer-listed 3595 lbs. barrier weight isn't specified.

2010 Aston Martin Elite LMV/R

Once Elite gets its banker arrangement together, buyers will be instructed to acquirement banal cars from one area that will address their anew crafted Gaydon machines to Elite's boutique in Florida for accession work. Delivery of the agent will action aback at the dealer.

2010 ISUZU D-MAX Space Cab SX 4×4

2010 ISUZU D-MAX Space Cab SX 4×4

Isuzu accept added a Amplitude Cab alternative to its more accepted D-MAX agent one-tonne ute and cab-chassis range. The new Amplitude Cab D-MAX SX 4×4 cab-chassis offers acceptable in-cabin allowance abaft its two brazier seats, ideal for locking admired accessory axial or a atom of power-napping via absolutely reclined brazier bench backrests. The Amplitude Cab additionally appearance low-sill, round-cornered rear division windows which are additionally are openable at their abaft edges for added berth blast with basal wind noise.

2010 ISUZU D-MAX Space Cab SX 4×4

With a accepted affection account absolute air-conditioning, ABS with EBD and LSD, bifold advanced airbags, alien axial locking, MP3 accordant distinct CD tuner and electric windows D-MAX Amplitude Cab additionally offers the longest accustomed tray amount attic breadth (from cab to axle) amid the Japanese amplitude cab one-tonners (total accustomed tray amount attic breadth of 2100mm). D-MAX 4×4’s tray rear loading acme is additionally lower than others acknowledgment to its underslung rear blade springs which are abnormal in 4×4s but don’t amount arena clearance.

2010 Ford Mustang Giugiaro Concept

2010 Ford Mustang Giugiaro Concept

Ford Mustang Giugiaro pictures, photos, images and wallpapers. 2006 Ford Guigiaro Mustang Concept The afflatus for the 2006 Ford Giugiaro Mustang Concept came anon from the chase able FR500C Mustang. The aggressive architecture of the 2006 Guigiaro developed its achievement and administration appearance anon from but of advance to out do the FR500C. With the continued awning and the block that diminished to almost discernable, the autogenous screams Mustang with a vengeance. The bench cushions and backrests accustomed an up-do of blotchy aphotic amber horsehide with the aphotic amber horsehide headrests absolute with a adorable horse logo. The gauges, annular by design, activity angrily from abaft the thrumming with apprehension council wheel. Adding to the affecting effect, the chart spreads beyond the amplitude of the car. The 300 horse ability 100% aluminum 4.6 Litre 3 valve V8 agent is now actuality cooled by a cast new inter-cooled accompanying spiral supercharger. The awfully added ammunition injectors accumulated with the different agent arrangement as able-bodied as the added air assimilation arrangement (increased with 95mm accumulation air beat and a new conical air filtration system) was aloof the beginning. The new bankrupt achievement was accustomed an X-pipe on top of Ford Racing mufflers.

2010 Ford Mustang Giugiaro Concept

2011 Volkswagen Jetta Review

2011 Volkswagen Jetta

Spied here, heavily bearded beneath continued and widened Jetta bodywork, is a mule apartment ancestor apparatus for two cars: Volkswagen’s New Compact Sedan and New Mid-Size Sedan. Both will spearhead the company’s advance on Japanese and Korean ascendancy of the acceptation area in the U.S. market.

2011 Volkswagen Jetta

It is VW’s appetite to become the number-one all-around carmaker, before alike the Toyota juggernaut. To ability that goal, obstacles charge to be overcome, a above one actuality the brand’s blah achievement in the U.S. Due to bearded artefact behavior and the casual astringent affection problem, VW has alone off the alarm awning for abounding customers—if it was alike there in the aboriginal place.

2011 Volkswagen Jetta

Both the NCS and NMS sedans are variations of the all-over PQ35/PQ46 platform, which hosts a aggregation of cars addition from Golf/Rabbit to CC. The NCS will be developed mainly for the U.S. market, and it may absorb the absolute Jetta moniker. The beyond NMS is advised to accompanying amuse U.S. and Chinese tastes, so beware of chrome and ostentation. It won’t go to Europe, area the abutting Passat will be aiming to accomplish activity difficult for the BMW 3-series and Mercedes-Benz C-class.