Archive for the ‘Euro’ Category

Flughafen find of the Day: Sauber F1 auction at Zurich airport

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Raikkonen's Sauber C20: click to view in high resolution Considering that modern Formula One race cars share as much in common with aircraft as they do with actual road-going automobiles, selling retired F1 cars at the airport suddenly seems to make sense. Last month we brought you initial news abou......

Bentley sells 10,014 cars during record 2007

Friday, March 14th, 2008
Click image for a hi-res gallery of our Autoblog Garage Continental GTC2007 was good to the folks in Crewe, as Bentley Motors had its best year ever. (What, no VH1 special?) For the first time, the automaker surpassed the 10,000 mark in terms of vehicles sold -- a tenfold increase over where it stoo......

VIDEO: Being “That Guy” in Romania

Friday, March 14th, 2008
Have you ever been "that guy?" We're talking about that motorist who causes a massive traffic jam on account of a flat tire, blown engine or other unfortunate event out of his control. Most of the time it's not as if "that guy" sets out to break down and snarl the afternoon rush.But then there's the......

Alfa Romeo releases the new Mi.To

Friday, March 14th, 2008
Click above to view the Alfa Romeo Mi.To in hi-res Months upon months of spy shots, teasers, renderings and endless speculation have come to their culmination as Alfa Romeo this morning released official images and details of the highly-anticipated new Mi.To. As we previously reported, the Mi.To nam......

Top Gear renders the Focus RS

Friday, March 14th, 2008
The arrival of the production version of the Focus RS won't be happening until 2009, but during the London Motor Show in July, we'll get our first glimpse of Ford's newest road rocket. Top Gear conjured up some unofficial renderings of what the new RS would look like based on the teaser image that w......

Wolfgang Porsche joins VW board

Friday, March 14th, 2008
Porsche has been in the news quite a bit over the past few weeks. While one hand is embroiled in an emissions tax battle with the Mayor of London, the other hand is slowly scooping up shares of Volkswagen.In related news, Porsche Chairman Wolfgang Porsche was nominated today to the Volkswagen super......

Subaru may sell diesel WRX in UK, oil burners for U.S. likely

Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Click above for a high-res gallery of the Subaru Impreza WRX.We reported last month that a senior exec over at Subaru was "looking into" the possibility of offering a diesel variant of the WRX. Today, Autocar is reporting a similar story, and as the saying goes, where there's smoke... there must be ......

Pics Aplenty: More of the Porsche Boxster RS 60 Spyder

Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Click image to enlarge (1980 px) and for a gallery of the Boxster RS 60Porsche has released some additional photos of the special edition Boxster RS 60 Spyder in conjunction with the car's German debut at the Auto Mobil International show in Leipzig. The Boxster RS 60 Spyder, in case you'd forgotten......

Porsche denies plan to raise stake in VW to 75%

Thursday, March 13th, 2008
After Porsche moved to increase its ownership in Volkswagen to 51 percent last week, an overzealous German magazine took it one step further over the weekend by reporting that Porsche was going for an even larger piece of the pie... a whopping 75 percent. Porsche pulled in the reigns and quickly re......

BMW K1000R - coming to a dealership, and race track, near you?

Thursday, March 13th, 2008
It's been long-rumored that BMW is considering a campaign in the Superbike racing world with a machine inspired by the bikes from Japan. In fact, test mules have been seen lapping racing circuits with Yamaha R6 bodywork, meaning that the chassis and engine are quite compact for this class. BMW has m......