Posts Tagged ‘armchair’
Click above for high-res gallery of spy shotsHonda/Acura engineers were recently caught testing a new sport crossover in the dead of night around the deserts of California, and while they came wielding flashlights to blind our spy photographer's lens, we got these pictures of what the luxury brand i......
Spy Shots: Audi’s important A7
Friday, June 13th, 2008
Click above for high-res gallery of Audi A7 spy shotsSpy photographers have caught the upcoming 2010/11 Audi A7 out testing in Germany, and while the car cover makes it look like Charlie Brown dressed as a ghost for Halloween, we think the pics are still important considering how significant this ve......
Beijing ‘08: Buick Invicta concept to be 4-door coupe
Monday, April 14th, 2008
During a pre-Beijing Motor Show conference call today, Buick provided some more hints about the new Invicta concept that it will reveal this weekend in China. We've had a couple of teases about what to expect and won't actually be seeing any detailed images until Saturday, but what we do know now is......
First Drive: 2009 BMW X6 xDrive35i and xDrive50i
Friday, April 11th, 2008
Click above for high-res gallery of the 2009 BMW X6I must be missing the gene that makes high-riding vehicles appealing to so many other people. As a car enthusiast and an engineer, I can certainly appreciate the performance that companies like BMW and Infiniti have managed to wrangle from vehicles ......
Rendered Speculation: Mercedes-Benz CLE four-door coupe
Monday, April 7th, 2008
Mercedes jump-started a new trend of four-door coupes with the CLS. But after several years of having the niche market to itself, the German automaker is bracing for an onslaught of competition, from above and from below. While the Porsche Panamera and Aston Martin Rapide attempt to take the four-do......
Shelby Terlingua Mustang adds one more to the fray
Saturday, September 1st, 2007
Uncle! UNCLE! Here's the scoop. Shelby's dusting off another name from the 1960s to affix to the flanks of yet another clapped out version of Ford's Mustang. Damn. Was it like this back in the day, too? Terlingua was a racing team in the 1960s that campaigned a GT350 with ferocious bunny livery. The......
Toyota and Sony working on single-seat vehicle
Thursday, June 21st, 2007
Toyota and Sony are forming a new partnership to enter a segment rarely tackled by mainstream automakers, the single-seater vehicle market. Back in 2005, Toyota unveiled the i-swing, a concept car that was basically an armchair on wheels. This time around it's making a serious attempt at creating a ......
Amateur car design: How fast do your dreams go?
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
I was young when I set up my first automotive company. It was small, as you might expect of a corporation founded by a 14-year-old. CJT Inc. produced only two vehicles. The MF2000 was a super-swoopy, gullwinged sports car with a tri-turbo V-12 that ran on either hydrogen or unleaded. Our other vehic......
BMW buying Volvo rumour circulates again
Saturday, March 31st, 2007
Earlier this month, Autocar reported that BMW had expressed significant interest in buying the Volvo brand from Ford Motor Company early in 2007. The report claimed BMW had gone so far as to request financial data about the Swedish automaker.Yesterday, the Swedish newspaper Goteborgs Posten threw an......
Best looking Porsche Panamera yet
Thursday, October 12th, 2006
The Porsche Panamera four-door coupe is not scheduled for release until 2008, but with spy shots of a test mule running the Nurburgring in Germany having already infiltrated the internet, armchair designers like ourselves are already critiquing the car's shape. Infomotori.co.uk has commissioned a se......