Posts Tagged ‘available cars’

Correction: Pontiac G8 GT will NOT have an optional 6-speed stick

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Last week, we linked to a CarDomain piece about a lunch that gang had with GM's Bob Lutz. One of their topics of conversation with the product czar was manual transmissions, and it was reported that the '09 Pontiac G8 GT would be offered with an optional Tremec 6-speed manual transmission. This was ......

Lutz: ‘09 Pontiac G8 GT gets optional Tremec 6-speed stick

Friday, June 20th, 2008
Click above for high-res gallery of the 2008 Pontiac G8 GTCarDomain recently sat for lunch with GM car czar Bob Lutz, and one of the topics that came up was the ever-vanishing manual transmission. Lutz explained that modern automatics are no longer the less efficient option by default, and with CAFE......

Useless Pontiac G8 auxiliary gauges going away for 2009

Thursday, June 12th, 2008
Click above for high-res gallery of the 2008 Pontiac G8 GTWe became HUGE fans of the 2008 Pontiac G8 after having one spend a week with us in the Autoblog Garage. We could find little about which to quibble, but one element of the G8 GT model we reviewed annoyed us the most. It was the giant pair of......

VIDEO: New Subaru ad does sexy Japan-style

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Click above to view video after the jumpSubaru of Canada has shown its twisted sense of humor with this new commercial for the Subaru Forester that plays off the whole "sexy babes washing a car" motif. Instead of busty blondes, however, the Japanese automaker supplants sumo wrestlers who thrown spo......

2009 BMW X6 gets some preliminary EPA numbers

Monday, April 21st, 2008
When we had our First Drive in BMW's new X6 Sport Activity Coupe, we didn't get the opportunity to really measure fuel consumption, since the vehicles were gassed-up when we got behind the wheel and were then refuelled during our lunch break. A glance at the on-board computer of the '35i we drove on......

Davis Cup - Final thriller

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
Unfortuantely, i missed the final round of Davis Cup between India and Pakistan last sunday. Actually when i was switching between the channels, i even noticed that the match was telecasted in DD - Sports, with a wild guess tht Leander would easily defeat the 1416th seeded Pak player, i opted for a ......

Spring Rally Day 1

Saturday, June 11th, 2005
I'm back from the wilds of Wisconsin where I spent the past two days at a semi-annual rally for Midwest automotive journalists. For two days we took over Road America at Elkhart Lake to test out the latest offerings from manufacturers. On day one we were given access to the track, yes the actual rac......