Posts Tagged ‘extreme tuning’

China may replace Germany as VW’s top market

Monday, August 18th, 2008
Volkswagen was one of the pioneers in infiltrating the booming Chinese market, and now the automaker's early efforts are paying off handsomely. VW is planning to sell over 1 million vehicles in the land of the Great Wall in 2008, which should mean that the automaker's China sales will surpass those ......

Rendered or official? 2010 Mercedes-Benz E-Class

Friday, August 15th, 2008
Autobild is hardly a bastion of integrity on newsstands in Germany, so its cover story proclaiming it has "Exclusive Photos" of the new Mercedes-Benz E-class "without camouflage" needs to be taken with the appropriate grains of salt. However, based on the various reports we've seen over the past yea......

Audi RS4 and RS5 to keep V8s

Monday, July 28th, 2008
There have been countless conflicting reports about what will power the next generation Audi RS4 and the forthcoming RS5. Fourtitude had heard the rumors and decided to go straight to its sources for clarification. While the four-ringed obessesives weren't able to divulge the identity of their insid......

Oh the horror! Ferrari California post-crash test

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
We're fully aware that even supercars must undergo crash testing. But we like to think of the process the same way we do hamburgers. When we get hungry, we're able to totally banish any curiosity about what gruesome process transformed the cow into lunch.Photos from inside a slaughterhouse would evo......

Russia now Europe’s biggest automotive market

Monday, July 14th, 2008
Russia has just passed Germany as Europe's largest market for new car sales -- for the first half of the year, at least. In fact, Russian consumers managed to snatch up 41% more cars for the first half of this year as compared to the previous year. Not only that, but the vehicles being sold in Russi......

Volvo to trim 30-percent of U.S. dealers by the end of next year

Friday, July 11th, 2008
Volvo hasn't been doing too hot lately, posting a $1.73 billion loss over the past five years as it flails to find its niche. Sales of almost every Volvo product have declined in 2007, with the S60 falling by 28.1 percent, the SC90 dropping 5.6 percent and the V70 station wagon losing 7.7 percent. F......

New VW Beetle could be North America’s up! variant?

Thursday, July 10th, 2008
The VW Beetle is a cult favorite here in the States, but in Germany, it's not so well loved. That could be part of the reason why Volkswagen has been slow to produce a successor to the new Beetle, but word from Motor Trend is that two models could be coming shortly. The first Beetle will be based of......

VIDEO: Three minutes of NSX goodness

Monday, June 30th, 2008
Click above to view video after the jumpAt this rate, by the time Honda actually releases the production version of the successor to the NSX, we may well have seen more video and photos of the prototypes running at the 'Ring than we ever saw of the original. Thankfully, for those of us into really ......

German man burns BMW in protest of high gas prices

Sunday, June 29th, 2008
If you think that gas prices are high in the U.S., consider that the average price for a gallon of gas in Germany is $9.40. Yikes. Since the record high prices in the States are causing some people to change their lifestyles, imagine how Europeans feel. Bet they're pretty upset, right? One man was t......

Ferrari California: new images hit the net

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Click above for hi-res gallery of the Ferrari California For the unveiling of its first front-engined V8 sportscar, Ferrari rolled out a dedicated launch site. But up until now, the site (as well as the company's media portal) only gave us a glimpse at a handful of studio shots. Germany'sAutoBild, m......