Posts Tagged ‘high performance’

Our friends abroad won’t be getting a Honda Accord Type-R

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Click image for a gallery of the new Euro Accord With the all-new European Honda Accord set to debut next month in Geneva, word is that buyers will be disappointed to hear there are apparently no plans to launch a high-performance Type-R version of the new chassis. Honda does not feel the all-new mo......

Nissan attempting to reduce markups on GT-R orders

Monday, December 3rd, 2007
Pre-orders for the 2009 Nissan GT-R have already begun, with 691 certified dealers across the US ready to service the new offering. The expected sales volume is in the range of 2,500 vehicles for the first year and 1,500 anually after that. Do the math and you'll see the equation adds up to limited ......

Officially Official: Piaggio MP3 400 and MP3 500

Friday, November 23rd, 2007
click on the image above for many more pictures Way back in 2006, Piaggio invented a new category in motorcycling: the three-wheeled leaning scooter. It turns out that they were really on to something - the MP3 has been selling so well that Piaggio has decided to introduce two new versions of the ma......

VIDEO: 2008 Chevy Cobalt SS Turbo runs the ring

Saturday, November 10th, 2007
For you Cobalt fans, GM race driver and director of high-performance vehicle operations, John Heinricy, gives the 2008 Cobalt SS Turbocharged a sound thrashing on the Nurburgring. Even better, he talks you through it for much of the way. There's an interlude where he gets quiet, and if you didn't he......

Dream Job: Bentley launches online employment portal

Monday, November 5th, 2007
Rather than spend your day looking up "gonnectigizoink" at Wikipedia, a better use of the internet might be to find a job. The problem is that it's just so hard to find anything that matches our niche skillset. Bentley is looking for more global candidates to fill their open positions, and has launc......

Detroit 2008: The rest of the story on the Lexus LF-A Roadster Concept

Friday, November 2nd, 2007
Click above image for a high resolution gallery of photos We were left hanging yesterday with a ton of pictures of Lexus' brand new LF-A Roadster Concept, but no information to go along with them. Now Lexus has filled us in by releasing information and rather vague specifications on the car, althoug......

E85 as a performance fuel? Could be, according to General Motors

Monday, October 8th, 2007
Taking a short break from wrangling the new HHR SS around the track at the Bondurant School for High Performance Driving (see above -- that's me), we got a chance to speak with some of the engineers behind the SS series of vehicles, among others. We took that opportunity to ask whether or not GM has......

2007 Holiday Sweepstakes Day 4: Set of Kumho ECSTA DX Aroma tires

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
The holidays have a lot to do with smells: the musty scent of the tree after it's been trimmed, the taste of turkey in your nose after it's been set on the table, and the fresh lavender smell of your tires after driving over the river and through the woods to get to Grandmother's house. That's right......

Enter the Rumormill: Lexus developing lightweight, 429-hp IS-F/R

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
FiveAxis Lexus IS-F at the 2007 LA Auto ShowWhen Lexus set out to target the likes of the BMW M3, Audi RS4 and Mercedes C63 AMG with its spankin' new IS-F, they weren't kidding. The V8 super-sedan turned out to be an astonishing departure for the Japanese luxury brand that cut its teeth on rock-sol......

2007 Holiday Sweepstakes Day 3: Automoblox Complete Set

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
It's not an Autoblog Holiday Sweepstakes without a complete set of Automoblox heirloom-quality toy cars as a prize. Thankfully, Automoblox has stepped up once again and is donating a complete set of Automoblox toy cars, which includes six full-size cars, as well as three of the new Automoblox Mini c......