Posts Tagged ‘test car’

New York ‘08 Preview: Ford featuring crash-tested Taurus

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Click above to view high-res gallery of crash-tested Ford TaurusFord has been very quiet about what it will have onstage at the New York Auto Show tomorrow, but one vehicle we do know that will be under the lights is the Ford Taurus. While there will certainly be a number of Taurus models waxed, pol......

Inside Line performance tests the Nissan GT-R. Oh yes, it’s very fast.

Monday, October 8th, 2007
The Inside Line gang has just returned from Japan, where they performed instrumented testing on Japanese journo Jun Nishikawa's privately-owned 2009 Nissan GT-R. The test car had 1,500 km on the clock and was equipped the same way the US-spec cars will be. Boy, did it ever bring the goods. Zero to s......

More Corvette ZR1 photos from Laguna Seca

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
click above image for more high-res pics of the Corvette ZR1 at Laguna SecaClearly the American LeMans Series was well aware of Chevy's plan to trot out a ZR1 test car for a couple hot laps on Laguna Seca last Friday. Not only did the organization take video of the relatively impromptu event (see th......

Sleepy engineer wrecks Pontiac G8

Monday, July 23rd, 2007
Pontiac's famous tagline is "We build excitment". What does it say about the new Pontiac G8 that yesterday morning an Australian engineer driving a test car fell asleep at the wheel and piloted it down a 100-foot embankment, striking a boulder and flipping the car end over end? Well, the Pontiac G8 ......

Spy Shots: 2010 Buick LaCrosse

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
click above image for more spy shots of the 2010 Buick LaCrosseDespite a heavy rotation of security guards protecting the identity of this test car, Priddy photographer Chris Doane managed to snap it during one of one its brief public outings in an undisclosed location. It's the 2010 Buick LaCrosse,......

Toyota/Subaru sports car details emerge, answers big questions

Saturday, July 21st, 2007
More details have come to the fore about the ongoing development of a lightweight sports car birthed from the union of Toyota and Subaru. Our friends over at 7Tune were kind enough to translate the finer points of an article in Daily Car, and the one burning question -- what platform the new coupe w......

Live from the Chrysler proving grounds: The Concepts

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007
Click the image above for high-resolution photos of Chryser's concepts Every time there is a special "concept first drive" from one of the major automotive rags, the same rules seem to apply: you can't drive it past 25 or 30mph, none of the components are functional, etc. Well, that pretty much sum......

Spy Shots: Jaguar XF coming with 500HP

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
It appears that the XKR caught with Jaguar's new JaguarDrive gear selector was also accompanied by a group of test mules for the upcoming XF sedan. The convoy was encountered in Austria where Jaguar has rented a house and garage behind a gas station to work on the cars in private, or so they thought......

Spy Shots: Acura NSX mule out in the open

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
When spy pics of the new NSX surfaced a couple of days ago, it was just a matter of time before we got a better look at Honda's forthcoming supercar running the 'Ring. The previous shots of the S2000-cloked mule gave us a rough idea of the length and rear suspension setup, but these new shots tell m......

Spy Shots: 2009/10 Acura NSX

Monday, March 26th, 2007
The return of the NSX to Acura's lineup has been an off-and-on again affair, but the latest intel has a new NSX with a 500-horsepower V10 on schedule for an arrival sometime in late 2008 or 2009. While our only indication of what the new NSX may look like up to this point has been the Acura Advanced......