Archive for April, 2011
New Mercedes-Benz A-Class To Feature Better Quality Than Current C-Class
Posted on 29. Apr, 2011 by admin.
According to Mercedes-Benz design chief Gorden Wagener, the lines of the stunningly good Concept A-Class revealed at the recent Shanghai and New York auto shows are virtually identical to what we’ll see on the final production version due late next year. “What you see is realistic,” he revealed during an interview Autocar…
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Third Trailer For Transformers 3 – Dark Of The Moon Released: Video
Posted on 29. Apr, 2011 by admin.
The third installment of the Transformers movies is only a couple of months away, July 1 to be exact, and in the lead up to its arrival the third trailer has been released. This latest trailer is more than two and a half minutes long and reveals some very tasty tidbits. First and foremost we get to see what is almost certain to be the new baddie…
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Cadillac To Launch New Crossover With Third-Row Seating: Report
Posted on 29. Apr, 2011 by admin.
A few years back there were rumblings that GM was looking to axe its Cadillac Escalade SUV and replace it with a crossover model based on the Lambda platform, a plan devised in response to the financial crisis at the time and a spike in world oil prices. Work on the new seven-seat Cadillac crossover had even commenced but then GM entered…
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Mercedes-Benz Reveals New C63 AMG DTM Safety Car
Posted on 28. Apr, 2011 by admin.
Germany’s DTM race series is coming to the U.S. in 2013, but there’s no reason to wait until it gets here to enjoy the show. Especially not when the 2012 C63 AMG is the field’s official safety car, shown off here in its be-lighted guise. The previous C63 AMG was also chosen for safety car duties back in 2008, so the new C63 getting the nod for the…
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Video: Driving the Mopar Jeep JK-8 Pickup Truck in Moab
Posted on 28. Apr, 2011 by admin.
Video produced by Dan Sanchez and hosted by Mark Williams for PickupTrucks.com
We've already written about our time behind the wheel of the Mopar Jeep JK-8 project truck at this year's Easter Jeep Safari in Moab, Utah. Now, we've got video of the Jeep pickup you can build in your garage.
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Need For Speed: The Run Lets You Be Alex Roy Without Being Crazy
Posted on 28. Apr, 2011 by admin.
If you’re unfamiliar with Alex Roy, or his book, The Driver, you should remedy that deficiency ASAP. He’s a bit of a legend and certainly a personality, and his exploits are the stuff of many a gearhead’s dreams. But soon you’ll be able to emulate his particular brand of insanity without all the risk, hard work, or time, thanks to Need For Speed…
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Hennessey Ram HPE500 Shows Off Supercharged Hemi Muscle: Video
Posted on 28. Apr, 2011 by admin.
There’s almost no point–practical or otherwise–to having a high-performance street truck, but that doesn’t make it any less fun. And this truck looks like serious fun. Sporting a 5.7-liter Hemi V-8 with a custom supercharger package sending 500 horsepower to the wheels, this truck is not for the faint of heart. Not is it one to shame supercars…
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2012 Aston Martin Virage: The Drive
Posted on 28. Apr, 2011 by admin.
No one needs an Aston Martin in their lives, but life is a damn sight better when you have one. This is what all the great philosophers–Deepak Chopra, Dr. Andrew Weil, Paul John Teutel–meant by enlightenment. I’m cruising some little Spanish town with my own senior-citizen section cheering me on from a park bench, in Spanish, which means I’m…
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Study: Steering Wheels Dirtier Than Toilets
Posted on 28. Apr, 2011 by admin.
As we enter our collective lunch breaks, we thought this number might make you think again before eating and driving: There are nearly nine times as many potentially harmful bugs on your steering wheel as there are on an average toilet seat.
Yeah, that’s right — gross. That pleasant fact comes from researchers at Queen Mary University in London. Overall, there are about 700 bacteria per square inch on a steering wheel, compared with 80 bacteria over the same area on a toilet seat. Most of the micro-organisms aren’t harmful to humans, but there are some, such as Bacillus cereus, which can cause foodborne illnesses when digested. I guess that wouldn’t be a problem if you washed your hands before eating, but according to the study, 42% of drivers regularly eat in their cars while driving.
Adding insult to injury: Only 33% of drivers clean the inside of their cars at least once a year, and about 10% of car owners have never cleaned the interior of their vehicles, the study says.
Regularly cleaning the interior of your vehicle will help avoid potential health risks from bacteria, the researchers said. Ughh.
Car Steering Wheels Dirtier Than Toilets (IBN Live, via Autoblog)
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2011 BMW Vehicles Get Pandora Streaming App
Posted on 28. Apr, 2011 by admin.
Cars were one of the original homes of the mobile phone, and as technology has advanced, their integration has become ever closer. Today, BMW announced integration of Pandora streaming Internet radio service in all 2011 model-year cars equipped with the BMW Apps option, bringing the integration to its next logical step. Pandora is the first…
