Mugen accessories for 2010 Honda Accord

2010 Honda Accord Mugen
Celebrating its 50th year in America, Honda kicked off its week at the 2009 SEMA show in Las Vegas with a variety of historic and accessorized Honda vehicles and the reveal of a 2010 Accord Sedan equipped with MUGEN accessories. Continue reading »

Posted: November 7th, 2009
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2011 Porsche Boxster Spyder for L.A. reveal

2011 Porsche Boxster Spyder
Weighing in at just 2,811 lbs, the new 2011 Porsche Boxster Spyder will be the lightest Porsche available – from a company known for lightweight, proficient sports cars. This new mid-engined roadster represents the true, purist form of the sports car – agile, powerful, open and efficient. This third Boxster model will join the Boxster and Boxster S and will make its world debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show, December 2, 2009. Continue reading »

Posted: November 6th, 2009
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BMW M3 GTS track-ready variant unveiled

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The latest BMW M3 is already an allegedly capable machine, but the German firm went further and has created a road-legal M3 GTS variant that seems more suited to the track instead. Continue reading »

Posted: November 6th, 2009
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2009 SEMA Las Vegas: Photo coverage

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The Specialty Equipment Market Association show, better known as SEMA, is on again in Las Vegas. The 2009 event of this aftermarket show, one of the largest of its kind in the world, is more of a showcase for American tuner companies than any other, with this year being dominated by Ford Mustang and Chevy Camaro variants. Among the crowd of muscle cars are manufacturers such as Toyota, Hyundai, Suzuki and Subaru, who chose to participate whereas many others have dropped out due to the financial issues. Continue reading »

Posted: November 3rd, 2009
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2010 Honda Accord Crosstour U.S. pricing

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Pricing for the 2010 Crosstour has just been released, and the new model starts just slightly under $30,000, running up to about $37,000. It will hit U.S. showrooms in a couple of months. Continue reading »

Posted: November 3rd, 2009
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Vettel wins Abu Dhabi F1 GP to finish 2009 season

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Once a brake problem slowed McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton, Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel had no competition in Sunday evening’s inaugural day/night race. A brilliant win cemented his second place in the drivers’ world championship behind Brawn GP’s Jenson Button, who enlivened the end of the race with a superb challenge to the second-placed Red Bull of Mark Webber in the closing stages. Continue reading »

Posted: November 2nd, 2009
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Consumer Reports 2009 reliability survey results

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Ford has secured its position as the only Detroit automaker with world-class reliability. About 90% of Ford, Mercury, and Lincoln products were found to have average or better reliability, according to Consumer Reports’ 2009 Annual Car Reliability Survey. The results were announced today at an Automotive Press Association luncheon in Detroit. Continue reading »

Posted: October 28th, 2009
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2010 Seat Leon Cupra R details released

2010 Seat Leon Cupra
Following a very successful debut at the recent Frankfurt Motor Show, the new León CUPRA R is about to go on sale. Equipped with a new 265 hp engine, it instantly becomes the brand’s most powerful production car to date, earning a special chapter in SEAT’s history in the process. Continue reading »

Posted: October 26th, 2009
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2010 Nissan Rogue Krom edition revealed

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Nissan has announced the latest addition to its “Krom” specialty vehicles lineup, the 2010 Nissan Rogue Krom edition, which is scheduled to go on sale at U.S. Nissan dealers nationwide in December 2009. The new Rogue Krom edition comes with aggressive sport styling, exclusive 17-inch wheels and a center-exit sport-tuned exhaust. Nissan also offers a Krom edition of the
popular Nissan cube. Continue reading at ModernOffroader.com »

Posted: October 24th, 2009
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2009 Toyko Auto Show: Photo coverage

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You can always depend on the Tokyo Auto Show to have the most intriguing and the most wacky concepts. The 2009 edition of the show is no different. This is one event where the concepts outnumber the production car launches. However, this year’s hi-jinks is a bit muted due to various automakers pulling out, blaming the recession rather than poor management. Many of the concepts are hybrids or zero-emission vehicles, affirming the green slant of the show. Continue reading »

Posted: October 23rd, 2009
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2011 Lexus LF-A debuts in production trim

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After spending half a decade in development hell, running the ‘Ring in camo, briefly getting canceled during the recession, and even racing at a few events, the production version of the Lexus LF-A supercar has finally debuted in Japan. Continue reading »

Posted: October 21st, 2009
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Veritas RS III Roadster starts production

Veritas RS III Roadster
The Veritas RS III Roadster has begun its limited production run and first customer deliveries will take place in January 2010. Built by Vermot AG, this cockroach of a car has already been sold to eight customers, but none from the Middle East yet. The eight are part of only 30 that will be produced. It takes 15 people about eight weeks to build one car and three cars at a time will be built. Continue reading »

Posted: October 20th, 2009
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Volkswagen U.S. factory work on track

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During his one-week trip to the USA, Lower Saxony’s Prime Minister Christian Wulff visited Volkswagen of America at the Chattanooga site accompanied by an industry delegation. The guests used the opportunity to find out more about the status of work on the new Volkswagen factory in the State of Tennessee. Continue reading »

Posted: October 19th, 2009
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Button wins F1 title as Webber wins Brazil GP

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Jenson Button took the limelight at the 2009 Brazilian Grand Prix. After 60 of the 71 laps, as Mark Webber swept to a dominant victory for Red Bull ahead of BMW Sauber’s Robert Kubica and a fighting Lewis Hamilton, he had done enough. And a late puncture for Brawn GP team mate Rubens Barrichello, which elevated him to fifth, was merely the icing on the cake. Continue reading »

Posted: October 19th, 2009
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2011 Kia Cadenza readied for debut

2011 Kia Cadenza
Kia has announced that their all-new luxury sedan will be called the Cadenza. The full-size sedan will apparently sport a rear-wheel-drive platform, and should replace the Kia Amanti. Continue reading »

Posted: October 18th, 2009
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Ford recalls 4.5 million vehicles for cruise control fault

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Over the years, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has been recalling a number of older American-made models over the issue of “leaking” cruise control switches in certain brands. By 2008, the agency had recalled around 9.6 million vehicles to repair a faulty Texas Instruments cruise-control deactivation switch, and now after an NHTSA investigation, Ford is the target of the latest recall, adding 4.5 million Ford and Mercury vehicles to the list. Continue reading »

Posted: October 17th, 2009
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Lamborghini offers 0% financing on Murcielago

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Lamborghini America has announced a new Lamborghini Retail Finance Plan for its most exclusive vehicles on the market, the Murcielago LP640 Coupe and Roadster. The super sports car company is partnering with Woodside Credit and Volkswagen Credit, Inc. to provide alternative financing programs through authorized U.S. Lamborghini dealers. Continue reading »

Posted: October 16th, 2009
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2010 Nissan 370Z 40th Anniversary for U.S. market

2010 Nissan 370Z 40th Anniversary Edition
The 25th anniversary is silver, the 50th is gold. And the 40th? Another precious metal, or more correctly metal, rubber and glass – the Nissan Z. Forty years ago, on October 22, 1969, the Datsun 240Z arrived in North America, heralding a new era in sports car design. Continue reading »

Posted: October 16th, 2009
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Ford Fusion Hybrid sales going strong

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Ford Motor Company’s hybrid vehicle sales have risen 73% this year in sharp contrast to a 14% decline in hybrid sales across the industry. The fuel economy and durability of hybrid versions of Ford Fusion and Escape, Mercury Milan and Mariner also are winning over large numbers of conquest customers, many of whom are previous import owners. Through September, Ford has sold 26,016 hybrid vehicles, up 73% versus the same period in 2008, according to figures from Autodata Inc. Continue reading »

Posted: October 16th, 2009
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2010 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution MR Touring U.S. pricing

2010 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution MR Touring
The Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X is a somewhat uncompromising sports sedan, based off of an economy car platform. But the U.S. market is getting a new MR Touring “luxury” model that puts it up against German brands in terms of pricing. Continue reading »

Posted: October 13th, 2009
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