Best Auto Information
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Oct
Posted: 4:04pm, 26 October 2007
I’m seeing a lot of talk about EfficientDynamics from BMW…You are, because while we’ve read all about the technology – intelligent alternator control, glass mat battery, low-rolling-resistance runflats, regenerative braking (actually nothing of the sort, but still smart) – and have seen it put into practice with the remarkably abstemious 118d, […]
29
Oct
Posted: 12:31pm, 29 October 2007
Kronreif, Trunkenpolz, Mattighofen!Yes, or KTM for short. This is the X-Bow: it’s Austrian motorcycle manufacturer KTM’s first road car, and one of four planned four-wheeled vehicles by 2015. It’s set to go into production in early 2008, with 240bhp courtesy of Audi.
We’ve caught the car during development work at […]
29
Oct
Posted: 11:45am, 29 October 2007
Lexus LF-A: the lowdownEarlier in the year we predicted Lexus would unveil its supercar, the LF-A, in production guise at the 2007 Tokyo Motor Show. It didn’t, preferring to show its silver concept car (inset above) for the umpteenth time. But even as officials in Japan unconvincingly denied all knowledge of […]
28
Oct
The Tokyo show press days are barely over, and its already time to turn our attention to the 2007 Specialty Equipment Marketing Association show in Las Vegas. Heres what we know so far about what the automakers are up to at the industrys biggest trade show.
Chrysler will debut eight customized Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge […]
27
Oct
The 40th Annual Tokyo Motor Show was not just about cars but motorcycles and commercial vehicles, too. I didn’t spend a lot of time looking at dump trucks and buses, but I did spend some time with the motorcycles and am glad I did.
The general feeling from my colleagues who attended the show is that […]
27
Oct
In lo these many years of driving cars, there haven?t been any that so consistently delight and thrill as those from Porsche.
I never drove a 962 or any of the race cars, but I?ve driven all of the production cars made since the early ?80s and several various 356s, and I have — objectivity be […]
27
Oct
The Tokyo show press days are barely over, and it?s already time to turn our attention to the 2007 Specialty Equipment Marketing Association show in Las Vegas. Here?s what we know so far about what the automakers are up to at the industry?s biggest trade show.
Chrysler will debut eight customized Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge […]
27
Oct
INDIANAPOLIS (October 25, 2007) - The Lexmark Indy 300 at Surfers Paradise event that concluded last Sunday once again proved an outstanding success with huge crowds, happy sponsors, celebrity appearances and a race won by Sebastien Bourdais that will go down in history. Now the Champ Car World Series heads to Mexico City for its […]
25
Oct
We logged 6,000-plus air miles and criss-crossed the floor of the Makuhari Messe to look at the cool and kooky things on the show stands at the Tokyo auto show. Then the AutoWeek editors pulled up some chairs, opened some cans of green tea and hashed out what you want to know–the cars that made […]
25
Oct
While everyone was busy picking their jaws up off the floor in front of the GT-R at the Nissan booth, I made a beeline over to Mazda to check out the new iteration of Felix Wankel’s brainchild before the crowd formed for the press conference.
Since the introduction of the second-generation RX-7 in 1986, rotary […]