Number of View: 476 In case you missed the memos that have been circulating around product planning offices in Tokyo, Detroit, Wolfsburg and Seoul, the midsize crossover utility vehicle (CUV) segment is officially on fire. It is so hot, even the General decided its ice-cold “professional-grade” division needs a piece of the action. GMC vehicles [...]
Number of View: 223 If you’re ever lucky enough to encounter a black-on-black 2010 Audi R8 5.2 FSI quattro in the flesh, chances are you’ll probably mumble “Whoa.” We did. There’s no doubt the Audi R8 is a masterpiece of a sports car. It’s got the best traits a contemporary performance car can offer: exotic [...]
Number of View: 205 We tried three times. Set up bounce boards and aimed Volvo’s stylish new crossover straight for them, expecting City Safety to hit the brakes and avoid a collision. It didn’t work. “Perhaps we were too slow? Reflection of bounce boards too bright?” Ed Loh posits. We didn’t even debate the philosophy [...]
Number of View: 322 Lincoln has been many things over the years. In its earliest days (under the supervision of dour old Henry M. Leyland) they built stodgy but extraordinarily-well constructed luxury behemoths — which, along with the likes of Packard, were sort of America’s Rolls-Royces. After Ford acquired the Lincoln, their powerful engines made [...]
Number of View: 995 The Lexus RX 400h was the first luxury SUV available as a hybrid and quickly became a hot seller in what could be considered Lexus’ most iconic line. So it’s safe to say there was a considerable amount of pressure on the company to revise the next-gen without alienating its buyers. [...]
Number of View: 620Say “good-bye” to the Legacy Outback wagon; say “hello” to the all-new Outback. While Subaru will continue to sell the Legacy Outback in Japan and elsewhere, the U.S. market will see only this new, bigger Outback crossover. But fear not: You won’t miss the wagon. The new Outback is seriously good. Riding [...]
Number of View: 189 BMW North America has a problem with the new 5 Series Gran Turismo: what to call it? The official moniker ain’t much help. To the enthusiast a Gran Turismo is something low and fast and usually made in Italy. To almost everyone else, the GT badge has been so often prostituted [...]
Number of View: 713 Whether you like the daring curves of Acura’s all-new ZDX crossover, there’s no denying that there is something super about its shape — it stands out among today’s array of sport/utilities like an Armani suit at 24 Hour Fitness. While one editor thought the ZDX resembled a “Mitsubishi’s Dakar-racing Pajero Evo [...]
Number of View: 1065 “A Jaguar has to have a point of view,” says Jaguar design director Ian Callum as we walk around the sleek new 2010 XJ sedan. “We can’t do what everyone else has done.” The irony is, of course, that “everyone else” — specifically, Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Audi — has spent the [...]
Number of View: 412The Hennessey Performance Engineering (HPE) has launched a brand new 2010 HPE700 as a limited version. The HPE is better known for its muscular cars and high performance sports cars. The HPE700 is equipped with supercharged V8 engine that produces an output power of about 705 hp and 717 lb-ft torque. The [...]
