Archive for June, 2009
Aston Martin Joins Hands with Toyota to Develop World’s first Luxury City Car
Luxury automaker Aston Martin and Toyota are going to develop the first luxury city car of the world.Recently, Aston Martin has released some images of its Cygnet that is Toyota’s well known iQ that has restyled front sheetmetal.
Though the concept has been officially allocated so far, some news reports suggest that the vehicle will be put on sale during the next year.
The new vehicle will be offered to those who currently have an Aston Martin or to those who have already placed an order for the vehicle.
2010 Mitsubishi Lancer Lineup
The 2010 Mitsubishi Lancer lineup includes the Mitsubishi Lacer Ralliart Sportback. It was first showed in Paris last year and has been under great focus and admiration ever since. It has great brawn and practical looks as well.
Mitsubishi representatives drove down to Irvine from Cypress with a great zeal to promote this beautiful and brand new model. They dragged along the EVO GSR and the new MR Limited to the line up as well.
Lamborghini-Bizzarrini: Your best Pick from eBay
eBay stands next to Amazon in online sale of products and it is no wonder that you can get anything and everything from eBay. In this regard, it is not surprising to find a car on eBay motors. But what makes Lamborghini-Bizzarrini unique is that the combination that has led to this beauty.This car is made of one vintage Italian exotic with a rarer body on the top.
Loans Approved for Ford, Nissan, Tesla for Electric Cars, Energy Department
Fuel-efficient cars are the need of the hour and the U.S Energy Department has realized this and is ready to grant a loan of $8 billion for Ford Focus, a five-seat electric Nissan and Tesla’s Model S sedan. This is the government’s main step towards the promotion of more fuel-efficient vehicles. The first announcement of these loans was made on Tuesday at the Ford research center at Dearborn.
Good news is that Ford will get the bulk of this loan and to be exact in number $5.9 billion will be given to Ford through 2011 and this amount will be used by the company to retool two plants to make cars. Ford has also announced that it will huge this money to produce battery-powered versions of Transit Connect vans.
Your Chance to be Among the First to test Drive a new Mahindra Pickup
Do you wish to know the features of Mahindra truck and want to know how they differentiate themselves against all other brands? Just take a sneak peek into the Mahindra’s website and signup in it. The company is set to launch it first offering from India for the last quarter of 2009 and as its time that it has started taking the names for test drive in its site. With the information provided on the company’s U.S.
website, it can be seen that it will line up the country soon and the interested shoppers would be given a free spin around the two or four-door diesel powered trucks. No clue on when or how its goes to happen.
2010 Hyundai Santa Fe, Sonata to Get Direct-Inject Four-Cylinder Engines
Hyundai’s new Santa Fe 2010 is expected to have some best features in it. This would be an upgraded model. The Hyundai’s factory at Montgomery in Alabama has added the production of four- cylinder engines last year but it has recently introduced some upgraded features like adding direct injection to its 2.4 – liter four – cylinder engine. When compared with other direct inject engines this revised version would be renovated increased power capacity while consuming lesser fuel. This debut of direct injected four- cylinder would be introduced in the 2010 Santa Fe this fall.
Jesse Holds Pride for Bringing Hydrogen Land-Speed Record back to United States
It took six long years for Jesse James to put in his idea into the streamliner to set the world record for the top speed that could be reached with the hydrogen-powered vehicle. It was all set on the afternoon on June 16, when James flew across the dry lake bed in the desert of California and recorded the top speed of 199.712 mph.
This was the top speed for any hydrogen-powered vehicle. This was 14 mph faster than current record of 185 mph set by the BMW in the hydrogen-powered H2H in Germany.
Wholesale Auto Parts: Easy buying and enjoying large savings
Being an automobile owner, you know how important to maintain your vehicle for its long life. When it comes to maintenance of your vehicle, you must replace all those auto parts that are subjected to wear and tear. Buying these auto parts are always a concern for most of the automobile owners and most have a question in mind whether to but these parts from retail stores or buy them from a wholesale store. Here is a quick brief of the merits in buying these auto parts from wholesale stores.
Mercedes menace: SLR Stirling Moss lives up to the Hype
The new SLR Stirling Moss from the automobile legends Mercedes and McLaren is proving its point and is well up to the hype created. The car’s looks stuns as it was in picture and people are just waiting to get its key to go for a dream ride in this powerful hunk. Created by the collaboration of Mercedes and McLaren, the vehicle cost almost $1.1 million on road.
The car comes without the windshield as it was adding too much to the car’s weight. The sad thing about this car is that it won’t be available for sale in the United States because of the lack of windshield.
Plans for the 2010 Mustang are Being Announced by the Ford Racing
Ford has just announced that the brand new Mustang will join the Ford Racing. The name of the new brand is FR500CJ Cobra Jet. This racer comes with the high quality of Ford and it is built with the high quality of the latest and high quality fast-parts of Ford Racing catalog. One of the most high quality features of Mustang is its high quality version of 400 horsepower of the highly reliable and high quality 5.4-liter supercharged V8.
This version comes with a drag-specific wheel along with the tire combination. The previous model was also very popular and got a lot of appreciation from the customers.The previous model was sold in just about only 2 weeks time and 50 cars were sold, it also won a race as well.
