June 26th, 2011 at 10:33am
Under Hatchback+ Menufacturer+ Styles+ Subaru
To most people, the Subaru Impreza is a practical compact sedan with enhanced all-weather capability. But enthusiasts have long known its darker side. The WRX alludes to the WRC rally car, and for several years now, Subaru has offered Americans the STI with even more power. Sophistication, however, isn’t the STI’s thing. It is brash and loud, with a wing that makes it look as if it were ready to launch into outer space.
Now, Subaru is trumping its STI with the tS, which stands for “tuned by STI” and strikes us as redundant. The model will only be sold on Subaru’s Japanese home turf, but we were invited to sample one on the back roads and autobahns near the company’s European Test and Development Center in Ingelheim, Germany. With the “tuned by STI” addendum in mind, we fully expected an Impreza with even more outrageous wings and flares. What we were shown instead by the center’s general manager, Hideki Arai, was a rather subtle evolution of the STI. We wouldn’t exactly call it refined, but even at first glance, it is visibly more mature and sophisticated.
Nine-Pound Fixation
For one thing, the STI tS loses the STI’s massive rear wing, instead sporting a discreet lip spoiler. The carbon-fiber roof cuts nine pounds, as does an aluminum hood, and ultra-lightweight wheels with a unique design save another nine apiece. Arai-san points out a strut brace upfront and says the suspension has been reworked extensively. The Impreza STI tS is available only as a four-door sedan.
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April 18th, 2011 at 08:45am
Under Ferrari+ Menufacturer+ Supercar
As I’m driving through hairpin corners in the Dolomite Mountains of the South Tyrol region of Italy, the Ferrari FF’s two-door wagon body style is the last thing on my mind, which is interesting because it’s probably the first thing anyone else would notice about the latest four-seater from Maranello. Instead, my most pressing thought, besides not dropping a $300,000 GT car off a cliff, is the FF’s four-wheel-drive system, which has so tamed the 651-hp V-12 engine that a tail-out hero photo of a drifting FF requires serious commitment with the stability control fully switched off. When the back end finally does come around, though, it does so in a predictable, gentle manner. In sport mode, the sportiest of the five chassis settings accessible via the steering-wheel-mounted manettino knob, the back of the car hardly wiggles on dry pavement.
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April 17th, 2011 at 08:41am
Under Audi+ Menufacturer+ Sedan+ Styles
In our first drive of the 2012 Audi A6, we did something a bit unusual. We said the A6 is “approaching perfection.” We don’t drop the P-bomb too often, because there is no such thing as the perfect car. A perfected car, on the other hand, is conceivable, and after driving the 2012 A6 again, this time in diesel-powered 3.0 TDI form, we’re more convinced of Audi’s proximity to this goal. Even better, the company recently announced that the A6 3.0 TDI will come to the U.S. within the next 24 to 30 months.
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February 12th, 2011 at 06:42am
Under Chevrolet+ Eco Car+ Menufacturer+ Styles
Car buyers looking for people who have their car is very interesting that, and to use as little as possible fuel finished book. These two goals often conflict with each other, but there can be peace and coexistence. Accident: 2011 Chevrolet Cruze and ecology Bikeluzi expensive and difficult to hybrid technology, and optimization of the transmission system to reduce weight, improve aerodynamics, fuel efficiency. Fortunately, three steps down, up and improve your driving pleasure.
Air bubbles, it appears that
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February 10th, 2011 at 06:28am
Under Menufacturer+ Nissan+ Styles+ Supercar
Nissan, the dry bones of techno-speak, 2012 Nissan GT-R called the GT-R R35 (12MY M / C). Infectious is not it? R35-to two-door model is now known as Skyline (Japan only in the spirit of the previous R32-R34s). “12MY” model year 2012 refers, of course, and “M / C” “minor change” means to the resident and the chief engineer in accordance with the GT-R god Kazutoshi Mizuno.
That the “substantial change in a small” A little modesty of the Japanese touch can be, but is capable of. The biggest news for the power ‘12 GT-R is a twin-turbo 3.8-liter V-485 is completely ridiculous a jump on all absurd than 6, the USDA-guaranteed-or-what-530 arrests since the torque swells to ? 434, and 448-ft.
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February 8th, 2011 at 06:06am
Under Chevrolet+ Convertible+ Menufacturer+ Styles
Extreme Makeover a full range of Chrysler, the company has produced dramatic results in 2011, literally took some of the Sebring sedan and convertible for four years. Cars, really fresh. “200″ is the foundation base Sebring, door skin, preserving the structure and the results of the roofline is also the name, stupid does not think the style of body 200, a new all Mashita. Almost all other buyers, so check the 200, but many people may be fooled by the ugly Cebu, however, cheaper to replace something, or both.
We Chrysler recently at a high level overview of official information and the image moves downwards. Press releases are one thing, you can not tell us: What is behind the wheel of the car much better than this? We were impressed with the 200 sedan after spending the first album a lot. droptop or take a leap in the same sense? How to find us, San Diego, Calif., streets and roads around the quality.
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February 6th, 2011 at 05:55am
Under Chrysler+ Menufacturer+ Sedan+ Styles
We love the beauty of a car enthusiast can tell because some of these techniques can be useful. Whistler four years of his work can not be updated after the mother. He also has seven years to do it again for the rest of him really. 300 in 2004, but may be regarded as a work of Chrysler, the company could not sit, this can be done. 2011.300, not because it is designed to update to get updates that are compatible with the most important thing.
Many went to 300 the interior of money to work on. As the redesign of the interior design reflects the latest Chrysler touches to increase the size or the interior can be seen almost everything: dashboard, center console, steering wheel, door panels, listed in the agenda sheet. The material light years better. Dash, new steering wheel to click to activate the air control is enough to stop sliding as oil or grease film soft.
Situated in the dashboard update, new speedometer and tachometer is not easy to read, beautiful decor very much. New Tatchisukurinnabigeshon / Infoteimentodisupurei passes through the center under the watch style has become a cornerstone of national signing a stack of Chrysler. Options Nav Gaminbesu easy to use bold colors and large pictures to give the system a small child looks like. You can choose to primary health care drugs and stylish.
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January 31st, 2011 at 04:31am
Under BMW+ Convertible+ Menufacturer+ Styles
If you are buying a 6-Series Convertible, we accept our heartiest congratulations. BMW has always research the market, not the third or fourth car, at this stage, the mind.
Bavarian style, first, engage the customer. Nader Faghihzadeh adorned with the most revolutionary era of BMW design, the new 6 coming to sixth-generation sleek and slightly back, 1976 was introduced in six of the previous generation. From every angle, the new car is subtle and looks low and wide, offers a clear attack. Front, LED fog almost the sidewalk out of the BMW new style of light lost a shark’s nose. Fortunately, the 650i instead of folding hard top heavy, I use top of the car in front of the fabric of evolution.
The decor is much better than the new 6 This BMW car as a particularly athletic aspirations, it is more oriented towards the driver. This is the front, at least to find a comfortable seating position is easy. Backseat without having to sacrifice the friendship is firmly than before, you can take two friends along a short distance.
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January 29th, 2011 at 05:36am
Under Eco Car+ Fiat+ Menufacturer+ Styles
The Fiat is opposite the bowling alley, the attacker has a rapid growth in re-entering the U.S. market is perfect in this category. small car segment is growing rapidly, some of the bodies in the most daring venture is between a minimum: the jukebox and the Nissan Cube, Smart ForTwo, Sonic and the Chevrolet Spark in a sense, Ford Fiesta and the future do some older cars, such as peach oozing personality. And, of course, the Fiat 500 is cute, small, low-cost approach will be copied to the Mini is very near to the strategy work. 500 40 000 if you can match with an average Mini-year sales in the United States, Fiat is a big satisfaction.
If you think you understand Italian, Roberto Giolito, please consider Fiattosutairingu head. He has compared the original and the 500, Cinquecento Italy, in the words of “the fat guy a few tires” of this. Spokesthing Bibandamumishuran, with the aim of good design of the car is made from human fat, regardless of the tire a bit and say this is not without some irony. Maybe something is just not authentic. He thought the same thing 500 modern. We really, seeing heavy weapons, but admitted that the car was funny.
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January 17th, 2011 at 05:02pm
Under Menufacturer+ Nissan+ Styles+ Van
Minivan sales collapsed from more than 1.1 million in 2004 to a little over 400,000 in 2009. The number of players in the game has dropped as well, with Ford and GM backing out years ago and Hyundai following suit for 2010—yeah, we didn’t notice, either. But the near-dormant segment is receiving a solid shake-up for 2011, with five of America’s remaining breadboxes being massively upgraded or completely redesigned. Of all of them, none went through a more thorough metamorphosis than the Nissan Quest.
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