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Telerik News & Vid... Exclusive: Hennessey Venom GT Spyder pops in at Cars & Coffee
Filed under: Convertible, Performance, Misc. Auto Shows, Specialty, MISC Our own lensman Drew Phillips caught sight of this at Cars & Coffee in Irvine, California: the 2013 Hennessey Venom GT Spyder. This is the first time it's been seen on our shores. The targa version of the Venom GT packs the same 1,200 horsepower as the coupe - which also debuted at C&C, one year ago - but adds $150,000 to the price.That means you'll need $1.1 million for that wind-in-your-very-rich-hair feeling....
AutoblogMotorsports: James Glickenhaus claims fastest lap by a Ferrari ever on the 'Ring
Filed under: Motorsports, Coupe, Ferrari, Specialty, Racing According to the timing sheets for the Nürburgring 24-Hour race, the now-hybridized P4/5 Competizione set a lap time of 6:51 during qualifying. That would make it faster than the "Production-Derived Sports Car" record of 6:58.16 set by the Ferrari 599XX in 2010, and the fastest Ferrari-powered vehicle to ever run the 'Ring. In case you don't remember, the 700-horsepower 599XX was also a purpose-built, track-only racer driven by a test...
Official: Ferrari marks 60th anniversary of 250 GT
Filed under: Classics, Ferrari, Racing Surely the most important of the classic Ferraris is the 250 series. Over its decade of production, the 250 series gave us some of the most recognizable models of the marque's history, including the GTO, the Testa Rossa, the Lusso and the original California Spyder. This year Ferrari is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the series that was built around Giachino Colombo's enduring 3.0-liter V12. To mark the occasion, the Ferrari Museum in Maranello is...
Official: Armortech and Atelier Valdeig outfit Audi Q7 to Bentley standards
Filed under: Aftermarket, SUV, Audi, Luxury Can't wait for Bentley to start producing the EXP 9 F? Sold on the idea but not on the execution? Armortech may be able to help you out. They've teamed up with Atelier Valdeig to turn the Audi Q7 into something of a Bentley SUV, only without the Bentley badge. Called the Tresor (from the French word for "treasure"), the custom Q7 igets fully restyled, and boasts an interior that has been (or will be, from the look of the cabin renderings) retrofitted...
Video: Disney launches Cars Land microsite ahead of June 15 opening [w/video]
Filed under: Etc., Videos, Toys/Games The curtain is rolling back on Cars Land, which opens at Disney's California Adventure next month. Mater himself makes appearances in a network commercial and the new microsite, and on the latter he'll be happy to take you on a tour of some of the attractions at the live-action Radiator Springs, including a Racer's test drive and Luigi's Flying Tires. You can watch the commercial below and click here to check out the microsite.Continue reading Disney...
Motorsports: Record number of Shelby Cobras to take part in Monterey Motorsports Reunion
Filed under: Motorsports, Classics Last year, the Monterey Motorsports Reunion announced that the Shelby Cobra would be the featured marque for 2012 in honor of the company's 50th anniversary. It's shaping up to be quite the celebration. Earlier this month it was announced that no fewer than 45 competition Cobras will be racing on the track come August, with owners from across the United States, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Canada in attendance. In fact, demand to participate was so high...
Official: New pics show 2013 Nissan Altima from all angles
Filed under: Sedan, Nissan, Design/StyleNissan has released a passel of official photosd of the 2013 Nissan Altima, the sedan it "would like to make #1 if customers agree." While the new styling might take getting used to, the other changes are all welcomed: it's lighter, has a revised transmission, will return 38 miles per gallon if equipped with the four-cylinder, and starts at $21,500 before the $760 destination charge. Now that the Altima and Toyota Camry are known quantities, the pending...
Official: BMW rolls out new M6 safety car for MotoGP
Filed under: Motorsports, Coupe, Performance, BMW, Motorcycle, Racing It takes a fast and agile car to keep pace with MotoGP racing bikes. Fortunately the BMW M division is up to the task, providing safety cars (or what we'd call pace cars on this side of the Atlantic) to the race organizers of the top-level motorcycle racing series. The most recent vehicles to perform the duties have been the 1 Series M Coupe and the X6 M crossover, but now BMW is introducing a the new M6 coupe to the mix....
Official: Toyota boosting V6 production in Alabama, adding 125 jobs
Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing, Toyota Toyota's Huntsville, Alabama production facility, which makes the company's four-cylinder, V6 and V8 engines, is getting a couple of big boosts: $80 million and roughly 125 new jobs. When the spending and hiring is complete, the enlarged factory and the plant's 1,150 workers will raise engine-production capacity to more than 700,000 units, with V6 production more than doubled from 146,000 engines per year to 362,000. Toyota's been spending and hiring...
Official: Edo Competition squeezes 600 HP into Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG Estate
Filed under: Aftermarket, Performance, Wagon, Mercedes-Benz If you need to haul some stuff in a big hurry, you could do a lot worse than the Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG Estate wagon. It offers all the power of its coupe and sedan siblings, only with the added cargo space that so many European customers prefer over the betrunked versions. But if the stock 457 horsepower isn't enough, the good folks over at Edo Competition are glad to help out with an upgrade of their own. That upgrade, it turns out,...
Report: McLaren dispersing top-secret Unit 2 collection to showrooms
If you've got the cash to place on the hood (or nose cone, as it were), most any Formula One team will sell you one of their old race cars. After all, they're not using them anymore, and it's a good way to raise funds to develop next year's car. But not McLaren. The team from Woking - one of the most successful in the series - doesn't sell its old cars, though with 176 grand prix victories, twelve drivers' championships and eight constructors' titles, you can bet they'd fetch a pretty penny....
Official: New Fuso Canter can canter in selectable 4x4 mode
Filed under: Truck, Work, Off-Road, MISC If you're in the market and mood for a 6.5-ton cab-over truck that also offers power to all its wheels, Fuso would like you to have a look at its new Canter 4x4. With the addition of selectable four-wheel drive, Fuso is hoping to expand the 4x2 Canter's traditional market into unpaved uses like construction and municipal services. Power comes from a 3.0-liter, four-cylinder turbodiesel with 175 horsepower and 317 pound-feet of torque. A stop/start...
Video: Watch spectators rush to save lives of rally drivers trapped in capsized Renault
Filed under: Etc., Safety, Videos, Renault, Racing We don't need to tell you why rally racing - though awesome - is incredibly dangerous. As much as we love to watch turbocharged, all-wheel-drive Euro hatches being flung around on dirt, gravel, snow and tarmac, the fact that many of these races go through small towns and wooded trails leaves plenty of room for disaster. Case in point: This Renault Clio racer went off course during the 2012 Mazowiecki Rally, leaving driver Patrick Osowiecki and...
Report: Chinese demand could prompt Aston Martin to press on with Lagonda revival
Filed under: China, Crossover, Aston Martin, Luxury Automakers are usually pretty decisive. They either build a car or they don't. But Aston Martin has embarked down a bumpier road with Lagonda. Aston bought the Lagonda marque way back in 1947, but after operating it as a separate brand for a few years, it let the brand peter out in the 1950s and 60s. The moniker was revived as a nameplate on a handful of Aston Martin sedans beginning in the 1970s, but that was pretty much the last we saw of it...
Report: Car Wars report predicts Hyundai, Kia will lose market share
Filed under: Car Buying, Ford, GM, Hyundai, Kia, Toyota, Earnings/Financials The annual "Car Wars" report by Merrill Lynch analyst John Murphy predicts that, despite their seizing of U.S. market share over the last few tumultuous years, Korean brands Hyundai and Kia will give it all back and then some to companies like Ford, General Motors and Toyota by 2016. Murphy bases his predictions not on tea leaves or crystal balls, but rather the rate at which automakers launch new products. Ford will...
Official: Forza Horizon coming this fall with hot Viper action on the open road
Filed under: Toys/Games There are driving simulators and there are racing simulators. They tend to cross over, but what divides them are the types of cars and the types of roads used in the game. Drive racing cars on digitally recreated racing circuits and you're looking at a racing sim. Street cars on public roads (whether simulated or replicated) and you're playing a driving game. The Forza Motorsport franchise has always been more of a racing simulator than a driving game, but the minority...
Report: Next Subaru WRX previewed by Advanced Tourer concept
Filed under: Sedan, Performance, Tokyo Motor Show, Hatchback, Subaru There was nary a peep of discontent about the looks of the Subaru Advanced Tourer concept revealed at the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show. But when everyone was clamoring for Scooby to transfer the Advanced Tourer's looks to a production vehicle, never once did people ask for that transfer to be foisted on the WRX. A report in Motor Trend, though, says that's what's happening: the concept "was actually an early look at the...
Report: Rebadged Dodge, Chrysler model sales a mixed bag in Europe
Filed under: Minivan/Van, Sedan, Europe, Crossover, Chrysler, Dodge, Lancia, FiatFiat, in an attempt to make its purchase of Chrysler more profitable, has been marketing rebadged Dodge and Chrysler models in Europe with mixed results. Europeans apparently love the Fiat Freemont, known as a Dodge Journey here in the States. Fiat sold almost 6,500 of the crossovers over there in the first quarter and hopes to move 30,000 by year's end. Sales were helped by Fiat's large European dealer network as...
Video: Watch this Artega GT blast around an unfinished track filmed with a quadrocopter
Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Europe, Videos, MISC You don't hear too much about the Henrik Fisker-designed Artega GT, but its occasional appearances are always welcome. In this episode of Where's Artega Now?, the folks at eGarage worked with Germany's Christopher Kippenberger, who make a quadrocopter designed for capturing aerial footage. A day was spent at Germany's Blister Berg Drive Resort, essentially a German version's of Spain's Ascari Race Resort. One slight difference: Blister Ber's...
2013 SRT Viper to require dealer certification; hardcore model planned? [w/video]
Filed under: Car Buying, Coupe, Performance, Chrysler, Dodge On Thursday night's Autoline After Hours, SRT boss Ralph Gilles sat down with show hosts John McElroy and Peter DeLorenzo, along with Autoblog and AOL Autos staffers to talk all things Viper. Among the interesting tidbits disclosed about the 640-horsepower supercar are plans for a new dealer certification process designed to encourage the sort of purchasing, service and ownership experience that buyers of six-digit cars have come to...
Report: MotoGP champ Casey Stoner stuns with retirement announcement [w/video]
Filed under: Motorsports, Motorcycle Reigning MotoGP champion Casey Stoner is just 26 years old, but has been riding in the FIM series since 2001 when he joined the 125cc ranks. Five years later, the Australian was in the headlining formula series with Honda, the year after that, in 2007, he won the title astride a Ducati. Last year, Stoner won it again with Honda, and even battling an issue with his arm this year, he's atop the standings and leading his rivals in practice sessions for this...
Official: Mitsubishi previews bonkers i-MiEV Evolution for Pikes Peak
Filed under: Motorsports, Mitsubishi, Electric, Racing No, that's not a Mitsubishi i-MiEV in a fat suit, it's the automaker's brand-new all-electric race car, and it's set to take on the 2012 Pike's Peak International Hill Climb in July. This isn't the first time we've seen an EV enter the Pike's Peak challenge - Nissan commissioned a Leaf for battle last year, a car that set the bar for all future electric racers.Mitsubishi says that its race car, dubbed i-MiEV Evolution, uses the same motor,...
Lego Land Rover Defender 110 is plasticized perfection [w/video]
Filed under: SUV, Etc., Videos, Land Rover, Toys/Games, Off-Road It's official. You really can build anything from Lego blocks. Behold a fully-functional 1:8.5 scale version of a Land Rover Defender 110. This radio-controlled machine features a five-speed transmission with reverse, a two-speed transfer case that offers both four-wheel and two-wheel drive modes and functional disc brakes on all four corners. It's cool. We'll wait while you pick your jaw up off the floor. The machine was also...
Report: Bentley plotting Dakar effort with used VW Touareg racers?
Filed under: Motorsports, SUV, Bentley, Off-Road, RacingBentley is an automaker not without its own racing pedigree, but the bulk of that is anchored in the 1920s and at Le Mans, to which it returned in winning form in the earlier part of the new millennium with the Speed 8. The latest development could, however, see the Flying B marque enter into another class of motorsport competition altogether. That opposite end of the endurance racing spectrum is the torturous Dakar rally. We first...
Report: Volkswagen designer claims no cost was taken out of Jetta, Passat interiors
Filed under: Sedan, Volkswagen, Design/Style There was a lot of built-up excitement surrounding the larger and less costly 2011 Volkswagen Jetta, but the anticipation deflated among critics when the model's less-than-impressive interior was revealed to the world. Critics chided the cheapened cabin, and quite a few negative reviews followed. It's tough to argue that in the process of its upsizing, the Jetta's interior wasn't downgraded with lesser plastics and trim. The 2012 Passat does a much...
Video: Nissan Leaf ensures high-quality whisky from Isle of Islay
Filed under: Etc., Videos, Hatchback, Nissan, UK, Electric The Bruichladdich Distillery has been making artisan single malt Scotch whisky since 1881 on the Isle of Islay in the UK. As the southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, you may not expect the island's 620 square kilometers (239 square miles) to be the ideal habitat for electric cars. Apparently, though, the Nissan Leaf works out quite well for Mark Reynier, managing director at the distillery. The island's inhabitants are...
Carroll Shelby to get the TV miniseries treatment thanks to Velocity
Filed under: Etc., Ford, Celebrities Farmer, car dealer, Le Mans winner, sports-car maker, businessman and tuner Carroll Shelby passsed away on May 11. To honor his contribution to the numerous segments of the auto industry he impacted, cable network Velocity will be airing a three-hour, three-part miniseries on Sunday, May 20. Called "King of the Road: Carroll Shelby," each hour-long episode will chronicle an era in Shelby's life: his journey from a Texas farm to the top step at Le Mans and...
Someone Needs to Buy the ‘World’s Fastest’ Amphibious Car
Image: Fantasy Junction If you needed more proof that you can win a world record for just about anything, meet the Sea Lion. It’s an amphibious car capable of speeds of up to 180 mph on land and over 45 mph at sea, and it’s all yours for the bargain-basement price of $259,500. On sale at Emeryville, California-based Fantasy Junction, the Sea Lion is the embodiment of our childhood dreams rendered in brushed aluminum and stainless steel, and powered by a 174-horsepower 13B rotary engine pulled...
AutopiaAs Congress Mulls Mandate on Car Black Boxes, Data Ownership Remains Unclear
Photo by Harris Technical Services The term “black boxes” conjures up images of plane crashes for some and inspires conspiracy theories for others. For the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA), the automotive black box became a key source of impartial information in the unintended acceleration controversy focused on Toyota vehicles. That’s partly why Congress now seems set on passing legislation that would make an Electronic Data Recorder (EDR) – the technical name for...
Google Goes to Washington to Lobby for Self-Driving Cars
Photo by Allen Tran Google is evidently taking its campaign to make its driverless cars legal on U.S. roads from state capitals to the nation’s capital. A Google robo-Prius was spotted last Tuesday roaming the streets of Washington, D.C., only a day after Nevada became the first state to legalize autonomous vehicles on the Silver State’s roads. U.S. News & World Report speculated that Google was in town to appeal to federal policymakers, and possibly take them for joyrides in one of the...
SpaceX Counting Down For Historic Launch To Space Station
Photo: NASA Elon Musk is one step closer to his end goal of making human life multi-planetary. No, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket hasn’t boosted the Dragon spacecraft into its rendezvous orbit with the International Space Station quite yet. That launch is scheduled for Saturday morning at 4:55 a.m. ET from Cape Canaveral in Florida. But as Floridians were drifting off to sleep last night, halfway around the world a Russian Soyuz rocket lifted off with a pair of cosmonauts and an American astronaut...
OnStar Files Patents for Minority Report-Style Billboards
Two weeks ago, a patent filing by General Motors was uncovered that proposed using data collected from its OnStar service to tailor public advertisements to individual drivers. Like the billboards Tom Cruise encountered in Minority Report, the OnStar-linked ads would be tailored to passing motorists based on personal information they’d shared with their telematics service. Perusing the patent’s text, nightmare scenarios flooded our thoughts. Kids in the backseat? Be prepared to see ads for...
Autoblog Podcast #282 goes LIVE at 10PM Eastern
Filed under: Etc. We're almost ready to record Episode #282 of the Autoblog Podcast, and you can check out the topics below, add your own to the Q&A and join us live via UStream, as well, and we've embedded our UStream player after the jump. Thanks for listening!Discussion Topics for Autoblog Podcast Episode #282 Caroll Shelby passes away BMW 3 Series wagon headed stateside Porsche baby Boxster and Pajun Google self-driving car in public BMW 2 Series arrives in 2014...
Video: Mission Motors Mission-R electric motorcycle checks in to Jay Leno's Garage
Filed under: Etc., Technology, Videos, Motorcycle, Celebrities, Electric The crew from Mission Motors took the time to stop by Jay Leno's Garage to give the comedian a peek at the Mission-R electric motorcycle. The machine uses 14-kWh lithium-ion batteries paired with a 120-kilowatt motor, which means there's around 161 horsepower on hand. Mission says the combination can get rider and machine to 60 miles per hour in around three seconds while scooting to a top speed of 160 mph. Not too shabby....
Motorsports: Patrick Dempsey makes ALMS debut at Laguna Seca
Filed under: Motorsports, Celebrities Actor Patrick Dempsey is no stranger to racing. After his wife sent him to a three-day Skip Barber driving school, the actor fell in love with road racing has gone on to compete in Grand-Am for the last several years. McDreamy even got the chance to race at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2009, finishing in 9th in the GT2 class behind the wheel of a Ferrari F430 GT. After getting a taste of Le Mans, Dempsey now has aspirations to return to the legendary...
Video: Fast and Furious shifts into montage mode
Filed under: Videos Shifting gears on a manual transmission was once the only way to get places. These days there are automatics, sequentials, DCTs, CVTs... you name it. But some among us are still faithful to the old three-pedals-and-shift-lever setup. Like the guys in The Fast and The Furious movies. All told, there have been five full-length features in the series. And that makes for a lot of shifting. A whole lot of shifting. And if you've ever watched any of them, you'll likely recall that...