(Pictures by Bernard FOURNOL)

By the magazine Top gear.
They do look more realistic to me than the previous ones. But the A pillar seems to be really straight. And the whole car seems shorter than what we’ve seen from the spy shots.
We’ll see….
Tags: car, cars

Take away all the SEMA crap and wht we have here is the new 5 door Touring version of the Elantra for the US.
And it is pretty much the same car as the i30 Wagon sold overseas. (Bottom picture)Nothing new or specific to the US market.It does look good.
Tags: car, auto

I have to admit, I have not been a big fan of Martin Eberhard ever since NAIAS when Eberhard mocked GM’s Volt, but that’s another story.
However, after watching this video, I have serious questions about Tesla’s plans, according to Eberhard.
Eberhard states that all other electric car companies have failed because they tried to save the […]

Auburn Hills, Mich., Oct 25, 2007 - Nearly eight in 10 Americans (77 percent) plan to drive for their next family vacation - according to a national survey? - although nearly six in 10 Americans (59 percent) experience stress before or during a family road trip. In conjunction with the upcoming holiday season and […]

The corner was slow, even unremarkable. A constant-radius, 2nd-gear curve that happened to be a part of Circuito de Balocco, Fiat’s official test track, although it could have been any decent-size roundabout in the world.
Back From the Brink of Front-Wheel DriveThese are such simple pleasures that it seems absurd that one of the world’s most […]

To put it plainly, the 2009 BMW 135i is more than merely good. It raises the standard of measure for small coupes to a whole new level of excellence. It is one of the purest expressions of the BMW character since the 1971 BMW 2002 tii.
This is not another space-efficient front-wheel-drive hatchback. Instead BMW’s classic […]

For those of you with a vested financial interest in the newly-named Daimler, the company today has published its interim report on the third quarter of 2007. As a whole, Daimler managed to achieve EBIT of EUR 1,891 million in the third quarter of this year, up from the EUR 1,823 million achieved in […]

Is the Volt heading in the wrong direction?
Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal ran a feature on the debate going on at the Tokyo Auto Show between automakers regarding hybrid vehicles versus electric vehicles.
When I read the piece, I could only laugh.
Big surprise that Toyota would defend hybrid vehicles. Can you say Prius? Likewise GM’s Chevy […]

As you may remember, last week Mercedes announced plans to slightly revise their brand design, separating the universally-recognizable Mercedes-Benz Star from the trademark printed ‘Mercedes-Benz’ lettering. Further expanding upon this new brand image, Mercedes has announced today they’ll also be implementing a new ‘acoustic trademark’ for use in all ad broadcasts as well - a […]