Filed under: Aftermarket, SUVs, Supercars, Mercedes Benz, AMG
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The German automakers keep on making more and more powerful sport-utes - some capable of pulling jumbo-jets and driving up buildings - with seemingly no end in sight. But for one owner, a stock Mercedes-Benz G55 AMG just wasn’t enough to outperform […]
Filed under: Concept Cars, Coupes, Sports/GTs, Supercars, Toyota, Misc. Auto Shows, Australia
Click above to view more high-res pics of the Toyota FT-HS Concept
Usually we would have no reason to report on a concept that we’ve already seen debut. Hence, the Australian debut of Toyota’s hybrid FT-HS sports car concept at the Melbourne Auto Show isn’t […]
Filed under: Time Warp, Convertibles, Volvo
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You may remember Lief Tufvesson as the ex-Volvo employee turned SEMA regular who arrives in Las Vegas nearly every year with another new custom Volvo hot rod of some sort. The T6 Roadster and V8 Speedster are his most noteworthy […]
Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing, BMW, GM, FIAT
Word out of Frankfurt from the Financial Times Deutschland is that BMW is in talks to sell engines and transmissions to both General Motors and Fiat. All three companies have declined to officially comment.
The news is interesting, but not surprising. You may recall that GM has been selling transmissions to […]
Filed under: Sports/GTs, Trucks/Pickups, Toyota, Misc. Auto Shows, Australia
Click image for a hi-res gallery of the production TRD HiLux
Toyota Australia is finally ready to unleash TRD HiLux. The concept version bowed a year ago, and while the production truck was shown at the Brisbane show earlier this month (supposedly its “official” debut), the officially official […]
Filed under: Supercars
With over 500 horsepower and only 1,150 lbs. to schlep around, there’s only one possible reason not to lust after the Caterham RST-V8 Levante, and that’s the love-it-or-hate-it “classic” styling. Fortunately, emerging reports suggest that RS Performance, the same outfit that shoehorned the supercharged micro-block V8 into the Super 7, is working its […]
Filed under: Concept Cars, Coupes, Sports/GTs, Misc. Auto Shows, Holden, Australia
Click above to view over 40 high-res photos of the Holden Coupe 60
We’re elated when an embargo doesn’t break or official images don’t somehow manage to find their way to the wrong people ahead of time, because then we’re totally surprised by things like this: […]
Filed under: Audio, Gadgets, Tech, Crossovers/CUVs, Lexus, Toys, UK
We think Lexus has struck the right balance with the sweetest in-car entertainment system yet. Called ICE (In Car Entertainment), the pair of eight-inch widescreen WVGA monitors protrude out of the back of the two front seats and feature an integrated slot-loading DVD in each, plus RCA […]
Filed under: Sports/GTs, Wagons/Estates, GM, Misc. Auto Shows, Holden, Australia
Click image for a high-res gallery of the VE Sportwagon SS-V
Wagons are cool. They’re practical, too — a fact most of the world outside North America seems to fully understand. Alas, we’re here in the land of the crossover. Sure, there are some nice ones, but […]
Filed under: Sedans/Saloons, Sports/GTs, Trucks/Pickups, Ford, Misc. Auto Shows, Australia, FPV
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Despite how it might seem, all the action at the Melbourne motor show is not happening over at the Holden and HSV stands. Dearborn’s Australian outpost put on its brass knuckles too and is teasing […]