New Saab 9-3 by 2012
New Saab 9-3 by 2012
Saab fans should be ecstatic that their favorite brand didn’t just go flatline for eternity. With Spyker taking control of the brand, there’s a whole new future for Saab and we can all just hope they don’t mess things up. Saab Spyker will be launching an all-new 9-3 in 2012 as part...
Renderings: 2012 BMW M5 by InsideLine
Renderings: 2012 BMW M5 by InsideLine
With a year left before its official unveiling at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show, the new BMW M5 rendering games continue and it will most likely keep going for a few more months. This time, the fellows over at InsideLine took a shot at visually designing the F10 BMW M5. The results are a bit less aggressive...
VW’s 2.0L TDI Engine Named a 2010 “Ward’s 10 Best Engines”
VW’s 2.0L TDI Engine Named a 2010 “Ward’s 10 Best Engines”
At last month’s Detroit Auto Show, Ward’s Automotive Group named Volkswagen’s 2.0L TDI Clean Diesel engine one of their “10 best” for 2010. The 2.0-liter TDI engine is now featured in the Jetta TDI sedan and SportWagen, as well as the 2010 Golf. The engine complies with...
Pedestrian protection: BMW X1 first, ahead of the Audi Q5
Pedestrian protection: BMW X1 first, ahead of the Audi Q5
While the German ADAC office (the German equivalent of AAA) didn’t take an official position, the colleagues from OEAMTC Austria concluded a comparison test in Pedestrian Safety by using as a reference mid-size and compact SUVs. The new BMW X1 comes at the top of this test and OEAMTC expert Max...
Improved Timelapse BumperCam Proves Reliable, Still Getting Good Race Photos [How To]
Improved Timelapse BumperCam Proves Reliable, Still Getting Good Race Photos [How To]
The first BumperCam , an ancient Kodak bolted to the rear bumper of a LeMons Volvo, took good photos but its large size made it vulnerable to crash damage. Not so with BumperCam II, survivor of three punishing races! After BumperCam I got knocked into the weeds at Buttonwillow, I started researching...
VW Teases Possibly Hilarious, Nazi-Free Super Bowl Commercial [Super Bowl Ad Watch]
VW’s new Super Bowl ad campaign involves Tracy Jordan , a profane old man, and the game Punch Buggy . And unlike Audi’s Super Bowl ad this one should be Nazi-less. [ VW via Wired:Autopia ] Read the original: VW Teases Possibly Hilarious, Nazi-Free Super Bowl Commercial [Super Bowl Ad Watch]...
What footballers think of the Audi A1
Filed under: Audi , Hatchbacks , Celebrities , Humour , Videos Whose opinion would you really trust when it comes to choosing which car to buy next? A well-informed report in a magazine or on the web? The Top Gear team with one of their irreverent reviews? Your dad? A footballer? Chances are it isn’t...
Ferrari to reveal hybrid 599
Ferrari to reveal hybrid 599
Filed under: Geneva Motor Show , Hybrids-Alternative , Sports/GTs , Supercars , Concept Cars , Tech , Ferrari , News Ferrari will introduce hybrid technology and the first model to get it will be the 599, chairman Luca di Montezemolo confirmed at the presentation of the race team’s 2010 Formula...
Forzalopnik: Wednesday Winners Take The Bouquet [Forzalopnik]
Forzalopnik: Wednesday Winners Take The Bouquet [Forzalopnik]
The light on the horizon grows dim, and Judgment Day is at hand: Voting for the Jalopnik Forza Motorsport Downloadable Car Pack is almost over. One more vote takes place today. Here are Wednesday’s champions. Yesterday was the third and penultimate day of voting for Jalopnik ’s community-voted...
Remembering Bernd Rosemeyer [Speed Records]
Remembering Bernd Rosemeyer [Speed Records]
It was 72 years ago on this day that Bernd Rosemeyer flipped his streamlined V16 Auto Union on the Autobahn at 268 MPH and died. Come and watch a video of his very photogenic life. As for what happened precisely on that cold January day between Frankfurt and Darmstadt, nobody knows for sure. But an...
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