Car News and Updates
31 Jul 2008
Garage419 gets rare look inside Ford SVT headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan with a tour from Jamal Hameedi, chief engineer for SVT. Among the sights in the video include a few Cobra ‘R’ Musangs, a rebuilt GT40 test mule displayed on the wall, a 45% scale full carbon fiber GT40 and a host of SVT [...]
31 Jul 2008
The above video reminded me of that time in the early 80s, when car makers knew, they just knew, that in The Future, every car was going to have digital gauges, and dammit, The Future is NOW!
So they started putting not only digital gauges in cars, but they also made them talk, because that’s cool [...]
30 Jul 2008
Supposedly (oh PleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePlease) Subaru is actually thinking of putting this into production.
“This” is a Prodrive built Impreza WRX STI, known as the 380S. As you hopefully know, Prodrive is the outfit that runs Subaru’s factory WRC effort, having last won the drivers crown with Petter Solberg (form child disco-dance champion of all of Norway) (I’m [...]
30 Jul 2008
Ford Focus
At the British International Motor Show, the Ford RS performance car brand is returning in the shape of the new Ford Focus RS.
Available in Europe in early 2009, the Ford Focus RS is the latest chapter in a 40-year story that began in Germany in the late 1960s. The Focus RS is finished in [...]
30 Jul 2008
2009 Ford Fiesta
The newest Ford Fiesta was unveiled at the 2008 British International Motor Show, completing the company’s small, medium and large car ECOnetic line-up. The Fiesta ECOnetic becomes the most fuel efficient new five-seater family car in the UK, priced at $26,600.
The heart of the Fiesta ECOnetic is Ford’s 1.6-liter four-cylinder TDCi turbodiesel engine, [...]
30 Jul 2008
Ford Econetic Car
Fiesta ECOnetic’s launch at the 2008 British Motor Show brings the title of the UK’s greenest car to Ford. Ford’s range of fuel efficient ECOnetic models are leading the company’s bid to cut UK CO2 emissions by over 80,000 tons. The eco motoring website, www.cleangreencars.co.uk, calculated the environmental effect if all Ford [...]
29 Jul 2008
What’s Your Favorite “Ugly” Car?
I saw that question up at another blog, and it got me thinking.
There are a lot of ugly cars out there, and for some twisted reason or another, car guys always seem to have a soft spot for this one or that one. Ferrari guys that also bend your ears for [...]
29 Jul 2008
Being the new “Family Truckster” for the 21 century, the Toyota Camry sedan has become the most popular car purchased over the past several years. With its proven reliability and excellent value for your money, Toyota now sells more than 400,000 copies per year of this sensible four-door sedan.
But what makes this car so great? [...]
28 Jul 2008
Ah yes. Luxurious performance sedans. The cars for those who want power mixed with luxury, and got the dough to get it.
These include the haloed brands of BMW, Mercedes, Audi, Lexus, and soon to come…Cadillac.
The above names are almost legend among performance sedan aficionados, well, the first two are. BMWs “M” series and Merc’s AMG [...]
28 Jul 2008
In relating to the way-high gas prices are screwing with everyone these days, Ford is touting the fact that “all Ford, Lincoln and Mercury products are designed to run on regular fuel.”
OK, great.
Makes sense to me, and I’d be pretty interested to know how they can do that with the high output lumps dropped into [...]