Archive for April, 2010

ISS Astronauts Drive M Cars At BMW Welt

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 19:04 by Arman Barari No Comments

The astronauts of International Space Station paid a visit to BMW Welt yesterday and drove the latest M-powered cars including M3, M6,  X5M and X6 M. Apparently the eggheads were astonished by the cars’ precision and responsiveness. It’s all fine, but we are not sure the message this event sends out is in BMW’s favour! [...]

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Lotus Toyota Venza Is The Car Of The Future

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 18:42 by Arman Barari No Comments

As far as engineering goes, Lotus is one of the best names in the business. So when they are talking about the future of automobile, they are really on something, even if it sounds a bit boring at first! They recently conducted a study in which they tried to achieve maximum efficiency possible. The car [...]

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Are You Rich? Porsche 918 Spyder Needs Your Help!

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 16:24 by Arman Barari No Comments

The Porsche 918 Spyder Concept unveiled at 2010 Geneva Motor Show, is really close to become a real production model as 900 customers have already showed interest in buying one. But Porsche says we only make it if we have at least a 1000 potential buyers. So if you are rich enough to buy a [...]

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Preview: Cargraphic Aston Martin Rapide

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 16:09 by Arman Barari No Comments

Caragraphic announced their tuning package for the Aston Martin Rapide, but because the car’s not launched yet they can just show us some illustrations of its back! Here you clearly notice a tail diffuser, but they say there’s also a front spoiler, a remote controlled high-grade steel flap exhaust with a polished shield and 200-cell [...]

This was posted under category: Aston Martin, Tuning Tags: Aston Martin, Aston Martin Rapide, Cargraphic

Ford Fiesta Range Upgraded For UK

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 15:57 by Arman Barari No Comments

The groundbreaking Ford Fiesta is still UK’s favourite hatchback, but the Blue Oval knows that it’s hard to keep the sophisticated Brits satisfied, so they’ve come up with an upgrade package for the car in order to keep it interesting for the buyers. The new Fiesta models are fitted with more equipments as standard, and [...]

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Vauxhall Ampera Steps Into Pre-Production Phase

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 15:45 by Arman Barari No Comments

Last Friday the first pre-production model of the Opel/Vauxhall Amprea electric Sedan rolled off the line at GM’s Pre-Production Operations’ assembly line in Warren, Michigan. That means the car is almost ready for mass production, after they fully developed a few more things and did some other tests, such as the final vehicle software and [...]

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Mercedes ML Prototype Caused Fatal Autobahn Crash

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 15:31 by Arman Barari No Comments

A 2012 Mercedes M-Class test mule has been involved in a high speed crash in Autobahn A81, which left a 26-year-old dead and the test driver severely injured. Apparently the driver of the Mercedes was doing a high speed test or something on this non-restricted part of the highway, as he ran into the man [...]

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