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Zwickenplug?s BMW M3 Leather Edition, How Now Brown Cow?

Thumbing its distinctive nose at BMW’s public financial problems, German tuning Haus Zwickenpflug has engineered the BMW M3 Leather Edition. As one would assume from the name, the M3 Leather Edition is festooned with more leather than you can shake[...]

While America Slept. Monday, December 1, 2008

Ok, girls and boys, we are entering the last lap of the year. Prepare for one more month of bad news - then it will be over. The year. A lot of bad news already happened before you had your wheaties: While America Slept is a daily round-up of the news[...]

Volkswagen Scirocco - the new tuning standard?

We all know that pimping and tuning our cars is a boys dream. A dream we probarly start with a nice German car like a Volkswagen Golf or an Audi A3. Not everybody is that fortunate to drive an exclusive supercar and take that along to any of the big[...]

Tweets on Cars: Looking for a post-Thanksgiving...

Looking for a post-Thanksgiving blues cure? I actually wasn't, but when the keys to a gloss-black M-B CLS63 land on my desk, I won't argue. ---- linkHotRides: The best car / auto posts from around the web [...]

Top Gear Season 12 Episode 5

Sunday night is the night everybody is looking forward to! Yesterday the 5th episode of this seasons Top Gear shows you a comparision between very popular BMW E92 M3 in it’s sedan shape and what can be called the most stunning Lexus ever, the IS F.[...]

The Spanish Implosion: Down 49.6 Percentrated

If you think the US auto market is bad, here is something to cheer you up: It’s not as bad as Spain. Spain’s new car sales for November just came in, and they imploded to one half of their former self. Si, muchachos, Spain’s new car[...]

The Spanish Implosion: Down 49.6 Percent

If you think the US auto market is bad, here is something to cheer you up: It’s not as bad as Spain. Spain’s new car sales for November just came in, and they imploded to one half of their former self. Si, muchachos, Spain’s new cars[...]

The Saab 9000 CS : 1993 - 1998

Photo Credit: Saab AutomobileThe Saab 9000 CS body style was introduced as a 1993 model year, ending the 9000 CC body style. The 9000 CS body style also was adapted to the 9000 CD in 1995 as well.The 9000 CS was notable as it had a lower profile nose,[...]

The Saab 9000 CD : 1988 - 1997

The Saab 9000 CD (Classic Design) was first introduced as four-door sedan/saloon model in Nice in 1988. The 9000 CD took on the facelifted body style of the 1991 9000 CC, however it was without a hatchback. 1992 marked a final “griffin[...]

Tesla Death Watch 39: Li-Ion Rules! Or, Well, You Know?

Tesla’s hubris knows no bounds. Not only has the Silicon Valley manufacturer of $109k lithium-ion-powered carbon fiber sports cars applied for a $400m federal grant to sustain its oft-delayed and hugely unprofitable quest to “reinvent the[...]

TTAC Called It: Wiedeking Buys The Elias Line

Porsche CEO Wendelin Wiedeking knows a thing or two about dealing with hedge funds. In fact his company’s relationship with the hedgies of the world has inspired more NSFW-bombs per TTAC headline than nearly any other topic. Anyway, The Guardian[...]

Som Automotivo - Saveiro Tsunnamy Socada

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Silicon Valley Won?t Save Detroit, Detroit?s Dragging Down Silicon Valley. Or Not.

Recently, firms like Tesla have launched themselves into the public eye by trumpeting the meme that Silicone Valley’s innovation-driven culture will show the way for a Detroit that remains mired in old-economy faults. And it’s a storyline[...]

Saab Automobile Forced To End ?Griffin? Logo In 2010?

A frequenter to Saab History, who is a “normally reliable source”, has just let me in on a little inside knowledge, that we should all know about the Saab Emblem future.The Saab Emblem, that first arrived on the hoods, rear decks and steering[...]

Ridelust Design Contest

Ok Ridelusters, here’s a chance to flex your Photoshop skills, or maybe your MS Paint skills, whatever. Make up a rad little Ridelust.com banner, like the one above, or the ones below, and send it in. The best one wins the everlasting glory of[...]

Question Of The Day: Any Aston Or Lotus Evora?

We gave Bond actor Daniel Craig a pass when he turned down the free Aston Martin of his choice as a perk for his silver screen Aston pimping. After all, London is one of the least driver-friendly city in the developed world, and as Craig put it “I[...]

New Michelin Active Wheel for Electric Cars

Well this is weird, even if Michelin is calling it revolutionary. What this is is a both a complete electric drive system AND a suspension that fits within the wheel of a car.Putting electric drive motors within the wheel itself is one of the potential[...]

New MINI Cooper and Cooper S Convertable Pics and Video

The new Cooper and Cooper S Convertables will make their official debut at the Detroit Auto Show in January. MINI says they’ve made “incremental” improvements, and apparently they’re too small to see. The one very visible change[...]

Luxury Car Market Slipping Along With The Rest

In most times of economic slowdown, the market for luxury cars stays healthier than the rest of the mass-market, but this year it’s different. Sales in the U.S. luxury-car market fell 30% as a whole last month compared to a year earlier.[...]

Luxury Automakers Trim Budget, Middle Class Secretly Smug

Offering proof that the upper class is not always immune to the economic woes of the little people, German luxury automakers Audi, BMW, Porsche, and Volkswagen (alright, perhaps the “luxury” tag is a a stretch for Vee Dub, but hey, they are[...]

Lexus RX350 v. Hyundai Veracruz Comparo

A note to TTAC?s Best and Brightest: if this comparo sounds oddly familiar, that?s because something stinks. But it?s not the husky, malodorous adhesives wafting from the pleather-wrapped Hyundai Veracuz. Nor is it the you-gotta-be-kidding me popularity[...]

General Motors Submits Plan For ?Bridge Loan? From Congress This Week

Photo Credit: Saab HistoryThis week, General Motors are submitting their ” plan” so that the United States Congress will respond with a “bridge loan”. The plan will be submitted on December 2nd, but a decision will be made on[...]

GM: You?ll Get Your Incentive When You Order More Inventory

We thought things were bad when General Motors announced it was delaying incentive payments to dealers by two weeks (ten more days, hang tight guys). As usual, it gets worse. We now hear from Automotive News [sub] that GM is using its November[...]

Ford Puts Volvo On The Auction Block

Photo: AFP/Getty ImagesToday, Ford Motor Company announced that it will be “re-evaluating strategic options” for its currently owned subsidiary, Volvo Car Corporation. The most likely of the aforementioned “strategic options” is[...]

Ferrari Scuderia Spider 16M Virtual Tour

Ferrari has released a full-screen virtual tour of the inside of the new, limited-edition Scuderia Spider 16M. You can look around the interior of the car as if you were sitting right in the drivers seat, and there are various info boxes that detail[...]

Editorial: Ford Death Watch 48: Branding Isn?t Everything

It?s been a while since we?ve run a Ford Death Watch. Which doesn?t mean Ford isn?t dying. It is. It?s just dying more slowly and less spectacularly than GM and Chrysler. In fact, Ford?s head-faked the press. They?ve convinced the pundocrats that The[...]

Drifting is an art - Ken Block Gymkhana practice

What do you get when you combine rallying and drifting? Exactly, the ultimate drift race by Subaru Rally USA Racer Ken Block. He calls it Gymkhana, which stands for “an Indian and Pakistani term which originally referred to a place where sporting[...]

Detroit 3?s March On Washington Hits Teh Interwebz

In response to an overwhelming show of support from the public and thousands of requests to participate in the public demonstration, organizers of the Big 3’s march on Capitol Hill have announced a slight change in plans. Rather than parade a[...]

Comparo: Lexus RX350 vs. Hyundai Veracruz

A note to TTAC?s Best and Brightest: if this comparo sounds oddly familiar, that?s because something stinks. But it?s not the husky, malodorous adhesives wafting from the pleather-wrapped Hyundai Veracuz. Nor is it the you-gotta-be-kidding me popularity[...]

Carros Antigos - Super Ford Belina Tunada

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Capsule Review: 2005-2008 Mitsubishi Colt

You already have Schadenfreude, Rucksack, Kindergarten, Fahrvergnügen. May I offer another useful German compound word? Verschlimmbesserung. Meaning: making something worse (in the process of trying to improve it). Car companies are good at[...]

Breaking: Ford Might Sell Volvo

Ford Motor Company announced today that they will be “rethinking” their strategic options with the Swedish luxury carmaker Volvo, of which they own. The obvious downturn in the economy and a worldwide decline in car sales sparked the[...]

Bailout Watch 254: Ford CEO Alan Mulally to Drive to D.C. Begathon

There are two ways to look at this. First, Ford CEO Alan Mulally “gets it.” He understands that he screwed the PR pooch when he flew into Washington to beg for bailout billions on a big ass corporate jet. Alternatively, someone somewhere[...]

Bailout Watch 253: Conspiracy Theorists Unite! Bailout Hearings Postponed Until Thursday

Automotive News [sub] tells us that “The Senate Banking Committee has rescheduled its next hearing on ‘the state of the domestic automobile industry’ for Thursday, Dec. 4… The House Financial Services Committee has a similar[...]

Bailout Watch 252: The Last Refuge Of The Scoundrel

Since the first mutterings of an auto industry bailout, the idea has wrapped itself in unabashedly patriotic rhetoric. Now that the battle for the billions has been joined, this nationalist veneer is reaching near-self-parody levels of earnestness. All[...]

Bailout Watch 251: Volvo and Saab Now on Official Death Watch

In the run-up to this weeks Bridging tournament, GM and Ford are indicating their [belated] willingness to axe ailing brands. Now you could look at their most recent sales stats and argue that this description applies to all 11 U.S. car brands under The[...]

Bailout Watch 250: Sound and Fury

This is the week that the CEOs of Chrysler, Ford and GM make their second attempt at securing enough bailout bucks to stave-off bankruptcy (Ford not-so-much, but as you’re offering). As is the way of such things, most of the serious[...]

Bailout Watch 250: He Who Owns the Gold?

This is the week that the CEOs of Chrysler, Ford and GM make their second attempt at securing enough bailout bucks to stave-off bankruptcy (Ford not-so-much, but solidarity has its price). As is the way of such things, most of the serious[...]

Bailout Bingo

---- linkHotRides: The best car / auto posts from around the webThe best car / auto posts from around the web. New Cars, Classic Cars, Car Mods and hacks [...]

Bailed-Out Citi Bank Goes on Toll Road Buying Binge

On November 23, the U.S. Treasury announced it had “invested” $20b in Citigroup in addition to “protection against the possibility of unusually large losses” on $306b in bad debt. Just one week after receiving support from U.S.[...]

Bailed-Out Bank Goes on Toll Road Buying Binge

Just one week after receiving a pledge of $306b in support from US taxpayers, Citigroup announced the intended $10 billion acquisition of a debt-laden Spanish toll road group. Citi Infrastructure Partners will hand over $3.6 billion in cash and assume[...]

Ay Caramba! Spanish Car Sales Sink 50%

If you think the U.S. auto market is bad, here’s something to cheer you up: it’s not as bad as Spain. November car sales are one half of their former self. Si, muchachos. According to Forbes, Iberian new car sales dipped by 49.6 percent.[...]

Any MD Reader Want to Blog This ChryCo Cryfest for Us?

WHAT: Chrysler LLC President and Vice Chairman Jim Press will meet with more than 50 Maryland Port Authority employees and Maryland officials in a Town Hall to discuss Chrysler’s and all domestic automakers’ impact on the U.S. trade[...]

Alfa Delivers First North American 8C Competizione

Alfa Romeo has made the first North American delivery of its stunning 8C Competizione to uno dei più grandi collezionisti di automobili al mondo, Jimmy Glickenhaus. Because paying Fiat $3m to upgrade a million-dollar Enzo to 612 P4/5 spec buys you those[...]

?It sometimes seems as if the Bail-Them-Out Party is running against the No-Bailout Party. ?

Ever quick on the media-scene-defining draw, The New York Times is dubbing the auto industry bailout battle the cure for “campaign withdrawal.” Also known as the bitter, divisive battle, du jour. Or, to use the Grey Lady’s honeyed[...]

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