3/31/2010

2011 Chevrolet Volt Prices and Photos

2011 Chevrolet Volt Prices: GM first projected the Volt’s base price at around $30,000, but has since upped the estimate to $35,000. And some sources believe the final tab will be more like $40,000, rather steep for a compact Chevrolet. Why so much? Apparently because GM underestimated the cost of the high-tech batteries and other Volt-specific components. The wild card is whether the company might be willing to take a loss by subsidizing the price down to the original $30K target--and if so, for how long.
2011 Chevrolet Volt Photo
2011 Chevrolet Volt Photo
2011 Chevrolet Volt Photo
2011 Chevrolet Volt Photo
2011 Chevrolet Volt Photo
2011 Chevrolet Volt Photo

3/30/2010

Ferrari 365 GT4 Gives You the Fastest Brown in Town for $39,500!

Ferrari 365 GT4
The 365 GT4 2+2‘s predilection for automatics meant a reputation for it being considered soft. Not all were slushboxes however, and this Nice Price or Crack Pipe contender's five-speed may make your choice today kind of hard.

Price and condition were overwhelmed yesterday by miles and Focus-ness, as the atomic orange SVT fell in a narrow 53/47 Crack Pipe vote to open the week. After five straight Nice Price wins last week, it feels good to get back on the crack.

In 1963 - not while on crack, but probably following a two-martini lunch - Henry Ford II contemplated the purchase of Ferrari as a quick inroad to racing success. It was Henry's hubris that quashed the deal, and set Ford on the path to beat the Italians at any cost. Historically, that's as close as yesterday's Focus and today's contender will ever come. And while that little Ford was a hotted-up version of a mundane daily driver, today's 1973 365 GT4 2+2 was the era's most sedate and toned-down example of the Ferrari bloodline- as close to a daily driver as a prancing horse-badged car got.

Ferrari 365 GT4 Gives You the Fastest Brown  in Town for ,500!

Well, daily driver or not, it's still a Ferrari, and if any brand didn't need a buxom bikini model to draw attention to them, it's the Prancing Horse. Despite that, you can never go wrong with a model that has bigger headlights than your car.

And what a car that is.

One of only 521 cars built (excluding the later 400 and 412 cars) this brown beauty is a rare example blessed with three pedals in the driver's footbox. The vast majority of the 365/400/412s had a little bit of GM in them, as a turbohydromatic countered all the exotica in sort of a vanilla sorbet to the rest of the car's acceglio-infused gelato. But that's not the case with this one. That 8-ball-topped chrome lever sprouting from the sweeping center console actuates a five speed box, however the console's height precludes the traditional exposed gate. Mated to the front of the transmission is a single-plate clutch and ahead of that is Ferrari's glorious 4.4-litre DOHC all-alloy V12. The aircraft-like hoodline of the 365 is made possible by moving the intake to the underside of the top cam and laying the six 38 DCOE Webers out horizontally.

Ferrari 365 GT4 Gives You the Fastest Brown  in Town for ,500!

The seller of this car claims that it has undergone a minor tuneup, including the synchronizing of those carbs, as well as replacement of the plugs. While they say they have maintenance records dating back to 1990, I'm not familiar enough (meaning not at all) with this dealer to know if they should be trusted to even be touching this Colombo-derived marvel. As the car is showing 62,000 on it clock, the maintenance records are of utmost importance in revealing the history hidden in those miles.

Ferrari 365 GT4 Gives You the Fastest Brown  in Town for ,500!

Inside, the car is swathed in more dead cow than the Gimp from Pulp Fiction. It's all remarkably clean and shows only minor crazing in the leather, notably on the door arm rests and seat bolsters. The back seats are as roomy as you're ever going to get in a Ferrari, and look down-right inviting. Underneath, there's surprisingly little surface rust and everything looks like it's in the same place it was when it left Maranello. You'd think that the Tipo F101 AL chassis-being welded tube frame and body panels, along with that huge V12, would make this prancing horse a pig, but surprisingly it tips the scales at less than 1,500kg (about 3,300 lbs) dripping wet. That, along with the engine's 340-bhp mean sixty is only about six and a half seconds from a standstill, and a top end of over 150-mph is achievable.

It's hard to envision the 365 GT4, or later 400 and 412 derivations, without the Playboy mansion in the background, and maybe a guy in a turtleneck sweater, skinny white jeans and ankle-high shoes with zippers on the sides, leaning against it and lighting a Camel. But despite the heavy layer of ‘70s schmaltz that's inherent in these cars, they're still very good looking in a conservative, old-fashioned STD kind of way.

Ferrari 365 GT4 Gives You the Fastest Brown  in Town for ,500!

And while you may have discounted them for the expected GM slushbox, the presence of a five speed makes this a prancing horse of a different color. As it's a '73, the fact that it was never officially imported is moot, and you should be able to register it where ever you are without problem. What might be a problem for some is the asking price, which at $39,500 doesn't seem a lot for a V12 Ferrari, but is a lot cheddar for those of us more used to eating government cheese.

Novitec Rosso Slaps a Supercharger on the Ferrari California

Ferrari California
Have you ever thought “My 460 horsepower Ferrari just isn’t quick enough. You know what it needs…over 600 hp. That’s the ticket.” If so, you’re in luck. Novitec Rosso, the gods of Ferrari tuning, just developed a supercharger kit for the new Ferrari California. It’s no simple power bump either – the 4.3-liter front-mounted V8 in the California jumps from a solid 460 hp – more than enough for most – to a whiplash-inducing 606 hp. Torque grows from 485 Nm to 603 Nm too, which means you’ll be burning through some serious rubber if you’re not careful.

3/22/2010

2010 Dynasty Electric Car


Timely, given the release of “Who killed the electric car” and certainly not without precedent. “The Economist” fails to mention the legions of enthusiasts who have been building their own electric cars for years. Converting pick-up trucks seemed to be the most common. Then there is that firm on Annacis Island, the Dynasty Electric Car Corp that builds a “low speed vehicle”.
2010 Dynasty Electric Car
2010 Dynasty Electric Car
2010 Dynasty Electric Car
2010 Dynasty Electric Car

2010 Cadillac SRX

Cadillac has announced the pricing for the all-new 2010 Cadillac SRX crossover. The new SRX will be at dealerships this summer with a starting price of $34,155. For 2010 the SRX will be offered with a choice of two direct-injected V6 engines. Either a 260-hp 3.0L or a 300-hp turbocharged 2.8L. Both engines are mated to a six-speed automatic transmission.

Additionally Cadillac is also going to release the CTS Sport Wagon later this summer. The CTS wagon will feature the same 3.0L V6 as the SRX and get an estimated 28 mpg on the highway.



3/21/2010

Aston Martin V12 Vantage Car

It was always going to be a good thing when the boss of a car company likes to go racing in the company Vantage. No matter what the performance is out of the box, they will almost always want more. In this case a lot more, four cylinders more.

The hand-built, 6.0-litre, V12 engine is literally shoehorned into Aston’s smallest and lightest car, and while that might sound like a little too extreme for a bespoke English sports car, take it from me, I probably won’t be driving the V8 Vantage again. Don’t get me wrong, the 4.7-litre V8 is a highly capable machine, but nothing beats the industrial grade torque output of an Aston Martin V12, borrowed from the DBS for those no nonsense overtakes
Aston Martin V12 Vantage
Aston Martin V12 Vantage
Aston Martin V12 Vantage
Aston Martin V12 Vantage

3/19/2010

2010 Honda accord Cars

2010 Honda accord Car
2010 Honda accord Car
2010 Honda accord Car
2010 Honda accord Car
2010 Honda accord Car
2010 Honda accord Car
2010 Honda accord Car
2010 Honda accord Car

3/18/2010

2010 Toyota lxi Wallpapers

Toyota Carolla Photo
2010 Toyota lxi Photo
2010 Toyota lxi Photo
2010 Toyota lxi Photo
2010 Toyota lxi Photo
2010 Toyota lxi Photo

3/14/2010

2010 Volvo S60 Can Detect, Automatically Avoid Pedestrians

The upcoming 2010 Volvo S60 will be equipped with a system to detect the position, direction of travel and velocity of pedestrians and cyclists, then automatically brake to avoid colliding with them.

Previously, infrared cameras from companies like Mercedes have been able to identify pedestrians, but were only capable of drawing a driver's attention to them through a display screen. The Volvo Pedestrian Detection system adds an extra levels of capability to that — tracking their speed and direction and the ability to automatically apply the brakes — leading the Swedish brand to claim huge safety advances.

While over-protective parents and everything-is-someone-else's-fault Nazis will see a clear benefit in a car that removes a driver's ability to run over their spoiled, playing-in-the-street children, we're a bit more skeptical of the need for this technology. Surely the only 100% effective method of eliminating car/pedestrian interfaces is to separate roads from pedestrian areas. We'd much rather see more pedestrianized streets in city centers and barriers between sidewalks and streets than we would expensive, prone-to-failure technology. Like other safety aids-antilock brakes springs to mind as a good example-we can see drivers learning to rely on the Pedestrian Detection system over their own judgement and skill, then failing to pay attention at crucial moments.
2010 Volvo S60
2010 Volvo S60
2010 Volvo S60
2010 Volvo S60
2010 Volvo S60

2010 Volvo XC90 Car Price Quote


Starting MSRP:

$37,700


SUV Styles

Style Name Transmission Engine MPG MSRP
FWD 4dr I6 Automatic 3.2L Gas I6 City 15
Hwy 22
$37,700
AWD 4dr I6 R-Design Automatic 3.2L Gas I6 City 15
Hwy 21
$39,500
AWD 4dr V8 Automatic 4.4L Gas V8 City 13
Hwy 19
$47,500
AWD 4dr I6 Automatic 3.2L Gas I6 City 15
Hwy 21
$37,700
FWD 4dr I6 R-Design Automatic 3.2L Gas I6 City 15
Hwy 22
$39,500

2010 Volvo XC90 Car
2010 Volvo XC90 Car
2010 Volvo XC90 Car
2010 Volvo XC90 Car
2010 Volvo XC90 Car
2010 Volvo XC90 Car
2010 Volvo XC90 Car
2010 Volvo XC90 Car

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