September 21st, 2009 
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Filed under: Frankfurt Motor Show , Performance , Specialty , MISC Pagani Zonda R - Click above for high-res image gallery A diamond in the rough? We’d hardly consider the plethora of exciting new vehicle debuts and revolutionary concept cars that is the currently ongoing Frankfurt Motor Show as “rough.” But behind the Tesla and Mansory show stands in the Messe - that’s the German name for the exhibition… Read the rest
September 20th, 2009 admin 
Filed under: Coupe , Performance , Recalls , Nissan It was nearly a year ago when we reported on a NAGTROC forum user getting hit with a $20,000 bill to replace his toasted transmission after using Launch Control (LC1) on his GT-R. In time for the second model year of the car, Nissan first dropped Launch Control , then they decided to include it, but with safeguards (LC2). In… Read the rest
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Filed under: Frankfurt Motor Show , Budget , Hatchback , SEAT 2010 Seat Leon Cupra R - Click above for high-res image gallery What you have here is one of the coolest little 4-door hot hatches that looks like a 2-door hatch. The 2010 SEAT Leon Cupra R gets 265 hp from its VW-battle-tested 2.0-liter turbocharged engine, making it the most powerful SEAT… ever. The front wheels can pull… Read the rest
Posted in Car News Tags: 2010leoncupra, frankfurt2009, leon cupra r, seat, seat leon, seatleoncupra, volkswagen scirocco r, volkswagengolfr20 No Comments » September 17th, 2009 admin 
Filed under: Frankfurt Motor Show 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show - Click above for complete list of vehicles covered You’re looking at a Porsche Panamera S with a trailer hitch. We’re looking at an empty bottle of scotch and 11-hour plane rides. But never mind all that - what you really need to know is five hacks blogged over 60 posts and approximately ninety-billion photos in two days. Why so… Read the rest
September 17th, 2009 admin 
Filed under: Concept Cars , Frankfurt Motor Show , Hybrid , Hatchback , Toyota Toyota Auris HSD Full Hybrid Concept - Click above for high-res image gallery And now for your viewing pleasure, we bring you these live shots of the Toyota Auris HSD Full Hybrid Concept (seriously, could Toyota have come up with a longer name?). Technically, the vehicle shown in our image gallery below is listed as… Read the rest
September 17th, 2009 admin 
Filed under: Coupe , Jaguar To put it mildly, sales of the Jaguar X-Type have never quite lived up to worldwide expectations, and that’s especially true in the American market where the car did way more damage to the automaker’s reputation that its middling sales numbers were ever worth. Jaguar is hoping that its upcoming XJ restores some of the leaping cat’s lost luster, and if that happens, exciting… Read the rest
September 17th, 2009 admin 
Filed under: Frankfurt Motor Show , Budget , Europe , Hatchback , Kia Kia Venga - Click above for high-res image gallery If you’re going to ape the design of another automaker’s product, it’s best to choose one that’s attractive. Therefore, we give Kia kudo points for making its Venga look something like a smoothed-over Ford Fiesta, a car we’ve gone on record multiple times as admiring. In any… Read the rest
September 17th, 2009 admin 
Filed under: Frankfurt Motor Show Frauleins of Frankfurt - Click above for high-res image gallery Yes, that’s a Lamborghini in the picture above. We think. Could be a bar stool. As we do with every auto show, Autoblog is happy to present the one post that we’re sure at least some of you have been waiting for since we touched down in Germany to cover the 2009 Frankfurt Motor… Read the rest
September 16th, 2009 admin 
Filed under: Frankfurt Motor Show , Europe , Hatchback , Citroen 2010 Citroen DS3 - Click above for high-res image gallery Seriously Citroen, what is up? We’re all for premium small cars (think Mini Cooper, Audi A3) and pray nightly that more will start coming to our shores. But calling this C3-based hatchback a DS? For reals? Look, any new Citroen DS has some mighty big Louboutins to fill.… Read the rest
September 16th, 2009 admin 
Filed under: Concept Cars , Frankfurt Motor Show , Hybrid , Europe , Hatchback , Citroen Citroen REVOLTe - Click above for high-res image gallery Between storming the Bastille and a national rejection of the Venus razor, the French certainly know the meaning of the word “revolt”. Interesting, then, that Citroen knowingly used the word - albeit Francofied with a superfluous E for its hybrid electric drivetrain - for… Read the rest
