Volkswagen is attempting to showcase the power and performance of its new clean diesel technology by bringing diesel-powered Jettas to selected North American race tracks. Starting from May 2008, up to 30 Jetta TDI’s competing in the hands of young drivers will appear in eight major racing venues across North America. Powering the race-prepped Jetta is VW’s new 2.0-liter four-cylinder TDI clean
Ron English, a New York-based painter, billboard liberator, and toy designer has collaborated with Scion and several tuners to create a somewhat different customized tC Coupe. Painted in a custom purple pearl color and featuring electroluminescent lighting animating Ron English’s ying-yang artwork the tC is unique in its own weird way. And because this is SEMA and not an art gallery, the tC sits
Volkswagen is attempting to showcase the power and performance of its new clean diesel technology by bringing diesel-powered Jettas to selected North American race tracks. Starting from May 2008, up to 30 Jetta TDI’s competing in the hands of young drivers will appear in eight major racing venues across North America. Powering the race-prepped Jetta is VW’s new 2.0-liter four-cylinder TDI clean
With the SEMA show in full thrust, it’s all about tuning this week. However, time to take a break from all that SEMA madness and see what’s going around in Europe. Novitec presented a performance pack for the sport version of Fiat’s successful little mini hatch, the Panda. The Panda Sport is already one of the nicest looking mini cars in its class (hey Hyundai, take a look at how you really
Shawn Williams from Street Concepts, created a customized version of Hyundai’s flagship sedan model dubbed the “Vip Luxury Tuner”. Considering what he had to work with, Shawn did a pretty good job with the Hyundai Azera that’s dressed in a bespoke white pearl paint and black suede seats with white stitching. The subtly customized Korean sedan also features a Eibach suspension, MagnaFlow catback
Following a hazy teaser image that circulated in the net last week, Henry Fisker released a second picture of the highly anticipated plug-in hybrid sports sedan that will be launched at the at the Detroit Motor Show (NAIAS) in January 2008. Developed in cooperation with Quantum Technologies, a Californian company that focuses on clean propulsion technologies, the yet unnamed high-performance
A fortnight after an inside leak gave us our first look at the all-new i10, Hyundai released details of the next installment in its all-new range of ‘i’ cars – the i10 which will replace the current Atos model (called Amica in some markets) . Based on the same platform as the 2008 Kia Picanto, Hyundai’s new affordable mini car measures 3,565mm in length (140.3-in.) and 1,595mm in width (62.8-in.)
Toyota officially announced that it will stage the world premiere of the all-new 2008 Sequoia full-size sport utility vehicle (SUV) at the upcoming L.A. Show on November 14. According to the Japanese carmaker’s austere press release, the completely redesigned 2008 Sequoia (based on the new Tundra pick-up truck), will be more spacious and powerful than the current model.
Take a very good look at the Mitsubishi Double Shotz concept pictured above; believe it or not, what you’re looking at is actually… a Hot Wheels toy car! As “mama” Mattel explained, in order to celebrate Hot Wheels’ 40th anniversary, it invited major carmakers to submit a series of concept ideas that would be turned into a line of 1/64 scale toy cars in spring 2008. Mitsubishi entered the Hot
What a better place to launch a performance accessory line than the SEMA Show. Available initially for the IS 250 and the IS 350 models, Lexus’ F-Sport line–up consists of a wide variety of performance enhancing products that are engineered by TRD. Among other things, the list includes 19-inch forged alloy wheels, suspension kits, ceramic brakes and exhaust systems. “The Lexus IS 250 and IS 350