Posted on 07.28.2010 17:00 by Kirby Filed under: Chevrolet | USA | concept cars | video | Chevrolet Corvette | Cars | Car News Now that Megan Fox is officially out of Transformers 3, she leaves behind a trail of devastated weeping males that are all trying to figure out how a two-and-half hour robot movie is going to feel like without their favorite piece of eye candy. Well, if you’re paying close attention to the movie’s production, Fox’s... 

An EV that twice set the lap record for electric cars at the Refuel electric road races can be yours — if you’ve got a cool quarter million. The KleenSpeed WX10 prototype, developed with West Racecars and drven by KleenSpeed founder and president Timothy Collins, averaged 94 mph over the 2.24-mile, 11-turn course at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. That topped last year’s record of 93 mph, also set by the WX10. KleenSpeed attributed... 

Posted on 07.18.2010 06:00 by Simona Filed under: Alfa-Romeo | sedan | concept cars | Cars | Car News Alfa Romeo has already announced plans to unveil a replacement for the 159 sedan, but it will take a few more years until we see the final product. Until then, the Italian studio MPcardesign has unveiled a new concept study that is believed to be a preview version for the future model. The concept is called Alfa Romeo Vittorio Jano and was named…  Read More →

Posted on 07.17.2010 01:25 by Simona Filed under: Ford | coupe | concept cars | Ford Mustang | auction | Cars | Car News RM Auctions, the world’s largest collector car auction house, kick starts its annual Sports & Classics of Monterey sale on August 12th with a special evening auction devoted exclusively to “the company that put the world on wheels”: the Ford Motor Company. The cars listed for auction start with a 1903 Ford Model... 

From designer Andrus Ciprian comes the Honda Pegasus, a curious combination of retro design and an anachronistic powerplant. Ciprian, from Romania, might be the only CGI-jockey we’ve seen whose portfolio includes a Hummer dune buggy , a pony car Dacia and a shapely Mazda . His eclectic taste would make us fans even if his designs weren’t at all interesting. Ah. But they are. Ciprian is pushing the envelope with the Pegasus. It’s... 

An Australian concept car hyped as being worth $2.6 million fell far down under auctioneers’ estimates when it sold for a mere $307,000 . The Holden HSV HRT 427 coupe, a supercar concept based on the Holden Monaro, was the showpiece of Cairns-based businessman Shawn “Chooka” Ryan’s collection. He wasn’t parting with the car out of boredom: Two of Ryan’s businesses were in receivership and Ryan was forced to... 

With three wheels and four tires, the new GT3 concept from T3 Motion is already an automotive oddity. So why’d they have to make it look like a post-war bubble car ? T3 Motion is best known for their Electric Standup Vehicles (ESVs) and microcars . They’ve almost gone full-size with the GT3, a plug-in EV powered by lithium-polymer batteries. It’s got a top speed of 70 mph, has a range of 80-100 miles and is expected to sell... 

Rick Cavallaro and his friends have built a wind-powered vehicle that travels downwind faster than the wind, solving a riddle that can start fights. The unusual wind-powered car hit a top speed 2.86 times faster than the wind during one recent run, a feat that depending upon your perspective is the result of hard work or the same voodoo responsible …  Read More →

Posted on 05.13.2010 18:00 by Simona Filed under: Hyundai | concept cars | electric cars | strange cars | Cars | Car Reviews | Hyundai Is this what the Hyundai of the future will look like? This concept was designed by Shane Baxley from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. It is called Aebulle (“aebulle” means “cocoon” in Korean) and represents a futuristic three-wheeler vehicle with an electric powertrain... 

Posted on 05.3.2010 20:00 by Simona Filed under: Suzuki | sedan | concept cars | Suzuki Kizashi | Cars | Car Reviews | Suzuki After Suzuki unveiled the Sport version at the New York Auto Show, the company announced they will also prepare an even more powerful version. The production version of the Kizashi Turbo debuted on Speed Channel’s Test Drive program on April 30th, 2010. The Suzuki will deliver a total of 290 HP and will be connected... 

General Motors rolled into the Beijing auto show with a crossover utility vehicle based on the Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric vehicle we’ll see at the end of the year. It’s just a concept, but the odds are good we’ll see it in showrooms. The Chevrolet Volt MPV5 is essentially a Chevrolet Volt stretched and squared to accommodate five people and more cargo. It’s a little bigger than the Volt in all dimensions,... 

Posted on 04.23.2010 17:00 by Simona Filed under: Mg | concept cars | hatchback | Beijing Auto Show | Cars | Car Reviews | Mg Another simple, itty-bitty car to quench the spacial thirst of the ever-growing population. MG unveiled the Zero Concept today at the Beijing Auto Show and according to the official press release “the MG ZERO concept previews the design direction of the brand and demonstrates how MG can expand into this high-volume... 

Posted on 04.20.2010 04:53 by Simona Filed under: Mercedes | Station-Wagon / Estate | concept cars | Mercedes CLS-Class | Cars | Car News The Mercedes Shooting Break Concept – a station wagon version for the CLS-Class – will make its world debut later this week at the Beijing motor show. But like usual, the first images surfaced a little bit earlier. The production version – internally known as the X218 – will compete... 

Sure, it’s meant to go on sand, but the Dune Tracer concept is about as far from a day at the beach as a vehicle could possibly be. One look at its menacing tracks, its chrome rear fenders and single-seat open cockpit and you know this buggy is meant to be outfitted with automatic weapons in some end-of-days, dystopian nightmare. That’s why it’s so freakin’ awesome. From diseno-art.com — the same folks who brought... 

A Chinese automaker has taken every half-baked idea anyone’s ever had for eco-friendlier motoring and used them all in a wild concept car, the laws of physics be damned. Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. is rolling into the Expo 2010 Shanghai China with the Ye Zi — literally, “Leaf” — concept that’s topped with a plastic leaf, runs on renewable energy and somehow emits oxygen, making it the world’s...