I know it’s wrong, but I do like polished aluminium cars; probably since the MTM A8 I used to ogle sneakily via my peripheral vision several years ago. Just goes to show, you can even make a Ford-era Volvo look cool.
Is the C30 a return to form, or just a cheap effort to play on the oddly satisfying 480?
I wanted to post about Fisker’s plugin hybrid concept before, but I couldn’t find a good image of it. Autoblog came up with the goods this week. It’s a corker, isn’t it? Hope this goes into production, then I’ll have a nice saloon – sorry, but the Prius is dog rough – to park next to the Tesla.
Cool bike, but wouldn’t you feel a bit of a langer riding it? Unless it was black of course…
The name might not be familiar to you, but I guarantee you’ve seen dozens of Crown Vics in your evenings in front of the telly, or out in front of the big screen. They come decorated in blues and yellows, and sometimes they are black and whites. Now it looks like they’re on the way out, as Autoblog and TAC tell us that from 2009 they’ll only be available to cops and taxi drivers, and even those sales are threatened. I’ll have – you guessed it – a black one please, Interceptor style.
TBH I think it looks silly, but I suppose you can’t argue with a weight loss of 82lbs. That’ll be about what I’ve lost by Christmas, and you won’t see me complaining!
Have I mentioned I’d happily trade one of my bollocks for an Exige? I only need one anyway.
I know, I know, it’s crass and probably horribly inefficient and plenty of other bad things, I just dig duallies. I blame Mel Gibson for the monster he drove in Lethal Weapon, whatever the hell it was.
If you saw Top Gear last Sunday you’ll have giggled your way through Clarkson driving this “car” around the BBC already, in which case I have a link for you to read thanks to kingdom hoop. If you didn’t, try and lengthen your attention span past the usual YouTube 60 seconds and watch the whole thing, there really are some very funny moments in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYtro7PnBA8
Please do pass on links for MMM during the week if you come across anything interesting btw, I don’t get a lot of time in my feed reader these days, so it’s a great help!
More on the upcoming A1. Or not, as the case may be. The word “innovative” is a bit of a stretch for a car that’s essentially just extending a concept Toyota brought to market a decade ago.
AutoMotoPortal: The drive unit for the metroproject quattro showcases a fully independent, innovative hybrid technology. At work under the bonnet is a 1.4.litre TFSI engine developing 110 kW (150 bhp), whose power is directed to the front wheels by means of the S-tronic Direct Shift Gearbox. A 30 kW (41 bhp) electric motor positioned on the rear axle is able to deliver up to an additional 200 Nm of torque when the vehicle is accelerating. When boosting, in other words driving the vehicle simultaneously by TFSI and electric motor to achieve a dynamic driving style, the study is transformed from a front-wheel-drive car to a quattro, and power is transferred to the road in the most effective way possible.
Nice arse though.
(Yes, the Prius really is 10 years old now. Seems like less because it was only available on the grey market before 2001. So there.)
They say this isn’t shopped. I’m pretty sure I don’t believe them.
Thanks Fergus!
Sorry for the lack of MMM last Monday. One Of Those Weeks.
Mark sent me an article about the upcoming Audi A1. Unfortunately it’s in Swedish so I haven’t a bull’s* notion what it says, but I must look into it later so I’ll report back if I spy anything interesting.
Not bad looking in general, nice pillarless design, but what’s going on with that silver swoosh at the roofline?
* Have I gone overboard with the apostrophe there?
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