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Novitec Rosso Ferrari 458 Italia Doesn’t Disappoint [Geneva Preview]
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Famed Ferrari tuner Novitec Rosso will be debuting its rendition of the new 458 Italia at this year’s Geneva Motor Show. Since the debut of Ferrari’s 458 Italia, several aftermarket manufacturers have revealed their own versions, but few can rival what Novitec Rosso brings to the table. With every exotic Ferrari model that’s been designed…
BMW ‘i’ Sub-Brand Debuts With Green Focus: i3 City Car and i8 Sports Car Teased
BMW has confirmed that it will launch a new sub-brand of fuel efficient vehicles under the ‘i’ badge. Representing the greener side of the automaker’s portfolio, the i branded vehicles will focus on “sustainable vehicles and mobility solutions.” Set to hit the market in 2013, the first two models in the i lineup will be…
MINI City Car Concept to Bow at Geneva Auto Show
MINI will unveil a new city-car concept at the Geneva Auto Show next week as it continues to study the possibility of a smaller model to sit below the Cooper hard-top in the current lineup. According to reports, the car will be a 3 +1 layout, along the lines of the Toyota iQ and will…
Maserati Gran Cabrio Sport Gets Added Power, Performance: Geneva Preview
Maserati has just revealed a new version of its Gran Cabrio model, adding power and improved driving dynamics. Set to officially debut at the Geneva Auto Show in just a week, the Gran Cabrio Sport (likely to be called the Gran Turismo Convertible Sport in North America) makes use of the same 4.7-liter V8 engine…
G-Power BMW M5 Hurricane RS Touring: The World’s Fastest Wagon [video]
With a history of building the world’s fastest sedans, G-Power can now claim the title of the world’s fastest wagon. To do so, the German tuner has transplanted its 750-hp twin-supercharged V10 powerplant from the BMW M5 Hurricane RS into an M5 Touring (wagon). The G-Power BMW M5 Hurricane RS Touring will come as a…
Mirage GT Matt Blue Edition: New Gemballa Pays Tribute to Old Gemballa
The newly resurrected Gemballa brand may not be making as many splashes as we would like to see, but they’ve recently returned to their roots with a new Mirage GT edition. Similar to the Matt Black Edition that was seen in 2009, Gemballa has created another version of its modified Porsche Carrera GT, this time…
Audi Plans Four-Door A3 Concept at Geneva Auto Show
North Americans only received the small Golf-based A3 hatchback a few years ago, but Audi is planning to expand the lineup with a fastback four-door sedan at the Geneva Auto Show packing 400+ horsepower and quattro AWD. The power comes courtesy of a turbocharged 5-cylinder engine, attached with precision to a 7-speed S-tronic transmission. Stylistically,…
Smart Forspeed EV Roadster Concept Revealed Ahead of Geneva Auto Show
The Forspeed concept is Smart‘s interpretation of a zero-emissions roadster, based on the only vehicle Smart currently builds: its Fortwo city car. It’s designed to complement the rest of Smart’s electric transportation lineup for really small vehicles, which includes a scooter and a bicycle. The squat, roofless car features huge, ringed headlights reminiscent of eyelashes,…
New Brabus Rocket Teased Ahead of Geneva Debut
With Mercedes-Benz‘s new CLS-Class impressing many, we knew it would just be a matter of time before Brabus stepped into the picture with its rendition. And just as we assumed that a new Brabus Rocket wouldn’t be too far off, the famed Benz tuner has released these teaser photos hinting that the Geneva Auto Show…
Rolls-Royce 102EX Electric Car Concept to Debut at Geneva Auto Show
Rolls-Royce will take a big step towards bringing to market an electric vehicle, debuting an electric version of its flagship Phantom model at the Geneva Auto Show in just over a weeks time. Rolls has announced it will debut the car, known as either the 102 EX or Phantom Experimental Electric (EE), and then take…
BMW Sub-Brand Set To Launch Monday
While rumors of the new BMW sub-brand have been floating around for months, February 21st has been marked as the official announcement date for details the sub-brand, and the apparently revolutionary MegaCity electric vehicle. Many suggest that the new sub-brand will be a re-imagining of the Isetta microcar of nearly a half century ago, and…
Novitec Rosso Debuts Ferrari California Race 606
Novitec Rosso has taken Ferrari‘s front-engine California and outfitted it with a supercharged powerplant that brings performance to 606-hp (from 460-hp) and 444 ft-lbs of torque (from 357 ft-lbs) out of the 4.3L V8. The supercharged powerplant will be available from Novitec Rosso for the special Race 606 model and any standard California. Along with…
New Volkswagen Tiguan Debuts for Geneva
Volkswagen has unveiled its new Tiguan ahead of its Geneva debut in March. The small SUV gets new front end styling that brings it in line with the rest of the new Volkswagen lineup. The Tiguan also gets three new engines in Europe, for a total of seven: four gasoline engines and three diesels, including…
Ferrari FF Spied Testing AWD on Snow Covered Roads [Video]
Testing exotic cars in the frozen north seems to be a trend right now. Lamborghini just released a teaser video of its new Aventador LP700-4 amid the snowbanks and now Ferrari has done the same, drawing attention to its own all-new AWD system. The successor to the 612 Scaglietti, the FF maintains seating for four…
RUF Developing Three Electric Porsche Prototypes
Don’t label RUF Automobiles as a mere Porsche tuner. They install enough of their own parts in Porsche bodies to be considered by the German government to be an independent manufacturer. And while Porsche is experimenting with electricity on their own, RUF has beaten them to the punch, with three different electric drivetrains, stuffed in…
Lotus Elise Club Racer Revealed With Less Weight, New 1.6L Engine [Geneva Preview]
Due to increasingly strict fuel economy standards, Lotus was forced to scrap its 1.8-liter 4-cylinder engine for the Elise and Exige in Europe. The good news is that the smaller 1.6-liter engine now in use helps cut a little more weight from the car, dropping it down to just 1,931 lbs. For years Lotus has…
Lamborghini Aventado LP700-4 Teased Again in New Video
Lamborghini is continuing to build hype ahead of the reveal of its new supercar at the Geneva Auto Show, releasing a teaser video of the car in action. Showing more of the exterior of the car as well as a few interior shots, it’s almost possible to make out the new gauge display that Lamborghini…
BMW to Turbocharged All Future 4-Cylinders
Forget hybrids and EVs, at least in the short term anyway. Improving fuel economy without losing power or adding cost is a job best suited to the turbocharger. That, at least, is the thinking over at BMW, where the company plans that every new 4-cylinder engine it rolls out will be turbocharged in some form….
Mercedes C63 AMG Affalterbach Edition: Live Photos [CIAS 2011]
After first debuting the car in Montreal, we had our first chance to snap some live pics of the limited edition Mercedes C63 AMG Affalterbach Edition at the Canadian International Auto Show in Toronto. With just 30 units being made specifically for Canada the car was designed at AMG headquarters in Affalterbach, Germany. Finished in…
2012 Mercedes-Benz SLK Debuts at Canadian International Auto Show
Mercedes-Benz delivered a surprise at the Canadian International Auto Show today, giving the world premiere to the new SLK roadster. OK, technically it wasn’t the world premiere of the car, but that occurred at a private event in Stuttgart, so this is the first public showing of the luxury drop-top. With Merc’s new design, the…
BMW 335i Costs $260,000 In Singapore As Vehicle Permits, Taxes Increases 24-Fold
Think the $41,400 sticker price for a BMW 335i is bad? Be glad you don’t live in Singapore where the same model will run you $260,000, about what an Italian exotic would retail for in the United States. Singapore residents who want a private vehicle must pay for a special permit that allows them to…
Ferrari Used In “Somewhere” Re-Painted, Sold To Lucky Buyer
While it didn’t quite make it on to the radar of mainstream movie-goers, Sofia Coppola’s new film Somewhere featured a Ferrari 360 Modena as one of the film’s main props. The lack of dialogue and music coupled with the very long shots and dearth of quick cuts meant that the 360 is seen in frequent…
BMW M3 Frozen Black Competition Package Draws You in Like a Black Hole [CIAS 2011]
There’s nothing terribly new at BMW‘s Canadian International Auto Show display, but that’s not to say there isn’t anything worth looking at. True, it’s the Canadian unveiling of the new 6 Series Convertible, but it was already unveiled in Detroit over a month ago, and isn’t terribly exciting anyway. What is worth checking out is…
Volkswagen Golf24 Touring Car Hits the Track [Video]
After announcing the widebody Golf24 race car for competition in this year’s Nurburgring 24 Hour race, Volkswagen has just released video of the car undergoing testing in preparation for its debut. With the wild DTM-style aerodynamics, the Golf24 makes use of a modified version of the turbocharged 5-cylinder powerplant from the Golf R, making 434-hp…
