After the facelifted Carrera and Carrera 4 debuts, Porsche is following up with the 911 Targa facelift. Available in the same variants and 997 facelift upgrades, the Porsche 911 Targa 4 and Targa 4S feature more powerful direct injection engines PTM Porsche Traction Management replacing all-wheel drive and Porsche’s new 7-speed Doppelkupplungsgetriebe or double-clutch […]
It can get 30-plus mpg or dash to 60 mph in 6.5 sec. Its Agility Control suspension corners racetrack flat, yet its undercarriage can be armored for ramming over rough stuff. It’s targeted at Sex-in-the-City women, but it wears sharp, angular styling that apes the butch GL-class. Does this fuel-crisis trucklet suffer multiple-personality disorder?
Globally, […]
The new Acura/Honda NSX may still be a couple of years away, but when talking about the sequel to such a dynamically legendary supercar, time won’t stop speculation from ramping up and details from leaking. True to its name, Inside Line has put together what it believes is an accurate depiction – both visually and […]
Rumors of a new sports car from Abarth have been circulating for months, and although details are still sketchy, one thing’s for sure: a mid-mounted engine is part of the package. Autocar is confirming previous rumors that Fiat’s sport division has struck a deal with Lotus to use the next Elise as the basis for […]
North Vancouver, British Columbia - Sportlich. Leicht. Kurz: Mercedes-Benz can’t say it any more simply than that. For if there is one thing the 2009 Mercedes SLK300 is, it’s sporty, light and short. No translation needed.
Conceived in the mid-1990s and first produced as a 1998 model, the SLK had an immediate impact on the burgeoning […]
In early 2004 we had a small but very informative conversation with a highly-placed source at BMW. The person revealed that the then-new 6 Series would indeed go quite above 300kW. Much higher. It turned out reference was to the M6, all 378kW of it. That’s not the very interesting part by the way; your […]
While Renault car sales in France have been robust in the first half of 2008, in Europe – its biggest market – the group is down 4.6 percent. If higher sales and better market penetration is the question, could a sports coupé be the answer? The Cartribe reckon Renault thinks so. They say after an […]