2009 Jaguar XFR Preview
It doesn’t really look like a ‘made by Jaguar’ car, but it’s a good looking and muscular performance sedan with a supercharged V8 that makes 510 horsepower and does the 0 – 60 run in 4.7 seconds. Jaguar claims it will beat anything in its class… it might be able to take ‘em in the playground after class, too!
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Posted by Bill Rudosky in Performance Cars
The Fisker Karma Hybrid Sports Car
Fisker Automotive, Inc., the new American manufacturer of premium ‘green’ cars, unveiled its first production car — the 2010 Fisker Karma Plug-In Hybrid.
With a starting price of $87,900.00, one thousand orders for the 100 mile-per-gallon luxury plug-in hybrid sports car have been received since the prototype debuted at the 2008 NAIAS.
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Posted by Bill Rudosky in Sports Cars
The New C63 AMG Mercedes Sport Sedan
This new sedan from Mercedes is part of their ‘entry level’ C-Class, but it doesn’t appear to drive like a starter car! It has a 6.3 liter engine and 7 speed automatic with paddle shifters, makes 451 hp and does 0 to 60 in about 4.5 seconds. The steering, suspension, brakes and performance all compliment each other and it’s equally happy to get you around town or around the track.
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Posted by Bill Rudosky in Luxury Cars, Performance Cars
“Top Gear” Driving Review Of The Ferrari F60 Enzo.
I don’t know what to put in this blurb that wouldn’t just be a string of adjectives. It’s scary-fast, built for exactly that purpose and no matter how rich you get, you’ll never own one unless Ferrari says it’s okay! So just watch the video…
Posted by Bill Rudosky in Exotic Cars
The Tesla ‘Electric Roadster’
“Google founders Larry Page and Sergei Brin dumped millions of dollars into the new Tesla Roadster, an all-electric sports car that looks like a Lotus and drives like a Maserati. Watch as we take the first one for a test drive around Silicon Valley. It’s eco-friendly and fast! And for just $100,000, you, too, can have one of your very own!”
Duration : 0:2:58
Posted by Bill Rudosky in Sports Cars
The New-Technology HCCI Engine
The internal combustion engine powering today’s cars and trucks has stayed pretty much the same during the hundred years or so since its invention. Engineers have tried for decades to improve the engine’s efficiency, without running up significant cost increases. The homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engine design does exactly that.
It runs more efficiently and produces fewer toxic emissions. It does this by burning the fuel through a flameless combustion process that isn’t triggered by a spark plug. This is valuable even for hybrid vehicles, since they’re generally still using an internal combustion, gasoline powered engine.
By replacing the internal combustion engine with an HCCI engine, fuel efficiency can be improved by more than fifteen percent. GM is already looking at putting this engine design into production in its future releases.
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Posted by Bill Rudosky in Auto Industry News
