The Volkswagen Jetta’s long-awaited changeover from the current inline-five-cylinder engine to a turbo four will happen in 2013 for the 2014 model year, the company’s U.S. product czar Rainer Michel told us this week. Soon after, Michel says, the engine will land in a 2014.5 model-year Passat. This confirms the timing we heard earlier from a different—and has-to-stay-nameless—source.
The BMW 328i Luxury's logbook had finally cooled down after a disappointing trip to the local road course when something else happened: the weather heated up. Between surviving one choice mishap and dealing with sweltering temperatures, our BMW has had a rough month.
Vorsteiner has created a new aero package for the already gorgeous 458. This includes a front spoiler, side skirts and a revised rear diffuser. This is combined with specialised 21 inch rims. All parts are made out of carbon fibre.
Spanish specialty carmaker Aspid Cars has dropped the primary teaser pictures of its new GT-21 Invictus, a 2+2 seater sports automotive. this is often Aspid's second vehicle series when the hardcore Super Sports (SS), which sort of resembles a Lotus seven on steroids.
The version of the ATS that Cadillac meant to spice up the company’s overall fuel-economy numbers has simply received a rather lackluster rating from the EPA. With a Two hundred-hp, 2.5-liter four-cylinder engine, the ATS is rated at simply twenty two town mpg and thirty three highway.
Today, Mercedes-Benz confirmed what we tend to all knew to be a positive thing—that an A-class–based, sub-GLK-class compact SUV (rendered above) goes to happen. The affirmation arrived as a footnote in an announcement concerning the German production facility that builds the new A-class; the crossover are going to be designed alongside the aforementioned hatchback in addition because the taller B-class at Mercedes’ producing facility in Rastatt (Germany.)
The announcement failed to divulge what Mercedes plans to decision the tiny SUV, however we’re fairly positive it'll be known as GLA. (For additional on the GLA, that we tend to previously thought would be known as the GLC, scan our deep dive here.) Expect to visualize the GLA—or no matter it’s finally called—arrive within the U.S. someday next year as a 2014 model. An AMG version could be a risk, if our powers of observation serve us correctly: What seems to be an AMG’d GLA created an look beneath a sheet in a very recent preview photo released by Benz’s go-fast division.
Spanish specialty carmaker Aspid Cars has dropped the primary teaser pictures of its new GT-21 Invictus, a 2+2 seater sports automotive. this is often Aspid's second vehicle series when the hardcore Super Sports (SS), which sort of resembles a Lotus seven on steroids.
"The GT-21 Invictus enhances the Aspid Super Sport, however is larger and additional powerful says the car’s chief desin and company found, Ignacio Fernández Rodriquez. "It has been a difficult styling exercised however fortunately we've got a very gifted style team within the company."
Aspid's latest creation is made around a light-weight spaceframe and makes use of aerospace grade aluminium, ultra-light high-strength steels, and composites materials for the body to stay its weight at a coffee 990kg (2,182 lbs) when dry.
The GT-21 Invictus is 700mm longer than the SS at four,447mm (175 in.), whereas additionally measuring one,883mm (74.1 in.) wide and simply one,226mm (48.3 in.) tall.
Whereas the SS utilizes a 398hp (402PS) two.0-liter turbo'd four, the GT-21 Invictus employs a BMW-sourced four.4-liter turbocharged V8 engine manufacturing 450-horses. A dual-clutch transmission with F1-style shift paddles on the steering wheel transfers power to the rear wheels.
The Spaniards estimate that the 2+2 seater are capable of reaching 100km/h (62mph) in but 3 seconds and prime out at 300km/h (186mph).
The company said production of the (GT-21) Invictus are restricted to 250 units per year with pricing to be announced.
If you had a hunch that the Brand new Nissan Note for world market as well as Japan and Europe would kind the bottom for a replacement to the North yankee market Versa hatchback, you will pat yourself on the rear.
The Japanese carmaker simply announced that future generation of the sub-compact Versa hatchback, which can arrive among future year, "will receive a contemporary new look that takes style cues from the new Note".
Nissan added that each the new Note and Versa are based mostly on the company's world V-platform, however observed that "the Versa can embrace options tailored to its markets in North and South America."
While Nissan will not divulge any further details till nearer to launch, the sensible cash ought to attend a rather changed version of the Note with market-specific powertrain choices.
In addition to the announcement on hatchback model Nissan said that the 2013 model year version of the Versa sedan that was launched simply last year, has been updated to realize forty miles per gallon on the highway.
The Versa series has been successful for the Nissan with the present hatchback and sedan models having sold sixty,919 units within the States from January through June 2012, beating its nearest competitors as well as the Honda match, Hyundai Accent and Ford Fiesta.
Lexus has released pricing information for the redesigned 2013 ES sedan lineup: The V-6–powered ES350 can begin at $36,995, whereas the new ES300h hybrid model rings in at $39,745. Pleasantly, the 2013 ES350 truly prices $605 but the 2012 model; the hybrid is new to the ES line this year, therefore there isn’t extremely a back-to-back comparison to be created for it. (For a full rundown of all the ES’s changes for 2013, examine our initial drives on the ES350 and ES300h.)
On the flip facet, Lexus claims the ES300h boasts very cheap hybrid worth premium in its entire lineup—it prices simply $2750 over the regular-grade ES350. As way as hybrids go, that worth bump is fairly tame, particularly given the fuel-economy improvement the four-cylinder/electric motor combo provides. The EPA predicts the ES300h can come forty mpg within the town and thirty-nine on the highway; the ES350 gets a way more mundane 21/31 rating.
Given the nearly unchanged pricing—at least for the ES350—the 2013 ES’s worth standing against its competitors largely is that the same. The ES350 still starts a lot of on top of the Buick LaCrosse’s worth of entry (it’s value noting that the Buick gets a typical mild-hybrid system), and its base worth is barely slightly on top of that of the 2012 Acura TL. The Brand new Lexus ES sedans arrive in dealerships next month and consumers are ready to choose between a bevy of optional equipment that has blind-spot monitoring, pre collision system a Mark Levinson audio system, and navigation. Tags: Lexus, Lexus ES300h, Lexus ES350, pricing
With solely half dozen00 1-Series M Coupes (pictured above) creating it to the States out of a complete of 6,000 examples worldwide, the new two-door model could be a rare beast.
For those that couldn't get their hand on the foremost compact and reasonable M model, Autoweek magazine is reporting that BMW is getting ready a sort of successor within the style of an M Performance coupe based mostly on the recently launched in Europe, M135i hatchback.
M Performance is BMW's new sub-brand that sits between the regular models and therefore the thoroughbred M sports cars – one thing like Audi's S and RS vary.
Citing within sources, the publication claims that BMW can gift a coupe version of the second-generation 1-Series renamed because the 2-Series at the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show with an M Performance variant to follow a couple of months later at the 2014 Detroit Auto Show.
Keep in mind, however, that BMW has not officially confirmed the amendment of names for the coupe and convertible models of the 1-Series and 3-Series lineups to 2-Series and 4-Series respectively.
Regardless of what BMW can decision the coupe model, the magazine says the M235i can use a similar N55 three.0-liter turbocharged inline-six delivering 316hp (320PS) at five,800rpm and 450Nm (332 lb-ft) from one,300 to 4,500rpm because the M135i hatchback coupled to either a 6-speed manual gearbox or an 8-speed automatic.
It is doable that just like the M135i, the M235i also will be offered with all-wheel drive as an possibility.
What Autoweek forgets to say in its article though is that an M Performance version of this 1-Series Coupe has already return to the States underneath the guise of the 135is Coupe and Convertible, each of that are powered by the M135i's N55 three.0-liter turbo engine, rated at 320hp. Enable keep the root phrase
Remember the special edition Aston Martin DBS Ultimate? It seems its
nomenclature wasn't merely selling hyperbole. Not solely did that little
batch of sports cars celebrate the tip of the DBS model, however
additionally the tip of the DBS name: Aston has instead chosen to
decision its successor the 2013 Vanquish.
Sound familiar? It should: the name was used on Aston's flagship V-12
sports automotive from 2001 till 2007 when it had been replaced by the
then-new DBS. And if the finished product on top of appearance
acquainted, it should. it had been a lot of or less utterly revealed at
the exclusive Villa d'Este Concours d'Elegance in late could, though
officers simply remarked it as an idea then. Now, however, they are
quite happy to decision the Vanquish "the final expression of Aston
Martin style ethos engineering innovation/ and technical ability."
As was previewed on the banks of Lake Como, the new Vanquish blends cues
from the DBS, the limited-production V12 Zagato, and also the exotic
One-77 super automotive into a surprisingly clean kind.
Aston Martin CEO Dr. Ulrich Bez once told us his company's VH platform's "modular character permits us to elegantly integrate new systems and parts." Lo and behold, the 2013 Vanquish s underpinnings seem to substantiate by Bez's vision.
On Sale: Early 2013
Base Price: $280,000 (est)
Powertrain
Engine: 5.9-liter DOHC V-12 with variable valve timing
Output: 565 hp @ 6750 rpm
Torque: 457 lb-ft @ 5500 rpm
Drive: Rear-wheel
Transmission: Six-speed sequential manual
Measurements
Length: 184.7 in
Width: 81.4 in
Height: 1280 mm
Wheelbase: fifty.4 inches
Weight: 3613 pounds
Love it or hate it, that hourglass-shaped grille from the new Lexus GS
isn’t going away anytime soon. At nominal not if you’re to believe the
LF-LC Concept, that debuted yesterday at the Detroit Auto Show and
predicts the longer term of the Lexus style language.
The new coupe, that was styled by Toyota's Calty style studio in California, is meant to indicate the most recent evolution of Lexus' style language; several of the cues on this show automobile have appeared on previous Lexus production and concept Vehicle. "Our gross studio, worked to nourish this love interpretation of Lexus originality "said Kevin Hunter president of Calty., "The LF LC concept contain our vision of what a premium sport coupe may be. "The mesh spindle shaped front grille resembles that of the Lexus GS for example, whereas the swept-back headlights and stubby trunk recall the LFA supercar. The front fascia options vertical fog lamps in dot-matrix vogue housing that mix into useful air intakes prior the front wheels. different style details embrace a panoramic glass roof with a "cantilevered pillar" and a rising, "kick-up window graphic."
"The concept we're showing here in Detroit continues the Lexus style revolution started with the CT and GS," said Mark Templin, Lexus cluster vice chairman and general manager. "The concept hybrid 2+2 liberates the concept of a sport coupe and pushes the boundaries of performance, vogue and technology." the inside could be a showcase of high-tech controls and infotainment systems together with variety of touch-screen boards to assist the driving force stay targeted on the road. there's a touch-screen board among the middle console, whereas each doors also are fitted with touch-screen surfaces that management windows, mirrors, seat changes, and private entertainment settings. Interior surfaces are coated in leather, suede, and metallic and wood accents. It's rumored that the LF-LC is also headed for production within the close to future. A production version LF-LC would be engineered on a shortened version of subsequent Lexus LS chassis and have a plug in hybrid drivetrain. The automobile is also referred to as the LC 600h and continue sale in 2015.
The version of the ATS that Cadillac meant to spice up the company’s overall fuel-economy numbers has simply received a rather lackluster rating from the EPA. With a Two hundred-hp, 2.5-liter four-cylinder engine, the ATS is rated at simply twenty two town mpg and thirty three highway.
These are solid numbers, however a trifle disappointing in context. The Brand new BMW 328i scores EPA ratings of 23/33 and provides drivers 240 hp and 255 lb-ft to play with. The stick-shift 328i scores a trifle higher, however considering the two.5-liter ATS comes solely with an automatic, we tend to went for an apples-to-apples comparison. Even Audi s s 4 year-old A4 is rated at 20/30, and will therefore with eleven a lot of hp, seventy a lot of lb ft of torque and all wheel drive.
Numerical negativity aside, EPA ratings aren’t continuously indicative of real-world performance. Even a lot of vital, the ATS could be a comparatively little rear-wheel-drive sedan from Cadillac; we’re principally simply glad it exists. search for our 1st drive of all the ATS variants soon.
Let's get this out of the way: The 2013 Hyundai Elantra Coupe isn't a driver's automotive. you are not getting to be ripping through Southern California's lovely Pauma Valley -- or the other stretch of squiggly asphalt ribbon, for that matter -- while not quickly encountering the Elantra Coupe's performance limits. Changes are mainly from the rear quarter window back where predictably most of the work was done. The distinctive rear finish options an aesthetic try of chrome exhaust tips flush right integrat into a blacked-out lower fascia. The taillights are slightly reworked, and there is a pronounced rear spoiler on SE models. There are alternative little nip/tucks, as well as slightly completely different rocker panels and minor front finish bits, most notably the blacked-out trapezoidal grille treatment, looking on trim level. The coupe additionally gets its own set of distinctive, optional 17-inch alloys for the SE trim.
Powering the Elantra Coupe is that the same one.8-liter I-4 because the sedan, with 148 horsepower and 131 lb ft of torque mated to either a six-speed manual or automatic. whereas a lot of powerful than the 140-hp Honda Civic coupe (its main bogey) and slightly a lot of economical (29/40 city or highway vs. 28/36 for manual models auto models are each 28/39), we'd have liked to own seen some a lot of horses underneath the hood. we tend to hear an update to the one.8 is within the offing soon, which can little doubt facilitate matters. The 2012 Elantra sedans we've most recently tested ran from 0-60 mph in eight.9 seconds in automatic guise; seven.8 seconds with the manual. on condition that the coupe has roughly an equivalent dimensions and weight because the sedan (other than being zero.4 in. longer),
we'd expect similar numbers. we tend to piloted an automatic-equipped model throughout our drive, which does not prefer to hold a gear when spurred laborious. The coupe might use Hyundai's DCT dual-clutch automatic and a few paddles to travel with it. however when rushed throughout our jaunt in and round the Pauma Valley, it did very little to wow us with its dynamic capabilities despite handling updat specific to the coupe as well as Hyundai s V Beam rear suspension with integrated, Twenty two mm rear stabilizer bar, tun dampers and a revised steering rack. Hyundai has left the door open to any powertrain and suspension updates, which might be welcome news for enthusiast sorts. R-Spec, anyone? If you are within the marketplace for a real performance-themed coupe from Hyundai, there is perpetually the Genesis Coupe or the not-quite-a-coupe Veloster Turbo. however if you are finding out a trendy, sporty-ish, fuel-efficient two-door beginning at a modest worth, the Elantra Coupe is price taking for a spin.
Front-engine, FWD, 5-pass, 2-door coupe one.8L/148-hp/131-lb-ft DOHC 16-valve I-4
We is also four and 0.5 months faraway from the gap of this year's edition of the la Auto Show within the last week of November, however the shows organizers are already making ready us for what lies ahead.
The debut lineup is claimed to incorporate quite forty North yankee and a minimum of twenty world premieres with a lot of to be announced.
While the LA Auto Show won't say that new cars and ideas are slated to form their 1st outing in November, we have a tendency to are told that Acura, Aston Martin, BMW, Chevrolet, Hyundai, Jaguar, Kia, Land Rover, Nissan and Porsche Toyota and Volkswagen are amongst the brands that may reveal new models.
"As the primary major North yankee show of the season, L.A. sets the tone for 2013 and that we expect that automakers can pull out all the stops to excite Brand new car customer,"said Andy Fuzesi head manager L.A. Car Show.
"In almost every one batch from the greenest electrical vehicle to high-horsepower performance models, the technological advancements we have a tendency to are seeing nowadays eclipse all previous automotive eras," he added.
The 2012 LA Auto Show are open to the general public from November 30 till December nine.
Naturally, we are going to keep you informed regarding all the news surrounding the show, however within the meantime, you'll be able to investigate our coverage from last year's event here.
