Entries Tagged ‘2010’:
filed in Corvette on Apr.30, 2009
The 2010 Chevy Corvette is keeping up with the Nissan GT-R with a “Launch Control” system on the entire range of manual transmission Vettes. Best part? Unlike the GT-R, it won’t void your warranty.
We’ve already seen the 2010 Chevy Corvette Grand Sport revealed at the 2010 Corvette seminar at the National Corvette Museum’s C5/C6 Bash, [...]
Tags: 2010, chevy, Corvette, z06, zr1
filed in Corvette on Apr.26, 2009
corvette
Absent since the C4’s demise, the Corvette Grand Sport is back for 2010, this time sporting wider Z06 bodywork, larger brakes and the option of either a Coupe or Convertible. Another commemorative sticker package? Not-so-much.
We know what you’re probably thinking and to be perfectly honest, we were thinking it too. This is not another commemorative [...]
Tags: 2010, convertible, Corvette, grand sport, z06
filed in concept car on Apr.21, 2009
In honor of 25 years in the pony-tunin’ business and 45 years of Mustangs, Steve Saleen’s new company has created the 2010 SMS 460 Mustang and, surprise, the SMS 460X.
The 2010 SMS 460 Mustang is the more pedestrian of the two 2010 Mustangs, offering 470 HP and 427 lb-ft of torque. For real power, you’ll [...]
Tags: 2010, 460, mustang, saleen, sms
filed in porsche on Apr.21, 2009
Porsche Panamera
In a “first,” other than the Cayenne, Porsche just revealed the four-door Porsche Panamera in Shanghai. It’s supposedly able to go from zero to 60 in under five seconds. Also, it has a big butt.
In a first-ever move for the company, Porsche introduces the four-door Panamera at this year’s Shanghai Motor Show
The legendary sports [...]
Tags: 2010, china, motor show, panamera, porsche, premium, shangai
filed in Jaguar on Apr.21, 2009
The current XJ, on sale since 42 AD, is a bloated attempt to pack modern luxury into an outdated design. If this shot is anything to go by, the 2010 Jaguar XJ isn’t. Hallelujah.
Jaguar released this image to coincide with the Shanghai Auto Show, but the car itself will actually be unveiled on the Queen’s [...]
Tags: 2010, Jaguar, luxury, xj
filed in Aston Martin, concept car on Apr.17, 2009
The Aston Martin Rapide four-door super-saloon has officially been uncovered in this first-look image. With flowing body work and a 6.0-liter V12 doling out 470HP and 442 lb-ft of torque, this is one sexy sedan.
The long brewing Rapide resembles the original show car in nearly every way, with modern Aston styling stretched out over a [...]
Tags: 2010, 470hp, Aston Martin, concept, detroit, rapide
filed in Opel, Vauxhall on Apr.17, 2009
GM’s European divisions finally have an answer to that pesky AWD hot-rod Audi S4. Say hello to the new turbo, AWD, 325-HP 2010 Opel Insignia OPC and brother-from-another-mother, 2010 Vauxhall Insignia VXR. That’s a Saturn?!
We’re absolutely pleased to see this newest performance sedan from GM’s European performance studios. Aiming, with no excuses, directly at the [...]
Tags: 2010, awd, ecotec, insignia, opc, Opel, Vauxhall
filed in chevy on Apr.16, 2009
Asked on May 18, 1999 what my favorite movie was I, like many of my contemporaries, would have had an easy answer: Star Wars. Just one day later, with the release of Phantom Menace, that answer would change forever. It didn’t make sense. Episode I, compared quantitatively to its predecessors and, according the huge amount [...]
Tags: 2010, camaro, chevy, LS, SS
filed in toyota on Apr.16, 2009
You already know the 2010 Toyota Prius gets 50 MPG combined fuel economy, making it the most fuel-efficient car for sale in the U.S. But, did you know it returns 26.6 MPG at 102 MPH?You might think it odd we bothered to find that out since the first two Prius generations were hardly vehicles meriting [...]
Tags: 2010, japan, jello, prius, toyota
filed in Hyundai on Apr.15, 2009
hyundai genesis
For too long the American market has lacked an affordable, accessible, fast, responsive, fun, communicative, good-looking rear-wheel-drive sports coupe. The Hyundai Genesis Coupe is that car. Finally.
Full Disclosure: Hyundai wanted me to drive the new Genesis Coupe so badly they flew me out and put me up in a Casino to make sure I [...]
Tags: 2010, coupe, genesis, Hyundai, mac pherson