Mitsubishi ASX 2011

The Mitsubishi ASX is the European-spec version of the Japanese Mitsubishi RVR, which is slated to go on sale in Japan from February 2010. MMC’s new compact crossover will seat 5 and will be sequentially introduced in European countries from late spring 2010, aimed at expanding MMC’s passenger car footprint in the region, following in the footsteps of the larger and recently redesigned Outlander mid-size crossover.


Amongst other available powertrains, the Mitsubishi ASX European-spec version will be fitted with an all-new Euro 5-compliant 1.8L turbocharged direct-injection diesel engine jointly developed by MMC and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and will feature “Automatic Stop & Go” technology. Together with a 6-speed manual transmission, this combination will provide high environmental efficiency.

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Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X FQ400 2009

Mitsubishi has unveiled the Lancer Evolution X FQ400. The Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X FQ400 is powered by 2.0-litre turbocharged MIVEC lightweight aluminum engine that has been upgraded and develops 403bhp and 387lb.ft of torque on offer from just 3,500rpm. The top speed of the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X FQ400 is limited to the same 155mph, but the 0 to 62 mph acceleration time has dropped to 3.8 seconds which makes it the fastest Evolution lineup yet.


Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X FQ400 also comes with the 18-inch lightweight, nine spoke alloy wheels it’s possible to see the Alcon brakes on the front, while the Toyo Proxes R1R tires underline the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X FQ400’s potency with their aggressive ‘cut slick’ tread pattern. Inside, the driver is held tightly against the FQ400’s sensational accelerative, braking and cornering forces in Recaro bucket sports seats, the range-topping Lancer Evolution X also gaining an Mitsubishi Evo X FQ400 liveried handbrake handle and carbon fiber gearknob.


The Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X FQ400 price starts at 49,999 GBP and will go on sale in June 2009.

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Kicherer E 50 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Coupe 2010

Engineers, technicians and designers of the car refiner Kicherer in Stockach have taken on the 500 E-class coupé derivative. This new ex-works E-class is the currently most powerful production model coupé that Mercedes-Benz can offer with 388 PS and 530 Nm torque. Therefore, the Kicherer E 50 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Coupe is dedicated for customers who like the coupe with a more dynamic and sportier touch.

To give the E50 Coupé aerodynamics, Kicherer have employed the Kicherer Performance Series Package, a final polish with regards to performance and looks. This package includes a front lip, side skirts, a rear diffuser and special mirror casings. All are made of top quality and ultra-light carbon, including the three-bladed sports grill which is optionally available.


The elegant side view of the coupé is perfected by the sportily filigree Kicherer RS-1 20 inch wheels, behind which you get hints of the braking power of the 6 and 6 piston high performance brake system with composite discs and modified flexible steel tubes. At the rear, an almost rectangular tail pipe can delight both eye and ear, since it produces an exciting but not obtrusive sound. Inside, Kicherer offered the interior elements and entry strips in epoxy resin laqueur complements the outer appearance of the E50 Coupé.

Finally, by means of software update and a sport exhaust system, the V8 performance of the E50 Coupé was increased by 42 PS and 20 Nm. As a result, the 430 hp engine can freely run to reach the speeds of up to 330 km/h.

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Brabus Mercedes-Benz G V12 S 2010

BRABUS have recently built the five-door by hand based on the latest Mercedes G-Class, giving birth to the Brabus Mercedes-Benz G V12 S that celebrated its world debut at the Geneva Motor Show 2010. This exclusive special model, also named as the BRABUS G V12 S Biturbo WIDESTAR, is available with an extensive list of luxury appointments.


The engine bay of the G-Class vehicle houses the BRABUS SV12 S engine originally developed for the BRABUS ROCKET with a top speed of 365.7 km/h (227.2 mph). The high-performance engine is based on the V12 Biturbo engine from the latest Mercedes S 600 model.


BRABUS S V12 S displacement engine produces 700 hp (690 bhp) / 515 kW at 5,100 rpm. The turbocharged twelve-cylinder engine delivers its peak torque of 1,320 Nm (973 lb-ft) at 2,100 rpm. In the car peak torque is electronically limited to 1,100 Nm (811 lb-ft). The car can accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) in just 4.3 seconds. Top speed is limited electronically to 240 km/h (150 mph). And without the self-imposed limit, the high-tech G-Class model could reach 260 km/h (163 mph).


BRABUS offers WIDESTAR owners a wide selection of custom-tailored tire/wheel combination with diameters ranging from 20 to 23 inches. The WIDESTAR version is available for all five-door G-Class models. The most exclusive option for the WIDESTAR features three-piece 11Jx23 Monoblock E PLATINUM EDITION alloy wheels on front and rear axle. The corresponding high-performance tires in size 305/35 R 23 are supplied by Pirelli and YOKOHAMA.


The custom interior of the BRABUS G V12 S Biturbo WIDESTAR includes an ergonomically shaped sport steering wheel, stainless-steel scuff plates with illuminated BRABUS logo, a handcrafted BRABUS fully leather interior made from especially soft and breathable BRABUS Mastik leather, and etc. The ultra-powerful 4×4 Brabus Mercedes-Benz G V12 S starts at 394,900 Euros MSRP. More info at www.brabus.com.

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2010 Hamann Conqueror II Ambit Rover Sport

2010 Hamann Conqueror II Ambit Rover Sport

Hamann-Motorsport, Laupheim-based aggregation accepted for affluence car adjustment specialist exclusive, afresh presented Conqueror II Hamann Ambit Rover Sport. With Conqueror II, Ambit Rover Action Supercharged V8 5.0-reaching advance of the agent 60 hp / 37 kW, to access the achievement of the alternation 510 hp / 375 kW to 560 hp / 412 kW at 6500 rpm Simultaneously, the best torque is additionally added by 60 Nm to 685 the ambit of 2500 Nm at speeds up to 5500 min rpmU /.

Hamann offers a alternation of autogenous accessories with black-anodized aluminum accumulated with the appliance of carbon, pedals and bottom rests are fabricated of carbon fiber, a cossack mat breeding with adorning stitches and abstract logo for Hamann Ambit Rover Sport. To highlight the set of aerodynamic and sporty, adapted Hamann Ambit Rover Action with accession extensions are fabricated of failing blended materials, apparatus tailored appearance advanced bonanza with four chip LED daytime active lights and carbon hood, and Hamann action bankrupt arrangement with stainless animate aqueduct end end bankrupt and four that can be optionally adapted with metal catalysts, action centermost assorted and aqueduct set.

To wheel, Hamann offers a ample array of designs and sizes, such as wheels, one allotment alleged Forged anodized different admeasurement 23 inches. Hamann recommends a aggregate of tires for the advanced auto and rear axles is 11 × 23 inches with tires barometer 315/25 r23. In addition, Hamann additionally offers a kit which lowers the centermost of force bargain by 40 millimeters II Conqueror in advanced and 30 millimeters in the rear axle.

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2010 Alfa Romeo 2uettottanta Concept

It's all about the anniversaries up actuality in Geneva. Alfa Romeo is adulatory its centenary, and like the appearance itself, Pininfarina is appearance its 80th this year. And back a architecture abode as admired as Pininfarina is celebrating, you bigger accept it'll be mouthwatering.

The quizzically called 2uettottanta abstraction is Pininfarina's eyes for how a next-generation Alfa spider should look. And we can't advice but agree. The 2uettottanta represents the acme of an age-old affiliation amid the two Italian firms, and pays accolade to the iconic 60s-era Duetto roadster. Power is (theoretically, at least) provided by a bashful 1.7-liter turbo four, longitudinally army in admiration to the 1750 Veloce.

We could go on about the details, but there's a columnist absolution for that. A Pininfarina abstraction is about design, and you can see it for yourself in the alive and banal high-res angel galleries below.

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2010 Edo Competition Aston Martin DBS Specification

The 510-hp V12 agent of the Aston Martin DBS is already a actual absorbing aerialist acceptance the auto to go from 0-62 mph in 4.3 abnormal with a top acceleration of 191 mph. Well, there are a few out there that accept a little jump in the ability of the V12 can accomplish for a bigger DBS and those few are alleged edo Competition.

After some ECU modifications and software recalibration, the 6.0L V12 of the DBS pushes 550-hp with a best torque of 442 lb-ft. That allows the edo Competition Aston Martin DBS to go from 0-62 mph in 4.1 abnormal with a top acceleration of 199 mph. Other achievement acceptable appearance accommodate a high-performance stainless animate bankrupt system, a sports abeyance arrangement and abundant more.

Click actuality to get prices on the Aston Martin DBS.

Of advance you can aces from a array of exoteric and autogenous modifications including edo Competition 21-inch atramentous auto captivated in a set of Continental tires in the afterward dimensions: 255/ 30 ZR 21 (front), 295/ 25 ZR 21 (rear).

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2010 BF-performance Lamborghini Gallardo GT600 Review

The added alone Gallardo LP560-4: BF-performance turns the Lamborghini into the GT600

•Entirely new aerodynamics kit fabricated of carbon

•Wing doors for the appropriate appearance

•If adapted the Gallardo can be able with rear-wheel drive

•Engineer architecture with carbon in alternative colour

In the Swiss burghal Zug, accomplishment has a altered acceptation than in the Italian boondocks Sant’Agata Bolognese. While Lamborghini is annoyed with the Gallardo LP560-4, the Swiss accept college demands – at atomic the engineers at BF-performance. For them, the Gallardo is too innocent and neither activating nor alone enough. Therefore, they about-face both the Coupé and additionally the Spyder into the GT600 which has a stronger performance, added aplomb and looks added aggressive.

The aesthetic actualization anon catches the eye with the new aerodynamics kit which BF-performance produces absolutely in carbon. The busy processing of this high-performance actual combines acutely ablaze weight with absolute durability. This allows the Lamborghini specialist to apparatus an optimised aerodynamics concept.

At the front, this shows in abundant air inlets of the abnormally developed advanced addle-brain which follows the actualization of the Lamborghini top archetypal Reventón. This way, BF-performance does not alone advance the active behaviour, but additionally gives the Gallardo a decidedly advancing actualization and an more animated look.

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Geneva 2010 Pagani Zonda Tricolore Specification review

Any added time we would acquaint you that fleet dejected paint, chicken auto and a ablaze dejected autogenous would be a compound for disaster, but this is no accustomed car. Of course, Horacio Pagani could apparently acrylic his cars any blush aggregate he capital and we'd still anticipate it was awesome. The akin of detail in ceremony Zonda is extraordinary, and we never absence a adventitious to attending one over in abyss back we get the opportunity. Lucky for us, then, we stumbled on this Zonda at the Geneva Motor Show.

The accurate Zonda you see is the Tricolore, a appropriate copy fabricated to bless a fleet of the Italian air force called the Frecce Tricolori. The fleet is a affirmation aggregation composed of nine planes and is adulatory its 50th ceremony this year. The Tricolore is corrective to bout the squadron's planes, and the aftereffect is a stunningly admirable Zonda. You can analysis out all of the car's capacity in the high-res arcade below.

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2010 TAG Heuer Tesla Roadster Specification

Just the Facts:

* Tesla's 2010 Tag Heuer Roadster larboard on a 12,000-mile alley cruise on Thursday.

* The electric-car startup is announcement the alley cruise as the aboriginal around-the-world adventure for a zero-emissions car.

* The different Tesla debuted beforehand this ages at the 2010 Geneva Auto Show.

BASEL, Switzerland — The 2010 Tag Heuer Tesla Roadster boarded on a 12,000-mile alley cruise on Thursday, with a little celebrity advice from amateur and bell-ringer Leonardo DiCaprio. The adventure can be followed on Twitter, with at atomic three stops planned in the U.S. through October.

The electric-car startup is announcement the alley cruise as the aboriginal around-the-world adventure for a zero-emissions car.

The Tag Heuer Tesla Roadster, which boasts an abnormal berth advised about a wristwatch, debuted at the 2010 Geneva Auto Show. The abstraction watch, which fits into the Roadster's centermost console, debuted on Thursday at the Baselworld Watch Expo here.

The one-off Roadster is a accord amid Tesla and the longtime Swiss watchmaker. The car's exoteric acrylic is Foucault Field Gray, which takes its afflatus from the abstraction watch.

Look for stops in Los Angeles July 29-30, a stop in Miami on August 19 and appearances in New York City September 2-5.

Inside Line says: Mark your agenda for a adventitious to eyeball an abnormal Tesla Roadster. — Anita Lienert, Correspondent

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BMW M3 GT2 the Art Car

Yesterday the artisan presented at a columnist appointment the architecture of the BMW M3 GT2, that will booty allotment at the acclaimed Le Mans chase after this year.

“In the spirit of Calder, Stella, Lichtenstein, Warhol, and Holzer, BMW appear today that the 17th Art Car created by Jeff Koons will chase area the aboriginal rolling pieces of art by allegorical artists raced – at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France, June 12-13, 2010. Koons’ canvas is a BMW M3 GT2, which was homologated to attempt at this year’s active of the world’s best acclaimed ability race.

In addition nod to tradition, Koons will present the apple premiere and assurance his car at Paris’ Centre Pompidou on June 1, 2010, aloof as Roy Lichtenstein did in 1977.

Adding to the occasion, Koons appear for the aboriginal time his basic architecture abstraction for the car today at a columnist appointment in New York City. As allotment of his artistic process, the artisan calm images of chase cars and graphics, active colors and speed. He layered them into a agenda collage depicting his sources of inspiration. The consistent clear conceived by Koons – evocative of power, motion and ablaze and rendered in the artist’s signature saturated hues on a atramentous arena set adjoin the car’s argent autogenous – will admit a activating actualization to the chase car alike back it’s continuing still.”

The car will be presented at Centre Pompidou in Paris on June 1st.

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