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Ferrari flip-flops: 420 Dino revealed! {Autoblog}
Dec 7th 2006 11:13AM A new mid-engine Ferrari V12 to slot above the F430 actually would be a good idea. The top end V12 GTs are nice, but their designs are boring, and for >$250,000 people want the engine somewhere more interesting than the front.
Ferrari flip-flops: 420 Dino revealed! {Autoblog}
Dec 7th 2006 9:35AM Wow, I put Ferrari crest magnets on the fenders of my MR2 Spyder as a joke sometimes, but now that Ferrari is going down market maybe people will actually believe it.
This seems like a respectable car, so it might make sense if Ferrari was an independent company, but it isn’t. I don’t know why they want to step on the feet of Maserati and upward moving Alfa Romeo (sold and to be sold at the same dealers in the US) with this thing.
Ward's Auto releases annual 10 Best Engines list {Autoblog}
Dec 7th 2006 9:28AM It was actually the port injection supercharged ecotech that got displaced; the 260 hp/ft-lb direct injection turbocharged ecotech really should be somewhere on this list.
Chevy's arresting 2007 Police Tahoe {Autoblog}
Dec 6th 2006 9:47AM Not as cool as the Charger, but 10 times less lame than this: http://www.autoblog.com/2006/05/11/texas-law-enforcement-issued-700-hp-hummer/ .
Want to own a Shelby Mustang GT-H? 113 being auctioned to Ford dealers {Autoblog}
Dec 6th 2006 9:23AM You can buy the exact same car, except without a rental history, with the choice of a proper manual, and in white instead of back:
http://www.fordvehicles.com/features/news/detail/index.asp?id=1553
Car and Driver actually claimed to like the setup of this car more than the GT500, so the white, non rental car version of it might be the way to go.
With regard to the GT-H version, to paraphrase toolz, "you can't turn a ho into a housewife." I bet the regular Shelby GTs will for for more money that the GT-Hs when they both hit Ford Dealers.
Forget South Beach, Land Rover using Jaguar diet {Autoblog}
Oct 16th 2006 2:55PM Your comments: "the new Range Rover will be the first all-alloy, monocoque-bodied 4x4 when it debuts in 2010" - The AUDI A8 has been an all alloy 4x4 for a number of years now. One might argue that the A8 is awd, not a true 4x4 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4x4), but that argument would also apply to the modern Range Rover. The old Defenders had aluminum bodies but steel frames. There may have been some dramatic advances in magnesium metallurgy, but the old horizontal-four VW magnesium blocks always cracked.
2012 Porsche 928: Images and speculation {Autoblog}
Oct 16th 2006 11:13AM #14, Jason_801, learn to read in context. I, like everyone else here, knew that Dan was only referring to visual appearance when he said "This is [a] Chrysler Firepower with [a] Porsche front grille." You were the only one stupid enough to think that he was referring to something beyond appearance.
What's next from you, jackass, someone commenting that a particular car is a "stupid f*cking car" and you replying that the car is actually unable to have intercourse.
I actually gave you too much credit by presuming that you were mocking Dan for saying that this looks like a Firepower, when you're actually such a sad looser that you were mocking him for his use of the word "is."
2012 Porsche 928: Images and speculation {Autoblog}
Oct 16th 2006 9:42AM #7, don't be so stupid, you can't mock someone for comparing a Chysler to a Porshe if you don't know enough about cars to know what Chysler the person is referring to.
Dan is correct; past the front clip this rendering looks a lot like the Firepower (http://www.tuningnews.net/news/050109/chrysler-firepower-01.jpg).
Morgan goes green with the LIFECar {Autoblog}
Oct 13th 2006 10:17AM I believe that Morgan is now the largest British car company.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Motor_Company
Renaultsport roadster by 2010 {Autoblog}
Oct 13th 2006 10:10AM I'm glad autoblog referenced the Renault Spider. It came out about the same time as the original Elise, and Renault made fun of the Elise because the Spider has a fully welded aluminum frame, as opposed to the bonded and riveted frame on the Elise. It would have made a nice Nissan if the merger had happened earlier.
