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Nissan 360: the design future, and the new 370Z? {Autoblog}
Apr 30th 2008 5:52AM The Maxima was display-only (incredibly!). Nobody got to drive it. But we'll be doing a drive on it very soon...
First Drive: 2009 Jaguar XF {Autoblog}
Apr 1st 2008 10:24PM The production XF was actually done 2+ years before the concept. Jaguar HQ asked Ian to make a concept to get pub for the car, and he didn't want to, but he did. The design of the production car you see here was actually signed off on around '03 or '04. Callum, for his part, said he'd never do it again, based on the response of C-XF vs. XF.
McLaren to launch 2008 F1 challenger the day after Ferrari {Autoblog}
Dec 28th 2007 6:07PM TPP ftw.
VW launches teaser site for new Coupe {Autoblog}
Dec 3rd 2007 11:20AM The engine info came from here: http://www.worldcarfans.com/9071202.001/volkswagen-teases-with-passat-coupe-mini-site
First Drive: Bugatti Veyron {Autoblog}
Nov 28th 2007 4:56PM The gent I rode with was about 6'1" and he seemed all right. In fact, he could get in much more easily than me. Clarkson's 6'5" and he never complained, so I figure you'd be all right...
First Drive: Bugatti Veyron {Autoblog}
Nov 28th 2007 4:52PM @ Jen42, didn't really listen to it. You'd have to have it fairly loud to enjoy music over the sound of the engine, and if you were gassing it, you'd have to really turn it up to hear past the turbos. When I did turn it on, though, I got no reception, and I had no CD with me. But if it really is $30K good, then it's about $22K better than my ears anyway...
Rumormill: Chrysler lineup to shrink by five {Autoblog}
Oct 17th 2007 4:33PM I, too, have a soft spot for the Pacifica. I think if it had come out this year as a brand new model, now that the CUV thing is really rolling, and they supported it, it would do big business. And -- it seems unlike anyone else -- I also dig the infinitely rectangular Commander.
Fifth Gear host injured while drifting A-Team van {Autoblog}
Sep 27th 2007 7:19PM I am that tool. The presenter's name is Tom Ford. Hence "ford."
Car drives start-stop equipped MINI {Autoblog}
Sep 4th 2007 11:25PM So far, uh, no. I've never had a car with a clutch so heavy that I even thought about it. Though I was a cyclist for years, which might have something to do with it... Though, as Kerrick mentions below, I never roll. Foot on clutch, foot on brake. Wait for green. Go.
Car drives start-stop equipped MINI {Autoblog}
Sep 4th 2007 9:22PM Again, fascinating. For those who think me "an idiot" for not putting my car in neutral -- but who didn't read my first comment -- I've never owned an automatic. Mechanics are in my family. They keep their cars in gear. My daily driver (in LA no less!) is an '01 Z06. I keep it in gear at lights. Had a manual 993 before that. Kept it in gear at lights. In 27 years of driving I have never had to replace a clutch or throwout bearing in any car I've ever owned, again, for those who didn't read my first comment, some of them for ten years or more from new, all of them manuals. Nor has anyone in my family. If clutches and throwout bearings are honestly that sensitive to it, I have no idea why I've never had to replace them...but them's the facts...
