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Huet Brothers Coupe proposal is a modern day classic I like the racing version, would be epic with the V8 from the M3 :D

2013 SRT Viper teased on facebook Can't even get the photo straight..

VW to finalise Porsche takover for €3.9billion Also if you look back this has been planned for a while. They bought Bentley for their interior craftsmanship and design heritage, with Bugatti they have been going for aerodynamic testing and innovations and high speed stability having one of the most advanced wind tunnels in the world. Lamborghini has been heavily focusing on composite materials. Porsche has been mainly innovating for the past few years in suspensions and transmissions. Audi has always been focused on aluminum fabrication, and the mainstream test bed for technology that has trickled down from the sports car labs(bugatti, lambo, porsche). They are very well structured and are probably the only car company that has modular R&D laboratories that are also very profitable. They see almost relatively instant ROI from their R&D investments, that's why they can afford billions and billions in R&D and expansions. Where as most companies have one R&D lab that comes up with technologies and they have to wait for the right model to be released, they don't innovate for immediate use with a test vehicle that will hit the market any time soon, plus they dont have test beds in EVERY category. Like that clear screen rear window GM came up with, they have NO vehicle in a category where something like that could be used and be a reasonably priced option any time soon. VW could put that in a Bentley and be able to charge 20,000$, i mean what's another 20k on a 300k car, but 20k ontop of a 25k malibu or 70$ Cadillac is ridiculous, so they have to wait for the technology to drop drastically in price before they can use it. Think of all the technologies that are too expensive to start out in a mainstream car. This is where VW shines, they don't need to wait for anything to test it out and make $ off their new creations.

VW to finalise Porsche takover for €3.9billion I love how people say that Porsche failed at the takeover...I mean do you guys seriously think Porsche wanted to buy or could buy VW group?? It was a successful attempt at inflating the VW stock to double and Porsche stocks deflating after, the two had to merge no matter what and VW would of been the big dog, so they raised the value of VW and got Porsche a publicly traded company for pennies. They had to merge for porsche to survive and to be able to keep making sports cars for the US market otherwise they would of been making some gay little cars to meet the MPG fleet quota. The families may argue about what type of car they should produce, they have always built different cars but at the end of the day they have the same business values and each runs a very successful business, no reason for VW to mingle with Porsche's affairs or vice versa. There is no animosity between these families, they just had different visions at the start, one wanted to build a car for the people the other wanted to build a premium sports car. VW owns Bugatti, Bentley, and Lamborghini and have had nothing but open arms for them, they gave them whatever $ they needed and resources and opened the doors to their parts bins if they needed something. And those were almost bankrupt companies and look at them now, they weren't family either. I think Porsche which is family and has always been hand in hand with VW and is a VERY successful and profitable company will be OK. VW has no reason to mingle with their business, they are the most profitable car company in the world, making over 20% profit. They can't financially afford to mess it up, also a whole province in germany gets their bread and butter from Porsche, they can't afford that kind of negative publicity especially in their mother land.

Rare 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Alloy Gullwing sells for $4.62m 222hp and direct injection vs 150hp carburated.

Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 revealed I want that but with a stock interior! Would be a blast to drive.

Dealers refusing to take Chevy Volts - report Yeah but batteries you buy at the store aren't 40,000$. The battery pack is under warranty from the day you buy it. It's rated by the manufacturer from the date of manufacture. Two completely different things, you may have a 5yr warranty from GM from the date of purchase, and the battery is rated by the manufacturer from the date of fabrication for 7 years, so if the battery is one yr old when you buy the car, the rated life is 6 years from then, so it has a good chance of failing right after your warranty is over. Also just like gasoline, the minerals used for batteries aren't renewable, the more of these cars get produced the higher the replacement costs. In my opinion if i had the choice as a buyer i would not buy a volt off of the dealer lot, i would order one fresh from the factory, especially since they don't offer discounts.

Dealers refusing to take Chevy Volts - report Well I admit that the test performed made no sense, I really don't understand what they mean by rotated 180 degrees and why they would improperly install a li-ion battery they deemed to be damaged but realistically the battery should not have been catastrophicaly damaged from a side impact, GM should of put the battery in a more secure location or protected it better. Also this car should not be in inventory, sells too slow and like with any piece of electronics depreciates too fast, the battery is rated for 7 years but realistically more like 5 from the date it was produced. So if the battery is one year old the price should be 20% less.

McLaren F1 successor to use a twin-turbo 3.8-liter V8 - report LAME, should of gone with a highly modified 6.0L V12 twin turbo from BMW. 3.8L hahahah, sorry but for that price you can get an Aventador for the summer, a Range Rover Supercharged for the winter, and a Continental Flying Spur for driving the family around.

GM envisions interactive rear windows [video] I love how GM is focusing on augmented reality and clear screen technologies instead of making the actual car better. I mean really who give's a rat's ass, if this is even an option in the next 2-3 years that window will cost you over 1000$ each, plus the computer to run it..This is not very practical, sure it's cool, but there are lots of cool AND practical things they could be focusing on. Paint that acts like solar panels, a turbine powered hybrid, a plug in car that can re-charge wirelessly on the move with the simple addition of a power strip on the road. Clear screen would be more useful in the front when combined with radar, it could outline pedestrians and things on the road at night for you, give you distance to them, the sat-nav be overlayed on the actual road in front of you. With all the opportunities they focus on entertaining kids or mentally handicapped adults sitting in the back.