Toyota Entune Infotainment System to Challenge Ford’s Sync ( entune )

 

 entune 

Toyota is using the 2011 purchaser Electronics display to introduce its take on the vehicular media middle, Entune, that is aimed immediately at Ford’s Sync.

The voice-controlled and touch-display-based Entune device carries media, navigation, and cell-cellphone manipulate, as well as get right of entry to to facts through a diffusion of downloadable apps. To start with, the ones will include iheartradio, which streams neighborhood programming from clear Channel, a Bing app to search for destinations, Pandora for track streaming, OpenTable for making eating place reservations, and MovieTickets.Com, for buying, er, movie tickets. The gadget also helps XM satellite radio, HD radio, and dull everyday terrestrial radio, and includes a USB port to attach iPods and other audio devices. It really works with Bluetooth-capable telephones, that may of direction be managed with voice instructions. And similar to Sync, Entune bundles real-time visitors information, weather, sports rankings, and inventory charges.

Toyota Entune Pandora App

apparently, Toyota’s system is based on among the equal providers as Sync: INRIX is presenting visitors data, the voice-recognition software program is from Nuance, and both systems offer a Pandora app. QNX, the corporation that offers the mobile-smartphone integration platform, does the same for BMW’s new ConnectedDrive system. We’re probable to look extra producers adopt these identical again-end platforms—and we wouldn’t be surprised if some show up at this 12 months’s CES—as the pick few organizations building them maintain to refine their merchandise. So long as the stuff works, does so seamlessly, and has a viable interface, that’s excellent via us.

The availability of Entune remains uncertain, as Toyota says most effective that the system could be to be had on pick out models later this year. Check returned later this week for a more in-depth look at Entune from the show ground in Vegas.

The Bug’s Life: A History of the Volkswagen Beetle (bug's life )

 bug's life

Volkswagen’s Beetle is one of the oldest nameplates in automotive history nonetheless in use today. Inside the U.S., the bug turned into bought among 1950 and 1979, with income resuming as a new model become introduced in 1998. However the little VW’s records stretches all of the way returned to 1934, while development work commenced in earnest in Germany. The primary batch of finalized vehicles had been birthed in 1938, most effective to see the glowing new manufacturing unit built to collect them pulled into Germany's battle attempt and later bombed to close to-oblivion. Eu civilians wouldn’t get their arms on the auto until 1947, after manufacturing became restarted to offer ground transportation for Allied occupying troops. U.S. Importation grew from a trickle in the early ’50s to a flood a decade later, and in the end 21 million Beetles might be offered international. Even after U.S. Income ceased in 1979, the car continued to be constructed and sold in Mexico and Brazil. Over the years, little or no about the Beetle changed; it wasn’t till 1998 that the automobile obtained its first primary redesign. For a look at the main activities inside the malicious program's history, hold on:

We Test Honda’s New Grom Minibike—Including in Our Office ( honda grom )

 

honda grom  

The quick sweeper in our lobby/psychedelics-trying out region permits the rider to allow all of the Grom’s 12 horses free.

Motorcyclists sign their two-wheel approval through losing left hands while passing. But while you’re driving a Honda Grom powered with the aid of a a hundred twenty five-cc engine and the rider of a 1340-cc Suzuki Hayabusa making round 190 horsepower gives you the low signal, it’s tough no longer to snigger. That’s like a sidestep Challenger SRT Hellcat’s motive force soliciting kinship with a man in a smart Fortwo.

Honda Grom SpecificationsIts call is derived from “grommet,” a slang time period for a younger surfer. However the Grom is an antique soul—element pit motorbike, part recreation motorcycle, and all amusing. The only aspect newbie about it's miles how clean it's far for brand spanking new riders to technique. It’s no scooter, even though. It’s a legitimate motorcycle with a 4-speed gearbox, and it calls for a bike endorsement at the rider’s driving force’s license. If you manifest to need a two-wheel permit, the Grom is right for taking the using take a look at; its forty seven.Four-inch wheelbase, low seat peak, and 229-pound weight nearly constitute cheating.

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We dared not tackle a 70-mph interstate on the Grom. However, the motorbike does zip down 55-mph back roads with the composure of a larger system. We finished a lap of our 10Best loop with out so much as respiration the throttle. It’s huge open almost anywhere, with a cruising speed varying between 52 and 58 mph, depending on the slope of the road and the ­rider’s mind-set. Get right into a tuck and the virtual speedo climbs. Upward thrust up and your frame acts as an air brake, more or less doubling frontal region.

Honda Grom

Technical director Don Sherman changed into positive that the street-felony Grom turned into too big to maneuver thru our ninety-degree cube farm. Proving him incorrect—a unprecedented treat—we idled between workplace couches and dividers and down the narrow corridors that make up our Ann Arbor HQ, placing a foot down however as soon as over 1/2 a dozen laps.

At $3349, the Honda Grom is some distance from a toy, however it's far a very inexpensive manner to get into motorcycling. It’s extraordinarily efficient—we averaged 92 mpg over two hundred miles—and as much fun as anything you can power to the water cooler. Simply don’t neglect to wave back to fellow bikers.

Using tools, consisting of carpet-burn-preventing Kevlar denims, courtesy of Dainese.

Apple Blocked Volkswagen from Demonstrating Wireless CarPlay at CES ( apple carplay )

 

apple carplay  

Tens of millions of iPhones are already geared up to use Apple CarPlay over a wireless connection, but the Cupertino, California, tech giant blocked Volkswagen from displaying off the consumer revel in on the 2016 consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas. “We desired to illustrate wireless CarPlay and the proprietor of CarPlay technology didn’t permit us to,” Volkmar Tanneberger, head of electrical and electronic development at Volkswagen, told automobile and driving force.

CarPlay permits a car’s infotainment display to mirror the iPhone interface and pick apps, albeit with some capability restrained because of safety worries. The capability to apply CarPlay wirelessly is a characteristic of iOS nine, Apple’s most latest mobile operating gadget, but no automaker gives a device that is well matched with the protocol. Present infotainment systems that accommodate CarPlay require users to connect their phones to the car through a USB port.

At the same time as Tanneberger didn’t give an explanation for why Volkswagen’s plans have been stopped, we suspect that Apple desires to manipulate the first demonstration of wi-fi CarPlay, possibly at one of its very own occasions such as its global builders convention or its fall keynote, and in all likelihood with any other automaker that it has partnered with.

Wireless Mirrorlink

as opposed to wireless CarPlay, Volkswagen used its sales space at CES to illustrate the capacity to wirelessly join a smartphone to an in-automobile touchscreen the usage of MirrorLink, an open-source trendy that competes with CarPlay but isn’t available on iPhones. The wireless requirements of MirrorLink and CarPlay connect the phone and display display via wireless. As soon as linked, customers can use the in-dash infotainment display to stream and control music saved on the smartphone, pull up navigation instructions, and access other accredited apps that are hosted at the telephone. When you consider that display screen mirroring drains a smartphone’s battery quick, Volkswagen envisions pairing the technology with wireless charging. Google has no longer yet released a protocol to apply Android auto wirelessly.

2017 Ford F-150 Raptor In-Depth: Twin Turbos, 10-Speed Gearbox ( 2016 ford raptor )

 

 2016 ford raptor 

From the March 2015 difficulty of vehicle and driver

Ford’s first F-150 Raptor hit like a meteorite when it made its debut for 2010—sudden, incredible, and sudden. It became the first authentic high-carry out­ance off-street pickup with a factory warranty, a proud totem of badassery. Advanced by using Ford’s special car team, it by some means survived each the Baja one thousand barren region race and the worst monetary faceplant in current history to turn out to be an authorized critical and commercial achievement, despite the fact that many a Raptor in no way set a wheel off-street. We expect extra of the equal now that a brand new, lighter F-a hundred and fifty platform will underpin Ford’s exurban pre-runner.

Whilst many information are nonetheless guarded, the second-gen truck will release in autumn 2016 as a 2017 version under the new Ford overall performance banner. So it’s simply called the F-150 Raptor now. It’s additionally extra very well engineered as a unique car unto itself; Ford has given it a devoted chassis and powertrain to go together with the special bodywork.

The Raptor’s new boxed metallic body is reinforced from the regular F-150’s and could are available in two sizes: the sportier 133-inch-wheelbase SuperCab and the roomier 145-inch SuperCrew. Despite the beefier frame, Ford claims that the new truck’s aluminum frame (in addition to the composite hood and the front ­fenders) allows trim 500 pounds from its pred­ecessor’s curb weight. Thinking about the final Raptor SuperCab we tested weighed 6100 kilos, we’re strongly in choose of the eating regimen.

Not is there a huge, iron-block V-8 beneath the hood, in order that must keep a few weight right there. Yes, parents; the 2017 Raptor is EcoBoost only and the primary recipient of a second-generation three.5-liter V-6 with dual turbochargers and direct gas injection. Ford says the high-powered EcoBoost engines it develops for sports activities-automobile racing influenced some of the production V-6’s enhancements, such as a new aluminum block and updates to the fuel gadget, cylinder heads, and internals. To similarly improve airflow, the high-output engine exhales thru a real twin-exhaust gadget with twin shops notched in the rear bumper.

We’ll omit the roar of the old 6.2-liter V-eight, but Ford promises that the Raptor’s new turbo six can be more green and soundly trump the V-8’s 411 horsepower and 434 pound-ft of torque. We don’t recognize yet by way of how much, but expect hundreds of torque and at least 450 ponies.

Mated to the Raptor’s engine might be the first software of Ford’s 10-pace automated transmission and a brand new 4-wheel-force transfer case, so as to paintings with a terrain-mode system to configure the truck for varying conditions (dust, snow, rocks, and so forth.). Controlled thru steering-wheel buttons and a menu in the cluster, the machine will tailor the traits of the engine, drivetrain, stability control, and more to assist weekend warriors get the maximum from their Raptors with out rolling them down hillsides.

All of this indicates not anything off-road, however, with out a proper suspension. New additives are decidedly robust and wider than before, with mammoth aluminum control arms up the front, specially tuned springs (coils in front, leafs in again), and 3.0-inch inner-skip Fox Racing shocks in place of the old 2.5s. Ford is coy on details, saying handiest that suspension travel is extra than the preceding truck’s 11.2 inches in front and 12.1 on the rear, which became already enough for ninety-mph blasts via the barren region.

Part of the previous Raptor’s appeal became that it had rather respectable avenue manners considering its core project and giant tires. Whilst the brand new truck could have comparable shoes as before—new 17-inch wheels with 35-inch-tall BFGoodrich All-Terrain T/A KO2s—we’re instructed to count on a much smoother, more composed journey. Given the refinements we’ve already skilled riding the new F-one hundred fifty, we have no purpose to doubt it.
Left: Fatter inner-skip Fox Racing shocks mounted here on improbably easy suspension components.

There’s additionally no question that the new Raptor seems the component, all toned and buff in its alloy skin. It’s extra than only a slab-sided F-one hundred fifty with fender flares now; its haunches are a great deal extra outstanding than the vintage truck’s. They’re about as extensive as before, or kind of as broad as one and a half Fiat 500s, in large part to clean the large tires and beefier suspension.

The Raptor’s proud “FORD” grille and array of marker lights continue to be, however they’re now framed in a layout extra finessed than the blocky first-gen truck’s. Small front and rear bumpers improve technique and departure angles, especially the pinched-up rear give up, which lends a true desert-racer appearance. The giant front skid plate, the front fender vents, and elective mattress decals bring over, however with evolved designs.
It really is a badass 10-velocity.

Our first look at a preproduction 2017 Raptor’s indoors found out deeply strengthened sport seats up the front with contrasting stitching; some carbon-fiber accents; and a meaty, contoured steering wheel with large paddle shifters. Anticipate plenty of “Raptor” trademarks, as well as greater typical comfort and luxury than earlier than, with all of a cutting-edge truck’s alternatives and safety equipment.

The authentic Raptor’s successful four-12 months run made it the best-extent SVT vehicle ever, with production nearly maxed out. It unfolded new markets, along with the middle East and several government businesses. With out sharing extent specifics, Ford says all the previous buyers need to be able to upgrade to the brand new truck, and that there probable can be manufacturing ability to be had to appease extra new proprietors. Pricing info is further murky, but the first F-150 Raptor’s relative accessibility—approximately forty six grand to begin in 2014—turned into key to its allure. Don’t anticipate a large soar in fee; we assume base vans will begin round $50,000, and loaded SuperCrews ought to reach 60 huge.

In that case, in order to nonetheless be a good deal for what you get. The Raptor comes from a hardy bloodline inside the F-150. And it’s lighter now, so it is able to fly even farther.

Ford Ranger May Return to U.S. By 2018, For Reals ( 2016 ford ranger )

 

 2016 ford ranger

Compact-pickup consumers started out pining for a new edition of the venerable Ford Ranger as quickly because the robots welded the trucks’ very last frames four years in the past, and you could depend us amongst that lot. Now, according to nameless large mouths inside the Detroit news, Ford isn't only making plans to bring the worldwide-marketplace Ranger to america, however desires to build it in Michigan as quickly as 2018.

The story breaks as Ford and the United automobile workers hash out a new settlement and determine what to do with the agency’s Michigan meeting Plant in Wayne, which currently builds the focus and C-Max. In July, Ford stated it would flow manufacturing of those models to Mexico through 2018 but stopped short on final the plant. With 4500 jobs on the road, a resurgent mid-size pickup market spurred through standard cars, and Ford debuting a brand new Ranger in March, the opportunity of a U.S.-spec model is greater real than ever. The newspaper reports that the “final choice is up for dialogue in the talks now underway.”

Ford wouldn’t verify the plan, but spokesman Mike Levine said the organization is “pursuing destiny car alternatives to provide at Michigan assembly and will speak this trouble with UAW leadership as part of the upcoming negotiations.”

Of direction, the cutting-edge Ranger is no compact. Nowadays’s “mid-length” vehicles are mere inches far from widespread dimensions and now not the lightweight, low-riding Rangers, S10s, Datsun 720s, and “YO” Toyotas that populated American roadways inside the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s. Still, the marginally shrunken proportions do pay dividends for parking, gas financial system, and price. As we’ve opined earlier than, not every truck buyer wishes or needs a half of-ton pickup.

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We’ll say that is an easy win for Ford. A bit federalizing, no chook tax, and a emblem-new truck with a swish indoors and efficient engines—Ford’s three.2-liter diesel inline-five is already to be had here within the Transit—must be easy math. Pickups, in the end, are the maximum profitable and highest-quantity segment for the Detroit three.

2016 Chevrolet Volt Dissected: Powertrain, Design, Chassis, and More ( 2016 volt )

 2016 volt

From the March 2015 trouble of vehicle and driver

within the 8 years because it turned into introduced, the Chevrolet Volt has been some various things. First, it turned into a idea at Detroit’s 2007 North American international automobile show, offered as antique GM’s technological excellent jump ahead. Then it became a political device to get New GM thru its 2009 financial disaster. And it has constantly been a sop to greenie-kind sensibilities. In all the ones jobs, it has completed dutifully and sold modestly—Chevy moved 19,000 Volts off lots closing yr—due to the fact that hitting showrooms as a 2011 model.

Now comes the second one-technology Volt, promising to be even more pleasant to drive than the surprisingly pleasing first one. The 2016 Volt is delicate, buffed up, and smoothed over, however it remains conceptually constant with the unique.
Powertrain

the first Volt’s 84-hp, 1.4-liter, four-cylinder gas engine stood in evaluation to the car’s high-tech credentials. It used an iron block, required premium gas, and lacked leading-area technology such as direct injection. The 1.5-liter is the first of GM’s new four-cylinder, direct-injection, aluminum-block engines in North the united states. Regardless of a compression ratio of 12.Five:1 (in comparison with the 1.4’s 10.Five:1), the 1.5 runs on ordinary fuel and makes one hundred and one horsepower. And the powertrain is a hundred kilos lighter than the outgoing vehicle’s, useful considering that Volt drivers commonly opt to motor electrically, sporting the engine as dead weight.
GM's new Ecotec small-engine own family includes turbocharged and clearly aspirated three- and 4-cylinders between 1.Zero and 1.5 liters.

“there has been speculation that the engine would be smaller, have fewer cylinders, or be turbocharged,” Volt leader engineer Andrew Farah says. “What this simply comes down to, with the new higher-compression, direct-injection, larger-displacement engine, is that we are able to get the identical quantity of power at any factor we need with decrease rpm. And lower rpm interprets into decrease noise.” And, no question, decrease consumption.

True to the authentic recipe, the Volt nevertheless uses two electric powered cars. But, according to Farah, “not a single component variety” is commonplace among the primary- and 2d-gen Voltec powertrains. The primary-gen car used one large motor and one small one, but the new car’s vehicles are nearer in size and percentage the workload extra calmly. Combined electrical energy stands pat at 149 horsepower, while torque from the vehicles climbs 21 pound-toes to 294. Once the batteries are depleted, Farah says, “the maximum efficient factor to do is to take torque from the engine to the wheels. So we will truly do this more often.” GM says the new Volt will get forty one mpg on gas and 102 MPGe on power, increases of four in each combined-using metrics. The employer also says that the brand new Volt might be quicker, getting from 0 to 60 mph in 8.4 seconds, zero.4 2d fleeter than the remaining Volt we tested.
Battery

energy ability is up whilst battery mass has dropped with the aid of 31 pounds. The wide variety of Compact electricity lithium-ion cells inside the T-fashioned battery p.C. Has dropped from 288 to 192, even as revised chemistry helps strength potential develop from the outgoing vehicle’s 17.1 kWh to 18.Four. The p.C. Enables a claimed all-electric powered variety of fifty miles.
The Volt's new battery p.C. Is lighter than the vintage one, with fewer cells and a decrease center of gravity. A complete charge on 120V will take approximately thirteen hours, at the same time as 240V will drop that point to 4.Five hours.

Since most Volt owners prefer energy over gas, engineers centered on greater-green methods of charging the battery percent. A brand new “Regen on demand” function allows the driver to have interaction regenerative braking using a paddle in the back of the guidance wheel, a characteristic adopted from Cadillac’s $seventy six,000 model of the closing Volt, the ELR. On this mode, the vehicles more aggressively recycle power whilst the driving force lifts off the accelerator, offering enough deceleration to show the Volt into a “one-pedal” vehicle in the course of everyday commutes.

GPS region-based totally services will optimize battery-charging situations. Whilst the automobile is aware of it’s domestic, for instance, it might best price when application costs are at lower, off-height costs.
Tires are low-rolling-resistance, all-season Michelin energy Savers, size 215/50R-17.
Chassis

under its fresh sheetmetal, the Volt is still a member of GM’s the front-drive Delta II own family, along the Buick Verano and Chevy Cruze. That means struts up the front and a torsion beam under the rear quit. The frame shape is stiffer than before, and one massive change is that the front subframe cradle is now not remoted with the aid of rubber mounts. “You get a miles higher feel for the road,” Farah asserts approximately the solidly established cradle, “even though you do have to fear about transmitted noise.” The wheelbase creeps up with the aid of zero.4 inch and length by means of three.3 inches, while the roof is zero.2 inch decrease. Decrease weight, the enemy of performance, is said to drop through more than 2 hundred kilos.
Design

Rounder, pointier, and extra sculpted at the nose, the brand new Volt looks as if a cat with its rump inside the air. It right away makes the first Volt seem prehistoric, but it’s also much less awesome from traditional vehicles.

Inner, the primary Volt’s Kenmore washing machine/dryer touchpad sprint is long past, replaced via dials, switches, and knobs, and more-conventional but richer-looking finishes.  Eight-inch screens deliver maximum of the data, at the same time as blue lights is meant to emphasize the electrical nature of the Volt. A number of chrome accessory trim emphasizes that that is a GM design.

Chevy has controlled to squeeze a third seat between the 2 outboard positions in the lower back. But it’s the definition of “occasional use,” a pillion you’ll want to depend on now not greater than as soon as a decade, while the crowd at paintings wants to go to Denny’s for lunch. Make the man who counseled Denny’s trip within the center.

2016 Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon Duramax Diesel Details and Pricing Released ( 2016 chevy colorado )

 

2016 chevy colorado

Trendy cars made us wait a year for its Duramax four-cylinder diesel, but this autumn it will be a part of the Ram 1500 EcoDiesel as handiest the second compression-ignition engine presented to U.S. Pickup customers out of doors the heavy-duty phase.

For 2016, the Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon advantage this 1/3 engine desire beyond their 2 hundred-hp 2.5-liter inline-four and 305-hp 3.6-liter V-6. As we’ve previously unique, the Thai-constructed 2.Eight-liter rapid-diesel inline-four makes 181 horsepower at 3400 rpm and 369 lb-feet of torque at 2000 rpm. It will be to be had most effective on group-cab vans (and restricted to LT and Z71 trims at the Colorado, SLE and SLT on the Canyon) however can be spec’d with both - or 4-wheel power. The Z82 trailering package deal (hitch receiver, seven-pin connector, and a diesel-most effective trailer-brake controller) comes preferred at the side of a locking three.Forty two:1 rear differential (versus the fuel four’s 4.10:1) and driving force-switchable exhaust brake.

2015 GMC Canyon

All this, plus a required safety package deal (forward-collision and lane-departure indicators; $395) and convenience package (rear-window defroster with sliding glass, fog lamps, far off begin, damped tailgate; $690) brings the diesel’s base rate to $33,520 for the Chevy and $34,875 for the GMC. For reference, the ones expenses are for the LT and SLE four×2 brief-bed models.

Packed into the top rate are powertrain capabilities like cooled exhaust-fuel recirculation, a balance shaft for smoother operation, and ceramic glow plugs. The Duramax can also run up to 20-percent biodiesel. New for all Colorados and Canyons is a centrifugal pendulum vibration damper, a fixed of springs and dampers connected to the six-velocity automatic’s torque converter that cancels out shaking from the engine.

2016 Chevrolet Colorado 2.8L Duramax faster Diesel

EPA gasoline-economic system figures, that are expected to include 30-plus-mpg toll road, haven’t been announced. But compared with the gas V-6, the diesel 4×2 can tow seven hundred kilos greater (7700) and an additional six hundred pounds in 4×4 trim (7600). Payload capacity is up, too, however in view that GM has not launched reduce weight figures we can simplest wager they’re up by way of near 2 hundred pounds.

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the whole thing else approximately the 2016 Colorado and Canyon, diesel or gas, is the equal for 2016 keep for a few new tech capabilities. Apple CarPlay, the interface that mirrors the iPhone’s capability at the MyLink infotainment gadget, is now to be had (Android auto is on its way next 12 months). Apple Siri Eyes unfastened, which integrates the iPhone’s voice controls with the vehicle, is now available along with textual content-message support. Plus, LT and Z71 models get a new multicolor lcd at the tool panel.

Lexus NX ( lexus nx 200t )

 

lexus nx 200t

The NX wants to be a sports activities automobile—you may inform by means of its chiseled frame and angle-eyed glare—but don’t be fooled: below, it’s a softy. F sport models get a stiffer suspension, but that fails to virtually sharpen the managing. A 235-hp 2.0-liter rapid four and 6-speed automated are wellknown; the to be had hybrid model back just 27 mpg in our testing. The front-power is trendy on each fashions; all-wheel force is optional. Features like a nicely-appointed cabin and at ease seats preserve the NX in the hunt.

Weight Information
Base Curb Weight	3940
Curb Weight - Front	N/A
Curb Weight - Rear	N/A
Maximum Payload Capacity	N/A
Curb Weight	N/A
Total Option Weight	0.00
Exterior Dimensions
Wheelbase	104.7
Length, Overall	182.3
Width, Max w/o mirrors	73.6
Height, Overall	64.8
Track Width, Front	62.2
Track Width, Rear	62.2
Min Ground Clearance	6.9
Rear Door Opening Height	N/A
Rear Door Opening Width	N/A
Liftover Height	N/A
Interior Dimensions
Passenger Capacity	5
Passenger Volume	71.6
Front Head Room	38.2
Front Leg Room	42.8
Front Shoulder Room	57.3
Front Hip Room	55.1
Second Head Room	38.1
Second Leg Room	36.1
Second Shoulder Room	55.3
Second Hip Room	53.9
Cargo Area Dimensions
Cargo Area Length @ Floor to Seat 1	N/A
Cargo Area Length @ Floor to Seat 2	N/A
Cargo Area Length @ Floor to Seat 3	N/A
Cargo Area Width @ Beltline	N/A
Cargo Box Width @ Wheelhousings	N/A
Cargo Box (Area) Height	N/A
Cargo Volume to Seat 1	54.6
Cargo Volume to Seat 2	17.7
Cargo Volume to Seat 3	17.7
Engine
Engine Order Code
Engine Type	Intercooled Turbo Premium Unleaded I-4
Displacement	2.0 L/122
Fuel System	Port/Direct Injection
SAE Net Horsepower @ RPM	235 @ 4800
SAE Net Torque @ RPM	258 @ 1650
Transmission
Drivetrain	Front Wheel Drive
Trans Order Code
Trans Type	6
Trans Description Cont.	Automatic w/OD
Trans Description Cont. Again
First Gear Ratio (:1)	3.30
Second Gear Ratio (:1)	1.90
Third Gear Ratio (:1)	1.42
Fourth Gear Ratio (:1)	1.00
Fifth Gear Ratio (:1)	0.71
Sixth Gear Ratio (:1)	0.61
Reverse Ratio (:1)	4.15
Clutch Size	N/A
Final Drive Axle Ratio (:1)	3.89
Transfer Case Gear Ratio (:1), High	N/A
Transfer Case Gear Ratio (:1), Low	N/A
Steering
Steering Type	Rack-Pinion
Steering Ratio (:1), Overall	N/A
Lock to Lock Turns (Steering)	N/A
Turning Diameter - Curb to Curb	39.8
Turning Diameter - Wall to Wall	N/A
Suspension
Suspension Type - Front	Strut
Suspension Type - Rear	Double Wishbone
Suspension Type - Front (Cont.)	Strut
Suspension Type - Rear (Cont.)	Double Wishbone
Shock Absorber Diameter - Front	N/A
Shock Absorber Diameter - Rear	N/A
Stabilizer Bar Diameter - Front	N/A
Stabilizer Bar Diameter - Rear	N/A
Brakes
Brake Type	N/A
Brake ABS System	4-Wheel
Brake ABS System (Second Line)	N/A
Disc - Front (Yes or )	Yes
Disc - Rear (Yes or )	Yes
Front Brake Rotor Diam x Thickness	11.7
Rear Brake Rotor Diam x Thickness	11.2
Drum - Rear (Yes or )
Rear Drum Diam x Width
Wheels
Front Wheel Size	17 X 7
Rear Wheel Size	17 X 7
Spare Wheel Size	Compact
Front Wheel Material	Aluminum
Rear Wheel Material	Aluminum
Spare Wheel Material	Steel
Tires
Front Tire Order Code
Rear Tire Order Code
Spare Tire Order Code
Front Tire Size	P225/65HR17
Rear Tire Size	P225/65HR17
Spare Tire Size	Compact
Fuel Tank
Fuel Tank Capacity, Approx	15.9
Aux Fuel Tank Capacity, Approx	N/A
Mileage
EPA Fuel Economy Est - Hwy	28
Cruising Range - City	349.80
EPA Fuel Economy Est - City	22
Fuel Economy Est-Combined	25
Cruising Range - Hwy	445.20
EPA MPG Equivalent - City	N/A
EPA MPG Equivalent - Hwy	N/A
EPA MPG Equivalent - Combined	N/A
Emissions
Tons/yr of CO2 Emissions @ 15K mi/year	7.1
EPA Greenhouse Gas Score	N/A
Cooling System
Total Cooling System Capacity	N/A
Electrical
Cold Cranking Amps @ 0° F (Primary)	550
Maximum Alternator Capacity (amps)	N/A
Trailering
Dead Weight Hitch - Max Trailer Wt.	2000
Dead Weight Hitch - Max Tongue Wt.	200
Wt Distributing Hitch - Max Trailer Wt.	2000
Wt Distributing Hitch - Max Tongue Wt.	300
Maximum Trailering Capacity	2000

2016 Audi A5 Rendered and Detailed: Expect a Beautiful Evolution ( audi a5 2016 )

 

 audi a5 2016 

What it's far: a detailed take a look at the second generation of the fabulous Audi A5, the higher-looking brother to the 4-door A4. Audi will maintain to provide the A5 in coupe and cabriolet bureaucracy in the U.S., even as Europe will again be treated to the 5-door Sportback model. Just like the subsequent-gen 2015 A4, the new A5 will feature modern-day telematics and help systems; a futuristic interior; and tech gadgetry which includes complete-LED headlights, a head-up show, and autonomous driving functionality.
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Why It matters: Audi has led the section together with BMW since the A5 turned into added in 2007, but in no way has the competition been this fierce. BMW’s four-series is all-new, as is Lexus’s RC and Cadillac’s ATS coupe, at the same time as Mercedes’ freshly added C-magnificence will spawn a two-door subsequent 12 months. If the A5 is to keep its location on the top of the heap, it must region similarly emphasis on sportiness and its designers will need to enhance upon an already extraordinary shape—a tall order, indeed.

You see, the outgoing vehicle is a favorite of Volkswagen institution leader fashion designer Walter de’Silva, and consequently penning the second-gen vehicle incorporates with it status but also large stress. We remember the fact that the emblem changed into open to completely re-inventing the A5 design from the ground up, however an evolution of the unique in the end prevailed.
2016 Audi A5 coupe (artist's rendering)

Platform: the second one-gen A5 will be a part of the 2015 A4 on the second one new release of the VW institution’s MLB modular-longitudinal structure, that is called MLB Evo. (This platform will also underpin the following-era A6, A8, and Volkswagen Phaeton.) The bones will shave a few two hundred pounds from the A5 versus its predecessor thanks to the usage of greater aluminum.

Powertrains: Stateside, the A5 is ready to maintain with two-thirds of the powertrain lineup—albeit with modest will increase in power—as offered inside the cutting-edge vehicle. The ones engines: a 2.Zero-liter turbo 4 inside the base car (currently 211 hp) and a three.0-liter supercharged V-6 in the S5 (presently 333 hp). The RS5 will abandon its 450-hp, 4.2-liter obviously aspirated V-eight in desire of a version of the VW group’s ubiquitous four.0-liter twin-rapid V-8. A six-velocity manual might be to be had, as will a seven-velocity twin-grab automated.

Opposition: BMW 4-collection, Cadillac ATS coupe, Lexus RC, Mercedes-Benz C-class coupe.

Predicted Arrival and charge: The 2016 Audi A5 will debut closer to the stop of this yr before arriving on showroom floors at the beginning of 2015. Pricing probably will inch up from the modern automobile’s $39,895 base sticky label and could stretch to $70K-plus for the RS5.

Dodge’s Future: Alfa-Based Barracuda Convertible, New Charger Sedan Coming Soon ( 2016 barracuda )

 

 2016 barracuda

Fiat-Chrysler’s dealer meeting in Las Vegas has grew to become up quite a few information, a number of which we saw coming and a number of which we didn’t. The various drool-worthy tidbits are those pertaining to avert, and what’s to turn out to be of its Charger sedan and the long-rumored Barracuda. (The ’Cuda pictured right here is our artist’s rendering first published in 2013, when the auto changed into scheduled to debut as an SRT-badged version.) consistent with automotive news, Alfa Romeo’s new Giulia will donate its adaptable rear-force underpinnings to each automobiles, and the Barracuda will come only in convertible shape. Say it with us now: Ooooo, Barracuda!

2015 circumvent Charger R/T Scat percent

to date, now not an awful lot is known about the following-generation Charger sedan or the Barracuda beyond their hyperlink to the most modern Alfa Romeo product. Automobile information reports that the Charger will borrow greater from the 1999 Charger R/T idea and tackle a less blocky look than today’s version, however the ’Cuda’s appearance stays cloaked in mystery. Seriously, the new Dodges must be lighter than the cutting-edge Charger 4-door and (coupe-best) Challenger two-door, which use heavily fortified evolutions of a decade-vintage Mercedes-Benz platform.

The Alfa Giulia is alleged to weigh simply 3325 pounds, despite the fact that that discern probably hews to the positive side of factors. Both way, even factoring the possibility that the Charger would be larger (the Giulia competes with the BMW 3-series) and use fewer special materials, it’d absolutely be lighter than the contemporary car, which weighs between 4000 and 4400 pounds depending on powertrain and gadget. No mention of the Challenger’s destiny can be found in AN’s file, but we count on the 2-door coupe will keep on and use Giulia bones, too.

1999 evade Charger idea
The outdoors of the 1999 ward off Charger R/T idea become designed by way of Tom Gale.

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The even higher information? We received’t should wait lengthy for the brand new Charger—which reputedly become proven to the sellers in attendance in Las Vegas—or the ’Cuda. Both are predicted to debut in the subsequent  years, that means an car-show look later this year or early subsequent yr is feasible.

Dodge’s Future: Alfa-Based Barracuda Convertible, New Charger Sedan Coming Soon ( 2016 dodge barracuda )

 

 2016 dodge barracuda

Fiat-Chrysler’s supplier assembly in Las Vegas has became up a variety of information, a number of which we saw coming and some of which we didn’t. Among the drool-worth tidbits are the ones pertaining to evade, and what’s to come to be of its Charger sedan and the lengthy-rumored Barracuda. (The ’Cuda pictured here is our artist’s rendering first posted in 2013, while the automobile become scheduled to debut as an SRT-badged version.) in step with automotive news, Alfa Romeo’s new Giulia will donate its adaptable rear-force underpinnings to both motors, and the Barracuda will come most effective in convertible form. Say it with us now: Ooooo, Barracuda!

2015 circumvent Charger R/T Scat %

to date, not a good deal is understood approximately the subsequent-technology Charger sedan or the Barracuda past their link to the most modern Alfa Romeo product. Automobile information reports that the Charger will borrow extra from the 1999 Charger R/T idea and tackle a less blocky look than these days’s model, however the ’Cuda’s look stays cloaked in thriller. Severely, the brand new Dodges must be lighter than the modern Charger 4-door and (coupe-best) Challenger -door, which use heavily fortified evolutions of a decade-old Mercedes-Benz platform.

The Alfa Giulia is alleged to weigh just 3325 kilos, although that determine probable hews to the positive aspect of factors. Both way, even factoring the opportunity that the Charger might be large (the Giulia competes with the BMW 3-series) and use fewer distinctive materials, it’d simply be lighter than the modern car, which weighs between 4000 and 4400 kilos relying on powertrain and system. No point out of the Challenger’s destiny can be discovered in AN’s record, however we expect the two-door coupe will carry on and use Giulia bones, too.

1999 dodge Charger idea
The outside of the 1999 avert Charger R/T concept was designed by means of Tom Gale.

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The even better information? We received’t should wait long for the new Charger—which seemingly became proven to the sellers in attendance in Las Vegas—or the ’Cuda. Both are predicted to debut in the subsequent  years, which means an vehicle-display appearance later this year or early subsequent 12 months is possible.

Scion FR-S Tuner Challenge Yields Three Custom Show Cars, Only One Has Giant Wing [2012 SEMA Show] ( s tuner )

 

 s tuner  

3 months in the past, Scion gave three custom-automobile builders each a 2013 Scion FR-S and a take a look at for $15,000. In place of spend the cash on open tune days and a pile of sticky rubber—how we’d spend $15K on a unfastened FR-S—the 3 customizers determined to do what they do. The very last products are making their live debuts at the 2012 SEMA display in Las Vegas; comply with the soar for in-intensity data on every one.

FR-S GT via Daniel song

before anybody receives too excited, those aren’t carbon-fiber frame bits at the FR-S GT pictured above. Its rear wing (and the scaffolding helping it), reflect housings, and hood ducts all are fabricated from the stuff, the rest is merely a vinyl wrap. What, you expected more for $15K? At the least the FR-S GT certainly has the heart of a race vehicle. And we should admit that it does look pretty sweet.

A Vortech supercharger has been bolted to the 2.Zero-liter flat-4 (output unknown—permit’s name it 5.Nine gigawatts), as has a chilly-air intake. A immediately exhaust has been outfitted—it ends with centrally positioned, custom tips—the auto rides on an air suspension with adjustable shocks, and stopping duties are treated through 13.6-inch Brembo discs squeezed by means of Brembo four-piston calipers. The indoors is sort of completely empty save for a roll cage, a solitary Sparco race seat with four-point harness, and a Sparco suede guidance wheel. Carbon-fiber panels had been suited to the door inners and where the radio and HVAC controls used to stay.
Minty fresh via Chris Basselgia

despite the fact that the schizophrenic capitalization of the Minty fresh moniker calls attention to the reality that this menthol-coloured automobile is, in fact, an FR-S, we’d have long past with Mint Chocolate Chip. The fresh Mint–coloured outside is contrasted by means of a Matte Root Beer roof and 19-inch wheels.

It’s outfitted with a slamtastic frame kit, a spoiler, a rear diffuser with a custom crucial exhaust, and a special leather indoors. A Sony touch-screen show in the cabin controls a JL audio device that includes two amps and four mid-variety woofers. However like all excellent batch of mint chocolate chip ice cream, there’s extra to this car than an unholy quantity of green food coloring. The Minty sparkling additionally boasts an Eaton supercharger, a new intake manifold, and adjustable air suspension.

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Toca series Carbon Stealth FR-S by using John Toca

If the FR-S GT is a chunk overt with its worship of the woven stuff—actual or not—the Carbon Stealth FR-S is greater understated, other than its horn-tooting call. Carbon-fiber bits replace the manufacturing hood, roof, and reflect caps, and it’s additionally the cloth used for this car’s rear diffuser. The Stealth additionally receives an aero kit, custom grille inserts, and new fender vents. Oh, and delicious-looking Mocha paint. Inner, “custom” is the timeless topic: The Carbon Stealth FR-S gets a custom black faux suede headliner with blue stitching, at the same time as blue thread also decorates the pillars and the door panels. There are custom leather rear seats—for tiny those who roll deep—custom carbon-fiber dash inserts, custom gauges, and a custom middle console. Custom.

Overall performance-sensible, the Carbon Stealth holds its own with a Vortech supercharger, a brand new bloodless-air intake, an intercooler, and a Borla cat-again exhaust. Preventing responsibilities are dealt with by way of 14.0-inch discs squeezed by using 8-piston calipers within the the front and four-piston calipers within the rear. The Stealth also has a roll cage, and its 19-inch satin-black wheels are wrapped in gooey Pirelli P zero tires.

The Reaper: The Silverado–Based, Lingenfelter-Tuned Off-Road Pickup GM Won’t Build—But Will Sell ( chevy reaper )

chevy reaper

Ford peddles the off-avenue-high-quality F-150 SVT Raptor (which is anticipated to return for a 2nd generation), and Mopar nevertheless offers Ram 1500 customers the deliciously dune-ready Ram Runner bundle. So where’s Chevrolet and GMC in all of this? The simple answer is that they’re absent, but Lingenfelter overall performance Engineering and Southern consolation automotive have an opportunity known as the Reaper.

The Reaper has been round for a minute, having been supplied for the primary time on a first-rate level on the 2014 Chicago auto show. The modern day information, though, is that Chevy enthusiasts could be capable to walk into pick dealerships and purchase a Reaper in their personal. While it remains a 3rd-birthday party introduction, the Reaper’s save availability places it someplace among the manufacturing unit F-a hundred and fifty Raptor and the DIY Mopar Ram Runner kit. In contrast to the Ford and the Ram, the Silverado 1500–based Reaper can get engine love from Lingenfelter in the shape of a supercharger package that bumps the truck’s 5.3-liter V-eight from 355 horsepower to 475 ponies. (Hennessey will futz along with your Raptor, of route.) buyers with 6.2-liter–equipped vehicles can sit up for a strong 550 horsepower with the Lingenfelter tools. Popular Reaper fare consists of a Corsa exhaust, a lifted Fox Racing suspension, skid plates, 33-inch off-road tires on 20-inch wheels (17-inch beadlock wheels and off-street tires are available), and heavy-responsibility front and rear bumpers. Also covered is a brand new grille, hood, and the front fascia, all of which type of makes the Reaper appear like it’s inside the center of punching something with its face. Besides pronouncing the Reaper’s supplier availability, Lingenfelter and Southern consolation also launched a video showing the transformation of the first changed Silverado to be built on overseas soil. Seemingly created for a middle japanese purchaser, the not-built-in-the-U.S. Reaper seems just as imply as the ‘Murican version, especially sporting matte-black paint. Take a look at it out:

Baja! Got You All in Check: Honda Shows Baja-Racing Ridgeline at SEMA (trophy trucks )

 

trophy trucks

While maximum oldsters consider Honda and racing on Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, they assume bikes. In the end, big crimson has 24 -wheeled victories inside the grueling rating Baja one thousand. 4-wheelers got here into the combination only a decade in the past, with a Ridgeline entered inside the stock Mini magnificence. Gavin Skilton wheeled it to class victory in 2008 and 2010. In 2012, they moved as much as the ripping class Six Trophy trucks with a tube-framed Pilot. Skilton and his brother, Darren, controlled 0.33 place inside the a thousand that 12 months. And now Honda is heading lower back to the peninsula with a new truck, a Ridgeline-bodied Trophy Truck powered through a 550-horse dual-faster model of the stocker’s V-6.

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Honda performance improvement and the Proctor Racing organization evolved the truck. The rapid six up front displaces 3.Five liters and uses the 2017 Ridgeline’s inventory block, crank, and heads. Talking of the 2017 Ridgeline, Honda helpfully notes that the front fascia, hood, roof, mattress, and facet profile comprise cues from the approaching pickup. In the meantime, the Trophy Truck heads into struggle

Cool Pool: A Mini Mustang Play Station (cool pool )

 

cool pool

Like any large auto exposition, the 2011 Chicago display had acres of cool sheetmetal on display. However it’s debatable that one of the coolest of the cool at this show turned into neither car, truck, nor crossover SUV. Uh-uh. It turned into a pool desk, outstanding among the actual vehicles within the Ford display.

Mainly, a pool desk that seems like a Ford. Mustang. Circa 1965. And at one factor in its genetic coding, there has been a actual Mustang.

Lower back tale. In 2009, Ben Mallah and Tony Utegaard determined to department off from the business of buying and promoting collectible automobiles to make pool tables that appeared like vehicles. In which to begin? According to Utegaard, the selection become a no brainer—there’s no greater recognizable nor proper automobile for pool table conversion than the original Mustang.

“It’s now not precisely a brand new concept,” he stated. “We’d been considering a vehicle-based totally pool desk for years. The Mustang simply appeared like the plain desire.”

A corporation turned into fashioned for the pool table employer—Mustang amusement, Inc., in Largo, Florida—and the principals set up a licensing settlement with Ford, which have become one of the first clients, ultimately acquiring five, four making the rounds of various automobile indicates, the 5th set up in Ford’s Dearborn, Michigan, global headquarters.

Chop Chop

although the table’s clean-coat skin is fiberglass, the molds originated with an actual 1965 Mustang, chopped and sectioned to adapt to pool table dimensions—four ft through eight toes. The table itself is made by way of Craftsmaster Billiards, a forty two-12 months-old company based totally in Tampa.
With sales hiking—Utegaard says his outfit is “on tempo to do approximately one in line with week”—the query is what to do next. The solution will take Mustang enjoyment beyond its Ford Motor company licensing into popular motors territory. Look for a purple and white 1959 Corvette pool table to join the stock in July.“approximately 30” of the unique Mustang tables up to now, to begin with offered in poppy red however now to be had in any coloration the customer can also specify. Each has its own VIN. Even though exclusive fees seem on various net sites, the Mustang amusement MSRP is $10,000. In October, the business enterprise extended its services to consist of a Shelby GT350 version of the table. Like the authentic table, it’s based on a real vehicle. However the fee is better—$12,000—and consists of Uncle Shel’s autograph.