Archive for February, 2012

What Would You Want to Drive in a Post-Apocalyptic World?

By Ant On February 29, 2012 No Comments

In Chevrolet’s recent Super Bowl ad, which was set in a post-apocalyptic world, a bunch of friends chose to drive the Detroit brand’s Silverado pickup truck, sans one Dave, God rest his soul, who drove a Ford F-150 – we didn’t say it, GM did.

In the dystopian future world of Mad Max, The Man with No Name chose a supercharged Ford Falcon XB GT351 for his transportation needs.

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Um, You Dropped Something on the Road – Like a Couple of Kids…

By Ant On February 29, 2012 No Comments

Driving a minivan with passengers stowed in the cargo area is a stupid move in itself but doing it with the tailgate open is just criminal as you’re asking for trouble.

And trouble is what these feloniously

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Carscoop's A to Z Guide to the 2012 Geneva Motor Show [Updated]

By Ant On February 29, 2012 No Comments

Switzerland is not a country that springs to mind when you think about cars. It doesn’t even produce cars on a large scale. Yet every March since 1905, it hosts one of the world’s most important motor shows at its second-largest city.

The 2012 Geneva Motor Show will open its doors to auto journalists on March 6 and to the public, between March 8 and 18.

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New Jaguar XF Sportbrake Unveiled Ahead of the Geneva Motor Show

By Ant On February 29, 2012 No Comments

A station wagon model probably isn’t what comes to mind when you think about Jaguar but times and attitudes changes and the British brand is willing to give it another try after its hapless X-Type Sportwagon.

At a first glance, Jaguar’s new XF Sportbrake is a handsome creation, although those abnormally large LED tail lamps look somewhat odd from certain angles.

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MINI Spices up Countryman Crossover with 215-horsepower JCW Variant

By Ant On February 29, 2012 No Comments

The largest Mini of them all, the Countryman crossover, will soon accept a new member into its family as the BMW Group owned British automaker will debut the John Cooper Works (JCW for short) model at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show.

The new JCW Countryman is fitted with Mini’s all-wheel-drive system known as ALL4 as standard with power coming from the latest iteration of the firm’s 1.

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New Seat Toledo Prototype and Ibiza FR Heading to the Geneva Motor Show

By Ant On February 29, 2012 No Comments

We have more news concerning the VW Group’s presence at the 82nd Geneva International Auto Show as we learned that Seat will bring a new Toledo prototype along with the FR versions of its facelifted Ibiza supermini range.

We weren’t able to obtain more details, but it is believed that the Toledo study will mark a return to a more conventional saloon or liftback body style for the series after the confused third generation model that was essentially an Altea MPV with a boot strapped on the rear end.

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New Photo Gallery of Citroën C4 Aircross

By Ant On February 29, 2012 No Comments

Citroën may have kissed its old ways goodbye when it comes to developing it cars (well, for the most part), but its eccentric designers from the 1970s and 1980s seem to have been put to work to create its official press site that has to be one of the quirkiest and unnecessarily complicated we’ve ever used.

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Kids Crashing Peugeot 107 Mini: Is it Real or Fake?

By Ant On February 29, 2012 No Comments

Whilst this video of a couple of children playing around with a Peugeot 107 that they allegedly end up crashing makes for a good laugh, we can’t say for sure if its staged or not.

Like its Toyota Aygo and Citroen C1 siblings, the Peugeot 107 is available with an automated manual gearbox, so theoretically at least, it is possible for a youngster to put it in reverse gear as depicted in the clip.

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Spied: Mercedes-Benz Testing Renault Kangoo-Based Citan Van

By Ant On February 29, 2012 No Comments

Here’s our first real life glimpse of Mercedes-Benz’s upcoming Citan urban delivery van that was teased through a handful of sketches earlier this month. If the Citan’s shape looks familiar, that is because it’s based on the Renault Kangoo series.

To elaborate, the two automotive groups have formed a strategic alliance that will see them working together on a number of projects including, but not limited to, the development of a common platform for the next Smart models and the

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Fisker Appoints Ex-Chrysler Executive Tom LaSorda as its New CEO

By Ant On February 29, 2012 No Comments

In a move that most likely has to do with the company’s recent troubles including problems with the Karma’s batteries and news that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) froze a $528 million federal loan, Fisker announced today that it has named former Chrysler Chief Executive Tom LaSorda as its new Chief Executive Officer.

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