Car Throttle

Mercedes-Benz BlueTEC Diesel G-Wagen G350

For all the excess of yesterday’s post, why not counter that with a little bit more understated and, a-hem, responsible SUV. In this case, it’s the latest version of Mercedes-Benz G-Wagen, the G350 which now features a BlueTEC Diesel plant under it’s large, square hood. No, the Mercedes Geländewagen isn’t the freshest face on the block, [...]

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CFC Chromed-Out Hummer H2

How long, O Lord, how long? Just when you think it can’t get any more gauche in the customized SUV world, someone decides to go there. Someone, in this case a custom shop by the name of CFC, decided that what the world really needed was not just another tricked out (and fully useless) Hummer, [...]

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The Return of Hispano-Suiza

Sadly, this is not a full blown return for Hispano-Suiza, the vaunted Spanish car builder that had a penchant for using airplane engines in street cars (think about that for a while). No, this time around Hispano-Suiza has come back as a coach builder, and they’ve decided to do up some custom coachwork for Audi’s [...]

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200-HP Citroen DS3 Racing

Take that, John Cooper Works Mini Coopers! Or maybe not. Citroen doesn’t say that their 200-HP Citroen DS3 Racing was built to directly go up against the hottest hatch in the Mini line up, but I (for one) would like to see them duke it out on the track. (No, not the street. I don’t [...]

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Ford U.S. & European Performance Lines To Merge

So FoMoCo says they’re going to be merging their American and European performance lines. Yes, to me, this sounds like a very good thing. Does that mean that we’ll be able to buy the Ford Focus RS here in the good ol’ U.S. of A.? I hope so. England’s Automobile magazine recently had the opportunity to [...]

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Hamann’s 670 horsepower Tycoon Evo M

Just how fast could you make an SUV or crossover or whatever these things are called, go? Sure, look, you give enough impetus to a school bus to put it in orbit around Jupiter, but the real question is why? Why put this much time and effort into taking a BMW SUV, or crossover, whatever, [...]

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The Brabus Mercedes E V12 Coupe

What, you were expecting subtlety form a firm like Brabus (or I guess that’s BRABUS, all caps (geez, even their name is as subtle as “annexing” the Sudetenland)). What we have here is the BRABUS take on the Mercedes E Class coupe. And their take includes things like V12 engines, enough horsepower for an ocean-going [...]

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Maserati Quattroporte Awards Edition Special Edition

I’m not that much of a sedan kind of guy. Sure, it’s nice to have all that room and being able to drive three friends to the movies and what not, but if I’m going to lust after cars, they are usually of the two seat, two door variety. One exception to this rule (not [...]

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Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Gullwing Official F1 Safety Car

Oh this is totally wicked. The official safety car for the upcoming season of Formula 1 racing will be a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Gullwing. Normally, or at least in the past, it has been some sort of Mercedes sedan of some sort or another. Fast to be sure, but c’mon, this Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Gullwing [...]

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Senner Tuning Re-imagines the VW Golf V R32

Remember the Volkswagen R32? That was VW’s response (sort of) to the Mitsubishi Evos and Subaru WRXs. It was based on the last Golf platform, and sported a V6 plant and all-wheel drive and a host of other nifty performance features. Sure, it has since been supplanted by a newer version, but that hasn’t stopped [...]

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