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12-17-2011 | 08:23 AM
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Chevrolet: Malibu to Offer Turbocharged Four-Cylinder
<SMALL>December 14, 2011 at 11:54am by Alexander Stoklosa</SMALL>
During our brief drive in a mild-hybrid Malibu Eco prototype, Chevrolet told us that the car’s engine lineup would be comprised exclusively of four-cylinders, a move we considered questionable. Now, though, the company has confirmed that the car will get an optional turbocharged four-cylinder, which will take the V-6′s place in the lineup. Chevy isn’t saying yet when the turbo will be available, or what engine it will be. The 220-hp 2.0-liter found under the hood of the non-GS Buick Regal Turbo is a likely candidate, as is the 270-hp version from the Regal GS.
While the Honda Accord, Ford Fusion, Toyota Camry, and Nissan Altima still offer a V-6 option, Chevrolet won’t be the only player in the mid-size-sedan segment with an all-four-cylinder lineup. The Hyundai Sonata and Kia Optima manage quite well without a six, their turbo motor pumping out a healthy 274 hp. In addition to the mild-hybrid Eco model—which will be the first to launch, arriving early next year—the Malibu will offer a new 2.5-liter four with about 190 hp. Given that output, our money is on the boosted engine making somewhere closer to Regal GS levels of power.
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First Drive
2013 Chevrolet Malibu
Moving the mark in a middle market.
<SMALL>December 14, 2011 at 11:54am by Alexander Stoklosa</SMALL>
During our brief drive in a mild-hybrid Malibu Eco prototype, Chevrolet told us that the car’s engine lineup would be comprised exclusively of four-cylinders, a move we considered questionable. Now, though, the company has confirmed that the car will get an optional turbocharged four-cylinder, which will take the V-6′s place in the lineup. Chevy isn’t saying yet when the turbo will be available, or what engine it will be. The 220-hp 2.0-liter found under the hood of the non-GS Buick Regal Turbo is a likely candidate, as is the 270-hp version from the Regal GS.
While the Honda Accord, Ford Fusion, Toyota Camry, and Nissan Altima still offer a V-6 option, Chevrolet won’t be the only player in the mid-size-sedan segment with an all-four-cylinder lineup. The Hyundai Sonata and Kia Optima manage quite well without a six, their turbo motor pumping out a healthy 274 hp. In addition to the mild-hybrid Eco model—which will be the first to launch, arriving early next year—the Malibu will offer a new 2.5-liter four with about 190 hp. Given that output, our money is on the boosted engine making somewhere closer to Regal GS levels of power.
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Moving the mark in a middle market.
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#2
12-17-2011 | 08:24 AM
2013 Cadillac ATS Engine Lineup: N/A and Turbo Fours, and a V6
<SMALL>December 14, 2011 at 6:51pm by Alexander Stoklosa</SMALL>
We have plenty of spy photos of the upcoming rear-drive 2013 Cadillac ATS, but incognito photography rarely reveals whats under a cars hood. Thankfully, Cadillac stepped in and released that very information today. The ATS, which slots below the CTS in Caddys sedan lineup, will be available with a naturally aspirated 2.5-liter four, a turbocharged 2.0-liter four, and a 3.6-liter V-6.
The turbo four and the V-6 were expected, but the naturally aspirated four-cylinder is something of a surprise. Cadillac didnt come out and say it, but were guessing the 2.5-liter is the same unit that will power some versions of the 2013 Chevrolet Malibu. We expect it will make around 190 hp in the Chevy, though Cadillac could always squeeze a bit more out of it to better differentiate it from its humble roots. As for the turbo, Cadillac says it will produce about 270 hpthe same output as the Buick Regal GSs 2.0-liter turbocharged four. This is not, however, the same engine. Cadillac tells us it is about 95-percent newits a mirror-image of the GS motor, with the intake and exhaust having switched sides. Like the other 2.0, though, it is all aluminum, and although it uses a different turbocharger (the GS uses a Borg Warner piece, the Caddy a Mitsubishi/Eaton), both cram the same 20 psi down the intake. The V-6 is GMs latest direct-injected unit; it makes 308 hp in the Cadillac SRX and 318 in the CTS and will likely top the ATSs engine range. Magnetorheological shocks will be available, as will paddle shifters on automatic models.
The ATS was designed to go up against entry-level luxury players like the BMW 3-series and Mercedes-Benz C-class. Both of those cars gained turbocharged four-cylinders as their base engines for 2012, but the Cadillacs mid-level turbo will handily out-power both of them. (The base 2.5-liter fours output will even be competitive with Benzs turbo four.) The 3.6-liter six will trump both the C-classs 302-hp V-6 and the BMWs 300-hp turbo six. Were looking forward to driving Cadillacs first small sports sedanespecially the twin-turbo V-6powered V versionafter it debuts at the Detroit auto show in January.
Buick Teases Five-Seat 2013 Encore Crossover Ahead of Detroit Auto Show Reveal
<SMALL>December 14, 2011 at 5:51pm by Alexander Stoklosa</SMALL>
Buick has announced that a new five-passenger crossover called the Encore will join its 2013 lineup and released a teaser photograph of the sub-Enclave-sized SUV. Judging from the headlight seen here, the Encore will be somewhat less exciting than the Envision concept from this years Shanghai auto show. While we speculated that a production version of the Envision might utilize the Cadillac SRXs architecture, rumor has it that the Encore will ride on a smaller, front-drive platform shared with the surprisingly good Chevrolet Sonic. Well likely have to wait until the Encore debuts at the 2012 Detroit auto show in January for more info, but Buick will reveal a full photo of the crossover before then so stay tuned.
The MCF is in the know ?
<SMALL>December 14, 2011 at 6:51pm by Alexander Stoklosa</SMALL>
We have plenty of spy photos of the upcoming rear-drive 2013 Cadillac ATS, but incognito photography rarely reveals whats under a cars hood. Thankfully, Cadillac stepped in and released that very information today. The ATS, which slots below the CTS in Caddys sedan lineup, will be available with a naturally aspirated 2.5-liter four, a turbocharged 2.0-liter four, and a 3.6-liter V-6.
The turbo four and the V-6 were expected, but the naturally aspirated four-cylinder is something of a surprise. Cadillac didnt come out and say it, but were guessing the 2.5-liter is the same unit that will power some versions of the 2013 Chevrolet Malibu. We expect it will make around 190 hp in the Chevy, though Cadillac could always squeeze a bit more out of it to better differentiate it from its humble roots. As for the turbo, Cadillac says it will produce about 270 hpthe same output as the Buick Regal GSs 2.0-liter turbocharged four. This is not, however, the same engine. Cadillac tells us it is about 95-percent newits a mirror-image of the GS motor, with the intake and exhaust having switched sides. Like the other 2.0, though, it is all aluminum, and although it uses a different turbocharger (the GS uses a Borg Warner piece, the Caddy a Mitsubishi/Eaton), both cram the same 20 psi down the intake. The V-6 is GMs latest direct-injected unit; it makes 308 hp in the Cadillac SRX and 318 in the CTS and will likely top the ATSs engine range. Magnetorheological shocks will be available, as will paddle shifters on automatic models.
The ATS was designed to go up against entry-level luxury players like the BMW 3-series and Mercedes-Benz C-class. Both of those cars gained turbocharged four-cylinders as their base engines for 2012, but the Cadillacs mid-level turbo will handily out-power both of them. (The base 2.5-liter fours output will even be competitive with Benzs turbo four.) The 3.6-liter six will trump both the C-classs 302-hp V-6 and the BMWs 300-hp turbo six. Were looking forward to driving Cadillacs first small sports sedanespecially the twin-turbo V-6powered V versionafter it debuts at the Detroit auto show in January.
Buick Teases Five-Seat 2013 Encore Crossover Ahead of Detroit Auto Show Reveal
<SMALL>December 14, 2011 at 5:51pm by Alexander Stoklosa</SMALL>
Buick has announced that a new five-passenger crossover called the Encore will join its 2013 lineup and released a teaser photograph of the sub-Enclave-sized SUV. Judging from the headlight seen here, the Encore will be somewhat less exciting than the Envision concept from this years Shanghai auto show. While we speculated that a production version of the Envision might utilize the Cadillac SRXs architecture, rumor has it that the Encore will ride on a smaller, front-drive platform shared with the surprisingly good Chevrolet Sonic. Well likely have to wait until the Encore debuts at the 2012 Detroit auto show in January for more info, but Buick will reveal a full photo of the crossover before then so stay tuned.
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12-17-2011 | 08:28 AM
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With corners like Deadman's, the old Mulholland racetrack seemed like the perfect place to test our mettle in a 470-hp hunk of American iron. Did we mention the wasps?!?
- BY AARON ROBINSON
- PHOTOGRAPHY BY DANIEL BYRNE
- ILLUSTRATION BY EDWARD HOWARD
Down here, below what was once the dangerous macaroni-shaped curve called “Carl’s” on the illegal racetrack that Mulholland used to become at night, were rusting relics of the road’s blood-sport days. A small gully had served as a funnel for cars whose drivers had drained their talent tanks, and after passing through a debris field of doors and air-cleaner covers, we found what we had come for.
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An overgrown carcass of rust and cream paint was thought to be an Alfa, or possibly a Fiat. Farther down, a green Porsche 914 lay on its belly in a streambed, the useful parts stripped long ago. Its identity plate still shined on the bulkhead like a dog tag for this proud son of Germany, still lying where it fell on foreign shores.
Supposedly, there was a fully intact teardrop trailer in the next gully over, and we had just resolved to look for it when somebody stepped on an underground yellow-jacket nest. It exploded like a burst pipeline to hell, and wasps were instantly up my nose, in my ears, and rooting around in my scalp, which suddenly blazed with pain as if the sky were raining lit cigarettes. Everybody ran downhill in a blind, flailing panic.
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Mulholland Drive is a diving, thrusting, coiling asp of two-lane blacktop running the ridgeline of the Santa Monica Mountains as they traverse westward toward the sea through the Los Angeles basin.
It takes its name from William Mulholland, the Belfast-born engineer whose grand, landscapealtering water projects made modern L.A. possible. Carved out of the hillsides in 1924, it was built as a scenic road for the residents of a fast-growing Hollywood below. According to the book The Mulholland Experience, a detailed history by local authors Chris Banning and Dan Magee, it was soon discovered by Duesenberg-wheeling stars such as Gary Cooper.
When our fathers were young—after the war and before the million-dollar mansions went up, after sunset and before dawn when the rodders owned it and the cops ignored it—Mulholland was the archetype of the American outlaw road. Racers dueled in its curves, sometimes to the death, while lovers necked at its weedy overlooks—episodes that were stolen, amplified, and enshrined in pop songs and movies. Mulholland became part of the national zeitgeist of a rebellious, cause-less era.
“It was just perfect for going up there and scaring yourself to death,” says “Mr. Corvette,” Burbank-based Corvette racer and tuner Dick Guldstrand. Now 84, he first ran Mulholland in the early 1950s. “I went up there once or twice a week. Wednesdays and Thursdays were good days, starting around 9 p.m., until two or three.”
Guldstrand recalls the long nights in The Pits (later known as “Grandstands”), the wide sandy pullout where the gassers, rail-jobs, Vettes, and Jags clustered in tribal groups. Steve McQueen, Lee Marvin, Bobby Carradine, and Jim Garner were among the studio talent who were regulars.
“Some of the guys thought they were better than they were,” says Guldstrand. “I saw a guy kill himself in a ’63 Corvette. We called him ‘Mulholland Charlie.’ I don’t know if he had a tire problem or what, but he went flying right off the road and into the canyon, and that was it.”
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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Eventually, it all changed. As the houses went up, the cops closed in. “They started to incarcerate you, where before you’d just get your hand slapped,” says Guldstrand. In the early 1980s, the city banned nighttime parking along the road, “and that really ended it,” says author Banning, who lives just off what is now a broken and lumpy, 35-mph commuter artery clogged by tourists, tiger moms, and tiara-wearing starlets.
“They won’t repave it,” says Banning. “I think they’re worried the racers will come back.” —AR
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If you’re chasing ghosts, the 2012 Chrysler 300 SRT8 seems appropriate. Here’s a broad-beamed American sedan with a diploma from the old school. The basic hardware recipe is simple: 16 pushrods feed eight prodigious jugs in one giant cast-iron, orange-enameled ship’s anchor (with aluminum heads). With 6.4 liters required to make the Hemi’s symmetrical dyno stats of 470 horsepower and 470 pound-feet of torque, we’re hardly on a trip to the high frontier of specific output.
But who cares when you uncork it? On Mulholland, between the permanent security trailer in front of Warren Beatty and Annette Bening’s house and where a boozy Chuck Connors used to stagger out of his driveway to wave a shotgun at racers, the 300 SRT8 blithely lays patches to a fare-thee-well and sounds like a German war wagon doing it. Extra sound insulation, including underbody acoustic panels, beats back extraneous road noise, so when you goose it out of “Deadman’s” and the muffler-bypass flaps open, you can clearly hear the fast reverb of a deep, 6.9-magnitude rumble. Continued...<~ Click
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12-17-2011 | 08:40 AM
2012 Acura NSX Concept - 2012 Detroit Auto Show
The future NSX is a sexy mid-engine all-wheel-drive hybrid.
By Shaun Bailey / Photo by Steve Sands for Bauer-Griffin
December 13, 2011
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Surprisingly, after the viewing, when I did a Google search for “Acura NSX spy photos,” there was one that actually looked like the car I’d just seen. Apparently Tony Stark will be driving a convertible version of the NSX concept in the upcoming Avengers movie. The concept to be shown in Detroit is dark silver and black. It’s not vibrant and flashy. And it’s not simply a mid-engine sports coupe. Instead it’s an all-wheel-drive hybrid, one wearing an SH-AWD badge on its rear decklid. Specifications will have to wait, as will final designs, but I can point to a few details that should make production, aside from its overall shape. This includes flying-buttress B-pillars, carbon-ceramic brake rotors and 255/35ZR-19 front, 275/30ZR-20 rear Michelin Pilot Super Sport tires.
It’s small and swoopy, with just two seats. Where will it fit in the world of supercars and other exotics? The first NSX had a moderately powerful transversely-mounted V-6 while others at the time had turbochargers or extra displacement. This time around, the performance of the NSX will be improved via an electrically driven front axle and a 7-speed twin-clutch transmission. Clearly this new all-wheel-drive NSX is not a conventional supercar; in fact, in many ways, it resembles the BMW i8 Vision Dynamics concept.
If anyone is wondering what has happened to the front-engine NSV—the V-10-powered, luxury sports car—it has been replaced by the NSX concept. Let’s hope that when it reaches production, we’ll see a lot of red, yellow and white paint. Dark silver just doesn’t do it justice.
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The future NSX is a sexy mid-engine all-wheel-drive hybrid.
By Shaun Bailey / Photo by Steve Sands for Bauer-Griffin
December 13, 2011
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<!-- test output end: --><!-- the article, at a glance, downloads, top competitors, from buying guide --><!-- left column -->A month before Acura will reveal the 2012 NSX Concept at the Detroit Auto Show, a select number of journalists and dealers were allowed to view it. Also on display was the TSX replacement, the ILX. No photos were allowed. Only my bad sketches and notes could leave the room. Photos of the concept NSX will be racing along the information highway shortly after the car’s unveiling January 10th.
Surprisingly, after the viewing, when I did a Google search for “Acura NSX spy photos,” there was one that actually looked like the car I’d just seen. Apparently Tony Stark will be driving a convertible version of the NSX concept in the upcoming Avengers movie. The concept to be shown in Detroit is dark silver and black. It’s not vibrant and flashy. And it’s not simply a mid-engine sports coupe. Instead it’s an all-wheel-drive hybrid, one wearing an SH-AWD badge on its rear decklid. Specifications will have to wait, as will final designs, but I can point to a few details that should make production, aside from its overall shape. This includes flying-buttress B-pillars, carbon-ceramic brake rotors and 255/35ZR-19 front, 275/30ZR-20 rear Michelin Pilot Super Sport tires.
It’s small and swoopy, with just two seats. Where will it fit in the world of supercars and other exotics? The first NSX had a moderately powerful transversely-mounted V-6 while others at the time had turbochargers or extra displacement. This time around, the performance of the NSX will be improved via an electrically driven front axle and a 7-speed twin-clutch transmission. Clearly this new all-wheel-drive NSX is not a conventional supercar; in fact, in many ways, it resembles the BMW i8 Vision Dynamics concept.
If anyone is wondering what has happened to the front-engine NSV—the V-10-powered, luxury sports car—it has been replaced by the NSX concept. Let’s hope that when it reaches production, we’ll see a lot of red, yellow and white paint. Dark silver just doesn’t do it justice.
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#5
12-17-2011 | 08:51 AM
See the USA & Canada in your Chevrolet : )
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