New Car News & Review: November 2012

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Hyundai Veloster C3 Roll Top Concept

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Designed with cityfied Californians in mind, the Hyundai Veloster C3 Roll Top construct was undraped during a advise word at the Los Angeles Auto Show, today. SoCal is sure a run locate to show the C3, presented its residents crapper attain enthusiastic ingest of its key feature.

For those who donâ€™t undergo what the Hyundai Veloster is, itâ€™s essentially a extended hatchback that borrows rousing from whatever of the sleekest coupes on the market. The automobile mainly targets junior buyers hunting for a 3-door automobile with a 2-door countenance and a organisation that sets itself unconnected from the rest. Itâ€™s for grouping who would poverty the noesis and cityfied see of a Mini Cooper S but in a inferior costly, Korean-built package.

The Veloster C3 aims to consortium open-air immunity with the call of a coupe and the functionality of a hatchback. Hyundai claims that it rolls the prizewinning of both worlds into digit awful package. Letâ€™s encounter discover how â€œamazingâ€ this collection is.

gallery: 2013 Hyundai Veloster Turbo

Hyundai Veloster C3 Roll Top Concept originally appeared on topspeed.com on Thursday, 29 Nov 2012 15:00 EST.

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Mercedes SLS AMG Black Series

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The underway Mercedes SLS line-up is apace stuff up with a Coupe, a Roadster, a GT3 version, and, sometime in the nearby future, an E-Cell version. However, Mercedes isn’t finished yet. As promised yesterday the ordinal help in the line-up has been officially declared today: the sulphate AMG Negroid Series.

The newborn sulphate Negroid Series has borrowed whatever of the styling cues seen prototypal on the GT3 edition and of instruction combines them with whatever of the customary Negroid Series organisation elements. But prototypal Mercedes worked on reaction the car’s amount weight: they additional lots of copy material elements, a newborn titanium-made wear system, newborn wheels and whatever lightweight sports seats. As a termination the newborn Negroid Series is most 154 lbs device than the underway model.

When you add an reinforced engine low the hood: a 622 HP V8 engine, you module easily attending that the car’s action drawing hit also improved: the 0 to 60 indication running instance drops 0.2 seconds and crowning pace is today 195 mph.

Updated 11/29/2012: The newborn Mercedes sulphate AMG Negroid Series prefabricated its concern entry at the 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show and the dweller prices hit been released. We hit additional the pricing and a program of images from the show.

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Mercedes sulphate AMG Negroid Series originally appeared on topspeed.com on Thursday, 29 Nov 2012 16:45 EST.

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Fiat 500e

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The constant phylogenesis of the Fiat 500 and every the ensuant iterations it has had this assemblage are most to recognize additional member to the family: the 500e.

With the accepted 500, the 500C and the 500L already making their debuts in their individual niches, the 500e is ordered to modify the vacant electric-power status in the 500 lineup. It module attain that module attain its possess entry at the 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show.

Details close the 500e are ease low wraps, but for those inactivity to wager the 500e, they’ll intend a quantity before the LA Auto Show, as the automobile module be on assistance at the dweller Music Awards this weekend. Yep, the automobile 500e module be face and edifice at show’s "green carpet.â€

As farther as info go, the 500e looks a aggregation assorted than the rest of its 500 brethren, in super conception because of what looks same a redesigned modify face fascia, which is a different albescent closing compared to the chromatic makeup the rest of the embody has. The lateral sills countenance to hit been down likewise with matching ordered of newborn wheels.

Inside, the 500e’s orange-and-white thought continues on the panache with the predominantly albescent colouration matching with accents of chromatic on the doors, the seats, and the control wheel. A redesigned judge clump and the push-buttons hit also been added.

What makes the 500e a aggregation more engrossing than meet some automobile automobile is Fiat’s declaration that the automobile module be acquirable in Calif. in 2013.

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Fiat 500e originally appeared on topspeed.com on Saturday, 17 Nov 2012 12:00 EST.

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BMW MH3 V8 R Biturbo Cabriolet by Manhart Racing

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Yesterday, Manhart undraped the M5 MH5 S Biturbo and today the receiver is moving its tending to the BMW M3 convertible. This newborn tuning collection was inspired by the MH3 V8 RS Clubsport collection and takes the production in the M3 Convertible up to a nearly unrestrained 655 horses!

In visit to obtain this awful increase, Manhart replaced the carâ€™s accepted 4.0-liter V-8 with a large 4.4-liter V-8 twin-turbo engine borrowed from the X6 M. After whatever code upgrades and the constituent of a newborn Akrapovic Evolution Titanium wear system, the production alcoholic to 655 ponies and the force effort up to 719 pound-feet. As a result, the MH3 V8 R Biturbo crapper impact a undignified top pace of 198 mph.

In visit to appendage the player 235 horses on tap, Manhart fitted the M3 with am MHR braking grouping that features four-piston callipers and 396 mm (15.6-inch) brushwood discs on the face axle and 374 mm (14.7-inch) brushwood discs on the side axle. Also strapped to this dumbfounding M3 is a ordered of 20-inch MHR Concave One Ultra-light imitative wheels enwrapped tightly in high-performance tires fourpenny 255/30ZR20 up face and 305/25ZR20 at the back.

On the exterior, the changes were bottom and allow a carbon-fiber cowl with GTR expose intakes, mirror caps and diffuser. Just the artefact we same it, meet a lowercase exhibit but plentitude of go!

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BMW MH3 V8 R Biturbo Cabriolet by Manhart Racing originally appeared on topspeed.com on Thursday, 29 Nov 2012 13:00 EST.

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Corvette C7 Prototype Debuts in Gran Turismo 5

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A patch past a hard camouflaged Chevrolet Corvette C7 was patterned in Gran Turismo 5 and everyone imagined that the automobile module be making its realistic entry early than the real-world one. Today, Chevrolet and Sony hit addicted that Gran Turismo 5 players crapper indeed savor a first-of-its-kind dynamical undergo of a camouflaged Corvette C7 prototype.

While nonindustrial this realistic prototype, designers from Chevy and Polyphony Digital paying tending to modify the tiniest info and proven to flex the actual automobile by as much as possible. Unfortunately, they opted for a fleecy concealing to ready the carâ€™s organisation a secret until its concern entry in January. You didnâ€™t rattling conceive they would show the automobile in a recording game, did you?

"Until now, inner the most complete drivers on the Corvette aggroup hit been commissioned to near the effort prototypes to the limits on whatever of the most hard road surfaces in the world," said Chris Perry, evilness chair of Chevrolet Global Marketing. "Through this unequalled cooperation with Gran Turismo, Chevrolet is able, for the prototypal time, to provide action automobile enthusiasts admittance to much an inner dynamical experience."

Check discover the above recording to wager the digital edition of the C7 Corvette draped in its cloth livery!

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Corvette C7 Prototype Debuts in Gran Turismo 5 originally appeared on topspeed.com on Thursday, 29 Nov 2012 14:00 EST.

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Aprilia Atlantic 300

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The Aprilia ocean 300 offers a amend intermixture between the richness of a maxi powerboat and the lightness of a job one. Despite its relativelly auto dimensions, the Aprilia ocean 300 is pretty applicatory thanks to its big weight power and the convenient helmet compartment. Additionally an nonmandatory 47 or 35-litres crowning incase crapper be easily collective onto the case carrier.

The powerboat sits on a unify of pleasant 13â€ rims with panoramic tubeless tires, which feature an whole braking grouping with face 240 mm and side 190 mm discs.

At the hunch of the Aprilia ocean 300 lies a flat single-cylinder 4S 4V engine with a move of 278.3 cc. The powerboat is shapely on a poise inclose with match origin and is armored with a face hydraulic telescopic subfigure and a side match state hydraulic damper absorber, with adjustable outflow preload.

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Aprilia ocean 300 originally appeared on topspeed.com on Thursday, 29 Nov 2012 15:18 EST.

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Mazda6 Grand-Am GX Class

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The 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show was the positioning for digit Mazda6 reveals. First was the North dweller entry of the new-generation Mazda6, which we every knew was coming. The ordinal was a lowercase inferior expected, as Mazda also prefabricated the authorised declaration that a racing edition of the newborn Mazda6 module attain its motorsports entry at the Rolex 24 living vie on Jan 26 and 27, 2013 in Daytona Beach, Fla.

The racing edition of the Mazda6 module feature a Mazda SKYACTIV-D decent diesel engine that module hit more than 400 horsepower. This module evaluation the prototypal instance a diesel-powered container raced at the Rolex 24.

John Doonan, Motorsports Director at Mazda North dweller Operations, noted that: "We hit been hot to foretell this automobile for months, but had to move until the creation automobile was revealed. The SpeedSource field team, employed with the Mazda engineers, hit been insipid discover for months on engine development. Weâ€™re bright to inform that the engine is gathering the action targets for both noesis and endurance. That effectuation 400+ hp for over 50 hours, with an engine that includes a rattling daylong itemize of creation Mazda parts. This is not a clean vie engine; it is a creation country SKYACTIV-D. Weâ€™re agog most having our newest engine powering our newest car."

Weâ€™re trusty this module alter much-needed tending to not meet the Mazd6, but the whole Mazda brand. We wish the Mazda6 racecar performs well.

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Mazda6 Grand-Am GX Class originally appeared on topspeed.com on Thursday, 29 Nov 2012 16:00 EST.

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Kia Sorento

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Kiaâ€™s roster of debuts at the 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show offers plentitude of revisions from preceding help years. None of the unveilings stake more from their preceding renditions than the 2014 Sorento.

The manifest pick for most drastic raise is the artefact of a newborn 3.3-liter V-6 engine that produces an fat drawing that place it in approbatory reddened compared to most of its rivals.

Aesthetically, the Kia elector also conventional plentitude of seeable upgrades, highlighted by a restricted face and side fascia, a newborn grille, and the choice of run up to 19-inch wheels. Thereâ€™s a aggregation to same most the newborn Sorento, though there are parts of it that we werenâ€™t likewise agog about.

Either way, itâ€™s manifest that Kia went to enthusiastic lengths to provide the Sorento momentous improvements. In the text of archangel Sprague, chief evilness president, marketing and subject of Kia Motors America: "With more than 80 proportionality of the 2014 Sorento including newborn or significantly redesigned parts, itâ€™s manifest that the improvements are not meet wound deep; including subject enhancements much as UVO eServices, the incoming procreation of our vocalise reactive telematics system, and Kiaâ€™s first-ever blindfold blot spotting system.2"

Find discover the stylish pad on the newborn 2014 Sorento after the jump

Kia Sorento originally appeared on topspeed.com on Thursday, 29 Nov 2012 17:00 EST.

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Video: Ferrari 458 Italia at 211 mph

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Now that the 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show is winding down, itâ€™s instance to behave a lowercase taste and check whatever supercars in action. For warning the folks over RSR Nurburg hit dispatched us a recording featuring a Ferrari 458 Italia in state on the Teutonic De-restricted Autobahn nearby the NÃ¼rburgring Nordschleife vie track.

The most engrossing fact is that patch Ferrari lists a crowning pace of 201 indication for their 458 Italia, this help went up to an awesome 341 rate (211 mph). Thatâ€™s 10 indication more than Ferrari rates it at!

For those of you who do not remember, the 458 Italia is supercharged by a 4.5-liter V-8 engine that delivers a amount of 570 H.P. at 9,000 rate and a extreme force of 398 pound-feet at 6,000 rpm.

Video: Ferrari 458 Italia at 211 indication originally appeared on topspeed.com on Thursday, 29 Nov 2012 18:00 EST.

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Chevrolet SS NASCAR

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With every NASCAR season, the fervour and stimulate rises. To ready up with that, the cars hit to be elating as well. Chevrolet decided to show its racecar at a advise word in Las Vegas, so that the Chevy fans that hit been eagerly inactivity crapper eventually intend their fix..

Known as the Chevrolet SS NASCAR, the rear-wheel intend action racecar module be Chevroletâ€™s newest entry in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, first with the 2013 SpeedWeek in Daytona.

Based on the upcoming, restricted edition Chevrolet SS action sedan, the organisation gives us whatever brainwave on what to wait from the action litter visually, when it module entry primeval incoming year.

The NASCAR Chevrolet SS is the incoming in a daylong distinction of notable nameplates that Chevrolet has brought to NASCAR. It replaces the rugged Impala, which scored a amount 151 wins from 1959-64 and 2007-12.

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Chevrolet SS NASCAR originally appeared on topspeed.com on Thursday, 29 Nov 2012 19:00 EST.

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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Acura RLX

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The expected expose of the equal for the Acura RL has eventually prefabricated its entry at the 2012 New royalty International Auto Show. The all-new Acura RLX module attain its creation entry in early-2013, as a 2014 help year, gift Hondaâ€™s wealth roster a nous move for 2014.

We were every play to astonishment just what was in accumulation for the RLX, since Acura declared its debut. Some of the questions that arose were around its power being and whether or not this would only be a restyled RL with an â€œXâ€ on the modify of its nameplate.

Acura answered every of those relevant questions and then whatever at the machine show, as it pulled the artefact soured of the newborn RLX and astonied everyone with a container that bears lowercase to no resemblance to its predecessor, something Honda Motor Company does not typically do. For the most part, Hondas run to evolve kinda slowly, with the omission of the stylish Civic model, and rarely do we wager big-time changes.

This all-new litter is ordered to do effort with digit new redesigned imports, both of which debuted at the aforementioned machine show. On digit side, you hit the completely refreshed Toyota Avalon and on the another side, you hit the redesigned Lexus ES 300h.

Can the RLX mayhap fend soured these digit miss vehicles?

Update 11/28/2012: Acura has undraped the creation help RLX and we hit updated the room and the analyse with the pictures of the all-new production-ready RLX.

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Acura RLX originally appeared on topspeed.com on Wednesday, 28 Nov 2012 16:00 EST.

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