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Archive for May, 2008

These days the Nissan GT-R is in the center of everyone's attention which perhaps isn't so surprising. Compared with other newly unveiled vehicles, the GT-R is an affordable supercar to compete with Porsche or Ferrari. Now it's Nissan's turn with the Lotus Elise SC. If you want a car which can reach 100km/h in 4.6 seconds ...

Mazda's popularity is growing by the day and fast proving itself to being a serious competitor for its rivals. One factors in the continuation of that might be the Furai concept presented at the Detroit Auto Show. Furai, which means "sound of the wind" in Japanese, is based on the Courage C65 racing chassis from the ...

Lexus is now the luxury vehicle division of Toyota and initially was sold only in United States, but now you can see them almost everywhere. For a while there was a lot of talk that Lexus was not innovative enough, but now they can compete with BMW, Audi and Mercedes. Anyway, the Lexus LF-A roadster that ...

There are many aesthetically pleasing cars out there, but then there is the Lamborghini Reventon. This vehicle is not the standard 2009 model. Only 20 Reventos were produced and 19 of them were sold when the car was still on the drawing board. With a price tag of $1,400,000 the Reventon was obviously never demanded with ...

There are cars which are meant especially for challenges off-road such as the FreeLander 2, Hummer H3, Volkswagen Tuareg and Mercedes G class. All have very good off-road features, but if you're looking for something a little more unusual, then you might want to consider the Mitsubishi L200 Raging Bull. Unlike other off-road vehicles which are ...

There are cars which are so wild looking that they make you want to drive them as fast as possible and one of those is the newly unveiled 2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8. It's appearance alone makes you think that just touching the pedal will burn rubber as well as asphalt. From the specification, it doesn't like ...

If you want a good looking crossover which costs around $40,000 then the Volvo XC70 might be on top of your list. Remarkably, paying that amount of money gets you much more than and that's even from such a famous car manufacturer such as the Swedish Volvo. Anyway, the Volvo XC70 looks sedate, but underneath there's ...