Kinetic Motorsports to Expand Availability of Performance Parts to Kia Optima, Rio, Soul, and Sportage
Updated: 2012-02-29 17:02:54
Kinetic Motorsports, Kia’s racing partner, has seen its relationship with the automaker blossom since the pair linked up to campaign a Forte Koup in Grand-Am’s Street Tuner class two years ago. Following up on the Koup’s class win last year, Kinetic is fielding two turbocharged Optimas in the upcoming 2012 Pirelli World Challenge series. The [...]
Jaguar’s XF Sportbrake has made its digital debut, and the looks are sharp enough to back up the company’s decision to avoid the dowdy “station wagon” descriptor. Whatever you call it, we’ll have to be calling very loudly indeed: This car will be sold only in Europe. Its real-world debut is scheduled for the 2012 [...]
It could be a cheesy movie preview. “In a world . . .” “Where a Hyundai offers 429 hp and a Subaru hits 60 mph in 4.7 seconds . . .” “Exotic brands are being forced to up their game . . .” “First came the 691-hp Lamborghini Aventador. Now, from the fiery forges of [...]
The Volkswagen Up! family is growing rapidly. The three- and five-door Up! models and two rebadged versions—the SEAT Mii and the Škoda Citigo—are already officially out the door, and a flurry of concept cars at the Frankfurt auto show last September promised further spin-offs. At the reveal event for the five-door Up!, VW provided seat [...]
Austrian manufacturer-for-hire and supplier Magna Steyr is bringing a concept car called the “MILA Coupic” to the Geneva auto show. Magna assembles cars for automakers such as Mini, Peugeot, and Mercedes-Benz, but it doesn’t sell a single car under its own name. So why did Magna create the MILA Coupic? It’s a showcase for its [...]
Full specs for the 2013 John Cooper Works Countryman are now out, and while our experience driving a prototype told us basically what to expect, this new round of info provided one surprise: an optional automatic transmission. (That’s a first for any JCW model.) Keep Reading: 2013 Mini John Cooper Works Countryman – Official Photos [...]
The new, 991-gen Porsche 911 has been on sale for some time now, which means bracing for not only an onslaught of Porsche-created variants (we’ve already driven the first one, the cabriolet) but also a fresh crop of tuned, modified, and/or aesthetically reworked 911s created by the world’s tuners. And so here we are: One [...]
On the heels of sketches published earlier this month, Kia now has revealed the first official images of its new full-size, rear-wheel-drive sedan. Set to launch in Korea during the first half of this year, the large sedan carried the codename “KH” during development but will be called K9 in its home market. The vehicle’s [...]
What It Is: Lamborghini’s upcoming SUV, which will be previewed soon by a concept version. As these renderings show, the unnamed five-door should have a coupe-like silhouette and extreme angular lines reminiscent of the Aventador. It will fit right into the sports-car manufacturer’s lineup—as much as an SUV can, anyway. This will be the second [...]
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This is the new Citroen DS5. Not only does it have some wonderful bold styling on the outside, but the inside is Aviation inspired, with a cockpit styled roof and cabin seemingly shrink wrapped around the driver. Even better is the distinctly modern drivetrain offering four wheel drive – it is a bespoke Hybrid4 full-hybrid [...]
There are some special small cars that enthusiasts would kill for, including the mid-engined Renault 5 Turbo, the rear-drive Talbot Sunbeam Lotus, and just about any Group B World Rally Championship homologation car, such as the Peugeot 205 Turbo 16. Here’s a potential new classic: the Audi A1 Quattro, priced at the equivalent of more [...]
Pininfarina, the Italian design house responsible for such classics as the Ferrari 250 GT, the Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider, and the Cadillac Allanté, has released photos of its new “elegant and refined sports sedan” concept, the Cambiano, ahead of the 2012 Geneva auto show. The concept is named after the town where the firm is [...]
What It Is: A running prototype—and a fast-running one at that—of the Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 coupe’s more extroverted twin. What isn’t yet confirmed is whether the roadster will have a cloth roof similar to that of its immediate antecedent, the Murciélago roadster, or something more substantial, such as a removable carbon-fiber panel. We hope rumors [...]
It’s Monday, and that means it’s time to present this week’s shifter. You’ll have until mid-day Wednesday to identify the make and model of the vehicle from whence this shifter came. The first person to respond correctly in the Backfires section below will win a Save the Manuals button and sticker*. Good luck! (* Offer [...]
It’s hard to believe Hyundai has been selling cars in this country for more than 25 years. Wasn’t it just yesterday that the first Excel—remembered more for its low price than its Giugiaro-penned exterior—hit our shores with a thud? Since then, the brand has grown dramatically, in both the scope and quality of its offerings. [...]
In one translation of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, the military philosopher says of an enemy, “Emerge to their surprise.” Infiniti’s EMERG-E concept has now completely lost the element of surprise. After being outed via patent office drawings earlier this month, a full set of official photos depicting Infiniti’s secret mid-engine sports car has [...]
Many people thought the Nissan Murano CrossCabriolet was a fluke, but it could actually signal the beginning of a crossover convertible trend. Land Rover is using the Geneva auto show to roll out a droptop Evoque concept. Rendered in a charcoal hue with 21-inch wheels and a two-tone, ivory-and-gray four-seat interior, the right-hand-drive Range Rover [...]
What It Is: This is the ninth generation of Mercedes’ S-class full-size luxury sedan (if you start counting with the 1956 220S). The next S-class will still have presence, but adopt more-aerodynamic styling. The volume car will be offered in two wheelbases; more-extensively stretched and armored versions are on tap, too. It will again spawn [...]
French cars? We like to clutch to the clichéd ideal of elegantly curved sedans wafting along the highway, a picnic basket stuffed with a baguette and a bottle of wine aboard. Of course, the French also have built some pretty exciting small cars, too, and this new Citroën concept shows how the Gallic brands are [...]
Renowned Italian design house Stile Bertone has revealed the first few images of its Nuccio concept car, which is scheduled to debut in a couple of weeks at the 2012 Geneva auto show. Named after Giuseppe “Nuccio” Bertone, son of firm founder Giovanni, the concept was created to commemorate the firm’s 100th anniversary and was [...]
Forget the teaser images and videos Ferrari released earlier this week. This appears to be the real deal, the 2013 F620 GT in the metal. (Or perhaps clay, as it’s difficult to tell if what we see is more than a detailed styling model). A reader at GTSpirit.com snapped the above photo at a presentation [...]
BMW recently announced a new M Performance line of vehicles that will slot between the company’s everyday models and the M lineup. In the brief period since the announcement, Europe has been bestowed a trio of tri-turbo diesel M Performance sleds and the U.S. received power packs for the 2013 X6. This M135i concept is [...]
Dartz, the Latvian company behind the world’s most nucking futs SUVs, has one-upped itself yet again. The $7 million Prombron Black Dragon edition—12 units, offered only in China to celebrate the Year of the Dragon—gilds an already gilded lily. Beyond the expected baroque detailing, there’s a lead-door package offered with “memories of Fukushima.” We couldn’t [...]
When it comes to your car, scrapes and bumps are sometimes inevitable, and you may have to replace a part on your car at some stage. Scrap yards are the best option if you want a cheap part, and quickly. By looking on an online scrap yard database, you can see where the nearest place [...]
As much as I enjoy traveling to Japan, the jetlag upon returning to the US is not something I'm very fond of. As I continue to get myself reacquainted with the California time zone, I want to to go ahead and post one final bit of coverage from the Hot Rod Razzle Dazzle....(read more</a)
Before you ask, yes, of course we would have preferred a test drive in the 2013 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 instead of a test ride, but if you knew the hoops we had to jump through just to plant our asses in the Recaro right seat for an afternoon, you’d understand. Keep Reading: 2013 Ford [...]
Blind mice, little piggies, stooges, and night dogs all come in threes. Add to that musketeers and memorable ménages. So there’s no way Chrysler’s SRT team could squat on hands while Chevy and Ford duke it out with way too much horsepower. Will there be a new Viper? As sure as Captain Kirk hears through [...]
When horsepower war breaks out, survival depends on a constantly escalating arsenal of weapons. During the past two decades, the median muscle of the cars shown here climbed from 300 or so horsepower into the mid-500-hp range. Factor in aerodynamic, structural, and chassis improvements, and you’ve got eight nearly invincible road warriors. Here are their [...]
In the shadows of the current horsepower war, Ford, GM, and Ram heavy-duty pickups have been battling over the torque-championship belt for the better part of a decade. Why? Because to tow you need, among other traits, loads of twist, and in the truck world, tow ratings count for a lot. Keep Reading: Twist and [...]
Acura has announced pricing for the second-gen RDX, which debuted for real at the 2012 Chicago auto show. The more mature-looking RDX offers a new six-speed automatic transmission, a 3.5-liter V-6 with 33 more horsepower than the outgoing model’s turbo four, and active dampers. It rides on a longer wheelbase and a wider track. The new [...]
The first image of the 2013 SRT Viper, one of this year’s most highly anticipated cars, was leaked by a toy manufacturer? Maybe. Maybe not. Die-cast watchers across the web claim to have found the rendering in a new Hot Wheels catalog. If that catalog does indeed exist, it’s scurried back to the remote outposts [...]
More than any other carmaker, Porsche knows how to play the game of derivatives and special editions. The 911—which currently includes the 997 and its successor, the 991—comes in 18 variations here; in Germany, that number is 22. This rear-engined sports car is quite rightfully considered the quintessential Porsche. But what’s the quintessential 911? Some [...]
Bentley has always pitched its flagship Mulsanne as more of a driver’s car than a limousine, and it fairly satisfies at both roles. Bentley hopes to drive that point home—pun intended—with the Mulsanne’s new Mulliner Driving Specification package, which officially debuts at the 2012 Geneva auto show. Keep Reading: 2013 Bentley Mulsanne Mulliner Driving Specification [...]
Toyota is bringing the funky-looking FT-Bh small hybrid concept to this year’s Geneva auto show. The automaker released some teaser images and video of the FT-Bh, as well as a few morsels of info. The concept’s name stands for “Future Toyota B-segment hybrid,” which pretty much sums up what you need to know: The FT-Bh [...]
The 24 Hours of LeMons can end up being an all-consuming lifestyle for some of its participants. First you’re spending a lot of time searching Craigslist for Rootes Group products and pre-1970 Toyotas, then you spend more time under the race car than you do in the house, and then, sometimes, you have to fit [...]
Nobody can deny (can they?) that the Fisker Karma is the lewdest wedge of car porn to hit the pavement since the onset of the 5-mph bumper. From one 22-inch wheel to the other, the Fisker is a heartthrob, a design spectacularly unchained from the shackles of practicality and brand identity that enslave other automakers. [...]
This is the Audi A1 Quattro – the smallest super-powered car that Audi produces. With four wheel drive from the bespoke Quattro system and 256PS at 6,000rpm (and 350Nm of torque between 2,500 and 4,500rpm), this is a small car that slips easily into the hot hatch category. Perhaps surprisingly, there will be only 19 [...]