Ok, so I’ve had a bit of a busy past week, so I haven’t been able to
keep up with the blog as much as I would have liked. What’s worse is there have been so many cool
things happening in the car world. So
this post will be a bit of a chance to catch up with some of the car news we’ve
missed over the last week. As always,
click on the links!
And for the ultimate automotive performance experience, check out
the McLaren P1 going for a run on the Nurburgring. There are great production values and spectacular
cinematography in this video. It gets
you so close to the action you may actually crap your pants. A must see for any automophiliac!
Well it turns out GM isn’t completely finished with their Australian
brand, Holden. Production is just moving
to China, where the Holden Commodore will share the same platform as a Chinese market exclusive Buick. And just in case
you were afraid this new Chinese-built Holden won’t live up the performance
standards set by its Australian built forefathers... you’re absolutely justified. This new Commodore will be front-wheel-drive
and 4-cylinder powered (cue sad trombone sound).
The rumour mills are abounds with a possible Detroit Auto Show reveal
of the new Tesla Model E. The new Tesla
will be a more affordable Tesla sedan.
Now that’s probably a relative term, but it’s nice to see these sorts of
cool electric vehicles become more obtainable.
A newly redesigned Chrysler 200 was spied in the streets. It looks like a great improvement over the
current car, with interior and exterior upgrades galore. This new car will be based on the same Alfa
Romeo platform as the Dodge Dart and the Jeep Cherokee, using the same power
train options as the latter.
Nathan Adlen from TFLcar gets to drive the new 2015 Subaru WRX. According to him the CVT isn’t too bad... at
least in Sport #. For the driving
purists out there the WRX also comes with a 6-Speed manual. I’m really hoping I get a chance to drive
this car. If anyone from Subaru is
reading this, please get in touch with me ASAP!
The all-new Mercedes-Benz C-Class will be on show at the Detroit
Auto Show. The new C-Class seems to
borrow from the E-Class design language a bit on the exterior, but looks like a
B-Class/CLA on the interior. I’m not too
crazy about MB interiors these days.
Although it really has no effect on how the car drives, I don’t like the
steering column stock gear selectors, nor am I a fan of the touch screen slab
pasted to the top of the dash board. But
that’s just me. Otherwise, this car
looks pretty sweet.
And back to McLaren again.
Apparently they’re working on a wiperless windshield system that will
use jet-fighter technology to remove rain, snow and dirt from the front facing
glass of their cars. This sounds awesome
and crazy all at the same time. Their
development people are being pretty hush-hush about how the system will
actually work, but they seem pretty confident they can pull this off. If it does make it into production, expect
the trickledown effect to put similar systems in compact cars by say, oh,
2047.
And that’s it for today. I’m
still working away at my car review. I’m
just ironing out the details and picking out pictures... I know, I said I would
be done a while ago, but life happens.
Now I’m going to go back to watching Diamonds Are Forever on
DTour. Forgot about the cool Mustang chase scene... especially the strange physics at work (skip to 4:17... one the
great film blunders!).
TTFN
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