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- TRD Australia Suspends All TRD Aurion Sales (!)
Toyota has ordered a halt to all TRD Aurion sales after a single failure occurred with a conrod and piston parting company. Toyota are investigating all TRD Aurions that have currently been delivered and in production, and did not state when the sales halt would be lifted. [Source: Carsales Network]
Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:04:37 +0000 - Mugen RR Sells Out in Ten Minutes
According to Autoblog, all 300 limited edition Type R based Mugen RR Civics have been either bought or reserved. On September 14th at 9:00 AM local time in Japan, reservations opened for the RR. By 9:10 AM all reservation slots were filled, well in advance of the release date expected around January. Capable of doing Tsukuba [...]
Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:01:04 +0000 - Video: Mark Marchesan S15 Silvia Drift
Great video of drifter Mark Marchesan from IJ’s neck of the woods. SR20DET s15 Nissan Silvia drifting, a good overtake and decent editing for once! Thanks to 5LEEPER.
Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:46:02 +0000 - TRD Aurion tested
CarAdvice have tested the new TRD Aurion. We recently talked about the 241KW supercharged TRD Aurion and it’s big-power-on-the-fronts idea and also about how expensive this performance family barge is. What we didn’t expect was how bad CarAdvice found the FWD, or the news that the automatic, even in manual mode, shifts slowly. For anyone [...]
Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:15:17 +0000 - New Subaru Turbodiesel Boxer Engine
Browsing the local blogosphere (PaulTan.org to be exact) we were surprised to hear news that the previously announced Subaru Turbodiesel Boxer engine has been on show at Frankfurt. The new motor is the first of it’s kind, a horizontally opposed turbo diesel four cylinder engine, and we expect it’ll be in a variant of the [...]
Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:29:42 +0000 - Directory Now Open!
The directory is now open for those of you willing to add your site! The current categories you can submit to are as follows: Tuner Blogs General Automotive Blogs Blogs about cars in general Car Importers My Ride Car Communities and Forums The directory exists with the sole purpose of connecting the global import car/tuner community together, making it easier to find [...]
Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:46:00 +0000 - Honda Accord Tourer Concept
At this years Frankfurt Motorshow, Honda hasn’t been resting on it’s laurels. Instead they’ve given us a beautiful concept tourer (or wagon, depends on what your idea of a wagon is). It’s clear Honda have their sights set on giving us back a solid Honda wagon along the lines of the Accord Wagon, not seen [...]
Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:16:51 +0000 - Video of the Week: Subaru Impreza WRC Jumps 171 Feet!
Welcome to our newest segment, the Video of the Week! (VOTW). Each and every week we’ll add a new video that is weird, insane or just plain cool. This week’s video is Ken Block jumping 171 feet in a Subaru Impreza WRC car Don’t be afraid to suggest next week’s VOTW!
Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:29:25 +0000 - 2008 Subaru Impreza WRX STi - Not quite Real Photos
There’s nothing worse than getting all giddy and excited, and then have hopes dashed by learning that the photos in Best Car, a popular Japanese car mag are renderings (but damn good ones). Some good news prevails, with some key specifications about the STi, though we’ll have to label these as ‘tentative’ until it all [...]
Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:22:10 +0000 - Frankfurt Motorshow 2007: Toyota iQ
Sometimes a car you’ve never heard of is thrown up in the media as rumours, and sometimes it’s thrown up at a motorshow. The Toyota iQ is the latter, a strange looking small car that could be a (dimension-wise) smaller version of the Prius, though this is expected to run on a small gas or [...]
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