2011 Mustang GT: Prototype CAI & Dyno Tune — Huge Power Gains!

Our 2011 5.0L Mustang GT, a Prototype CAI, and the Bama Custom Tuning Team.

Within 24 hours of taking possession of our 2011, we turned our Bama Custom Tuning division loose on some exclusive prototypes for upgrades to see what performance gains they could squeeze out of the GT. With a custom tune developed on our dyno and an exclusive new CAI prototype from C&L Performance, we were able to feed our need for speed. Read more and watch the video at blog.americanmuscle.com/2011-mustang-gt-prototype-cai-dyno-tune-huge-power-gains.

Here’s a summary of our chassis dyno testing:

* Stock — no modifications: 363RWHP / 331RWTQ
* Factory tune, Prototype C&L cold air intake: 374RWHP / 338RWTQ
* Bama Custom Tune, stock Airbox: 379RWHP / 357RWTQ
* Bama Custom Tune, Prototype C&L cold air intake: 385RWHP / 362RWTQ

2011 Mustang GT 5.0L owners can expect a nice performance bump from just a tune alone. These numbers rival the high output of the SVT Performance group’s Supercharged 2003-2004 Cobra and various other high performance models from Ford’s Specialty Vehicles Team. Camaros and Challengers, watch out! With a Bama Tune installed, the new 5.0L has become the leader of the pack!

In addition to the rear wheel horsepower and torque gains, drivers will experience better throttle response, faster/firmer shifting, and an overall increase in driveability. These hot new calibrations are available immediately, exclusively from AmericanMuscle.com. Final production versions of the C&L cold air intake will be ready to purchase from AmericanMuscle before the end of summer, 2010. Stay tuned for more exclusive prototype test results and footage!

Saab 9-2 vs MINI Cooper

Victor Muller, the chief executive of Dutch company Spyker, whose recent acquisition became brand Saab, has declared, that the Swedish motor-car manufacturer prepares the new compact car under name 9-2.

For true admirers

During conversation with journalists Victor Muller even has shown some sketches of the future car in which shape lines classical Saab 92 are traced, 93 and 96. According to director Spyker, the compact car for real admirers of production Saab.

Also Muller has noticed, that creation of competitor Volkswagen New Beetle, MINI Cooper and Fiat 500 is a priority problem of the Swedish company, but even approximate terms of an exit of a novelty on the market head Spyker to name has refused, as on realisation of the given project yet there are no financial assets.

New Saab 9-3 with Epsilon I

Victor Muller has confirmed the information that in 2012 in sale the new generation of model Saab 9-3 which will be constructed on the modernised version of platform Epsilon I will arrive. According to WCF, Saab 9-3 will receive a wide ruler of power units in which there will be a place of turbo-engines in volume from 1,6 to 2,8 litres.

New sedans 9-5, and in 2011 — a crossover 9-4X will appear in the summer of current year in salons of official dealers Saab, whose assemblage will be adjusted in Mexico.

Prototype new VW Beetle will show in November

In November of current year on a motor show in Los Angeles company Volkswagen plans to present the conceptual version of car Beetle.

Aerodynamical Beetle

As informs edition Autocar referring to own sources, by working out of the car engineers intend to be focused on aerodynamics and controllability. The novelty will be constructed on the modernised front-wheel platform with more broad gauge and the extended wheel base.

Also it is expected, that the novelty will receive completely a new interior (presumably, in style Golf VI and Polo), more volume luggage carrier (about 250 litres) and set of options for a car individualization.

Unusual VW Beetles

The Impact of the Utility Truck on Commercial Vehicles

Does your current job require that you travel from one location or jobsite to another with all kinds of equipment to perform your services? If so, having an organized system by which you can securely store your tools in your vehicle without constantly digging around for them or fearing that something gets lost is of the utmost importance. Thankfully, there is a specific type of vehicle that was designed specifically to solve these problems, the utility truck.

The origins of the utility truck come from the Australian State of Victoria in the 1930’s. Allegedly, a farmer’s wife wrote to the Ford manufacturing plant and inquired as to why the company had not invented a vehicle that could simultaneously be used to haul the family to church on Sunday, while transporting the pigs to market on Monday. Part of her inspiration had to do with the fact that at that time, the Australian banks would provide loans for farming vehicles, but not passenger vehicles. Thankfully the good people at Ford liked the idea, and the first Utility Truck was born.

Today you can find utility trucks for sale at new and used automobile dealerships throughout the United States and the entire world. Who uses these trucks today? All kinds of people use them. For example, if you worked as a cable installer burying fiber optic cables into the ground, you might need a truck with extra towing capacity to lug around your heavy machinery, as well as storage space for all of your cable. Voila – the utility truck solves both of these needs.

Alternatively, a plumber typically has to carry all kinds of equipment, whether it is wrenches, elbow joints, piping, a plumbing ‘snake’, and other tools. Specially designed utility trucks come with lockable storage containers mounted onto the sides of the vehicle that are perfect for storing all of this various equipment. Today the utility truck has expanded from the original Aussie ‘Ute’ to take on many forms. It is the prototype for the modern parcel van, single or dual rear wheel utility truck, contractor flatbed, service truck, and a whole host of other vehicles that are used for commercial use today.

In network Facebook have shown prototype Citroen

Company Citroen has published on the page in social network Facebook a photo of conceptual three-door crossover DS High Rider which is a harbinger of the similar serial car under name DS4. The premiere of a prototype will take place in the beginning of March on a motor show in Geneva.

Compact crossover Citroen DS4

The detailed information on a novelty still is not disclosed. On preliminary data, compact crossover Citroen DS4 will be constructed on a platform of hatchback С4 of following generation which debuts in the autumn of current year, possibly, on a motor show in Paris. The batch production of such car is planned to adjust by 2011.

Hatchback Citroen С3

Car DS3 constructed on units of hatchback С3 became the first model from "bonus" series DS. The car debut has taken place in September of last year at an exhibition in Frankfurt. Sports crossover DS5 becomes one more model from this scale. Such car will be constructed on the basis of Citroen С5 and begins to be equipped with a hybrid power-plant. Concern Citroen assume, that DS5 becomes competitor BMW X6.

Hyundai will show in Geneva a prototype of a new sedan

South Korean company Hyundai has published the first image-tizer of the conceptual car i-flow which world premiere will take place on a motor show in Geneva, opening in the beginning of March of this year. As they say in a communique, Hyundai i-flow will give representation how the future serial sedan of a D-class will look.

Hybrid car by Hyundai

About a novelty while that in a car design modern workings out of concern BASF will be used is known only, including innovative easy materials of furnish and solar panels. At car creation in company Hyundai tried to lower as much as possible weight of the car and to achieve the best profitability. Under assumptions of some foreign editions, the concept car i-flow can be equipped by a hybrid power-plant.

New sedan Hyundai i-flow

When serial version Hyundai i-flow will appear on the conveyor, yet is not informed.

Audi prepares a compact sport coupe

On a motor show in Detroit company Audi has presented experimental compact coupe on electrodraught — Audi E-tron Detroit Showcar. The novelty is the continuer of concept Audi E-Tron constructed on the basis of Audi R8 and presented on motor show in Frankfurt in the autumn of 2009.

Compact coupe E-tron

However, the new prototype is more compact than first "E-tron" and it is easier: on the sizes new coupe it is comparable to golf class hatchbacks, and it is equipped only by two electromotors.

Engines rotate only back wheels: their total power makes 201HP that allows to disperse 1350-kgs car (the first E-Tron weighed 1600 kgs) to 100 km/h for 5,9 sec.

Interior Audi E-tron

The heaviest detail of the new concept car is a block li-ionic of batteries which 399 kgs weigh. Storage batteries are placed practically on the car centre that has allowed developers to keep optimum balance — 40:60 in favour of a back axis. A stock of a course at this car — 155 miles (250 km).

As experts consider, Audi E-tron Detroit Showcar is the predecessor serial coupe which could make competition BMW 1-Series with the same type of a body. Originally new model Audi will be offered, most likely, with traditional power-plants, and the version on electrodraught if will appear on sale, only in some years.

MINI will show in Detroit a new crossover

In January of the next year company MINI will present on the international motor show in Detroit the conceptual crossover Beachcomber created on the basis of the first off-road car of mark under name Countryman. The serial version "Countryman" debuts in March on a motor show in Geneva. About it it is spoken in communique MINI.

MINI Beachcomber by MINI Moke

The novelty is created as modern interpretation of the last century of car MINI Moke issued in the sixties, however unlike this car the modern concept car will be hardly started in a batch production. Crossover Beachcomber is created for the purpose of demonstration of how model Countryman what will be the sizes of a body and the general structure of salon will look. The dimensional length of a prototype makes 4070 mm, and the wheel base is equal to 2606 mm, that on 135 and 59 mm accordingly more than at five-door car MINI Clubman.

Novelty as well as serial crossover Countryman, it is equipped by new system of full drive All4 which has been specially developed for compact cars. In the future concern BMW owning mark MINI, is intended to use such transmission and on other cars. The ruler of engines Countryman will be precisely same, as well as hatchbacks, including a new bee-turbo motor in volume of 1,6 litres which begins to be offered for serial updating.

MINI Countryman 2010

It is expected, that at European dealers MINI Countryman will appear in September, 2010. The car will be issued in Austria at company Magna enterprise.

VW has shown a prototype of a city midget car

On a motor show in Los Angeles concern Volkswagen has presented a new prototype of city midget car Up! Lite, equipped hybrid a diesel engine-electric a power-plant. This car considerably differs from previous conceptual Up!, which VW shows on each large motor show, since Geneva of 2008.

New Volkswagen Up!

New Up! Lite is much larger than predecessors with the same name — the length makes 3,84 metres against 3,14 metres at the previous models.

The novelty is equipped by system "Stop/Start" thanks to what the average expense of fuel does not exceed 2,44 litres on 100 km of a way, and emissions СО2 make only 65 g/km. Thus, Up! Lite it is dynamical enough: with 0 to 100 km/h the car is dispersed for 12,5 sec, and the maximum speed reaches 160 km/h.

VW Up! Lite

About batch production prospects it is concrete this model while it is informed nothing. It is quite probable, that Up! Lite is only one of members of new family of the city midget cars Volkswagen united under general brand Up! Besides a hybrid, in this series electromobiles with traditional power-plants, and the first serial VW Up will enter also! It is expected by 2011.

Audi A1 masking has not saved even

Today paparazzi have given to the automobile public the first photos of prototype Audi A1 which has started the test program, and it can mean only one — to a debut of serial version Audi A1 remains not so a lot of time.

Firm lattice of radiator Audi

Engineers Audi have tried to disguise prototype A1 under model BMW for what even have closed a car body a firm black-and-white camouflage of the Bavarian concern, but the firm lattice of radiator Audi has declassified the car.

On the first photos of a novelty experts have drawn a conclusion that wheel base Audi A1 is little bit longer, than at competitors. Earlier in the German company declared, that A1 will arrive on the market in several variants of a body.
Except 4- and a 5-door hatchback, Audi plans to make: cabriolet, universal and crossover A1.

Power ruler Audi A1 will please with the variety. In a standard complete set the model will receive a forward drive, but family A1 top version, most likely, begins to be offered with system of a full drive.

Audi A1 by Metroproject Concept

Design of model will execute on motives of conceptual car Metroproject Concept.

It is expected, that next year in March the novelty debut will take place, and sales in the autumn will begin. A guiding price: £11,000.

Mercedes-Benz CLS has got support AMG

In spite of the fact that company Mercedes-Benz still officially has not presented four-door coupe CLS following generation, engineers of German concern have started working out of the "charged" version of model CLS AMG which this week for the first time has been noticed during test tests.

Stylistic element AMG

Because of special plates on a model body it is inconvenient enough to notice changes in an ex-terrier of the car, but that engineers test Mercedes-Benz CLS AMG does not cause doubts as on shape of a prototype characteristic handwriting of studio AMG — huge carbon disks and four branch pipes of an exhaust system is traced.

Present generation Mercedes-Benz CLS AMG is completed with the 514-strong petrol engine, and here the novelty should receive the engine power of 525HP which will work together with 7-step transmission Speedshift MCT. In a standard complete set the model will receive 18-inch disks, disks dimension of 19 inches will be present at the list of options.

New generation Mercedes-Benz

Sales Mercedes-Benz CLS AMG of new generation should begin in 2011. In the segment the model begins to compete with Porsche Panamera Turbo, Aston Martin Rapide.

New BMW 6 series become the best model of concern

The new generation of magnificent model BMW of 6 series should be promulgated not earlier than 2011, but already there are the pre-production models, showing, that the car will be equipped by automatically developing metal roof. Thus, in future BMW of 6 series will unite in itself both a coupe and a cabriolet.

Prototype BMW CS

The design new BMW 6 series will borrow set of elements from concept car BMW CS presented in 2007. Under the statement the representative of concern BMW in USA Jim O’Donnell: «New BMW 6 series become the best car of mark for last years».

Release BMW CS

Cadillac CTS-V Coupe: the prepremier test

The economic crisis which has painfully struck on the automobile industry, has forced many world concerns to refuse workings out of new models but as soon as the situation was more or less stabilised, the companies have reanimated the frozen projects.

Testings super-power coupe

So, company Cadillac has started a finishing stage of testing of super-power coupe CTS-V Coupe which should appear on roads to next year. In comparison with a last year's prototype the present copy has considerably changed and is ready to a batch production.

The design of model is executed in uniform stylistics of family CTS. It is possible to name distinctive lines of the car special emblems with the letter V, two massive branch pipes of the exhaust system, located on the centre of a back part of model, sports disks with wide rubber, huge a support.

Under a car cowl has taken places engine V-8 in volume of 6.2 l, power of 556HP.

Cadillac CTS-V Coupe

Novelty manufacture will begin next year, and it means, that debut Cadillac CTS-V Coupe can take place on the international motor show in Detroit.

Mitsubishi Outlander with appearance Lancer Evolution

In the end of the next week on the international auto show in New York company Mitsubishi will present new version of off-road car Outlander which has received name GT Prototype.

As it is informed in the official press release, new registration of a front part of a body with headlights of head light and radiator enclosure from model Lancer Evolution becomes one of the basic distinctive features of this car.

Besides, the novelty will receive system of all wheel drive S-AWC (Super All Wheel Control) from "hot" sedan Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, and also the modernised version of the three-litre six-cylinder engine from usual Outlander which becomes more powerful and more economic. According to representatives of the Japanese mark to lower fuel consumption it was possible at the expense of system Idle Neutral Logic which during a car stop automatically translates a gear box in "neutral".

Whether at present is specified, is Outlander GT Prototype simply concept and show-car or it becomes valid a harbinger of new version of an off-road car. More detailed information about Outlander GT will be presented to time of presentation of the car in New York.

In Libya have developed the most safe in the world the car

«Saroukh el-Jamahiriya» — so the new car for the first time shown at conference of the Organization of the African unity and developed at direct participation of the head of the Libyan state is called.

Saroukh el-Jamahiriya really reminds a rocket, contains 5 passengers and it is completed with 230-strong engine V6. The car unusually looks, but is completely not ridiculous or silly. Very nice copy. More truly, two copies — white and black. Will be more when in Tripoli will construct factory on release of "rockets".

It is said that Muammar Kaddafi has spent many hours per meditations about what should be the most safe on the earth the car. Has as a result appeared Saroukh el-Jamahiriya. Also say and that Libyans have appeared ahead of a planet of everything, as have achieved the maximum result (by their own words), having avoided use of pillows of safety, electronic systems of protection and other "gadgets", which all other motor-car manufacturers use to achieve the maximum results in crash-tests.

Photo by: autoblog.com

Muammar Kaddafi has thought up the supercar

Libyan leader Muammar Kaddafi has decided to celebrate 40-year-old anniversary of revolution with release of own supercar which has been developed according to wishes of the Libyan governor. As informs AFP, by request of Kaddafi Italian company Tesco TS was engaged in construction of the car.

The supercar has received name The Rocket, and the shape is developed Kaddafi.

The car it has turned out enough large — the dimensional length according to French edition Auto Plus makes 5,5 metres (it more than extended Mercedes-Benz S-Class), and the weight is equal 1,8 tons. About the engine of it it is not known yet, power — 230HP is known.

Prototype construction, according to representatives Tesco AS, has managed Kaddafi in 2 million euro. On possibility of mass or small-scale manufacture of such car it is informed nothing.

Cabriolet Mercedes SLS AMG: test by a heat

Engineers Mercedes-Benz have started tests in the conditions of very hot weather of new supercar SLS AMG with the petrol engine. Test the car in the Californian desert.

From photographers has not taken cover, that under a prototype camouflage the collapsible top disappears, and it means, that the new cabriolet will lose type doors "a wing of a seagull". The traditional arrangement of door handles says also that in the car there will be a usual system of an input-exit.

Mercedes-Benz SLS with the engine power of 571HP it can be accelerated to 100 km/h for 3,8 seconds at the maximum speed of 315 km/h. In some weeks cabriolet SLS will appear in the true shape on a motor show in Frankfurt.

Photo by: worldcarfans.com

There were first photos Mercedes-Benz C-Class 2011

Photographers-spies could photograph pre-series copy Mercedes-Benz C-Class not covered with a camouflage 2011 modelling years.

White universal has got to an objective of the paparazzi during transportation on an autotrailer. Changes in appearance can be carried to the superficial: C-Class has received the updated forward bumper with light-emitting diode in "the running line" daylight, as at S-Class 2010 modelling years, and also a new back bumper and back headlights. In salon of the car to spies to glance it was not possible, but experts Worldcarfans consider, as there updatings will be "cosmetic".

Mercedes-Benz C-Class 2011 the same set of engines, as current model, but engines modernised will receive to improve their profitability and ecological compatibility. It is expected, that the world premiere of the updated car will take place on the Geneva motor show in March of the next year.

Photo by: worldcarfans.com

BMW X1 — the first photo without a camouflage

BMW skilfully warms up interest to novelty X1: that suits tests of the camouflaged prototype a headlight will show a radiator lattice.

Today the Bavarian company has published a photo of not disguised crossover, the truth, having made the image indistinct.

On photo BMW X1 of white colour, it is parked on a beach. The car general view is already known on espionage photos. It is expected, that the German motor-car manufacturer will present high-grade official photos and all detailed characteristics next week. The premiere of a novelty is planned on autoshow in Frankfurt in September, 2009.

BMW develops electrocar Megacity

Concern BMW after competitors has started working out of own model of an electromobile.

As the chief executive of company Norbert Reithofer has informed in interview The Wall Street Journal, electrocar with working name Megacity will be allocated in a separate subbrand within the limits of BMW (like a sports M-series). Any details about a novelty are not disclosed yet, however it is already known, that ionic batteries will deliver Bosch, creating for this purpose joint venture with BMW. Megacity promise to make serial by 2015.