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2011 Geneva Motor Show: The Premium Hatchbacks
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While they may just be catching on here in America, across the ocean premium hatchbacks like the Audi A3 and Mini Cooper represent the way things are done. They offer the luxury of a larger sedan or SUV, but in a smaller, more economical and more urban-friendly form. And at this year’s Geneva Motor Show, there was no shortage of automakers unveiling their new visions for the segment. Mini came back with an even smaller concept, Infiniti and Saab threw their proverbial hats in the ring, Fiat showcase two new variants of its popular 500 model and its sister company Lancia joined with a new entry of its own. Follow the jump to see what they had to offer. Continue reading 2011 Geneva Motor Show: The Premium Hatchbacks Filed under: Luxury Cars & Autos 2011 Geneva Motor Show: The Premium Hatchbacks originally appeared on Luxist on Sun, 06 Mar 2011 19:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments
VW Closing Purchase of Porsche. Still Eyeing Alfa-Romeo
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And VW AG supervisory board chairman, billionaire Ferdinand Piech (grandson of Porsche founder Ferdinand Porsche) isn’t through trying to add premium and luxury brands. At the Geneva Motor Show this week Piech reiterated his interest in acquiring Italian brand Alfa Romeo, owned by Fiat, despite public statements by Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne that the marque is not for sale. Continue reading VW Closing Purchase of Porsche. Still Eyeing Alfa-Romeo Filed under: Luxury Cars & Autos VW Closing Purchase of Porsche. Still Eyeing Alfa-Romeo originally appeared on Luxist on Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments
Audi to raise the roof on A1 with rolling cloth panel?
From autoblog.com Filed under: Convertible, Europe, Hatchback, Audi Audi is going to great lengths to steal territory away from arch-rival BMW and its Mini marque. But as you’d expect from any German automaker, the initial A1 three-door premium hatchback appears to be just the beginning. Since its launch, the A1 has bred the five-door A1 Sportback, there’s a Q1 crossover based on the same platform reportedly in the works, and the A1 Quattro demonstrates the extent of the architecture’s performance capabilities. But Ingolstadt is not about to stop there as reports come in of a convertible version as well. Well, sort of. According to reports coming in from Germany, Audi is preparing to launch a version of the A1 with a rolling cloth roof panel. If the intel proves accurate, the open-air version would stop one step short of the pseudo-convertible Fiat 500C, in that the aperture would essentially be a giant fabric sunroof, but not roll down the back. The measure would undoubtedly save Audi significant development costs, but also keep chassis rigidity in check without the need for significant additional structural bracing. Either way, we’re not looking at getting any version of the A1 on this side of the Atlantic any time soon, so as far as American buyers are concerned, this is all rather academic.
Audi to raise the roof on A1 with rolling cloth panel? originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Hagerty predicts this year’s future classics
From autoblog.com Filed under: Car Buying, Classics, Etc., Audi, Buick, Chevrolet, Dodge, Ford, Jeep, Nissan, Porsche, Volkswagen The world would be considerably less entertaining if we could all predict the future. Even so, the classic car gurus at Hagerty Insurance have cast a few chicken bones in an attempt to figure out which vehicles produced today might eventually turn collectible. The company restricted entrants to hardware with a price tag of less than $100,000, so the list isn’t populated with too many wild exotics. While vehicles like the Nissan GT-R Black Edition, Ford Mustang Boss 302 Laguna Seca Edition, Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 and Porsche 911 are low-hanging fruit, the list also featured a few surprises. For starters, it begins with none other than the mighty Buick Regal GS. Hagerty says the vehicle is a win because it’s the first Buick with a manual transmission since the fall of the Holy Roman Empire. The Fiat 500 Abarth also makes an appearance alongside an even hotter hatch, the Volkswagen Golf R. Of course, we’re simply thrilled to see the sinister Audi TT RS make a showing. Hit the jump for the full list or view each vehicle in our gallery above.
Continue reading Hagerty predicts this year’s future classics Hagerty predicts this year’s future classics originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. 2012 Audi A1 Sportback [w/video]
From autoblog.com Filed under: Budget, Europe, Hatchback, Audi, First Drives, Luxury Do We Really Want Audi To Think This Small In America? Perhaps… It is perhaps with all the speed of a mighty iceberg, but increasingly, more and more North American buyers appear willing to think smaller when pondering their next auto purchase. The other shoe, which still has largely yet to drop, is for automakers to convince consumers of the merits of a luxury subcompact, paying a price premium for a longer list of creature comforts, options and badge appeal. However small, this trend in the States is best represented by BMW and its Mini range, followed (with a few stumbles out of the gate) by the Fiat 500. In Europe, however, there is already a well-defined tradition of premium minicars on which buyers happily lavish extra dollars, and there is no model quite so indulgent for the masses as the Audi A1. Through its first complete year of sales in 2011, the Bavarians built at their factory in Brussels, Belgium – and sold – nearly 120,000 A1 three-doors. Now we’ve finally gotten the chance to drive an Audi A1 Sportback with five doors, a model first shown publicly at last October’s Tokyo Motor Show. The five-door model carries on with the basic A1 recipe of offering big things in small packages, and rather unusually, we think the model with more doors might actually look better this time. That may not seem altogether based on reason at first glance, since both the three- and five-door A1 designs have a length of 155.7 inches and a wheelbase of 97.2 inches. (Only the Fiat 500, Jeep Wrangler, Scion iQ, Smart ForTwo and various two-door Mini models take up less parking space.)
Continue reading 2012 Audi A1 Sportback [w/video] 2012 Audi A1 Sportback [w/video] originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. 140 new models to debut at Geneva Motor Show
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Notes From the Detroit Auto Show
From rss.businessweek By David Welch The mood in Detroit is considerably better at this year’s North American International Auto Show than it was a year ago when General Motors was hunting momentum and Chrysler’s very survival was in question. I’ll get into the new models and concept cars as they roll out. In the meantime, here are a few notable comments from the auto executives I tracked down at the show. Chrysler going public The Italian automaker owns 25% of Chrysler. The UAW owns 63.5% of Chrysler. The U.S. Treasury holds 9.2%, while Canadian municipalities have a 2.3% stake. Marchionne told reporters that he wants to pay back $7.5 billion in debt to the U.S. and Canadian governments in 2011 and then go public. Following GM’s successful IPO, Marchionne says Chrysler can launch its IPO following a couple quarters of profitability. “I’d love to do it in the second half of this year.” IPO yes, but electric cars… maybe not BMW’s U.S. boss throws down the gauntlet GM tries to make money on small cars The gamble is that cars like the Sonic–which have traditionally been cheap, entry-level transportation–can fetch a higher price by offering more horsepower, better ride and handling and features like MyChevrolet, a phone app that allows drivers to unlock doors, start the engine and check the vehicle’s diagnostics remotely. Ford is making the same bet with its Fiesta, which can sell for more than $20,000. Chevy has not priced the Sonic, but GM won’t set a ridiculously low price on the model, Reuss said. “If we’re going to make the cheapest, silliest car in the U.S. and try to make money on it, that isn’t going to work,” he says. Coffee solution
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Volkswagen steers into next generation
From autos.ca.msn Long before the new Fiat 500, and well before even the first generation of the “new” Mini, Volkswagen was on the retro scene with the New Beetle. It was ten years ago that Volkswagen modernized the bug, keeping the theme of its cute appearance, but with completely contemporary underpinnings. Beetlemania hit a high mark in the early part of the new millennium, with multiple special editions and even a one-model racing series. Since then, things have tapered off; the New Beetle is more a fuzzy reminder of an icon rather than an extremely competitive compact car. BELGRADE, Serbia – Why does a Yugo have a defroster on the rear window?To keep your hands warm while you push it.That’s just one of the “Yugo jokes” about the cheap and much-maligned subcompact that won notoriety for being one of the worst cars ever exported to the United States.Now, the last Yugo, once the pride of communist Yugoslavia’s automobile industry, will roll off its Serbian production line Thursday in the central town of Kragujevac.It will be missed here – but probably not in America.Soon after it hit the U.S. markets in 1986, selling for the bargain-basement price of just $3,990, the boxy Yugo was derided by American car magazines “as barely qualifying as a car” and “an assembled bag of nuts and bolts.”U.S. owners complained of frequent engine failures and transmission problems – with the manual gear sticks sometimes detaching and ending up in their drivers’ hands – in addition to passenger doors and trim parts going awol.When the U.S. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety conducted crash tests of 23 compacts in 1986, the car with the worst results was the Yugo, with $2,197 worth of damage in slow speed crashes against a flat barrier.Still, over 100,000 Yugo GVs – standing for Great Value – were sold in the U.S. before Yugo America – the company that imported it – went bankrupt and Washington imposed economic sanctions on Belgrade for fomenting ethnic wars in the Balkans in 1992.In the U.S., Yugo has made several joke appearances in Hollywood blockbusters such as Die Hard 3. Artists in America also found inspiration in the flimsy tin-can structure, turning it into something more useful – like a queen size bed or a kitchen stove.When sales started plummeting in the late 1980s, some U.S. dealers tried to clear their stocks by throwing in a free Yugo with an Oldsmobile or a Cadillac.”Of course, Yugo was never a BMW or a Cadillac, but I think most Americans did not know how to appreciate it,” said Momcilo Spajic, a proud Serbian owner of a Yugo – one of the nearly 800,000 produced by the Zasava, or Flag, factory since 1980.”This is driving in its most natural form. You feel every bump, squeak and jolt, and one can enjoy the sweet smell of gasoline and exhaust fumes,” he said. “No car can replace it.”Although it was a flop in the U.S., Yugo enjoyed iconic status in the former Yugoslav republics – something like the Volkswagen beetle in West Germany or the Trabant in East Germany.It was also exported to East European states, but not in the same numbers as to the U.S. mostly because Zastava could not meet huge domestic demand.Zastava is finally stopping the production of Yugo because its new owners, Italy’s Fiat, plans to start the assembly of its own compact, the Punto.As Zastava’s workers prepared to bid farewell to their greatest commercial success so far, they have attached a handwritten sign on the tailgate of the last Yugo on the production line.It reads: “Cao, nema vise” – “Goodbye, no more.” Motorcycle Accident Attorneys Orange County
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