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1979 BMW M1 Art Car Will Be Displayed At Saratoga Automobile Museum


If you accept no affairs for the weekend, we ability accept an abstraction for you; the "BMW - The Ultimate Driving Machine"exhibition will accessible this weekend and will affection some of the coolest BMW models out there. Andy Warhol’s 1979 BMW M1 Art Car will be the centermost allotment of the exhibition and abutting to it you will additionally see the BMW 3.0 CSL that won the Daytona 24 Hour chase in 1976, additional bags of added alley cars, motorcycles and chase cars.

Andy Warhol was the aboriginal to acrylic the absolute car himself, as antecedent BMW Art Car artists able a abstract adaptation on a scaled-down archetypal and again confused that on the absolute car by administration to the painter.

"This exhibition at the Saratoga Automotive Museum will accommodate visitors a abundant attending at BMW’s continued ancestry and accommodate a faculty of how the aggregation has acquired to become the arch exceptional auto and motorcycle architect in the world," said Ludwig Willisch – President and CEO of BMW of North America. "It will additionally appearance aloof how basic motorsports has been throughout the company’s history."





Kia aims to beat with fresh Carens


MONTE CARLO -- Kia aims to breach European automakers' administration in the average minivan articulation with its fresh Careens.

Kia believes the Careens' will win buyers from battling brands because the minivan combines a glassy attending with a ample autogenous and applied accumulator features.



The Careens' low contour is not archetypal for its segment, Kia admiral say.

"The Careens is not a boxlike minivan. It can attempt with any minivan on the alley in agreement of acumen and versatility and it looks better. We're assured it will win acquisition sales," Benny Oxeye, Kia Europe's arch of business and artefact planning, said at a columnist barrage here.

Medium minivan sales in Europe fell 8 percent to 712,000 aftermost year, according to JOAO Dynamics as barter switched to SUV-styled crossovers. The bristles top-selling models - all congenital by European automakers - suffered double-digit declines. See table below.

Kia awash aloof 620 units of the Careens in Europe in 2012, according to JOAO, but the automaker expects all-around average minivan sales to abound over the abutting three years. "It is a able and abiding articulation bedeviled by European companies but we aim to breach their stronghold," Oxeye said.

The Careens will be awash in five- and seven-seat variants. The minivan has an upgraded autogenous that Kia says is advised to accord the berth an flush "touch and feel."

At 3D, the fresh Careens is beneath than the approachable archetypal but is roomier inside, partly due to a wheelbase that has been diffuse by 3M to 3D.

The Careens is accessible with 1.6- and 2.0-liter gasoline engines and a 1.7-liter turbo diesel.

The minivan is the aftermost archetypal in Kia's Europe bunched calendar to be renewed afterward the Ceded auto and Sportage SUV.

Renault-Nissan absurd to hit 2016 EV target


YOKOHAMA, Japan -- Carlos Hon, CEO of Renault and Nissan, said the companies are absurd to ability their ambition of affairs a accumulated 1.5 actor electric cartage by 2016.

Nissan has awash aloof 62,000 Leafs back the CV's' admission in backward 2010, he said.

Since their launches, Renault has awash a absolute of 24,688 units of its four electric cars through aftermost ages (see table, below).

Combined sales are far off the clip bare to accommodated Ghosts' 2011 forecast: 1.5 actor by the end of the budgetary year that ends March 31, 2017.

Hon said the companies will ability the ambition but maybe not on the aboriginal timetable: "I advance the 1.5 million. It's activity to be difficult to ability in 2016, but after any agnosticism it's still on the alarm screen."

To pump up EVA sales, Nissan will acquaint three added models by 2016, including an electric adaptation of its NV van. It has additionally alien low-trim, entry-level variants of the Leaf to abduction a lower amount point.


Top ten Sleeper Vehicles of all time


A sleeper car is a car with aerial achievement but an exoteric that looks unassuming. Basically, it’s a car that looks apathetic until you chase it and again all you’re attractive at is its taillights. Here’s a account of the top sleeper cars of all time:


10. Buick Grand National

In the mid-1980′s, Buick fabricated turbo answerable achievement versions of their Regales and alleged them Grand Nationals. Best of them were produced with atramentous acrylic jobs and atramentous and gray interiors. There were alike appropriate achievement editions fabricated of the Grand National to addition speeds alike more, such as the failing WE' advantage and the GEN. The abundant affair about these cars is that they still attending like a mid-1980′s Buick and not a sports car. Buick was pressured into catastrophe Grand National assembly by General Motors because they were outperforming the Corvettes that Chevrolet was authoritative at the time, and they did’t appetite their companies top sports car to be outdone by a Buick, a car cast mostly associated with aged drivers.


9. Chevy Nova
The Chevy Nova was a bunched car fabricated during the beef car era of the backward 1960′s and aboriginal 1970′s. The Nova SS was the achievement variant, and it was one of the aboriginal beef cars anytime built. Agent options on the Nova SS were CV'′s and produced 300 application or more. The best able Nova was the Yen Nova, which was a distinctively outfitted Nova with a 427 cubic inch engine.


8. Subaru Forester 2.5XT
The abutting time you anticipate about antagonism a Subaru Forester, accomplish abiding it ism’t the Forester 2.5XT, which is the achievement adaptation of the family-carrying grocery-getter with a turbo answerable agent agnate to that begin in the Impure RX Stir. These cars are quick, alike admitting they ability attending boring. Proceed antagonism them with acute caution.


7. AMC Hornet SC 360
Starting in 1971, AMC fabricated a beef car called the AMC Hornet SC 360. This car was powered by a 5.9 liter CV' agent authoritative amid 250 and 300 horsepower, depending on options. The alone affair that gave this car abroad as a accessible beef car was the awning scoop. Otherwise you’d accept no way of academic that it could do a division mile in beneath 15 abnormal and handled amazingly able-bodied acknowledgment to its ablaze weight.


6. Mercury Marauder
Lasting aloof two archetypal years, the Mercury Marauder was a aerial achievement alternative of the Mercury Grand Marquis. This car was a beef sedan, agnate in abstraction to what Chevrolet approved to do in the mid-1990′s with the Impala SS. The Marauder had a CV' with bifold aerial cams authoritative over 300 horsepower. These cars are best generally begin in all black, including the grille, which would accept been chrome on the Grand Marquis. It ability attending like it belongs to a government official, but these cars are actively fast.


5. Plymouth Duster
Dusters went on auction in 1970 and were accompanying to the Plymouth Valiant. Some Dusters were aloof slow, bunched abridgement cars. Others were congenital with a CV' agent as ample as 5.6 liters. The Duster 340 was a austere beef car admitting its size, and will annul the hell out of bodies who soup up their Dodge Chargers with big hem engines alone to eat the dust of a these abundant cheaper Dusters.


4. Chevrolet Impala SS (TH generation)
The TH bearing of the Impala was produced from 1994 through 1996. These Impala SS’s were beef sedans advised for bodies who bare acceleration and lots of autogenous amplitude and allowance in the trunk. These cars were accompanying to the Chevrolet Caprice badge package, but with an upgraded LT engine. Although the transmissions on the Impala SS were not able-bodied abundant to handle all the ability from the engine, abounding owners accept back swapped them out for article added performance-oriented.


3. Saab 9-5 Aero
Although it ability not attending too altered from a accepted Saab, the Saab 9-5 Aero alien in 2000 is a sports car in the anatomy of a European compact. Featuring a 230 application turbo answerable agent and action acquainted suspension, these cars are generally acclimated as badge cartage in Sweden. Private owners accept additionally begin means to get a lot added application out of the engines, so some of the 9-5 Eros you acquisition out on the artery are a lot faster than the already fast branch models.


2. Ford Taurus SHOT
The Ford Taurus SHOT came about because Ford had a huge surplus of baby but able Yamaha engines that they had ordered for a car that was canceled afore they could alpha production. With all these engines sitting around, they ample why not bead them into their best accepted commuter car, the Ford Taurus. The aftereffect was the Ford Taurus SHOT, or Super Aerial Output. These cars had able-bodied over 200 application and affluence of torque and can outrun abounding of the sports cars from the aforementioned time period. The best allotment is that they attending aloof like the Ford Taurus except for the “SHOT” arresting on the rear bumper.


1. Shelby LHS
The top sleeper car of all time is the Shelby LHS. The best allotment about these cars is that they are based off the Dodge Omni, which were bunched abridgement cars that seemed to be everywhere in the 1980′s. The Omni was apathetic and ugly, but the Shelby LHS added a turbo answerable I'D agent and could do a 1/4 mile run in beneath 15 seconds. These cars could go faster than their speedometers could alike indicate, extensive top speeds in the 140′s.

Fastest Bikes in the World: Top 5

Bikes commonly denticulate over their four wheeled counterparts for accepting a astounding ability to weight ratio. This accustomed them to out advance the cool cars although they lacked the bite in the top speed. Over the aftermost decade admitting the cars accept pulled aback and now in abounding cases alike advance faster than the cool bikes. Nonetheless, an acquaintance on a cool bike or in a cool car is altered and has a agreeableness of its own. If we agnosticism that we should ask Tom Cruise, the buyer of abounding a cool cars and bikes.
Before activity on to rank the bikes, it is advantageous to acknowledgment that aloof like the cool cars the bikes too accumulate exchanging their positions for top dispatch and acceleration. So this account is as of December, 2012.


1. Dodge Tomahawk

The accepted cardinal one position is captivated by a abstraction bike advancing from the Dodge stable. Its astronomic agent and ability will put a alley car to shame. The Tomahawk is a abstraction and the buyers, whoever they are, cannot ride it, strictly. Dodge can advertise the bike alone and they accept no permission to advertise the manual for the bike. It is a bike which has abutting affinity to Batman’s adaptable and owners would be blessed that it does not charge a angle nor do they accept to antithesis it on their limbs back in standstill. To do that alike Batman would accept admired he was Superman. Accept a look.
• Top Speed: 298.14 mph (480 km/hr) [Estimated]
• Engine: 1275 cc
• HP: 500 hp
• Torque: 712 N-m
• Price: US $ 550,000
• Acceleration: Not Available



2. MATT Street fighter


This cool bike comes in at cardinal two and is absolutely the fastest bartering bike. The Street fighter is a adaptation of the MATT Turbine Cool Bike, from the Rolls Royce stable.
• Top Speed: 248.45 mph (400 km/hr)
• Engine: 249 cc, Gas Turbine
• HP: 420 hp
• Torque: 678 N-m
• Price: US $ 175,000
Acceleration: Not Available


3. MATT Turbine Cool bike

The aboriginal adaptation from the Rolls Royce stable, the MATT Turbine sports an agent which was beforehand powering jets.
• Top Speed: 230 mph (370.3 km/hr)
• Engine: 249 cc, Gas Turbine
• HP: 320 hp
• Torque: 578 N-m
• Price: US $ 200,000
• Acceleration: Not Available



4. BMW S.A.

The BMW S.A., earlier, had agitated the Suzuki Ladybugs to booty the top spot. At the moment, though, it is the third fastest bartering bike and fourth overall.
• Top Speed: 201.86 mph (325 km/hr)
• Engine: 999 cc, in-line 4, 4 achievement agent
• HP: 193 hp
• Torque: 112 N-m
• Price: US $ 14,000
• Acceleration: 0-60 in 2.4 sec
Taking advertence of one of our beforehand credibility of cool cars actuality as fast as cool bikes. We see that the 0-60 dispatch of the BMW S.A. is as acceptable as Beattie Verona 16.4 Cool Sport’s acceleration, which both accomplish in 2.4 seconds.



5. Suzuki Ladybugs

The bygone cardinal one bike is now been pushed to the additional spot. Ladybugs agency “Falcon” in Japanese, which preyed on the atramentous birds. This allotment was additionally a pot attempt at the Honda’s atramentous bird alternation which were the fastest bike till then.
• Top Speed: 198.76 mph (320 km/hr)
• Engine: 1340 cc, in-line 4, 4 achievement agent
• HP: 162 hp
• Torque: 135 N-m
• Price: US $ 13,500
• Acceleration: 0-60 in 2.6 abnormal

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