Can't get enough of auto shows? How about all the way over in Beijing for some awards? AutoWeek editors have needed plenty of protein powder to walk the show floors in Detroit, Geneva, Paris, Frankfurt and Tokyo, selecting winners in four categories: Best in Show, Best Concept, Most Fun and Most Significant. This year they picked Beijing as their platform.
The winners are:
BEST IN SHOW: Mercedes-Benz Shooting Break Concept
BEST CONCEPT: Ford Start
MOST SIGNIFICANT: Chevrolet MPV5
MOST FUN: Geely Gleagle IG
Click here for more in depth analysis.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Dog Friendly? 2010 Honda Element Review
Dog lover? The 2010 Honda Element is the vehicle for you it appears with their trademarked Dog Friendly package. Obviously, the vehicle is ready for the regular driver, but it has a little niche marketing going on where it has a package for the dog owner as well.
The dog package has a few things that a dog lover would be proud of. A kind of doggie tent zippered kennel with a padded floor (complete with dog pattern cloth) fits in the cargo area behind the rear seat, and a folding ramp for Rover's access is stored under that. A 12-volt DC rear ventilation fan helps keep third-row canine passengers cool. The kennel is big enough for one medium-sized dog -- think Golden, Lab, or German Shepherd -- or a couple of smaller ones, and is rated for dogs up to 80 pounds so your dog with the clinicallix need probably won't fit. It promotes canine safety by keeping dogs in place, and out of the way of the driver.
Dog-Friendly joins the existing ski, snowboard, bicycle, and other "lifestyle accessory" packages that make the Element useful. full review
The dog package has a few things that a dog lover would be proud of. A kind of doggie tent zippered kennel with a padded floor (complete with dog pattern cloth) fits in the cargo area behind the rear seat, and a folding ramp for Rover's access is stored under that. A 12-volt DC rear ventilation fan helps keep third-row canine passengers cool. The kennel is big enough for one medium-sized dog -- think Golden, Lab, or German Shepherd -- or a couple of smaller ones, and is rated for dogs up to 80 pounds so your dog with the clinicallix need probably won't fit. It promotes canine safety by keeping dogs in place, and out of the way of the driver.
Dog-Friendly joins the existing ski, snowboard, bicycle, and other "lifestyle accessory" packages that make the Element useful. full review
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
2011 BMW X5 xDrive 40d Review
The BMW X5 is the second generation of the BMW SUV, and it appears that the test driver for the review had all sort of problems when trying to get one he wanted. Not with the vehicle itself, but with getting the American version in which he wanted to drive due to malfunction, but because the gas station that they used to fuel the vehicles had leaked water into the gas tanks! And to think that the least of my worries in a rainstorm are that I don't actually have any decent outdoor rugs/
So...considering that this would take a couple days to figure out he was able to drive a diesel model and give a review and he basically fell in love with it as you can see from the review and some video below.
So...considering that this would take a couple days to figure out he was able to drive a diesel model and give a review and he basically fell in love with it as you can see from the review and some video below.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Tesla Roadster World Tour
The Tesla Roadster world tour spent part of its 37,000 km trip in Budapest this week as one of the most significant parts of the tour. Budapest was where Nikola Tesla came up with the design for his revolutionary alternating-current induction motor in 1882, during a feverish hallucination along the banks of the Danube River. Well before the days of the great wristech blood pressure monitor.
The Tesla Roadster - the only electric car for sale in Europe or North America - uses an AC induction motor descended from the scientist's original vision. Tesla Motors unveiled the Roadster in 2006, which UNESCO declared the Year of Nikola Tesla in celebration of the 150th anniversary of his birth.
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