GM startet neue Fertigungslinie in Russland!

Neben der Eröffnung eines Montagewerks in St. Petersburg hat der schwer gebeutelte amerikanische Autobauer GM ungeachtet von der aktuellen Krise jetzt eine zweite Fertigungslinie in Kaliningrad eröffnet. Dort sollen ab sofort jährlich rund 30.000 Einheiten des Chevrolet Lacetti vom Band...

22/11/2008

Game Over for Sport Compact Car

This is sad news. Sport Compact Car, one of the most authoritative and well-written magazines about small engines and tuning tips for compact cars has been killed off by its parent company, Source Interlink, along with Truck Trend, with 115 employees cut loose. It’s one of the few import scene titles out there that had informative articles about the import scene, with no fluff about bikini girls and rap albums to distract from its core content. They even did the occasional story about an...

22/11/2008

Gymkhana 101 With Ken Block

If you haven't already seen this, do yourself a favour and check out the video after the jump. The words "Epic" and "Physics-defying" come to mind. Once you're done with that, head over to 0-60 for the background story.   [Source: 0-60 Magazine] [Video: Ken Block Racing/Youtube]

20/11/2008

GM lehnt Kaufangebot von Solarworld ab

Erst gestern berichteten wir, dass das deutsche Solarenergie-Unternehmen Solarworld GM ein Angebot gemacht hatte, Opel zu kaufen, zum ersten deutschen "grünen" Automobilunternehmen zu machen und zurück in die Gewinnzone zu fahren. GM hat das Angebot umgehend abgelehnt mit den Worten...

20/11/2008

GM macht sein Thailand-Werk für 2 Monate dicht!

Der gebeutelte GM-Konzern gab heute bekannt, dass er sein Werk im thailändischen Rayong für zwei Monate schließen wird. Trotzdem will die Opel-Mutter den 2.000 Angestellten rund 75 Prozent der Löhne weiter zahlen. "Wenn wir nicht schließen, haben wir eine Überproduktion",...

20/11/2008

GALLERY>> LA AUTO SHOW HIGHLIGHTS

Last night, I attended the Nissan 370Z launch party at J-Lounge in Downtown LA. Very fun, but after scoping out the scene, I decided I didn't really want to lug around my camera equipment in such a crowded atmosphere - especially since it was open...(read more)

20/11/2008

GALLERY>>VAUGHN GITTIN'S NEW MUSTANG REVEALED

Last night our resident huggable Speedhunter, Antonio Alvendia went out to attend the launch of the new Ford Mustang... Being the world's number one drifting fanatic, his main interest was to point his lens at Vaughn Gittin's new Mustang. The...(read more)

19/11/2008

GM and Detroit: Bail or let fail?

Scroll down through this blog and you’ll see the artifacts of dearly departed American automakers. In fact, sometimes it seems like all we write about around here are automakers that aren’t around anymore: Studebaker, Packard, Oldsmobile, Plymouth, Pierce Arrow, International-Harvester, AMC, etc. So when serious talk about a Detroit bailout began with the focus being on GM’s increasingly dire condition, I thought: This is a no brainer. Of course taxpayers will want to bailout GM. Who would want...

19/11/2008

Geht bei Opel die Sonne auf?

Damit hätte derzeit wohl keiner gerechnet! Das Solartechnikunternehmen SolarWorld will nach eigenen Angaben die GM-Tochter Opel kaufen und zu Europas erstem "grünen" Autobauer machen, wobei die Entwicklung dann besonders auf Hybrid- und Elektroautos zielen soll. SolarWorld bietet den Rüsselsheimer für...

19/11/2008

GALLERY>> FIRESMOKE AND TIRESMOKE

This is sort of an alternative-styled post for Speedhunters. It's not necessarily focused on a car, and not necessarily lifestyle either. I just wanted to point this out to our loyal Speedhunters readers in other parts of the world - this past week...(read more)

19/11/2008

Goodguys Scottsdale, Arizona

Some photos for you today, from an event bought to our attention by the My Ride Is Me website.  Having checked out this post I headed straight to their gallery to see what was what, and boy was I impressed with the cars. However here at Retro Scene Mag we're not happy with one set of photographs, so we went on the hunt for more from the same event.  Flickr came up with this set from Via Boy which is where the photos for this post came from. A bit more digging and we found a huge...

19/11/2008

Guyana's classic racing cars.

I'll be honest with you, when I got sent a link about Guyana's racing scene I had to look it up on Wikipedia, I had literally no idea where it was, Africa maybe?  Caribbean Islands?  As it turns out it is mainland South America, just above Brazil. Really geography isn't our strong point, but cars are.  One of my very favourite things is to discover a countries car scene, or at least part of it and the possibility of finding more.  It almost doesn't matter if its new or old...

18/11/2008

Goldenes Lenkrad 2008 für BMW 1er Coupe

In jedem Jahr werden für die besten automobilen Neuerscheinungen die goldenen Lenkräder in den verschiedenen Fahrzeugklassen vergeben, von Klein- bis Geländewagen. Dabei stimmen die Leser der Bild am Sonntag (rund 11 Millionen Stück) über die Platzierten ab. Und in der...

17/11/2008

GM macht Suzuki-Anteile zu Geld!

Wie jetzt bekannt wurde wird der unter Milliardenverlusten leidende amerikanische Autobauer GM seine Anteile an Suzuki verkaufen. Die Japaner wollen für die Anteile von 3,02 Prozent General Motors insgesamt rund 185,7 Millionen Euro zahlen. Die gemeinsame Entwicklung der beiden Konzerne...

17/11/2008

GALLERY>>CAR SIGHITINGS:INAKA EDITION

Last week I tried I new kind of post where I showcased some of the cars I spotted on the streets of Tokyo, and judging by the feedback on that post, it sounds like you guys want to see more of that kind of stuff. With this in mind, I took my camera along yesterday when we out shopping. "Inaka" is what the Japanese call small town rural areas and the cars you find out here make an interesting contrast to the stuff you see in Tokyo. For example, check out this '90s Toyota Crown wagon dropped...

17/11/2008

GALLERY>>CAR SIGHTINGS:INAKA EDITION

Last week I tried I new kind of post where I showcased some of the cars I spotted on the streets of Tokyo, and judging by the feedback on that post, it sounds like you guys want to see more of that kind of stuff. With this in mind, I took my camera along yesterday when we out shopping. "Inaka" is what the Japanese call small town rural areas and the cars you find out here make an interesting contrast to the stuff you see in Tokyo. For example, check out this '90s Toyota Crown wagon dropped...

17/11/2008

GALLERY>> INTERNATIONAL DRIFT SCENE IN LONG BEACH

I'll keep this short and sweet, since you guys have been seeing a play by play from the other Speedhunters posts... I'm pretty sure we've written/published more about the Red Bull drift event than most other media outlets thus far, and the...(read more)

16/11/2008

Greifswalder Informatiker machte Navigationsgeräte 100 Mal schneller

Der Greifswalder Informatiker Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Funke hat gestern den SaarLB-Wissenschaftspreis 2007 bekommen. Zusammen mit seinem Kollegen Dr. Holger Bast hat er ein Verfahren entwickelt, mit denen die Routenberechnung in Navigationsgeräten deutlich beschleunigt werden kann. Der Preis ist mit 25.000...

14/11/2008

Google Street View

An manchen Tagen ist einfach der Wurm drin oder aus Kindermund: “Der Tag heute fühlt sich irgendwie komisch an”. An Tagen wie diesen wünscht man sich, dass es schnell Abend wird, am Besten noch schneller Wochenende! Auf der Arbeit nur Hektik und Stress. Wenn man nicht mal Zeit hat, sich einen Tee oder etwas [...]

14/11/2008

GT-R Spec-V Release Date And Price "Confirmed"

It seems that rumours of a January 2009 release and a ¥15m pricetag for the upcoming GT-R Spec-V may have some credence after all, as news from Japan suggests that the R35-based giant-slayer will be released to the Japanese public in the first month of next year, with deliveries to begin in February. If you want one you'd better be prepared for a long wait. The initial production run will apparently be limited to just 10 Spec-Vs per month, however that should rise as the order books open in...

14/11/2008

GM verschiebt Premieren bei LA Motor Show!

Der gebeutelte und unter der Finanzkrise leidende amerikanische Autobauer GM muss wegen Kostengründen seine Premieren auf der Los Angeles Auto Show verschieben. So sollen der Buick LaCrosse sowie der Cadillac CTS Coupe dem Publikum erst auf der Messe in Detroit...

12/11/2008

GALLERY>> SUPERLAP SCENES

I am feeling a bit crabby at the moment... I started out today in Stockholm, Sweden and am now sitting here in a random motel in Buttonwillow, California.... It's been a long day and I need some shut eye.... But before my head meets the pillow I want...(read more)

12/11/2008

Golden Submarine at SEMA

By Jen Dunnaway Editor This little all-aluminum hot rod was easily the most striking vehicle in the Ford booth. The handbuilt body, done by Webb Automotive Art, represents a "modern interpretation" of famed racecar builder Harry Miller's 1917 Golden Submarine. But it's running a Ford Racing Zetec ZX3-spec alcohol crate engine, the same ones they use in the Ford Focus Midget series. See more pics after the jump!

12/11/2008

GALLERY>>CAR SIGHTINGS IN TOKYO

The other day when I was in Tokyo, I decided I would try a new type of post here on Speedhunters. I was actually remembering my first trip to Japan and just how excited I was to see random cars on the street, and though it might be kind of cool to show what kind of stuff you see "in the wild" on Japanese streets. If you guys like this sort of thing, let me know and I will do it more often. Events and races are great, but there is always something kind of special about seeing an a cool car on...

11/11/2008

Großbritannien: zwei Autos zum Preis von einem

Das nennt man wohl einen Appell an die Ur-Instinkte der Menschen. Um seine Dodge Avengers loszuwerden, hat der englische Internethändler Broadspeed.com mit Sitz in Colchester kurzerhand zwei Modelle zum Preis von einem angeboten. Und siehe da: potentielle Käufer, die vormals keinerlei Bedarf für einen Wagen hatten, griffen im Doppelpack direkt mal zu. So berichtet Robert Krippgans im Autoweblog: “Das war unglaublich”, sagte Geschäftsführer Simon Epson der Zeitung...

11/11/2008

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