COBB Ford Focus ST

Launched a radio craze and made Vin Diesel's career may be old, but Ford's new Focus ST turbo feeds off traditional sports proves there's still some energy and sales remaining after the original compact scene 'roided-out Honda Civics Fans.

Austin, Texas, Cobb Tuning abundant experience rapid Mitsubishis, Nissan and Subaru have given small turbocharged hot rods that we have ever stranger. Ford's small initial brain surgery is a natural for the Cobb brand and black pattern of 10 thousand-more expensive than some wheels and that half of the tire with the purchased ST $ 27,775 full on the bottom shows what is possible price you see here.

10Best-winning Focus ST that does not need much help. Only recently, the seventh generation Volkswagen GTI its benchmark short-lived and a torque steering crown deliver a daily egg remains wagging his tail-hoon. But immature if the stock ST design, Cobb folks have made it a candidate for juvie.


Width: Shift button, AccessPort tuner remind SEMA show last memories. Bottom right: Crazy curved tip is long gone.
Aided rallyist development, X Games gold medal, and TV personality Tanner Foust, bolt fully to highlight the best features of its drivability of the car without damaging the base engine and chassis sports a smattering of bit Cobb ST. Cobb will offer a limited run turnkey, mechanically similar to this one later this year Foust-edition sts; When Foust most important achievements of drifting into consideration, we are not surprised a bit behind the driver is not included in the conversion.


ST's 2.0-liter EcoBoost engine 252 horsepower and when the factory torque of 270 pounds-feet of points for Cobb as, respectively, 300 and 380, the breath of the motor improvement and these figures by fiddling with electronic controls was able to convince. Our tests on the Cobb intake ($ 299) and a larger front-mount intercooler ($ 1,095), as well as a large flow pipe ($ 599) and Cobb / Magnaflow exhaust ($ 799), respectively. A Pep Boys dangled off our car's air vent air freshener, such as the company's AccessPort electronic tuner ($ 449), which controls everything and remaps the engine computer to work with the new components. The maximum increase of 21 to 22 psi boost in a little stock, but the new software largely allowed to come in time to hit exactly, does away with the gradual buildup of pressure and normal ST overboost feature.

2015 Porsche Macan S / Turbo

Endurance ace David Jahn Porsche Leipzig is a smart speed setting in the private racetrack. Its 911 Carrera spoiler deploys immediately speeds near 100 mph when braking and then pulled under. Three journalists, 2.3 mile circuit of the world's most prestigious collection of copied corner these days, around 911 SOP nip ass. What Jahn unusual about this practice session before the SUV to stay in a pack his 911 9 / 10ths is threaded.

Match with Porsche's 911 horsepower armed caliber is not the first ute, but five conflicting skill speed, agility, comfort, utility jam first attempt, and off-road nerve-into a convenient package. Porsche Macan name pronounced "tiger" an Indonesian word for "Me-Cahn," he says. This SUV will scare the cat claws and a crafty world.

Dynamic Satisfied
Match the guidance system of on-center rotation is tight and intimate. Even without power-assisted long way dialogue through the system, manages to strengthen the trust wheel drive. brakes applied pressure proportional to pedal certainly provides a solid stopping power. Likewise, springs, anti-roll bars and dampers, check the body of rock and roll. King, thanks to the ideal orthopedic support and stubborn support ribs and thighs is safe to his sport seats throne. This SUV for those who swore they never really caught a ride.


2015 Porsche Macan S
Match the US is already a worthy addition to the existing 80-plus SUV to make his point, Porsche has provided opportunities to explore the versatility stool two additional legs. Twenty minutes off-road course in Leipzig after a hot lap, we were shaken on ammunition bunker used by the Soviet Army. Then Porsche's excellent paved highway in the eastern German manufacturing base surrounding the campus Match SA had 150 miles past abuse. It was not a big box stores offer a visit to a test to measure the cargo area.

Porsche sports car, a dozen years ago broke the mold with the Cayenne SUV and they absolutely howled careful door will shout on weight and inch wheelbase with another family member. Consider this Zuffenhausen strategy to keep things humming craving sports car assembly lines offering an SUV made towards a world.

Porsche Macan spent Audi Q5 SUV and just get right to three years of simmering crockpot 911 sports car genes. What emerged Q 110.5-inch wheelbase and layout, but little else remains. Match the longer and wider and lower Audi ute little longer. Obtained an undiscovered corner of the Macan SUV drive 3.6-inch haircut map-and entertaining greenhouse think Ford Edge ratios. Sports and benefits and live under this roof, but there is never any doubt which features rules.


2015 Porsche Macan Turbo
Porsche Macan $ 677 million investment in production facilities and new engines are four-wheel-drive system and suspension hardware bolted. Donor replacing two or three parts of Q5 is changed. Unbecoming an aluminum bonnet grille springs from the windscreen and tire rubber to eliminate seams. Staggered-size wheels and tires and blown back to hip Match tail heavy 911 o view. conversation piece, what a space carved design chief Michael Mauer an Audi R8 sideblade in-a term you'll also remember the brand style door surfaces are applied to reduce the search feature-visual height.

Two power and hardware level-S and Turbo-stretch $ 50,895 window stickers (more base Cayenne $ 300!) With over $ 100,000 Options. This is beyond your budget, a more appropriate four-cylinder Macan likely later this year, because fret not. A V-6 turbo diesel model arrived in 2015.

2014 Porsche Panamera Turbo Executive

Porsche Panamera Do you experience jealousy when driving long? Little Mercedes-Benz S-Class or BMW 7-Series takes up a light feeling shortchanged? Porsche has good news for you. Now you can order a stretched Panamera from the factory. Opt for the Executive option for an extra $ 19,800 a Panamera Turbo Panamera Turbo will be a space of about six inches and Porsche Turbo and Turbo S models-not available. Development surgery never comes cheap.

Norms Porsche driver (: China hint) that satisfy that market Panameras stretch. stretch of the BMW 7 Series and Mercedes-Benz S-Class brings compatible with the long wheelbase version of the Panamera and price near a Bentley Flying Spur brings the cost of the Panamera.

Room for Yao Ming

All Panamera go the extra inch rear seat passengers. From the outside, only telltales are subtly long rear doors. I realize this extra length close to the park as long as a normal Panamera is low. This great door swinging open, standards Panamera reveals the most like a drink. As normal Panamera has two seats and a center console with covered buttons. What a far longer wheelbase gives readers doorsill for Yao Ming, "Execution" and that there is sufficient legroom.


Full leather interior Turbo is the Executive standard, but Porsche still two-tone leather ($ 530), a leather-wrapped steering column and instrument surround (1295 $) leather panels ($ 2,505) trim, leather blinds ($ 740) for upcharges a skin rearview mirror ($ 675), the key ($ 165) for a leather bag, leather and who live without air vent slats for only $ 1535? You choice from our car $ 59,000, not to mention the $ 162,075 base price Executive Turbo executive compensation must afford. If you want to spend more, offers 570 hp Porsche Turbo S Enforcement starting price of $ 201,495 so as CEO. For Skinflints, Executive 4S $ 126.595 commands.

Nap Time in now

After playing with eight-way power seat for a few minutes, we realized it would be a nice place to Executive rear seat nap. We never think of us a nap while in the driver's seat. A twin-turbo 4.8-liter V-8520 produces horsepower and sends its power through a seven-speed dual-clutch automatic. From a stop, the 4628-pound Manager Turbo 118 mph quarter-mile time of 11.8 seconds, the path will be down to 60 mph in 3.3 seconds strike.

This level supercar acceleration comes easily, but the launch control and a stopwatch on the instrument panel inserts Sport Chrono option ($ 2,550) check. Press the Sport Plus button on the center console and hold the left foot brake and accelerate with the right foot. Engine speed of 4800 rpm build. Brake and transmission automatic four-wheel V-8 by sending push the clutch. This time structure, and probably never want to leave the driver's seat. An innocent passengers, and she probably never will resign driving again.


Panamera rear seats can now be first class, but do not neglect the Porsche sports car largest sedan, the company ethos. Optional carbon-ceramic brakes ($ 9,210) fade free even stop after 160 miles; 70 mph 911 Carrera S managed to stop one foot long 148 feet lower. Michelin Pilot Super Sport tires grip seized 0.96 g skidpad. Long car we tested the numbers are consistent with recent Panamera Turbo. This added length considering only adds £ 107, not a big surprise.

Numbers aside, the Panamera is most sensitive steering, brake pedal is firm and large-better clarity and clear sense of control with 911 taut chassis grace make sure it was really great. For us, the best being the Panamera is a sports car dressed as a large sedan. Large rear seat driving class will be happy, but the driver's seat is the place you want to be. Lucky drivers.

2014 Chevrolet Spark EV vs. 2013 Fiat 500E, 2014 Ford Focus Electric, 2013 Honda Fit EV, 2013 Nissan Leaf SL, 2013 Smart Fortwo ED Cabriolet

Car makers you see here litigating into compliance for this test, in some cases, were dragged kicking and screaming. True I was told no, then this car instead they thank you very much, I would certainly say that I will not be all; accumulated business intelligence and experience with all this 64 mile driving range of $ 37,000 Ford Focus rages against the nonsense.

Why do they have even here, however, six with similar wacky price compact and senior editor Ron online sessions, as well, corresponding to the program "could take five hours to fill the car with a single gallon of gas tanks." Il have to? Government to back off because you do not just industry.

Lancaster, California, 20 acres, 5-megawatt eSolar power station 4000 water into steam to make sufficient turbine power to excite the home superheat to focus the desert sun on the two towers of 24,000 computer-controlled mirrors (heliostats) uses.
1990 began with a mission to California to sell electric cars'. Since then, by a couple of tasks through trial and furious negotiations with unpredictable march of technology, the market had become modified by the facts-shocked. duty plus seven northeastern states of Oregon and California, Maryland zero-emission vehicles (ZEV) and accept the terms of spread.


executive summary, high-volume car zevs you have to make a growing percentage of annual sales. Here is a very simplified example: Honda currently sells about 225,000 cars a year in California. In 2015, he had to sell EVs in 2250 to meet the task. Assuming Honda's annual sales volume remains the same, it will be forced to sell only 22,000 years EVS 2025 in California. Honda's 40 percent of the total sales volume currently signed seven northeastern states, and we are looking to add the Honda EV sales 80,000 a year by 2025.

However, since the case in 2002 by something GM and other players need to know, California extent (Tesla, sales by expanding its the zevs definition of a good job and the car rankings and carbon credits by creating an elaborate system, using the rule is changed means instead of various condition of their ZEV car loans allow other companies to make), in abundance.

Old and minimum lending gain or under California Code "bronze" cars, extremely clean, but conventional power gasoline cars. "Silver" and "Silver-plus" mostly hybrids and plug-in hybrid vehicles, "gold" such as fuel-cell cars and pure electric vehicles you see here is absolutely bestowed while emitting zero tailpipe emissions.


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In fact, the most intense subsidized car rental rates of these tools available, especially is you will not see more gold than gold. And the grim reality of the present study are not changing much electricity sector shaft, by pure EVs with a plug-in hybrid owners, car, show car is rolled. Backed against the wall, though still pushing for a change-car manufacturers assembly lines started rolling.

The result of federal and state tax incentives will be starting price under $ 30,000 only two of six small cars, that our assortment, it looks funny. And even them [see below] did not mention logistical gymnastics to keep our fees.

2014 McLaren 12C Coupe

Heritage can be a great asset in the automotive world, but when a company employs some of the best racing engineers, perhaps it is best to start with a blank sheet of paper. McLaren is located in an enviable position. This brand's heritage and history of the race springs are legendary F1. In the 1990s, with all sorts of bumps or technological exaggerated styling supercar was an ideal compromise.

MP4-12C when launched in 2011, despite its lower market positioning, it was a fitting tribute to F1. Their matter-of-fact model assignment Down, a precision tool, perfect weapon, is designed as a surgical tool to cut the speed of time and space as possible.

But some customers this drama, noise and found lacking in force. Ferrari 458 12C-three screaming exhaust pipes and steering wheel like on income hectic battle with Manettino driving mode switch and, after all, there is no competition. To address these concerns, McLaren bit faster, louder 12C made a mid 2013 update and its track mode to make it sharper. Such as 12C offers only before, but that makes it a bit more emphatically. These changes continue in 2014.


twin-turbo 3.8-liter V-8-co-developed in-house by pressing a button up engineering Ricardo-fires, and even made its presence known at idle. Once pushed, he AMG and Ferrari, Audi and Lamborghini V-10s or V-8 engine is more subdued and generally boring, you can not hide the character of the turbo engine. There are different turbo, turbo lag is very 1980s whoosh and 12C breath no images. The rear end of the vehicle that you want to mark the corners with precise positioning Drivers must exit the application accordingly.

Maximum horsepower at 7500 rpm, has now reached, rated at 616; 7000 to 3000 rpm, maximum torque of 443 pounds-ft is available, it is. 12C corners very easy to reach triple digit speeds between the sides so there is no time to push. Sprint from zero to 60 mph takes just 2.9 seconds; top speed is 205 mph. Lofty 8500 rpm redline. However, 12C, a high-efficiency machine; an average of 15 mpg in mixed driving during our drive and 20 mpg on the highway stretches even with very light right foot was reported. Rear spoiler as an air brake rises during hard snubs and functions, I saw a race car elements are rarely public road.