Art Museum’s 6 Alluring Cars

Some cars are so beautifully designed and exquisitely engineered that they transcend mere transportation to become works of art. They are rolling sculptures, and to see them is to think, “That car belongs in a gallery.” Curators at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta agree. The museum is hosting an exhibition to celebrate automotive design, and it has gathered a very impressive assortment of cars. The Allure of the Automobile, which opens Sunday and runs through June 20, features 18 vehicles created in what could be called the golden age of design, from the early 1930s through the early 1960s. The vehicles range from a 1933 Pierce Silver Arrow...

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Ferrari’s New GTO

The list of how we’ll spend our PowerBall lottery winnings just got a new No. 1 with a high-speed bullet: Buy Ferrari’s new GTO. The latest thoroughbred out of Maranello carries on the tradition started with the original 250 GTO in the 1960s and carried on by the 288 GTO in the 1980s. And like the two that came before, the 599 GTO offers stunning looks, stunning technology and, of course, stunning performance. How stunning? Well, Ferrari says it is the fastest road car it has ever built. For those of you whose blood doesn’t run rosso corsa, let us explain just what the GTO is. Simply put, the 250 GTO was the sports racer of the early...

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Two Cool Coupes Flying to Florida, together

Two topics that get more coverage than anything else here at Autopia are cars and airplanes. But rarely do we get chance to write about them simultaneously. So you can imagine how excited we were when the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association asked us to join a fly-and-drive rally from Maryland to Florida for the annual Sun ‘n Fun airshow. Who would turn down a road trip and long-distance flight? Not us. But there was a catch: We’d be making the trip in two vehicles you probably wouldn’t think of for covering great distances — a Smart ForTwo and a Remos GX, a similarly small, light sport aircraft. The purpose of the trip is to highlight...

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New Electric Mini is on ‘Ring’

The infamous Nürburgring-Nordschleife is to auto racing as K2 is to mountaineering — a technical challenge and performance benchmark recognized around the world. Any car worth its salt gets flogged at the ‘Ring, where the only thing that matters is the time on the clock. So, when we heard BMW took a “race-prepped” version of the Mini E electric  car to the track dubbed the Green Hell, our interest was more than piqued. Let’s get right to the bottom line: The Mini E Race, as BMW calls the little EV, lapped the Nürburgring in nine minutes, 51.45 seconds and hit a top speed of 116.19 mph. Not bad. Not bad at all. Although a supercar like...

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The BMW Designs a Shape-Shifting Car Out of Cloth

Concept cars give automotive designers a chance to let their imaginations run wild, often with outlandish results. But even by that measure, BMW has come up with something as strange as it is innovative — a shape-shifting car covered with fabric. Instead of steel, aluminum or even carbon fiber, the GINA Light Visionary Model has a body of seamless fabric stretched over a movable metal frame that allows the driver to change its shape at will. The car — which actually runs and drives — is a styling design headed straight for the BMW Museum in Munich and so it will never see production, but building a practical car wasn’t the point. Chris...

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Reva NXG 2010 Electrical Car Photos

2010 Reva NXG Electrical Cars Pictu...

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2011 Porsche Cayenne Photos

The 2011 Porsche Cayenne range starts out in base Cayenne form, featuring a 300 horsepower 3.6L V6. One step up in the Cayenne S, packing the Panamera’s 400 horsepower 4.8-liter V8 engine. The Cayenne Turbo sits atop the Cayenne hierarchy, receiving its power via a 500 horsepower twin-turbocharged 4.8L V8.Power for the Cayenne S Hybrid comes from Audi’s supercharged 3.0-liter V6 producing 333-horsepower, connected to a three-phase synchronous electric motor which receives power from a 38 kW NiMH battery that resides in the spare tire we...

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Toyota Auris 2010 Model Car

Toyota Auris is launched the mildly facelifted 2010 Auris hatchback in Japan. The Auris is he 1.8-liter four-cylinder engine benefits from a revised variable timing system for both inlet and exhaust valves that improves fuel efficiency and power output.Furthermore, all 1.8L models equipped with a CVT gain new steering-wheel mounted paddle-shifters that allow the driver to flip through the gears at the flick of a fing...

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Renault Twizy 2009 Car Concept

2009 Renault Twizy Picture 2009 Renault Twizy is electric concept smart cars. The Twizy is load 57 liters of fuel. The car weighs 429kg including the batteries, which can be fully recharged within three and a half hours. It can race up to 60 miles....

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Fiat Punto Evo 2010 Car

Evolution of the Grande Punto is a 2010 Fiat Punto Evo. The Fiat punto a wide choice of Euro 5 engines, including a 1.3 second generation Multijet diesel and a 1.4 petrol engine with the revolutionary MultiAir technology developed by Fiat Powertrain Technologies and eventually to be incorporated in all Fiat Group engines.Alongside these innovative power units and the more traditional ones are the hybrid methane and LPG systems, combining to form the most complete and eco-friendly engine range in the segment, bar no...

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Porsche 911 Best 2010 Car

The 2010 Porsche 911 Sport Classic will be presented at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show and is limited in production to just 250 cars. The 911 Sport Classic comes exclusively with a six-speed manual gearbox. PCCB Porsche Ceramic Composite Brakes ideally reflecting the sporting character of this exclusive 911, PASM sports suspension lowering the entire car by 20 mm or 0.79”, as well as the mechanical rear axle differential and custom-made 19-inch whee...

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