Showing posts with label Carscoop Poll. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carscoop Poll. Show all posts

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Identify This No4: Four Production Nissan Models


This weekend's automotive puzzle brings Nissan into the picture – or so to speak. The Japanese brand has its roots in The Kwaishinsha Motor Car Works that was founded in 1911, with the Nissan name first being used in 1934.

But fear not as we don’t plan on traveling so far back into Nissan's history, as the oldest model found here is from the year after the first manned landing on the Moon.

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Thursday, June 21, 2012

Can the 2012 Cadillac CTS-V Match Up to the New 2013 BMW M5 Saloon? [w/Poll]


From the moment BMW decided to place the M badge on its 5-Series sedan back in the mid-1980s, the M5 immediately created its own niche in the executive saloon segment. In fact, it become so popular that many the Bavarian firm's rivals followed its example in the years that came after the original M5's launch.

Perhaps one of the more surprising challengers was GM's Cadillac CTS-V, the first generation of which was presented in 2004 before it was replaced by the current model in 2008.

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Saturday, June 16, 2012

Identify This #3: Four Ford Production and Concept Models


For our third photo quiz, we picked out four models from the Ford brand and upped the difficulty level just a little bit since most of you were spot on with your answers last week.

Here are two clues to assist you on the Ford puzzle: a) there are two production vehicles and two concept studies seen in this collection and b) each car is from a different region.

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Friday, June 8, 2012

Identify This: Four Production Audi Models


Since you seemed to have enjoyed the previous quiz with the classic Alfa Romeo models (see here), we thought we would come up with a new series of our own featuring a different automaker each week.

For this puzzle, we chose the brand with the four rings from Ingolstadt, which is more commonly known as Audi.

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Sunday, May 13, 2012

Poll: Which Sports Car Would You Buy for Around $25,000?


Let us just start off by saying that if you live in the States, you should feel fortunate that you can acquire a fairly rewarding and fun to drive sports car for $25,000 (approx. €19,300) or even less if you don't care much about all the bells and whistles of modern automobiles. If you are wondering why, head over to this post.

Now, with the recent arrival of the Scion FR-S and Subaru BRZ twins as well as a pricing announcement for the 2013 Ford Focus ST, which goes on sale later this year, buyers searching to buy a sports car for around $25k will have plenty of options to choose from.

The automotive menu at this price point includes front-wheel drive sport hatchbacks such as the MazdaSpeed 3 and VW Golf GTI, rear-wheel drive coupes like the Hyundai Genesis 2.0 Turbo and Chevy Camaro V6 and the Mazda MX-5 Miata roadster.

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Poll: Which Sports Car Would You Buy for Around $25,000?


Let us just start off by saying that if you live in the States, you should feel fortunate that you can acquire a fairly rewarding and fun to drive sports car for $25,000 (approx. €19,300) or even less if you don't care much about all the bells and whistles of modern automobiles. If you are wondering why, head over to this post.

Now, with the recent arrival of the Scion FR-S and Subaru BRZ twins as well as a pricing announcement for the 2013 Ford Focus ST, which goes on sale later this year, buyers searching to buy a sports car for around $25k will have plenty of options to choose from.

The automotive menu at this price point includes front-wheel drive sport hatchbacks such as the MazdaSpeed 3 and VW Golf GTI, rear-wheel drive coupes like the Hyundai Genesis 2.0 Turbo and Chevy Camaro V6 and the Mazda MX-5 Miata roadster.

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Friday, May 11, 2012

Can You Identify the Alfa Romeo Models Shown in this Picture?


While Mercedes-Benz's AMG sub-brand wanted you to find out which model was featured in a blank video by listening to the sounds of its engine, over in Italy, Alfa Romeo has assembled a set of cropped images of four of its cars from various eras and asks if you can identify them.

If you feel up to the task, sound off in the comments section right after the break.

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Can You Identify the Alfa Romeo Models Shown in this Picture?


While Mercedes-Benz's AMG sub-brand wanted you to find out which model was featured in a blank video by listening to the sounds of its engine, over in Italy, Alfa Romeo has assembled a set of cropped images of four of its cars from various eras and asks if you can identify them.

If you feel up to the task, sound off in the comments section right after the break.

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Thursday, May 10, 2012

AMG Wants You to Guess Which Vehicle This is From the Exhaust Sounds


Evidently, the Mercedes-Benz AMG division is feeling playful today and would like to test your knowledge around its cars with the release of a blank video that contains the engine sounds of one of its current models.

So, if you listened to the video carefully, can you tell us which AMG sports car this is? Hop over the break to post your answers.

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AMG Wants You to Guess Which Vehicle This is From the Exhaust Sounds


Evidently, the Mercedes-Benz AMG division is feeling playful today and would like to test your knowledge around its cars with the release of a blank video that contains the engine sounds of one of its current models.

So, if you listened to the video carefully, can you tell us which AMG sports car this is? Hop over the break to post your answers.

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Friday, April 20, 2012

Poll: Should Lamborghini Build the Estoque Sedan or the Urus SUV?


For the past few years, Lamborghini has been swaying left and right to find a suitable third model to expand its range of sports cars that currently consists of the V10 Gallardo and the V12 Aventador.

Today, we had our first view at company's latest effort to entice the public, the all-new Urus SUV, after images of the concept leaked early ahead of a scheduled world premiere at the 2012 Beijing Auto Show on April 23.

Back in 2008 at the Paris Motor Show, the Italians had previewed their idea of how a low-slung four-door sedan should look like with an impressive concept named the Estoque.

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Poll: Should Lamborghini Build the Estoque Sedan or the Urus SUV?


For the past few years, Lamborghini has been swaying left and right to find a suitable third model to expand its range of sports cars that currently consists of the V10 Gallardo and the V12 Aventador.

Today, we had our first view at company's latest effort to entice the public, the all-new Urus SUV, after images of the concept leaked early ahead of a scheduled world premiere at the 2012 Beijing Auto Show on April 23.

Back in 2008 at the Paris Motor Show, the Italians had previewed their idea of how a low-slung four-door sedan should look like with an impressive concept named the Estoque.

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Thursday, April 5, 2012

Poll: Which is the Best Looking New Sedan of the New York Auto Show?


If you've been following our coverage of the 2012 New York Auto Show, you will no doubt have noticed that a significant number of automakers revealed brand new sedan offerings.

In the full-size category, we have the near-premium 2013 Acura RLX, which is somewhat misleadingly labeled as a concept study, and the mainstream 2014 Chevrolet Impala.

The mid-size segment is represented by the Fisker Atlantic showcar, which like the RLX, is more or less production ready, the 2013 Lexus ES, the 2013 Lincoln MKZ, the 2013 Nissan Altima and the 2013 Toyota Avalon, which has been re-categorized as a mid-size model.

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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Poll: Which Previous Generation Camaro Should Inspire the Design of the Next Model?


While it's true that the Ford Mustang is the vehicle that reheated the pony car segment, forcing both GM and Chrysler to resuscitate two of their historic nameplates, it's the Chevrolet Camaro that has taken the sales lead grabbing 42 percent of the rear-wheel drive performance coupe market in 2011 with 88,249 deliveries.

The Ford Mustang comes in second with 70,438 units and the Dodge Challenger third with 39,534 deliveries. This year, the Camaro has about 40 percent of the market with Ford trying to catch up with approximately 35 percent.

This makes planning its successor all the more difficult as Al Oppenheiser, Camaro's chief engineer, admitted to Automotive News Product Editor, Rick Kanz.

The fifth generation of the Camaro was launched into the market in 2010 and a replacement is due in the fall of 2015. According to Oppenheiser, the team involved in the development and the design of the sixth generation Camaro, has many issued to solve, one of which is weight reduction.

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Friday, March 9, 2012

Geneva 2012: Vote on the Best, Worst and Dullest Debuts of the Show


The Geneva Palexpo convention center may have opened its doors to car fans from the general public on Thursday, but for the rest of us, the 82nd edition of the Swiss motor show has already taken its place in the history books.

But what a spectacular car show it was with dozens of world premieres ranging from economical mainstream city cars such as the five-door Skoda Citigo to one-of-a-kind supercar exotics like the €2.1 million Lamborghini Aventador J.

Looking at our stats, we found that the five most read stories from the 2012 Geneva Motor Show this week (March 5 to 9) on Carscoop were:

1) Mercedes-Benz A-Class
2) Bentley EXP 9 F SUV Concept
3) Rolls Royce Phantom Facelift
4) Lamborghini Aventador J
5) Mitsubishi Outlander

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Thursday, March 1, 2012

POLL: Which is the Better Looking Supercar, the Ferrari F12berlinetta or the Lamborghini Aventador?


Just to get it out of the way, we believe that no matter what you vote on this poll, it's certain that most of us gearheads would have no problem whatsoever parking any of these two exotics under our garage if let's say, some magical fairy, riding a white Unicorn of course, were to hand over their keys to us.

And why would we as both the new Ferrari F12berlinetta and the Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 are amongst the crème de la crème of their category. Did we mention that they both have at least 700-stallions under their hoods?

But aesthetics are always very subjective, and what we would like you to tell us by voting in our poll and why not, elaborate in the comments section below, is from what you have seen up until now, which one of these two exotic Italians is the better looking supercar?

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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

What Would You Want to Drive in a Post-Apocalyptic World?


In Chevrolet's recent Super Bowl ad, which was set in a post-apocalyptic world, a bunch of friends chose to drive the Detroit brand's Silverado pickup truck, sans one Dave, God rest his soul, who drove a Ford F-150 - we didn't say it, GM did.

In the dystopian future world of Mad Max, The Man with No Name chose a supercharged Ford Falcon XB GT351 for his transportation needs.

In a similar scenario, the crew over at Popular Mechanics came up with a list of 10 vehicles that they would want as their "trusty steed" if the world went berserk.

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Thursday, February 23, 2012

GM Tells Carscoop No LED Tail Lamps for North American Camaro


After we posted the poll on whether you prefer the updated European market 2012 Chevrolet Camaro with its LED taillights to the original model, we sent an email over to General Motors asking if the company had any plans to apply some or all of the upgrades to the North American version.

A Chevrolet spokesperson replied in an email that the automaker has no such plans and that a number of these changes were made to the European Camaro in order to meet local regulations.

"There are some minor changes between North American Camaro and cars for export markets," a Chevrolet spokesman told Carscoop. "Often, there are even variations between markets, to meet regional requirements. And, no, these changes will not be integrated into the U.S. Camaro."

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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Poll: What do You Think about the Euro 2012 Camaro's Redesigned LED Taillights?


If you hop over the break and take a close look at the 90 pictures of the European-specification 2012 Chevrolet Camaro Coupe and Convertible, you'll probably notice a few things that are different from the North American models - and no, we're not talking about the welcome presence of attractive women in some shots.

First and foremost, the Euro Camaro gets a redesigned pair of LED tail lamps. It's not only the addition of LED units that make them look different but also their shape, which kind of reminds us of sunglasses.

Those of you with flawless memory will remember seeing the revised tail lamps in our Nürburgring spy shots of the Camaro back in 2010.

Other differences include the diffuser-mounted reflectors at the back; the noticeably larger mirrors that look like someone pasted Dumbo's ears on the Camaro's doors (apparently, so you can detect those miniature ForTwos creeping up on you on the highway) and the more modern fonts on the instrument panel gauges that are placed outwards.

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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Jeremy Clarkson Voted as Worst Driving Partner in British Poll


Top Gear may be getting viewers' thumbs up when it comes to watching the show, but one of its hosts, Jeremy Clarkson, got a thumbs down when it came to choosing a celebrity co-driver for a 4x4 adventure, according to new research by Continental Tyres.

The outspoken TV presenter was rated as the worst person to share a 4x4 drive across the Sahara Desert in the poll of 2,000 motorists. Clarkson was followed closely by media persona and former model Katie Price and Prime Minister David Cameron who finished third.

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