Misc. Auto Shows


9ff speeds into Essen with Speedster-inspired Speed9

If you love the spirit of SEMA but tend to lean towards more European tastes, Essen is the show for you. The annual aftermarket show in Germany always brings out an enticing crop of European tuner cars, and 9ff isn't about to let it go by without making its mark. The Porsche tuner is hitting Essen with the Speed9, a slick speedster inspired by the legendary 356 (circa 1955) and based on the latest 997 Turbo cabrio. Naturally, 9ff started in the rear, boosting the 3.6-liter twin-turbo flat six from 473hp stock up to a whopping 650, all by ... Read more →

Another day, another racing 911: Introducing the Porsche GT3 R Sam Abuelsamid

Over its nearly half-century of its existence, the Porsche 911 seems to have spawned nearly as many racing variants as production models. The newest one announced is the 911 GT3 R, which, as the ...

Lexus GX460 to debut in China at Auto Guangzhou 2009 Alex Nunez

The arrival of the 2010 Toyota 4Runner meant that a luxury-badged cousin would soon follow. Sure enough, Toyota has announced that the new 2010 Lexus GX460 will be among the array of vehicles to ...

CR&S DUU Concept is a mototerminator for the rest of us Jonathon Ramsey

Those of you who had the stomach to sit through Terminator Salvation with your eyes open will remember the mototerminators that launched themselves from the legs of the giant collectors. Those were ...

Oh, Canada! Great White North journos pick their cars of the year Chris Shunk

Guess what boys and girls, the auto show season is ramping up and that means the constant flow of Car of the Year awards is upon us. The biggest auto show award in our quaint little hemisphere is ...

Autoblog at the 7th Annual Wings, Wheels and Rotors show 27 days ago on Autoblog

This past Sunday was the 7th Annual Wings, Wheels and Rotors Expo at the Joint Forces Training Base in Los Alamitos, California, and after our experience there last year, we just had to go back for more. As you might guess from the title, this is more than just another hot rod gathering. ...

OC 2009: 2010 Toyota 4Runner makes auto show debut in Anaheim 1 month ago on Autoblog

Looks like Anaheim was the next stop on the wagontrain from the Texas State Fair this year, at least for a couple of 2010 trucks we had been waiting to see in person. At the 2009 OC Auto Show in Anaheim, we saw not just the 2011 Ford F-350 Super Duty pickup, but also the 2010 Toyota 4Runner. ...

OC 2009: 2011 Ford Super Duty makes surprise stop 1 month ago on Autoblog

We just got back from the 2009 OC Auto Show in Anaheim, California, and we come bearing gifts. Alongside the F-150 SVT Raptor, Ford had parked a 2011 Ford F-350 Super Duty Lariat King Ranch Edition. Even if each of the letters in its name were a foot tall, they'd still fit in this truck's ...

200 mph supercars featured at the 2nd Annual Caruso Concours 1 month ago on Autoblog

The 2nd Annual Caruso Concours was held this past weekend at The Americana at Brand shopping center in Glendale, California. Put off a bit by threatening skies, we didn't make it out there ourselves, but luckily, Autoblog friend and shutterbug Greg Grudt was there to capture all of the ...

The Show Must Go On: Italy's Bologna salon forges ahead without automakers 1 month ago on Autoblog

Local auto shows overseas like the one in Bologna don't really make a blip on our radar screens. Manufacturers might, upon occasion, use the venues to unveil a new product variant of generally limited consequence, but aside from the big shows in the United States, the significant foreign debuts ...

AB stops at the 27th Concours d'Elegance at the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort 1 month ago on Autoblog

For its 27th iteration, Orange County's most prestigious classic car show returned to the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort in Dana Point, and finally dropped the "Newport Beach" from its name. No longer would it be known as the Newport Beach Concours d'Elegance, instead adopting the Concours ...

2010 Toyota 4Runner debuts with four-cylinder, Trail grade model 1 month ago on Autoblog

Turns out the Texas State Fair has more to offer us today besides the 2011 Ford Super Duty. Toyota has also chosen the state shindig to debut its all-new 2010 4Runner SUV. Besides the all-new exterior and interior, the big news is the addition of a 2.7-liter four-cylinder engine and a new Trail ...

2011 Ford Super Duty debuts at Texas State Fair 1 month ago on Autoblog

The circle is now complete. Following a couple model years after the redesigned F-150, Ford has taken the wraps off the new 2011 Super Duty model at the Texas State Fair today. The new Super Duty debuts with a new look, new diesel engine called "Scorpion" 6.7-liter Power Stroke V8, and an ...

Ferrari's Prancing Horse voted most iconic badge [w/POLL] 2 months ago on Autoblog

The people have spoken. (Well, the British anyway. But they're people, too). And according to a public opinion survey, Ferrari has the most iconic badge among exotic automakers. The poll in question was conducted by European telecom company Orange for the MPH Top Gear Live show, a sort of ...

Monterey 2009: Ferrari TR59 gathering - Pebble Beach's wild stepchildren 3 months ago on Autoblog

There's a special place in our hearts for classic Ferraris, especially red ones with long, swooping fenders. That's why we were so excited to hear that the four remaining 1959 Ferrari TR59s would be all at the Pebble Beach Concours this year. Lighter and more powerful than the 250TR on which ...

Monterey 2009: Gooding & Company breaks $50 million in sales at Pebble Beach auction 3 months ago on Autoblog

When it comes to auctions during the Monterey car week, the best is saved for last. Held in conjunction with the Pebble Beach Concours, the auction house Gooding & Company offered up an incredible selection of cars on both Saturday and Sunday night. By the time the last lot had crossed the ...

VIDEO: Actual full-motion footage of Love's Ferrari 250 TR tagging the wall at Laguna Seca *UPDATED 3 months ago on Autoblog

When David Love's $8 million 1958 Ferrari 250 TR loses its brakes, goes airborne and then crashes into a bank of tires, it's news. When our best photographer just happens to be shooting the car just as it crashes at the Laguna Sega Corkscrew, of course we're going to post the obligatory ...

Monterey 2009: Vintage racers exude speed even at rest 3 months ago on Autoblog

Even though it's essentially run just for fun, the track action at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca can be downright menacing during the Monterey Historic Automobile Races. Just ask the Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa driver who had a severe pucker moment on Saturday. Sure, the cars survived relatively ...

Monterey 2009: Zagato honored at Pebble Beach 3 months ago on Autoblog

The 59th Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance displayed approximately 200 of the most unique and exquisite automobiles in the world on the 18th hole of the Links at Pebble Beach. Amidst the Bentley and Bugatti, Ferraris and Mercedes-Benz models, there was a special class devoted to a particular ...

Quick Spin: Aston Martin DBS Volante gives convertibles a very, very good name 3 months ago on Autoblog

When you love the performance of a particular coupe, it's not often that you get to hop in the convertible version and say to yourself, "So... you mean I can have the same thing with the top down?" But in between the tight and relentless esses of Monterey's Carmel Valley Road, that's what we ...

Monterey 2009: Concept and Show Car roundup at Pebble Beach 3 months ago on Autoblog

The Concept Lawn at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance is usually packed with new and nearly-new concept cars from a who's who list of international automakers. Although the best-of-the-best were still represented, this year's display was a little different. Rather than just showing recent ...

Monterey 2009: The Aston Martin One-77 is an overdose of "low and mean" 3 months ago on Autoblog

We found the Aston Martin One-77 tucked between hospitality tables like a manta ray brooding within a coral reef -- as if it were grudgingly consenting to being looked at. With a roofline that sits about four inches lower than a DBS, the minimal height and exceptional girth combine with a slew ...

Woodward 2009: Best of the Worst Edition 3 months ago on Autoblog

The Woodward Dream Cruise attracts hundreds of thousands of people and some of the best and most creative metal ever crafted. Some vehicles are finished works of art, while others are, well, works in progress. There's also a third kind of vehicle... those rolling tributes to rust and rot that ...

Woodward 2009: The Weird and the Wonderful 3 months ago on Autoblog

Everybody has their own definition of cool, and the Woodward Dream Cruise may be the ultimate microcosm for the wide-ranging tastes of auto enthusiasts. While most cruisers show up with classic muscle cars or perfectly preserved classics, automotive outliers seem to prefer more abstract ...

Woodward 2009: Devil is in the details 3 months ago on Autoblog

Woodward is always chock-full of interesting-looking vehicles, and in many cases the smallest of details will make all the difference between a good and great classic. Think about some of the classic cars of all time, and chances are that the details will be what pops up in your mind. The fuel ...

Monterey 2009: Introducing the Bentley Mulsanne 3 months ago on Autoblog

It's an all-new Bentley, it's called the Mulsanne, and it's a vehicle that more than a few auto aficionados have been waiting for. Introduced this afternoon at Pebble Beach, the Mulsanne is a clean sheet redesign of Bentley's ever-enduring flagship and according to Bentley CEO Franz-Josef ...

Woodward 2009: License plates - They're the original Twitter! 3 months ago on Autoblog

These days, Twitter is all the rage as a means for the digitally inclined to communicate their thoughts in bursts of 140 characters or less. However, that 140 character limit is positively verbose compared to an older and more established means of short messaging. Drivers long ago realized that ...

Woodward 2009: Muscle cars of the Motor City 3 months ago on Autoblog

As we've come to expect from the Woodward Dream Cruise, the vast majority of the vehicles taking part are classic muscle cars from Detroit's heyday in the 1960s and 1970s. Naturally, we had no trouble filling our memory cards with images of rumbling V8-powered Camaros, Mustangs, GTOs and Trans ...

Woodward 2009: Capturing the classics 3 months ago on Autoblog

What exactly determines if a car is a "classic?" That's probably an infinitely debatable subject that could spark any number of answers from a given group of enthusiasts. For the purpose of this post, a classic is anything that came before the 1964 GTO kicked off the muscle car era. Sure, it's ...

Woodward 2009: Dream Cruising on two wheels 3 months ago on Autoblog

Motorcycles, scooters and trikes make the annual pilgrimage to Woodward Avenue each year for the Dream Cruise right along with all the classic cars and trucks that we've come to expect. This being the case, we dutifully pointed our lenses in the direction of the most interesting two wheelers ...

Woodward 2009: A corral of Cobras and not a real one in sight 3 months ago on Autoblog

Someday, many decades from now, after all historical records of the late 20th and early 21st centuries have been extinguished by the great internet crash of 2012, someone will be trying to figure out what happened. As paleontologists are combing through the remainder of scrap yards for clues ...

Monterey 2009: 2010 Devon GTX 3 months ago on Autoblog

After speculation, spy shots and renderings, the 2010 Devon GTX finally made its debut on the 18th hole of Pebble Beach, with the hope of ushering in a new era of American supercar dominance. The California-based design studio and upstart automaker created the GTX as an American answer to the ...

Woodward 2009: You're not from around here, are you? 3 months ago on Autoblog

For the most part, the Woodward Dream Cruise is all about recognizing the best cars, trucks and motorcycles that America has to offer. That said, there's plenty of four-lane roadway to go around and cars from other countries are certainly welcome. For instance, we saw plenty of classic machines ...

Monterey 2009: Spyker C8 Aileron Spyder debuts 3 months ago on Autoblog

Spyker deals in the ultimate four-wheeled fashion accessories, so it's fitting that the automaker debuted its next-generation droptop – the C8 Aileron Spyder – to the primped and bedazzled throngs in Monterey. Based off the all-new Aileron that debuted at the Geneva Motor Show ...

Woodward 2009: High performance cars stuck in traffic 3 months ago on Autoblog

The Woodward Dream Cruise is generally considered the province of muscle cars and hot rods. However, the event is open to all comers... and come they do. So that means in addition to the usual assortment of classic machines and muscle cars, we get to see an array of exotics and other assorted ...

Monterey 2009: First Annual Concours d'LeMons 3 months ago on Autoblog

We never tire of cars. But we do tire of trailer queens. So before sampling some drop-top British hotness here in Monterey, we headed down to the first annual Concours d'LeMons, for some daily-driven obscurities and eye-sores. Broken up into categories covering everything from "Rust Belt ...

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