Autos

Audi is one of the fastest growing luxury automakers in the world and for good reason; they have been creating some stunning cars recently.  The latest addition to the Audi family is the Q3 crossover which will be officially unveiled at the 2011 Shanghai Motor Show.

Underneath, the Audi Q3 is based on the VW Tiguan but it comes with cool Audi styling and an interior that will put any interior VW has to offer to shame.  The Q3 will come with a lot of options for the tech geeks such as electronic parking assist, MMI Navigation and Infotainment system, and an option to turn the vehicle into a Wi-Fi hotspot.

Thanks to General Motors, now you too can look like that geek Shia Labeouf (who, we just found out, banged Megan Fox, or so he says).  The car in questions is of course the yellow Camaro, also known as Bumblebee.

GM is releasing a special edition car to go with the third installment in the Transformers franchise (Transformers: Dark Of The Moon), dubbed the Transformers Special Edition Camaro.  The Bumblebee Camaro can be ordered starting in July and is expected to be delivered in the fall.  Too bad it doesn’t arrive any sooner for the fan boys to drive it to the movie’s premier today (June 29, 2011).  The Bumblebee package will cost you $3,000 on top of the regular price of either the 2LT or 2SS Camaro coupe.

In late summer, Lamborghini gave us peasants a teaser image of what was to come for the Frankfurt Motor Show. The car, of course, is the Lamborghini Gallardo 570-4 Super Trofeo Stradale which is only limited to 150 units and is the most “extreme” Gallardo to be released from Lamborghini to date.

Inspired by the Blancpain Super Trofeo, the new Gallardo will be powered by a V10 putting out 570 horsepower and torque peaking at 398 lbs-ft at 6500 rpm. With the vehicle only weighing in at just under 3,000 lbs, the Gallardo Super Trofeo Stradale will be able to pull off a 0-60 in just 3.4 seconds and capable of hitting 124 mph in a lighting quick 10.4 seconds. The car is expected to reach speeds as high as 198 mph.

Today we bring you another factory tuned high performance sedan, this time it’s the already fast Subaru Impreza WRX STi in the form of a special edition called “S206”.  The bad news is that only 300 of these special edition cars will be produced and will be sold in Japan only.

Subaru is calling the Impreza WRX STi S206 the “crown of STi tuned cars”.  The S206 comes with a lot of goodies to make it handle better than the already great handling STi.  It comes with Bilstein dampers and STi tuned coil springs in the front and back, Brembo brakes with drilled rotors, 19” BBS wheels with Michelin Pilot Super Sports tires, and a few other goodies listed at the bottom of the page.

Most of you who are car guys should know by now that Nissan UK has been working on the Nissan Juke-R project for some time now. They’ve “basically” powered the vehicle by installing the GT-R powertrain. And by basically, I mean months and months of work and a ridiculous amount of money has been put into the project resulting in the Juke-R putting down 485 horsepower.

While most of us could not afford such a project of this scale, there might be another option available on the market for the Nissan Juke fans. Marketing firm, Fox Marketing, has announced that they are currently working on a new tune for the Nissan Juke and it will be brought to market in the next few months as part of celebrating their 12^th year in business. The company offers a wide range of services from web hosting to printing to even car design concepts for automakers.

We all know the oil-rich states of the Middle East love to splurge large amounts of cash on ridiculous luxury items because they simply can. One great example is the Armored Rolls Royce that had a price tag of $8 million and it ended up in that region.

And now Nissan has announced that they will be releasing a special edition of the GT-R supercar just for the Middle East and are calling it Nissan GT-R VVIP Edition. The car has a price tag of $266,000 and will be available in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and other GCC nations.

John and Helen Taylor, most of us have never heard of these two people but they are well known in some circles. These two love birds actually hold over 90 world records related to fuel economy and vehicles. Their latest record is for driving an incredible 1,621.1 miles through nine states on a single tank of fuel (diesel).

The vehicle used for this journey is the all-new 2012 Volkswagen Passat TDI SE sedan with a six-speed manual gearbox. They beat their previous record of 1,526.6 miles in Europe by 99.5 miles which was achieved with the Volkswagen Passage 1.6 BlueMotion diesel. Of course these guys aren’t your average drivers and they have techniques for achieving maximum fuel economy.