Suzuki announced kicking and screaming their new “Free Gas for Summer” promotion on all SX4s sold until August 31^st.

When you purchase this car you’ll receive a pre-paid credit card ($270 for the SX4 Sedan and $290 for the SX4 crossover). If this amount will be enough to cover your next three months it’s hard to tell but one thing is for sure: it will cut back a few hundred bucks from the overall costs of the car.

Also, for any SX4 with manual transmission, Suzuki is offering $2,000 in customer cash off the car’s price.

It’s a very attractive offer but the final decision is entirely up to you.

Well, The Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport, a model that is produced in only 150 units, has been declared officially the fastest convertible that is road legal. Not sure that 150 units really classifies it as a production model, but the speed reached is 223 MPH, and that demands some respect.

Spy shots, spy shots. Yeah, right! This time some people caught SPY SHOTS of the new Porsche 911 running on the public roads. The 998 got a few outside tweaks from what we could see, as most of the car was covered.

But the headlights are more vertical that the ones on the current 988 and there were side mirrors from the 993, which I hope were just put for testing purposes only. And in this last category we hope Porsche will put the exhaust outlets.

Nothing new about engines or performance, but stay tuned for more Spy stuff.

Some cars were announced just to tease us and to make us want to see them as soon as possible. This is the case of the redesigned 2009 BMW Z4. Rumors were flying around like bullets in a paintball game, about the arrival of the Z4, but all we got instead was fat lips.

For the drivetrain, we will get 2 options: a naturally aspirated or twin-turbocharged 3.0-liter inline-six that are on the 328i and 335i, with an M version packing the M3’s V8 and a carbon fiber roof. BMW will make a few adjustments in the name of style to make the Z4 coupe stand out even more. In 2009 BMW will lose the soft top Z4 in order to leave the folding hard-top one as their only sibling.

Z2, another ghost in the fog, is being worked at and could come to us in both coupe and cabrio flavors. As for the equipment under the belt they will have BMW’s EfficientDynamics system and will be powered by either a naturally aspirated or turbocharged 2.0-liter four. Also we heard about a hybrid version with BMW’s eDrive system. BMW isn’t letting us down and keep putting out beautiful cars.

From what we see today, it seems that microcars are the new thing, because of the low fuel consumption. We all know about the Smart, but VW is working on a rival for it.

The wheel turner will be a 1.2L four cylinder or with 3 cylinders running on gasoline. The later one will benefit from a cylinder cutoff technology so it will run on as many pistons necessary to save fuel, going 117 miles with just one gallon. And as we can expect, an electric version is also being planned.

Word on the street is that VW will be launching the new model by 2011, giving it priority status. By then I hope they will also work on the name of the model: Chico. Will all the money invested in this, I am sure they can invest in a little brainstorming for a better name.

This year Honda has unveiled something very interesting at the LA Auto Show: the FC Sport. It’s a three-passenger sports car concept that is built on the Honda V Flow fuel cell tech. Made out of lightweight materials, with an improved aerodynamics and also a low center of gravity, you can’t fail, or so we hope and Honda hopes also.

What we have seen so far from this little “buggy” is very nice, with great shapes and angles, inspired from Formula 1. No specs were released until now, but as soon as we will hear of any, you will be the first to know. Until then, take a look at one of the pictures of the FC Sport.

Underground, but not struggling in it, there is PGO. Hailing from France, they have announced their new offspring, which is nothing new, it actually looks like an old-school car. Some of you may have the feeling of seeing this before while looking at the picture of the Hemera. Well, you are not crazy, it does look like something you have seen before, it looks like a Porsche.

Hemera takes up from all around, and let me tell you, the guys at PGO don’t have bad tastes. It uses a Peugeot gas engine with 140 horsies which can get this car from a stop to 60 in less than 7 seconds and with a top speed of 124 miles per hour. Not bad, but I think it was not built for speed, but for class. Let’s wait and see how it rolls in the streets when it will be launched at sea.

The picture below seems to be the only official image of the new four-door “coupe” Porsche Panamera. This new Panamera Grand Turismo has a few new improvements on the shape that make it rather slippery through air, but it kept the fat back side that I personally like. Along with the doors and wheels and other things that you expect in finding on a car, you will have an electronic air suspension, an LSD and the power can be sent to either the rear wheels or to all four.

Let’s talk engines, shall we? After all this is why we buy cars, right? Because they have engines and they make the wheels roll. So, the slowest, if I am allowed to put it like this, will be the 3.6-liter V6 with 300hp. Up on the ladder there is the 4.8-liter V8 Panamera S with a herd of 400 horses packed inside and at the top there is the Panamera Turbo with a twin-turbocharged version of the V8 that can put out about 500hp. We heard some rumors about a diesel version and a V6-hubrid with 350hp, but that won’t be available until later on.

Porsche seems to don’t give a damn that most of us don’t have time or money to buy new cars, as we are trapped in the economical crisis or we are simply broke. They keep doing their thing and keep bringing us bigger and better cars, like the new 2009 Boxter and Cayman. Both of these babies will benefit from the Porsche-Doppelkupplungsgetriebe transmission or the PDK from the 911 Carrera PDK. Also they will have improved engines with direct injection. This means more power to burn on the road and improved fuel economy.
Porsche is throwing for the 2009 Boxter and Cayman two engines: one is a standard 2.9-liter flat-six with 255 hp and on the S models a 3.4 liter engine will ride with310hp. The beginning of 2009 will bring thee new rides in showrooms so we can see them live.

The LA Auto Show is not open yet but Ford are one step ahead of the game and unveiled their new 2010 Mustang in a Santa Monica airport hangar. the show started with a car parade of all 45 years of Mustang. Some of the guests, who were mostly members of the Mustang club, brought their rides to show off.
After the car catwalk, came time for the real deal, the moment everyone was waiting for. The star of the show came out in in screetching and burning tires. First in line was the new 2010 Ford Racing / Falken Tire Drift Mustang with Vaughn Gitten Jr. at the helm. For now all we know about this baby is that it has a supercharged Ford Racing crate motor and a completely stripped interior, but stay tuned for more. Next in line was the V6 and the GT. After the cars were introduced one by one, it was time to see how they look and feel. The interiors are just cool and a step forward from the previous versions. The outside, well that is another beautiful story. The lines are flowing and there is nothing useless about it. For now only 315 hp have been thrown under the hood, which is not a very good news for us hungry people, but let’s hope Ford will bring better news about this, and it might be at Detroit, or so we suspect, as the Ford boys said they will have something cool then.