Like and angel of darkness Nissan’s new 2009 370Z sports coupe was unveiled by the boys and girls from Inside Line with a rain of ashes. Nothing new from what have already seen in the pictures on the design. But the pictures have no meaning when it comes to the real-life feel of the car.
The Z34 was also on display and it caught eyes because of the more space for stuff in the trunk. Good news for the ladies i think. we didn’t get too many tech questions answered on the spot, but one thing we were told for sure is that the downshift rev-match option will be on the sport models of the Z and will work through feedback on clutch engagement, brake pedal position, rpm, throttle position and gear selection. Say tuned for more on this baby.

Maybe the Camaro stole the spotlights in Las Vegas, but Challenger is the choice of many tuners living in the know. Of all, both kits from ProCharger that will be available for all you Challenger owners out there, definitely caught my eye and made me feel all tingly inside. Both have under the hood ProCharger’s P-1SC-1 centrifugal supercharger pushing 6 psi of boost, a 3-core air-to-air intercooler, upgraded fuel system and all necessary tubing and brackets.

But wait, there’s more! Stage 2 will give us more power while pushing the pedal thanks to a dedicated drive system for the supercharger and an upgrade air intake. Go burn some rubber, baby!

Hello again muscle car fans, we it’s time for a little history lesson. Not many of you know that life for the Mustangs and the Camaros and the Trans Ams wasn’t so easy back in the days. They had pretty big competitor in the race the race to win our hearts. That competitor was the AMX made by American Motors.

AMC might be returning with the AMX, or say gossips from AMC fan club sites. Also, Jeff Teague, the son of the classic AMC designer Dick Teague, came up with a few ideas of what the Javelin (the previous version of the AMX) and the new AMX might look in case of a revival.

All we can do is hope for the best and I say power to all the people who will bring back the classics that deserve to walk on the streets once again.

We have long ears and they hear many things. One of them is that Lexus will be revealing their luxury line of RX. These new babies will come in 2 flavors: one will be the RX350 with a 3.5L V6 and the other flavor will be a hybrid RX450h.

Seems that this new RX450h will use some pretty sweet wheel rolling tech from the 2010 Toyota Prius. We will not get something that will blow us all out of our shoes, but it will definitely capture our attention.

In LA we will also get to feast on the North American debut of the LS460 and the IS 250C Convertible. See you at the show!

Rumor is that Toyota has a new $5,000 car up its sleeve especially to be released on the emerging markets.

Even if it’s hard to compete with the $2,000 Nano, the Japanese car manufacturer promises that this new car will win the battle. A journalist from Asahi wrote that Toyota will work with Daihatsu for this project and that they will use the new plant from Bangalore, India that will be opened in 2010. Unfortunately this means that the production for this car will start sometimes around 2015.

Considering that the Renault-Nissan group is already setting an agreement with Bajaj Auto, India for a $2,500 car in 2011, I think that Toyota should speed the things up a little bit and change that 2015 time limit.

BMW has just organized a live webcast to announce pricing for the whole range of 2009 models. The base MSRP for the BMW 335d is $44,725 and $52,025 for the X5 xDrive 35d.

The 335d and X5 xDrive35d will come running on a 3.0-liter twin-turbo diesel rated at 265 hp and 425 lb-ft of torque thanks to a 6-speed Steptronic automatic. Now, the sedan will reach 60 mph in only 6 seconds while the SAV will go there only in 7.

Even if the details were not established, the manufacturer said that both cars will qualify for the IRS Alternative Motor Vehicle Tax Credit. Until then you should know that the shipment of vehicles will be on the roll before January.

The car building business is not always glamorous and it seemed fair for me to tell it in an article. It sometimes implies people losing their jobs and car builders losing money and cars not getting sold in as many units as they were planned to. This is the case for GM.

Even though a couple of months ago GM was adding a third shift to meet demands for the Chevy Cobalt, it seems that on Friday, GM gave 1,100 employees at the OH assembly plant layoff notices. This doesn’t mean that the third shift will be eliminated, it’s actually slowing down the build rate to be on the same page with the demand.

The reason for car sales to drop this fast is the difficulty in getting a credit these days, as most people that want to buy cars don’t have enough cash money to buy one. It was a matter of time before the world crisis to take its toll on the car building segment.

A couple of birdies whispered into my ears that the new Ford Focus will be very different from what we know. That can be only good news as the birdies dropped a picture of the new car.

A makeover is not the only thing that Ford will be giving the new Focus. The engines will be made with the new EcoBoost technology. The smallest engine will be a 1.0 liter turbo four-cylinder that will pull 89 or 108 hp and for bigger engines Ford will throw a new 1.6 liter turbo with 148 and 178 hp of power. There will be also diesel flavored engines, a new 1.6 liter TDCi with 89, 108 or 128 of horsies under the hood, and a 2.0 liter 168 hp or 197 hp.

Ford is planning for the Focus to be a coupe also, but until the launch in 2010, all we are telling you is hear-say.

For those sitting at home and wondering what will is Mercedes up to these days, have no fear, ‘for I am here. It seems that they will be hooking up the new SLK with a diesel engine. The German car maker won’t make a special-designed engine, instead they will use the 2.2-liter "BlueEfficiency" 4-cylinder twin-turbo diesel that is currently under the hood of the C250 sedan.

A few tweaks will be made to make the car more environmental friendly, like particulate filter and rail injection. We will see if these modifications will make the new diesel SLK fit for the United States’ market, where all the hypocrites and trend-goers think that a car killed the ozone layer.

Not everyone is given the task to make a hotrod fit for a gentleman and even less rise up to the challenge. But it seems that George Hurst is not anyone so he made from the body of an already impressive Challenger an even better car.

It seems that the new Challenger will be available in 4 flavors, starting from a 5.7-liter HEMI Challenger to a faster-than-light 6.1-liter supercharged HEMI which can bring on the road 530 hp. Being a fan of muscle and less subtle cars, I can only have wet dreams of riding one of these babies someday.