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Crosstour

These are the first official photos of the new Honda Accord Crosstour. The car is based on the award-winning Honda Accord.

The car features a bold front grille, a longer, wider stance and a versatile, spacious cargo area.

The Crosstour will be going on sale later this fall.

The new Bentley Mulsanne unveiled

On their 90th anniversary, Bentley Motors unveiled their new flagship grand tourer – the Mulsanne on the 16th of August at the 2009 Pebble Beach Concours D’Elegance in Monterey, California.

Not much info apart from that it will be powered by a 6.75 litre V8 engine.

According to Dr. Franz-Josef Paefgen, Chairman and Chief Executive of Bentley Motors:

“The challenge we set our engineers was to create a new grand Bentley that would stand as the pinnacle of British luxury motoring, offering the world’s most exclusive driving experience. They have responded to this challenge with real passion and the result is a luxury grand tourer that sets new standards in terms of comfort, effortless performance and hand-crafted refinement – the very qualities for which Bentley is renowned.”

Chassis number one was sold at auction by Gooding and Company for US$500,000 at the event.

The Bentley Mulsanne will go on sale from mid 2010 and will also be displayed at the forthcoming IAA Frankfurt Motor Show (15-27th September, 2009).

McLaren MP4-12C unveiled

Formula One team McLaren has unveiled a road car – the McLaren MP4-12C. This car will be built near their group’s headquarters in Woking in Surrey. According to McLaren, the factories should employ some 800 people and produce 4,000 cars per year.

The cars will cost approximately £125,000 and £175,000. I don’t really agree with McLaren chairman Ron Dennis, when he says that it is an “affordable sports car”. I guess it is cheaper than the Ferrari and Porsches. According to news reports, the MP4-12C powered by a 3.8 litre V8 twin turbo engine can accelerate to 60mph from rest in just 3.4 seconds.

The sexy looking car features gull-wing doors.

2010 Fiat Grande Punto and the Chrysler dilemma…

The Grande Punto has just been revised in Europe. Mostly a new front and and nicer interior.
This would make a nice offering in the US. But how much would it be?
It could just be priced too high, like the Astra was for Saturn.

And this is what Fiat is facing now that they are running Chrysler.
Apparently, they just found out (!) what everybody else knew. There isn’t much in the pipeline . Chrysler and Dodge have almost no new models coming up. Except a new 300/Charger.
How are they going to keep these brand alive with nothing new?
The easiest thing would be to just rebadge some Fiats, but even that would take over a full year.

And this week, they just announced they want to turn Chrysler into a Cadillac competitor. Really?!?!
That’s been what Chrysler has been trying to do for decades. And they always failed.

I just don’t know how Fiat will ever revive Chrysler and Dodge.
I personally don’t know anyone who would actually buy one (Except the Challenger).

2010/11 Hyundai Sonata

More pictures of the real thing.
So far, this is the Korean version.
We might see small trim differences once it gets over here next year.

Mazda2 coming to the US!

Late next year.

I guess the pressure from the new Fiesta was just too much…

Smaller than "1" BMW coming up?

BMW is apparently working on a car smaller than the 1 series.
Not sure why.
It seems that they want to cover every segment possible lately. Again, not sure why…

Don’t they have Mini to come up with smaller cars?
This is just getting weird.

2009 Frankfurt Auto Show

More pictures from the Frankfurt Auto Show