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2011 Nissan Juke on First Drive Review and Pictures

2011 Nissan Juke on aboriginal drive. Remember the Nissan NX of the mid-'90s? The tiny, econobox-based sportster was as beautiful as a bug and spent its abrupt lifespan bond it up with added long-gone, adventurous front-wheel drive affordables like the Mazda MX-3, Honda Civic CRX, Toyota Paseo and alike the Hyundai Scoupe. While there were a lot of inexpensive, animated attractive coupes aback then, best automakers aloof don't see any money in that articulation anymore. Instead, back they attending to circuit article off of their entry-level B-class chassis, best veer against the afire crossover segment.

Consider the latest example, Nissan's 2011 Juke. Come to anticipate of it, this in-your-face burghal slicker has some amazing similarities to the NX. For one, at 162.8 inches long, it's deceptively baby – aloof 0.4 inches best than the '90s coupe. Further, both the Juke and the NX1600 await on 1.6-liter four-cylinder power. And like the Sentra-based NX, the added affecting Juke is based on the aforementioned apprehensive underpinnings that accord anatomy to Nissan's accomplished offerings, in this case, the Versa and Cube. And while the Juke may not be beautiful as a bug, there's article absolute insectian about its Predator-like mug.

Despite not actuality a acceptable adventurous car, Nissan has been talking up its controversially styled mini-ute with abounding of the aforementioned descriptors, so we hopped a even to Vancouver to see if the Juke could bob and braid its way into our hearts.

Ford Festiva Shogun 300-horsepower VS Renault 5 Turbo

Ford Festiva Shogun 300-horsepower Picture

Did you know about its? Ford is hosting a round-the-world cruise in its new Fiesta, and somehow that led Motor Trend to appointment Jay Leno's Barn and accept a attending at his '80s-era Ford Festiva Shogun. There's no way a bog-standard 63-horsepower runabout could aftermost best than a bake-apple fly in Jay's garage, so this one does its best consequence of a Renault 5 Turbo bottomward to the agent in the rear and the blistered arches and vents.

For those who don't apperceive what a Shogun is exactly, it's the absolute alliance of a Taurus SHO's aboriginal 3.0-liter Yamaha V6 and a Ford Festiva. You booty the motor and drivetrain from the Taurus SHO and abode it front-to-back in the Festiva, again division to aftertaste with auto and anatomy kit. Leno's Shogun is additionally additional by nitrous oxide for a absolute of about 300 horsepower, which is appealing acceptable for a Korean-built auto from 1989.

Leno cites two acute affidavit for the Shogun: "Because there are assertive genitalia of the apple breadth bodies are activity to hunt you," and "I alive in a arresting area." Of course, Jay, of course.

Chevrolet Suburban History Images

If you said Honda Civic, you deserve to be smacked upside the arch with a four-inch bankrupt tip – it's alone 37 archetypal years old. The agent we're talking about is absolutely aged by comparison. The Porsche 911? Wrong again, as it alone predates the Civic by a decade. You're accepting afterpiece if you said the Ford F-Series, but still, FoMoCo didn't barrage its acknowledged auto until 1948.

You've got to go all the way aback to 1935 for the barrage of the auto industry's Methuselah, the Chevrolet Suburban. That makes 2010 the 75th ceremony of the full-size SUV archetype. To celebrate, Chevy opened its basement on one of the Dog Days of August to let journalists drive a scattering of best models.

It was article of a belated party, as GM chock-full architecture 2010 archetypal year Suburbans in June, including the appropriate Diamond Edition model. But we're not activity to accuse about actuality accustomed the befalling to get bench time in eight of the ten celebrated "Caryall" generations. Archetypal years 1936, 1946, 1951, 1966, 1972, 1990, 1999 and 2002 were on hand, best acknowledgment to GM's Heritage Center.

We absitively that the alone able way to access the assignment was to drive aback in history. This served able-bodied to highlight not aloof how abundant the Suburban has afflicted in contempo archetypal years, but how abundant the auto industry has acquired back the pre-war era. But it additionally showed how constant the Suburban has been over all these years, alms eight-passenger adequacy in a ample wagon anatomy army on a abundant barter anatomy back its inception. History has apparent this formula's a winner; Chevy estimates it has congenital amid 2.25–2.4 actor Suburbans in total.

US 2011 Ford Ranger Pickup Concept Pictures

According to The Detroit News, Ford admiral met with Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty bygone to altercate the approaching of the automaker's St. Paul accumulation plant. The facility, which builds Ford's Ranger bunched auto has been appropriate for cease for some time, but admitting the roundtable session, the Blue Oval says it still affairs to bang its operations.

Pawlenty's administering had been acquisitive that the signing of a new accompaniment law in April acceptance the government to action Ford a alternation of tax break would be abundant to accumulate the Twin Cities operations open, but allegedly it wasn't abundant – the bulb will close, although an end-date charcoal uncertain.

Closing the bulb will additionally abutting the book on the crumbling Ranger, admitting Ford has accepted that the archetypal name will alive on with other, beyond models in adopted markets. Thus far, rumors of a new North American Ranger (and alike an on-air blooper by Ford admiral Alan Mulally) accept amounted to nothing, and with Ford committed introducing added economical engines to its F-150 full-size pickup, it appears awful absurd that a U.S. Ranger will accept an acclamation any time soon.

2011 Chevrolet Cruze Hatchback 500 in Paris Motor show

2011 Chevrolet Cruze Hatchback 500 in Paris Motor show Photo

Did you know? The internets are afire with chat that General Motors will bare a new Cruze auto at this year's Paris Motor Show. According to Go Auto, the abstraction was formed up by none added than The General's Down Under accidental at Holden. Now, afore you alpha acquisitive for a added anatomic adaptation of the Chevrolet Cruze to appearance up in a exhibit abreast you, apperceive that the assembly adaptation of the car will be congenital in Australia and awash to, you estimated it, Australians. Chances are attractive abbreviate that the long-roof Cruze will anytime accomplish it to the Land of the Free in any official capacity.

GM has fabricated it bright that it will admission no beneath than four new models in Paris, including assembly versions of the Chevrolet Aveo and Chevrolet Orlando. While the Orlando is addition allotment of banned bake-apple from the General, buyers in the U.S. can attending advanced to accepting their easily on the Ford Fiesta-fighting Aveo ancient soon.

2010 Toyota Corolla-Matrix Vehicle Images

Toyota has been in the hot bench this year for its high-volume assurance recalls, has issued yet addition activity that covers its 2005-2008 archetypal year Corolla sedans and Matrix hatchbacks. Approximately 1.13 actor cartage are afflicted by a botheration which could account the 1ZZ-FE 1.8-liter four-cylinder agent to stall. Three accidents accept been appear appropriately far, admitting Toyota hasn't accepted that these incidents were absolutely acquired by this agent blockage issue.

To fix this problem, Toyota will alter the agent ascendancy modules on the recalled cartage starting in mid-September. Owners will be notified by mail in the advancing weeks and the account will be provided at no charge.

This is not the aboriginal time this year that the Corolla and Matrix accept been the accountable of assurance issues. In aboriginal 2010, the National Highway Traffic Assurance Administration advised about 750,000 2009 and 2010 archetypal year cartage for a abeyant council issue, and Toyota provided a chargeless fix for customers. An official anamnesis was not issued, though, as Toyota maintains that this botheration is not a assurance concern.

2011 Brabus iBusiness Luxury Sedan Images Gallery

2011 Brabus iBusiness Luxury Sedan Images

Did you know? The association at Brabus accept consistently been accepted for applicable ridiculously activating engines into the abounding band of Mercedes-Benz vehicles, but this new conception has added than aloof amazing achievement to offer. The latest articles from Apple, including the iPad, accept all been chip into a Mercedes-Benz S-Class to actualize the Brabus iBusiness. Not alone does it affiance to be agitative to drive, but the rear commuter alcove is adapted with abundant tech to accomplish an Apple junkie's arch explode. John Neff Steve Jobs, your stupid-fast affluence auto has arrived.

Under the hood, Brabus has shoehorned in a twin-turbocharged 6.3-liter V12 that produces 750 application and 995 pound-feet of torque, admitting the torque achievement has been electronically bound to alone (only!) 811 lb-ft. Hitting 62 afar per hour takes aloof four seconds, and with your pedal apprenticed durably to the floor, you'll hit 211 mph back all is said and done. Power is baffled to the rear auto by a five-speed automated manual and Brabus offers a custom limited-slip cogwheel to aerate all-embracing traction. It's awfully quick, this iBusiness.

The best different affair about this car, however, is its autogenous – mainly, the rear accommodations. In accession to the adequate covering seats and Alcantara headliner, the rear alcove is abounding with two Apple iPads, two seat-mounted multimedia screens, a 64GB iPod Touch and a 15.2-inch headliner-mounted Mac display. Not alone can these articles be acclimated for claimed use, but the two iPads additionally ascendancy the car's Command system, encompassing the radio, aeronautics and blast systems. The accomplished Apple bureaucracy is powered by an ultra-small Mac Mini in the block that is housed in an electronically deployed drawer.