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BMW X1 2019 facelift spotted as hybrid prototype - 27 Apr 2019 21:25

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<p>Alongside a new PHEV model, the X1 range will benefit from minor styling revisions to bring it into line with more recently launched X models, such as the X2, X3 and X5. Such changes are likely to be subtle, as this prototype sports minimal camouflage and appears broadly similar to today's car. We know it's the PHEV because of the mandatory &quot;hybrid test vehicle&quot; stickers visible on each side.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Expect more significant changes to the cabin, with a more up-to-date range of infotainment technology reflecting that of BMW's latest interiors. An increased feature tally should also mean the X1 will benefit from&nbsp;a greater breadth of driver assist functions, alongside refreshed materials and the option of digital dials.&nbsp;</p>
<p>It's not yet clear if the X1's existing line-up of two petrol and two diesel engines will change, but engineers will seek to squeeze out efficiency improvements wherever they can. Expect more information on the updated X1 to emerge next year, with a likely debut in the second half of 2019.&nbsp;</p>
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Source: https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/bmw-x1-2019-facelift-spotted-hybrid-prototype

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BaT Auction: JDM 1992 Mazda RX-7 - 18 Apr 2019 03:23

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<p>This 1992 Mazda RX-7 was sold new in Gunma Prefecture in Japan on April 27, 1992 and reportedly remained with its original owner until it was imported to the US in August 2018. Power comes from a twin-turbocharged&nbsp;1.3-liter rotary engine paired with a 5-speed manual transmission, and the car is finished in Vintage Red over a gray cloth interior. This JDM FD is offered by the selling dealer in California with Japanese records from 1992-2016, a stamped service booklet, manuals, tools, a branded cover, and a clean Montana title.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-large" src="https://cdn.bringatrailer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/1992_mazda_rx-7_1553808093fa56eb1e1f8cbe183bIMG_7861-620x404.jpg" alt="JDM 1992 Mazda RX-7" width="620" height="404" /></p>
<p>The Vintage Red paint is pictured up close in the gallery below, which also contains images showing chips and scratches. Features include Efini badging, side markers, a rear window wiper, and&nbsp;pop-up headlamps which are both open and closed.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-large" src="https://cdn.bringatrailer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/1992_mazda_rx-7_1553136866d565ef66e7dff9fIMG_7720-620x414.jpg" alt="JDM 1992 Mazda RX-7" width="620" height="414" /></p>
<p>The 16″ 5-spoke wheels are stamped with Efini logos and wear cracked Dunlop rubber, with the selling dealer noting that the car’s new owner will be&nbsp;credited&nbsp;<span class="s1 for a set of replacement tires. A&nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=" s1="" brake="" fluid="" flush="" was="" reportedly="" performed="" in="" 2016.<="" pan=""></span></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-large" src="https://cdn.bringatrailer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/1992_mazda_rx-7_15531368528495d565ef6IMG_7768-620x414.jpg" alt="JDM 1992 Mazda RX-7" width="620" height="414" /></p>
<p>The cabin features manually-adjustable gray cloth seats with matching carpets, branded floor mats,&nbsp;aluminum pedals, an Efini-branded 3-spoke steering wheel, and JDM-market rear seats. A factory AM/FM/cassette&nbsp;stereo is fitted in the dash.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-large" src="https://cdn.bringatrailer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/1992_mazda_rx-7_15531368506e7dff9f98764daIMG_7772-620x414.jpg" alt="JDM 1992 Mazda RX-7" width="620" height="414" /></p>
<p>Instrumentation includes a 180-kph speedometer and a tachometer with an 8k-rpm redline. Just under 28k kilometers&nbsp;(~17k miles) are shown on the digital odometer.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-large" src="https://cdn.bringatrailer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/1992_mazda_rx-7_155313684766e7dff9f98764daIMG_7787-620x414.jpg" alt="JDM 1992 Mazda RX-7" width="620" height="414" /></p>
<p>The JDM-market rear seats are viewable in the gallery below.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-large" src="https://cdn.bringatrailer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/1992_mazda_rx-7_15537282150b1f651f83bdbdb2eIMG_7792-620x414.jpg" alt="JDM 1992 Mazda RX-7" width="620" height="414" /></p>
<p>The twin-turbocharged 1.3-liter 13B-REW rotary engine was rated at 255 horsepower at 6,500 rpm and 217 pound-feet of torque at 5,000 rpm when new. Power is sent to the rear wheels via a 5-speed manual transmission. An oil change is said to have been performed in&nbsp;<span class="s1 April 2016 at 26,990 km.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img class=" alignnone="" size-large"="" src="https://cdn.bringatrailer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/1992_mazda_rx-7_1553136844f66e7dff9f98764daIMG_7680-620x414.jpg" alt="JDM 1992 Mazda RX-7" width="620" height="414"></span></p>
<p>Additional underside photos are viewable in the gallery below.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-large" src="https://cdn.bringatrailer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/1992_mazda_rx-7_155313679898764daIMG_0301-620x465.jpeg" alt="JDM 1992 Mazda RX-7" width="620" height="465" /></p>
<p>The 20 included Japanese service records are said to span from April 1992 to April 2016. Owner’s manuals,&nbsp;a stamped service booklet, a tool kit and jack, and a branded cover will also come with the car.</p>

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Source: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1992-mazda-rx-7-15/ - Comments: 0

Is the Car Interior of the Future in This 1969 Mustang? - 15 Apr 2019 02:56

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<p><span class="dropcap H&lt;/span&gt;assane El-Khoury has wanted a classic &lt;a class=" model-keyword-link"="" data-make="ford" data-model="mustang" data-module-id="Mod271" href="https://www.motortrend.com/cars/ford/mustang/" target="_blank Ford Mustang] ever since he first saw &lt;em&gt;Bullitt&lt;/em&gt; at the age of 12. Now he has one. He found the car he calls Manticore as a moss-covered rustbucket in the Pacific Northwest, and as president and CEO of Cypress Semiconductor—which designs and supplies screens, touch-sensitive controls, and more for several automotive OEMs—he had the resources to craft it to his personal vision. A 785-hp supercharged Coyote V-8 lives under the hood, a six-speed manual transmission stirs the gears, and the cabin doesn’t have a single button, dial, or even an ignition slot. It’s a rolling testament to both internal combustion and computational wizardry, and El-Khoury hopes it can serve as an inspiration and wake-up call to the entire automotive industry.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We sat down with El-Khoury to learn more about the future tech that drives his vintage Ford. Here are the coolest details:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class=" size-content-width="" wp-image-1322519="" aligncenter"="" src="https://st.automobilemag.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/ten-shared/assets/images/_.gif" data-lazy="1" data-base="https://st.automobilemag.com/uploads/sites/11/2019/02/Manticore-detail-03.jpg?interpolation=lanczos-none&amp;fit=around%7C660:440" alt="" width="660" height="440"></span></p>
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<p><strong>It Starts with a Fingerprint</strong></p>
<p>“I am a big proponent of identification, not just authentication,” says El-Khoury. While some modern cars support multiple keys that store settings for each driver, that’s not good enough for him. Manticore requires multiple forms of identification to start, one of which is a fingerprint.</p>
<p>“If someone has Key 1, is it you?” El-Khoury explains. “The identity is with the key. I want the identity to be with <em>me</em>. I want the car to know it’s Hassane in the car. I want my temperature, my radio, my files, and I don’t want anyone else to have access, even if they have the key.” With a focus on actual identification, El-Khoury says, the possibilities expand. He envisions a time when we’ll be able to pull up to a gas pump and not need a credit card, because the car, having already identified its driver, will be able to provide authentication to the station.</p>
<p><strong>Valets Are Going to Hate This Car</strong></p>
<p>El-Khoury has programmed his car with the mother of all valet modes. “This is a 785-horsepower car. [Normally] if someone has the key, they have all 785. I don’t want that. I’m overprotective of my baby, and for a valet, 25 mph is sufficient. I can program all that. As a valet, you only get two engine starts. You need to park it and you need to bring it back. These are use cases that we can’t implement today, but technology opens up those use cases to really customize the user experience in the car. And it’s limitless.”</p>
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<p><strong>The Next Evolution: Smart Window Switches.</strong></p>
<p>El-Khoury explains the Manticore’s touch-sensitive window switches. “I don’t have an up-down button, because I want to tell the window where to stop with one touch,” he explains. “Today you can only do it manually, or push once and it opens or closes fully. Well, what if I want to roll it halfway down? I push the middle, it rolls to the middle, and we’re done.”</p>
<p>And what about accidentally triggering the switch? Can’t happen. “You actually mimic a mechanical switch,” he explains. “You have to make the motion, up or down. There are actually two elements per sensor, so we have gesture detection. It has to be a gesture with the right timing.” Furthermore, the exact gesture can be programmed to the user’s preferences. “For these switches, I want to use my thumb, because that’s the most natural for me. That’s just my preference. It’s all tunable.”</p>
<p><strong>The Phone Is the Stereo</strong></p>
<p>“If you notice,” El-Khoury says, “the car doesn’t have a radio, doesn’t have infotainment, it doesn’t have any of that, because we use streaming media. It has a sound system, but it’s hidden. It’s a black box. Because I bring my infotainment with me; this phone is my infotainment. But I need the speakers to be local, because the speakers on the phone are not viable, especially as loud as this car is. So what do you do? You go to a black box. It’s irrelevant what the interface is. The phone is a great interface, I can change it, I carry it with me, I can customize it. I bring it in the car and [those customizations] are still there with me. What we call BYOD, Bring Your Own Device, is the future.</p>
<p>“How many cars have GPS navigation? But we use Waze or Google Maps [instead]. Why? Because they’re always accurate, always updated. Why the redundancy? It’s two different ecosystems, consumer and auto. Well, we need to bring these two together if we want to maximize our experience.”</p>
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<p><strong>Software Updates Need Not Happen All at Once</strong></p>
<p>Like Tesla, El-Khoury’s Manticore can receive over-the-air software updates, but his car doesn’t require a constant connection. “We have two flash devices,” he explains. “You can get [the download] over a two-week period. You don’t have to sit in the garage while the thing is loading. It downloads a little bit [when the car is connected until] the image is full, then it does the swap. Versus, ‘Don’t move, stay in the garage, don’t lose the Wi-Fi connection.’ I don’t care. I want to go in and out. When there’s a connection, I download a little bit, and when it’s done, then [the system fully updates].”</p>
<p><strong>Manticore Is El-Khoury’s Attempt to Shape the Future</strong></p>
<p>“The reason I wanted to build this car is because traditional OEMs have self-created barriers,” he says. “One of my mentors a long time ago told me, you can sit in a room full of adults and say, ‘I’ll give you $5 million for the greatest idea,’ and nobody will come up with one. You go to a bunch of five-year-olds and say ‘I’ll give you candy for great ideas’ and you will get a ton. Why? Because they have no constraint. They’ll just give you ideas. We all say, ‘That’s not going to work, nobody would like it’—we sit here and self-filter. We have constraints. Well, I have no constraints. My perspective is, ‘Try it. Do it.’ What does it take to shake up an industry? It takes an event. This interior has to break the norm.”</p>

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Source: https://www.automobilemag.com/news/car-interior-future-cypress-1969-ford-mustang/ - Comments: 0

BaT Auction: 1993 Dodge Power Ram W150 4×4 - 06 Apr 2019 01:49

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<p>This 1993 Dodge Power Ram W150 is a 4&times;4 Club Cab pickup featuring an 8-foot bed and a 3″ lift over 33″ tires. The truck is powered by a 360ci V8 mated to a 4-speed automatic transmission and a 2-speed transfer case, and its red paint is complemented by a matching interior. Approximately 2,500 of its 162k indicated miles have been added since the seller’s acquisition in 2016. This W150 is offered with recent records and a clean Virginia title in the seller’s name.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-large" src="https://cdn.bringatrailer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1993_dodge_w150_4_wheel_drive_154974362243ed8bIMG_0949-620x394.jpg" alt="1993 Dodge Power Ram W150 4x4" width="620" height="394" /></p>
<p>The truck was repainted its original red approximately two years ago according to the seller, with the resulting finish shown up close in several gallery photos below.&nbsp;The 8-foot cargo bed is protected by a drop-in plastic liner. A target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noopener walk-around video has been provided by the seller.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-large" src="https://cdn.bringatrailer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1993_dodge_w150_4_wheel_drive_154949258285ac43ed8bC28E9778-7CBE-4628-A512-B7C46EE73FE1-620x406.jpeg" alt="1993 Dodge Power Ram W150 4x4" width="620" height="406" /></p>
<p>The truck has been lifted 3″ lift over chrome Cragar wheels, which wear 33″ General Grabber AT2 tires installed in December 2017. Chrome tubular step bars have also been fitted.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-large" src="https://cdn.bringatrailer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1993_dodge_w150_4_wheel_drive_15494062872f43373e8c97b90A6A6FDA-A669-4CAE-9CD4-92FFD3A9D33B-620x465.jpeg" alt="1993 Dodge Power Ram W150 4x4" width="620" height="465" /></p>
<p>The cabin is trimmed in red cloth and equipped with power windows, power door locks, power mirrors, air conditioning, cruise control, and a tilt steering column. An aftermarket CD player has replaced the original stereo. A floor-mounted shift lever controls the 4-wheel-drive system.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-large" src="https://cdn.bringatrailer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1993_dodge_w150_4_wheel_drive_1549406397373e8c97b95f4a387eE85A8C75-1EA5-4090-A4D3-EF2F1AC56E26-620x465.jpeg" alt="1993 Dodge Power Ram W150 4x4" width="620" height="465" /></p>
<p>This Club Cab comes with a front bench seat and two vinyl-covered folding jump seats in the rear.&nbsp;Just under 162k miles are shown on the 6-digit mechanical odometer, approximately 2,500 of which have been added by the seller. A target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noopener video from the seller shows the interior during&nbsp;a trip through a carwash.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-large" src="https://cdn.bringatrailer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1993_dodge_w150_4_wheel_drive_1549647494fac200868385ac43e1549570256dff9f98764daIMG_5682-620x532.jpg" alt="1993 Dodge Power Ram W150 4x4" width="620" height="532" /></p>
<p>The fuel-injected 360ci V8 was factory rated at 230 horsepower with 325 lb-ft of torque, and is paired with a 4-speed automatic transmission and part-time 4-wheel drive system. The most recent service consisted of an oil and filter change, a new air cleaner, and a fuel filter in 2018.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-large" src="https://cdn.bringatrailer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1993_dodge_w150_4_wheel_drive_15489611796e7dff9f98764daSAM_0432-620x465.jpg" alt="1993 Dodge Power Ram W150 4x4" width="620" height="465" /></p>
<p>The seller indicates that the 4-wheel-drive system is functional and that the steering box has been replaced. Close-up pictures of the suspension components can be seen in the gallery. A driving video is shown below.</p>

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Mercedes-Benz G-Class G350d 2018 review - 01 Apr 2019 06:12

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<p>The G-Class andtarget=&quot;_blank Porsche’s 911 share a common theme: the most accessible model in the range is by far the most authentic. Porsche’s seminal sports car was conceived as a more delicate device than the ludicrously well equipped, fat-wheeled, wide-body spaceships of today and the G-Class originated as a military vehicle. The supercar power and low-profile tyres of the G63 are a fun sideshow but for many prospective owners it simply won’t be a sustainable relationship. After a few miles it’s all too tiring and, frankly, too superficial.</p>
<p>By contrast, the diesel engine in the G350d raises the G-Glass’s game. A relatively frugal but strong and quiet performer, it complements the car’s opulent interior and newfound capability as a cruiser. With the chassis and cabin improvements, it means that for&nbsp;the first time in a&nbsp;40-year existence, the G-Class is something normal people, doing normal things, could happily live with. Just about. And, of course, you still get almost unparalleled off-road ability.</p>
<p>You might still be brave to look past the similarly expensive but more sophisticated, comfortable&nbsp;likes of a Range Rover Autobiography, but no longer would you be stupid. Maybe the G-Wagen's gone soft.</p>
<p><strong>Mercedes-Benz G-Class G350d&nbsp;specification</strong></p>
<p><b>Where</b>&nbsp;Hochgurgl, Austria&nbsp;<b>Price</b> &pound;94,000 (est)&nbsp;<b>On sale </b>January, 2019&nbsp;<b>Engine</b>&nbsp;In-line 6 cyls, 2925cc, turbocharged diesel&nbsp;<b>Power</b>&nbsp;282bhp at 3400-4600rpm <b>Torque</b>&nbsp;443lb ft at 1200-3200rpm <b>Gearbox</b>&nbsp;9-spd auto&nbsp;<b>Kerb weight</b> tbc <b>Top speed</b>&nbsp;124mph <b>0-62mph</b>&nbsp;7.4sec <b>Fuel economy</b>&nbsp;29.4mpg (combined)&nbsp;<b>CO2 253</b>g/km <b>Rivals</b>&nbsp;Range Rover Autobiography SDV8, Bentley Bentagya Diesel</p>
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Source: https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/mercedes-benz/g-class/first-drives/mercedes-benz-g-class-g350d-2018-review

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