Car and Driver
“The SLS is a serious super sports car,” says AMG chief of development Tobias Moers before taking a shot at the SLR, a carbon-fiber-bodied car that still managed to weigh in at 3858 pounds. “Our SLS weighs only 3572 pounds,” he says, nearly 300 pounds lighter than the McMerc.
Carmagazine.com Words by: Mike Torch
365 bhp, a six-speed paddle-shifter and all-wheel-drive. A sleek body and a posh interior to die for. Much like the company itself these days, the team behind the new Ford Taurus SHO can pat themselves on the back.
Telegraph
With the recent consolidation of Saab's divisions under the Saab Automobile AB umbrella, Victor Muller's great big car-making adventure is now into its fifth month.
Carmagazine.com
Lexus has introduced an all-new, second-generation GX 460 luxury utility vehicle for 2010 that is more powerful, more efficient, quieter and more luxurious than the GX 470 model it replaces. The 2010 GX 460 achieves all of these significant developments while its 10 standard airbags and the available Pre-Collision System help enhance safety.
Carmagazine.com
Though it has little more than a moniker in common with Porsche's original racer from the 1950s, the company's marketing men have gone 'full steam ahead' in naming their newly tricked-out Boxster the Spyder.
Motor Trend
The old GM might have been a bad car company, but it was launching some seriously good cars, especially (but not limited to) the ones developed at Opel in Germany. The Opel Insignia is current European Car of the Year, which bodes well for the related Buick LaCrosse and Regal. Now Opel has done it again with the new Astra.
Evo
The weight of expectation presses down heavily on the Audi TT RS. It might even account for the 10mm suspension drop. The problem for the TT RS is that as soon as those two pairs of letters were placed next to each other we knew what we wanted, what we expected, what we hoped this car would be: a light, agile, hardcore rival for the Porsche Cayman S.
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