If you could drive only one car in your lifetime – any car at all, never mind the price, location, etc – what would it be?
Shown in photo: Pagani Huayra (Speed Hunters)
DIG OR DISS: 2014 Mazda Club Sport 6 Concept
Featuring a menacing Mazda Design-exclusive Composite Grey finish and a Brilliant Black rooftop, this beast also comes with motorsport-inspired badging in neutral gray, black and red. The special Club Sport graphics featured on this concept car have a varying line frequency and width, giving them a sense of movement.
This is the first Mazda6 production model shown to the North American market with a SKYACTIV-D 2.2-liter, clean-diesel engine. This engine will be offered on the production version Mazda6 starting the spring of 2014, and it will pump out 172 horsepower and 309 pound-feet of torque.
Source: Top Speed
COLOR IT RED
Technically, the FT-86 Open Concept that’s on display at the Tokyo Motor Show is nothing new. There’s only one big difference between this car and the one that debuted at the Geneva show earlier this year: it’s red. No confirmation yet if Toyota will mass produce one in this hue.
Source: Jalopnik.com
SPIED: LaFerrari
…spotted testing at the Nürburgring in Germany. The legendary red beast zooms on the track, following Porsche 918 Spyder and McLaren P1.
Source: Road & Track
TOKYO MOTOR SHOW UPDATE
At the 2013 Tokyo Motor Show later this month, Lexus will preview its first turbo engine, a 2.0-liter four-cylinder. The new engine will be previewed in the LF-NX concept that we saw at the 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show back in September, where it had a hybrid powertrain. The reason is that the production version of the LF-NX, which is due out next year, will be the first Lexus to offer the new engine.
The turbo engine is said to provide the LF-NX with a lower center of gravity than the previous hybrid version, suggesting the engine may be a ‘boxer’ unit similar to that featured in the Scion FR-S. Lexus designers have also added a front lip spoiler to the LF-NX to emphasize the sporty new engine fitted to the concept. The rear diffuser and exhaust tip design is also new.
The production version of the LF-NX is likely to be called the Lexus NX. A previous filing made by Toyota with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office revealed the “NX 200t” and “NX 300h” names, with the former expected to be used for the NX crossover equipped with the turbo engine. Beyond the NX, the turbo engine may make its way into the IS as a replacement for the IS 250 model’s aging 2.5-liter V-6, which delivers just 200 horsepower.
Source: Motor Authority
