Monday, October 24, 2011

Quick Fix

2012 Fisker Karma is finally out what does this mean, well a quick little electric car, and what would be assumed with this? well tremendous mpg of course, and wait what is that you can only get 32 miles on that one charge... Fisker is geting absolutely slammed because of this let down, as well as the fact their turbocharged engine makes only 20mpg(maybe because the car weighs 2 and 1/2 tons!), now costing around 100K the car is very exclusive and very very nice, but really for 100K if your looking to save on fuel might as well buy 3 Priusi ( multiple Prius's?) , if your looking to go fast and have fun, as well as be green, might as well get the Porsche Panamera S Hybrid or a good ol gas burning Maserati


New Skyactic-G Mazda 3 just came out, sporting a manual transmission as well as a 40mpg rating it seems really to be just another add on to the Mazda 3 family. If anybody knows anything about Mazda 3 then it for sure is that this car sells like crazy and is wildly popular, this new Skyactiv version ,as described by Mazda, gets rid of all the junk and puts the driver back in focus. Seems like a very noble gesture, especially from a company that created the godsent handling mx-5, reviews seem to be good as well as that mpg, you can pick one up new for %15K-%23K
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BIG NEWS: BMW M Division wants to make their own car... yes from the ground up, they dont want to base it off some boring current model, they want their own car which beats with a heart of gold, or should i say cast iron, and shows what the M Division is really capable of. Only problem is the big wigs at BMW want a solid pitch, and the only thing you need to do is show them your track record. M Division is the best and craziest and are up there with AMG side by side, hopefully this comes through and we can finally see a true M car

In more regional car news though it seems all the Germans cant stop fighting, Merc wants to build that sports coupe utility thing to compete with BMW and Audi is even going at BMW's throat with a concept car that might never be created... what is going on with this world. Anyways its nice to see this competition between all these guys, it will only produce the best of what they can give, and thats what we all want to see, only question is...where is Porsche in all these shenanigans?

Finally last part of the news, the Smart car is just not giving up, their sales had plummeted, and they sold less than 4000 cars in 2010(rumored). Why can't the Smart car just die, i mean great concept and all, just not really for me, but at the same time Smart is trying a different strategy, and a smart one. They dont want to change the market, they want to expose people to the market, very smart, especially since they are coming out with new updated electric models, and if anything Smart does "Green" well. Lets just sit back and see what happens.

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