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Honda explores NSX’s past with an eye toward the future

Autoblog Canada — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:00:00 +0000

Let’s take a moment to praise the original Acura NSX, a previously unimaginable coupe from an equally unimaginable source that, as Lexus did with luxury, put every supercar maker on notice. Only the NSX went further than anything Lexus ever did; after all, there’s no clamour today for Lexus to …

Watch the “sheep cyclone” encircle a car

Autoblog Canada — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:00:00 +0000

The beige blurs in the still above are sheep, and they’re apparently very excited about something in that little blue car. Supposedly, a farmer in the Caucasus was just trying to get through a lane, and this, dubbed the “sheep cyclone,” is what developed.

Follow the jump for the video. If you …

M.I.A. Bad Girls video includes stunting and drifting a pack of BMWs

Autoblog Canada — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:00:00 +0000

If you know anything about progressive hip hop artist M.I.A. then you’ll know the one thing you can’t call her is soft. This is the girl that has samples of hammers cocking and licking off gun shottas in her tracks as well as spits lyrics about the underworld in her former neighborhoods of: …

Audi confirms R18 hybrid as part of 2012 endurance racing program

Autoblog Canada — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:00:00 +0000

The diesel era at Le Mans may not be over yet, but already we’re seeing the emergence of a new propulsion trend: hybrids. Toyota recently announced the TS030 Hybrid LMP1, Peugeot was working on a hybrid version of its 908 prototype before it killed the race program, and now Audi has confirmed a …

Production Mercedes-Benz A-Class spotted undisguised

Autoblog Canada — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:00:00 +0000

We’ve gotten various peeks at the Mercedes-Benz A-Class for a few months now, from the patent drawings to spy shots to QR-coded teasers. Then, of all things in all places, a cyclist with a handlebar-mounted camera gets a full-on shot of the real deal while riding in Lanzarote, Spain for what we …

Toyota using Shazam music ID app for new TV spot, giveaway

Autoblog Canada — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:00:00 +0000

Toyota is looking to meld the smartphones with the television in a new ad campaign. The automaker is giving fans a chance to win two Camrys in new promotion that uses the Shazam mobile app in conjunction with a TV spot. When the commercial airs, viewers simply fire up Shazam and enter the …

Jonathon Ward talks about his Icon Derelicts in latest eGarage video

Autoblog Canada — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:00:00 +0000

There are very few things that get the unanimous approval of everyone here at Autoblog. One of them is Icon 4×4, which makes impossibly expensive yet worth-every-penny reimaginings of history’s best off-roaders. For this year’s SEMA Show, Icon debuted something new that had nothing to do with …

Prison inmate includes pig in police cruiser door graphics

Autoblog Canada — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:30:00 +0000

A Vermont State Trooper who happened to take a closer look at his Ford Crown Victoria cruiser door decal made a rather startling discovery this week. Hidden within the sticker’s design was the distinct image of… a pig.

It seems a smooth-operating inmate who made licence plates and …

Watch an SVT Raptor be built on Ultimate Factories this weekend [w/video]

Autoblog Canada — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

There’s something inexplicably mesmerizing about watching a factory in action. Seeing the innumerable complex mechanisms mesh in perfect harmony to create the products we know and love is part of what makes shows like National Geographic’s Ultimate Factories so interesting. Now the program is …

What we know about the 2013 Volkswagen Golf, next-gen GTI

Autoblog Canada — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:30:00 +0000

The next GTI will be an order of magnitude better,
bringing it back in line with the original hot hatch.

Lighter, faster, stronger, better. That’s what we can expect from the seventh-generation Volkswagen Golf, due to be unveiled at the 2012 Paris Motor Show before it hits …