Baby Hot Rods and Who Cares About Gas Prices!

The way gas prices are skyrocketing, in a few years these baby pedal cars will probably be the only Hot Rods we’ll be able to afford to take out for a ride…

Via: Motorpasion

2009 Range Rover Autobiography Edition to Debut in London

Land Rover has announced that it will unveil a new, high-specification version of its Range Rover model at the British International Motor Show on July 22nd 2008. Dubbed 'Autobiography', the new flagship model receives more leather upholstery than any Range Rover before. The Autobiography's facia, door casings, door bins, seats and centre console are all finished in leather. Even the floor mats are edged with leather. -Continued

The 2009 Range Rover Autobiography also gets new 20-inch diamond-turned twin-seven-spoke alloy wheels, new paint colours and an optional half wood steering wheel with matching gearshift insert. For those who still want more, Land Rover will offer an exterior design pack featuring Supercharged grille, side vents, lights and stainless steel pedals on the TDV8 Autobiography which will be available from £72,995 or $145,300 on the road.

As for the rest of the range, for the MY2009 the Range Rover receives new wheel styles, new exterior colours and optional wood and leather heated steering wheels. Moreover, satellite navigation and Hybrid TV will now be available as standard from HSE specification and upwards.

BMW X6 Hybrid (?) Prototype: Scooped in Munich

About a fortnight ago, we showed you a set of scoop images featuring a heavily camouflaged BMW X6 prototype that was caught by one of our readers at Rochester Hills in Michigan. Now, another reader of ours has sent us new images of a nearly identically camouflaged X6 test mule that was scooped this time in Munich, Germany. As we noted in our previous post, despite the gigantic hood scoop, we believe that the X6 pictured here is a prototype of the forthcoming X6 Hybrid that’s expected to enter production in mid-2009. -More pics after the jump

Thanks for the images David M.!

2010 Mazda3 Concept: Nope, It’s Not Official, It’s Photoshop...

Some of you may have wondered why we didn’t post anything on the Mazda3 Concept images that took the web by surprise yesterday. To be frank, we had discovered these images during the weekend but we were 99% sure they weren’t official. The only problem was we didn’t know where they came from. Of course, we could have created a nice story hiding the real-facts, but that’s not our style.

Today our hunt down finally paid off as we managed to discover the “culprit”. Turns out that these, rather convincing, pictures of a Mazda3 Concept are the work of "Grif-1", a member of the Russian design site, "Render". If anything else, we’ll give our kudos to Grif-1 for doing a wonderful and quite detailed work on the Mazda3 Concept. Hopefully we’ll hear from him again in the near future. -Continued

Link: Render

New Dacia Logan: Subtle Redesign

Four years after the release of the Dacia Logan, the Renault Group released a facelift version of its successful low-cost sedan. Inspired from the 5door Dacia Sandero, the New Logan features a new front grille paired with a redesigned front bumper and larger headlights. Likewise, the sedan’s rear-end features a new bumper, revised tail-lights and a more streamline design for the boot lid. Renault/Dacia’s designers also updated the Logan’s interior that features new door panels and a revised centre console with new controls. -Continued

In terms of chassis upgrades, the front and rear tracks of New Dacia Logan have been widened 7mm either side, which reinforces the roadholding capabilities of the vehicle. On the passive safety front, the 2009 Logan features a new honeycomb structure for the dashboard which reduces the severity of impact to the knees. There are no changes under the hood with the New Logan being offered with the same petrol engines (1.4 75hp, 1.6 90hp and 1.6 16V 105hp) and diesel engines (1.5 dCi 70hp and 1.5 dCi 85hp) as before.