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Lilli Bertone takes the reigns of family design house

The design arm of Bertone, which is now known as Bertone Centro Srl, is finally and completely back in family hands. Last year the entire company, its design and production divisions, went into bankruptcy. Fiat bought the production side, while control of the design side was held jointly by the court and the Bertone family. Lilli Bertone, the widow of Nuccio, the last scion to run the company, closed the deal on the remaining stake that was held by the courts. Last year it was reported that the courts would maintain their share of ... Read more →

Not digging Top Gear this season? Read this. Dan Roth

Season 14 of Top Gear is nearly finished, and some fans are singing "The Thrill is Gone" where before the tune had been "You Are the Sunshine of My Life." The creators have heard the complaints ...

VIDEO: JDM Lexus LFA commercial hits the tubes Dan Roth

Let's all agree that the Lexus LF-A is an uncommonly passionate manifestation of Lexus's relentless pursuit. The buzz that's been generated just by show coverage and reviews have made advertising ...

Jonny Greaves jumps 301 feet to claim 2WD truck record Jonathon Ramsey

A little over a year ago a stunt driver named Chris Morena took a Dodge pickup off a dealer lot, installed a roll cage, racing seat and metal bracing for the bed, then used it to jump over a slew ...

Automobile announces 2010 All-Stars Jonathon Ramsey

When Automobile magazine put together a list of potential all-star cars, 39 new models made the initial cut from the Audi A3 and (Euro-edition) Honda Civic to the Ferrari 599GTB Fiorano and Tesla ...

Jaguar and Land Rover design sleighs for Santa part of Car's annual design entries 2 days ago on Autoblog

For the past couple of years, Car magazine has gathered renderings from designers envisioning Kris Kringle's sleigh. Last year it was Bentley, Rolls-Royce, Ford, and Nissan. This year, Aston Martin, Jaguar, Audi, Land Rover, and Jaguar submitted their Santa-ships, and the results are predictably ...

Pat Schiavone, Ford Flex and F150 designer, resigns 2 days ago on Autoblog

Patrick Schiavone, Ford's design director for trucks and crossovers, is leaving The Blue Oval. In his 21 years with the company, Schiavone has penned and helped develop Fords both naughty and nice: the last two F-150s; the Flex; Expedition; Cougar; Focus; Lincoln Navigator and Blackwood; the ...

VIDEO: Crap Motorsports FTW! - Car Launching 3 days ago on Autoblog

As the proliferation of LeMons events has proven, there's a fat vein of crap-box motorsports yet to be mined. Northwestern Wisconsin has its own unique brand of vehicular mayhem called Car Launching. The premise is simple: Jump something fetid and ridiculous off an earthen ramp, headed for ...

REPORT: GM to show Chevy Orlando-based GMC Granite and hi-po Buick Regal in Detroit 3 days ago on Autoblog

It seems as though it's just about impossible to keep an embargo in place these days. A Canadian outlet just spilled the beans on a couple of GM reveals set for Detroit next month. They say they were invited to a sneak preview Wednesday evening and although they couldn't take pics, they felt free ...

Santa gets new super sleigh thanks to GE 4 days ago on Autoblog

General Motors gave Santa a sleigh with OnStar and a reindeer monitor. General Electric must have seen that video and said, "Hold on a second," because they created a sleigh for the big red man with icephobic coatings, self-powered OLED lighting, ceramic matrix composite blades, GE sodium ...

Christmas List 2010: Rattner's book to debut in time for next Christmas 5 days ago on Autoblog

Planning for the future is perhaps an alien concept to big business – even automakers, with their protracted product development cycles. Take a cue of what not to do from them, then, and start planning now for next Christmas. May we suggest that your 2010 wishlist starts with what's destined ...

VIDEO: Turbocharged BMW-powered Yugo highboy has us reconsidering the GV 5 days ago on Autoblog

In the beginning, there was a yellow Yugo GV. And when the folks at Vprache Racing cast their eyes over it, they thought it was missing something. So they gave it an 3.5-liter BMW inline six-cylinder transplant and added a turbo besides. And an intercooler mounted on the grille. And a high-rise ...

VIDEO: How not to behave during a traffic stop 5 days ago on Autoblog

The prospect of getting a ticket can make you do a lot of things you wouldn't normally do -- beg, plead, be charming, anything goes, really, when it comes to fending off points and higher insurance premiums. Well, not anything, unless you're this woman, who went nuts at the idea of being ...

VIDEO: Valet vigilante vandalism visualizes very vunerable vehicles 5 days ago on Autoblog

We suppose we should thank some of the less savvy lunkheads out there for their egos – if they didn't post videos of their antics, they might not be caught. A few valets in the employ of Atlanta-based AAA Valet, working at the St. Louis Hyatt hotel, used patrons cars for serious burnout ...

GMC reveals gussied-up Acadia Denali for 2011 6 days ago on Autoblog

A little ahead of the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit next month, GMC has revealed its new 2011 GMC Acadia Denali. Although the Denali tag has been used across the GMC lineup to signify their top-of-the-range trim level, this is the first crossover from the brand to get ...

Top 10 Forward-Thinking Vehicles of the Decade 6 days ago on Autoblog

Trend-setting. Far-reaching. Record-setting. In a word: Important. Use whatever descriptors you'd like, what we're looking at today are some of the most forward-thinking cars of the last decade. Some of our choices are hugely successful in terms of sales while not being all that interesting ...

VIDEO: Lamborghini's Valentino Balboni drifting a Lamborghini Valentino Balboni 6 days ago on Autoblog

Fate is a funny thing. It was our destiny to get a ride with Valentino Balboni in a Lamborghini LP550-2 Valentino Balboni during rush hour traffic in Los Angeles. Lucky? Absolutely, though we may have crested 50 mph once... maybe. Would we have preferred to have been in the passenger seat of ...

VIDEO: In Da Club Cherokee? Enterprising kids go all Jeep techno 6 days ago on Autoblog

If your Jeep Cherokee has been sitting around for a while, it probably makes a few noises. You might not mind, though, if they were noises as well orchestrated as those in the video shown above. British saxophonist Julian Smith spent a few hours with a Cherokee and an array of friends with rhythm ...

Unintended Consequence of Technology: New LED traffic lights can't melt snow 6 days ago on Autoblog

Traffic lights using state-of-the-art LED illumination use 90 percent less electricity, offer a much longer service life and are more durable than their incandescent counterparts. Taking advantage of the countless benefits, cities around the country have been replacing traditional filament-based ...

Ship Shape: Mercedes-Benz AMG and Cigarette Racing to launch SLS-inspired boat 6 days ago on Autoblog

There have been a lot of non-auto vehicles that have graced the pages of Autoblog. We regularly cover bikes, and occasionally other modes of transportation as well. We even cover the occasional boat, especially if it has ties to the automotive industry. We've seen amphibious cars, catamarans, ...

VIDEO: The Fastest Yellow and Red - Best (and most ambitious) stop-motion diecast car film ever? 7 days ago on Autoblog

It took just one minute and 13 seconds into this video for us to scream "Epic!" In fact, we're not sure there's enough epic epicness in that single word to properly describe the epic proportions contained therein. This 1970's JDM homage has got it all: A yellow Pontiac Trans-Am of the ...

Bowling for Michigan: Laid-off GM worker wins PBA championship 7 days ago on Autoblog

How cool is this? On minute Tom Smallwood is reeling after losing a (once) steady production job at General Motors' Truck Plant in Pontiac, MI, and the next minute he takes the PBA championship. In a real-life event that mimics some of the great tales in the history of underdog turned champion, ...

VIDEO: Gag Me With a Yule Log - GM allows kids to track Santa Claus via Onstar 7 days ago on Autoblog

OnStar has provided nothing but good press lately for General Motors, and the automaker is going to ride that pony all the way to the finish. The next person in line to take advantage of OnStar's benefits is that Arctic gadget freak himself, Santa Claus. Unveiled as an installed option on his new ...

RoboVault protects your car from hurricanes, floods, Apocalypse 7 days ago on Autoblog

RoboVault says its mission is "To protect your most valuable possessions from... Everything!" Run more like an automated shipping port than your typical storage unit, the Ft. Lauderdale, Florida-based company seems to have the kit to live up to its motto. First you pull your car onto the ...

Invisible to Cops: Top 10 Least Ticketed Vehicles 7 days ago on Autoblog

The same company that studied which cars are most likely to get you a ticket also determining which cars are most impervious to the police. Compared to the norm, the most XX sedan will put you at 60 percent less risk of a ticket, while the most resistant-to-the-law sedan will make you 89 percent ...

Autoblog Podcast #157 - Mike Levine trucks along with us! 8 days ago on Autoblog

Our friend Mike Levine from Pickuptrucks.com joins Chris, Sam and Dan for Episode #157 of The Autoblog Podcast, bringing his vast knowledge of all that is crew-cabbed and full framed. Of course, we start off with what we're driving and dreamy talk about the Dodge Ram Power Wagon, but the real ...

Dirty Dozen: Twelve of the auto industry's biggest busts of the last decade 8 days ago on Autoblog

Now that the 2000s are officially drawing to a close, it's time for us to look back at the decade-that-was and reflect on the hits and misses in the automotive industry. Naturally, we expect that some models will hit the target square in the bulls-eye while others will fall just short of becoming ...

VIDEO: The Michael Winslow of engine impressionists 8 days ago on Autoblog

Remember Michael Winslow, the guy from the Police Academy movies and The Man of 10,000 Effects? When it comes to cars, this gent could be his follow-up act, having worked out his own technique for imitating a number of powerplants. digg_url = ...

CTS-V Challenge driver and M3 owner Michael Cooper gets pat on the back from BMW 8 days ago on Autoblog

This guy. So, some of you no doubt remember the Cadillac CTS-V Challenge. If you don't, here's a refresher: General Motors vice-chairman Maximum Bob Lutz challenged any journalist to bring a CTS-V competitor to California's Laguna Seca where the 77-year-old Lutz would mop the floor with he/she ...

REPORT: Next UAW president to be Ford lead negotiator King 9 days ago on Autoblog

Ron Gettelfinger, the United Auto Workers' (UAW) president during the recent tumult, is moving on from his post, and has thrown his support behind Bob King. King is currently a vice president in the union and manages the relationship with Ford. While the outlook is positive for King's ...

Caption Contest: Giving the gift of green against our better judgement 9 days ago on Autoblog

The move to electric-powered vehicles is still in its fledgling stages, but there are plenty of signs that the next few years will finally start ushering in battery-powered transportation for the masses. But there's one class of vehicle that has almost always been powered by batteries: R/C cars. ...

VIDEO: Borat-class "Rolls-Royce" actually looks good 9 days ago on Autoblog

Right, so this isn't really a Rolls-Royce. We know, we know -- you thought it was. And that's understandable. But no, it's a fake, a phony, a fraud, etc. And with the owner spending at least, say, $3,000 to turn an old Mercedes-Benz E-Class into a Roller, we understand why you were duped. We ...

J.D. Power ranks Mercedes-Benz #1 for customer retention 9 days ago on Autoblog

That's customer retention, not retentive customers, though Mercedes-Benz could be said to enjoy both. J.D. Power and Associates has been indexing customer retention for seven years, and Mercedes-Benz tops the list in 2009. Power measures how many vehicle buyers are replacing an older model from ...

REPORT: Vauxhall team creates mathematical formula for perfect parking 10 days ago on Autoblog

Parallel parking isn't difficult, but we have generally found ways to make it so. Between cars that almost kinda park for you to those with video game displays that turn parking into a Microsoft Flight Simulator landing attempt to the automated cars that park themselves (a frickin' robot! To ...

VIDEO: Ferrari California + Audi R8 + hot girls + bear suits = best rental car video ever 11 days ago on Autoblog

When we saw Henry Rollins speak a few ten years ago, he told a story about a fan who wrote to him with a peculiar problem. Seems the guy is a paramedic and one night they come upon a car crash where a beautiful naked woman is lying on the ground unconscious. They spring into action, get her in ...

PSA: Cardboard is probably not the best replacement material for your rig's windshield 12 days ago on Autoblog

Many years ago, some jerk smashed in the rear quarter panel of yours truly's 1985 Pontiac Parisienne Safari with a hockey stick. How do we know they used a hockey stick? Because we found the hockey stick in the back of the Pontiac. At that point in time, the poor Parisienne was only running on ...

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Autoblog Podcast #158: 'Twas a couple nights before Christmas...

Chris, Editor Paukert, and Dan send the Podcast off for the Christmas holiday in proper fashion

 
 

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