Lazareth fine tunes Renault Twingo with Range Rover engine

Posted on 10.31.2009 14:00 by kirbygarlitos
Filed under: Renault | auto cars | hatchback | Renault Twingo | automobile tuning | Cars | Car News

Putting a Range Rover engine on a Renault Twingo isn’t meet an routine occurrence, yet bespoken tuners Lazareth decided to hit whatever recreation and do meet that.

While you’ll never nonachievement the French auto automobile for a luxury SUV, it does make for whatever awing thrills to hit the small front-mounted engine the Twingo utilised to become in for a more coercive variety. As a result, the Twingo has been updated with a 3.5-liter V8 180 H.P. mid-mounted engine that conveys its power to the Twingo’s side wheels finished a five-speed drill transmission.

It took a lot of work, especially since a Twingo doesn’t meet start in the same line as that of a Range Rover. To sound the luxury SUVs engine on the hatchback, Lazareth restricted the Twingo’s chassis by adding a side tubular subframe, sort newborn suspensions, restricted brakes, to study a few.

The result, as you can expect, is a hatchback that packs more power than Twingo could hit ever had with a standard configuration. If the upgraded engine wasn’t enough, Lazareth also gave the Twingo’s interior a plush racing upgrade with MOMO containerful seats, a sports control wheel, and newborn digital gauges.

With a newborn engine and an coverall upgraded look, the Lazareth-tuned Twingo, which they’ve become to call as the Twingo Trophy V8, sells for around €70,000, or in the language of US dollars, around $105,000.

Lazareth fine tunes Renault Twingo with Range Rover engine originally appeared on topspeed.com on Saturday, 31 October 2009 14:00 EST.

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142: Honda hybrids, Infiniti EVs and punishing driving while texting.

Honda talks most bigger hybrids, Cash for Clunkers strength hit been a Brobdingnagian boondoggle, Infiniti will get an electric car, should DWT be chastened harder than DUI? And we verify you for a ride in the frustratingly fun Scion xB. Listen now: Download today's podcast Subscribe with iTunes (audio) Subscribe with iTunes (video) Subscribe with RSS (audio)Subscribe with RSS (video)
EPISODE 142 SHOW NOTES
• Should DWT existence chastened more severely than DUI? • CNET drives the newborn 2010 VW GTI • CNET analyse of the 2010 Scion xB • World distance record claimed for dynamical an automobile car on a single charge • Wacky dynamical robot existence matured at MIT Brian Cooley is an application at super who keeps his fingers on the beat of consumers' attitudes toward tech. His specialty is CNET Car Tech videos, but, frankly, most grouping hit seen him on the TVs at Costco (or in one of his '60s Fords or Fiats). Topics: Podcasts Tags: 2010 vw gti, 2010 scion xb, subaru hybrid, acura tsx wagon, msn direct, chrysler quality

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Mitsubishi hopes new models spur U.S. sales

(Credit: Automotive News) TOKYO--Mitsubishi aims to restore its ailing U.S. dealings by introducing a newborn SUV and a small car by 2012 and by reviewing the concern meshwork to weed discover weak players. "The revitalization of the dweller playing is very important," Mitsubishi Motors Corp. President Osamu Masuko told Automotive News at the Yeddo Motor Show. "We're reviewing many things." Mitsubishi has been hornlike impact by the U.S. downturn. Its income collapsed 47 proportionality in the prototypal figure months of the year. The coverall U.S. mart lapse 27 percent. Masuko said the U.S. game plan has these elements: --Launching newborn models. --Strengthening the income network. --Reaffirming the company's commitment to meet in the market. Mitsubishi module attain beatific on the prototypal content incoming fall, with the introduction of the Outlander Sport, a diminutive SUV. The container is supported on the Concept cX, prototypal shown at the Frankfurt machine show in 2007. It module be a orbicular help supported on the papers of the Lancer sedan. It module hit a 2-liter four-cylinder engine and become in front- and all-wheel-drive packages, John Koenig, executive evilness chair for dealings at Mitsubishi Motors North America, told Automotive News. Mitsubishi module follow that with a orbicular diminutive automobile in 2012. That automobile module be smaller than the Colt, which is sold in Japan and Europe, and module hit a 1.0- to 1.3-liter fuel engine. A plug-in organism edition and all-electric edition of the orbicular diminutive automobile are regular for 2013. Mitsubishi is studying which of those would prizewinning suit the United States. The rollout of the newborn cars is conception of Mitsubishi's push to warehousing its sort as a concern of fuel-efficient gasoline-powered cars and electric and organism vehicles. Masuko also module analyse Mitsubishi's 400-plus U.S. dealers, hunting to shed troubled stores and add stronger ones revilement lax by distressed rivals much as General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group. Mitsubishi has already signed up digit past Saturn moneyman in Louisiana. "The environment for the dealers in the United States is changing," Masuko said. "There are whatever dealers who hit gotten weaker, and whatever who hit growth potential. So we'd like to analyse apiece and every dealer." (Source: Automotive News) Topics: News Tags: Mitsubishi

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Scosche PowerFuze: The Hannah Montana<br /> of USB power adapters

The PowerFuze keeps your USB devices juiced in the automobile and at home. (Credit: Scosche) You should wager the mess of cables, chargers, and charging cables that clutter my backpack every day. Moving from car to automobile and bag to impact while investigating a variety of devices effectuation that iPod sync cables, USB cables, Mini- and Micro-USB cables for ambulatory phones and GPS devices, 12-volt automobile chargers, and 110-volt surround chargers take up a good deal of my bag space. For me, this is ground Scosche's PowerFuze device system looks interesting. This charging resolution should permit you change a sort of cables and chargers for an all-in-one approach. It's a automobile device and a surround charger. Ideally, it's the prizewinning of both worlds. The PowerFuze system crams a some assorted charging configurations into one package. When you're at home, it is a two-port "Made for iPod" and "Works with iPhone" certificated USB AC device that plugs into a 110-volt surround outlet. When you're on the road, a 12-volt USB device pulls discover to take advantage of your vehicle's DC noesis port. If you hit 12-volt DC automobile accessories that you want to ingest indoors, the vacant 12-volt opening module impact as a noesis inverter to alter them. With 1 amp of underway separate between the digit channels, you shouldn't expect to noesis a 12-volt air compressor on the PowerFuze, but there's more than sufficiency disbursement for most takeout devices. Then again, most users only hit one car, so they won't really wager the point of carrying around the 12-volt charger. That lowercase bugger module probably encounter itself perma-lodged into your car's DC noesis opening after the first week--when you intend displeased of bringing it into the concern every day. That being said, I ease think it's pleasant to be able to garner up both chargers for one commonsensible toll and hit the plasticity to ingest them unitedly if you should end to do so. The PowerFuze and the PowerFuze Pro (with an included iPod sync cable) sell for $34.99 and $44.99 respectively. If you only requirement a automobile charger, look for the PowerPlug and PowerPlug Pro with sync telegram for $19.99 and $29.99, respectively. Check discover Scosche.com for more info on this modify lowercase unshoed stuffer. Topics: In-car entertainment Tags: Scosche, USB, 12-volt, 110-volt, charger, Made for iPod, Works with iPhone, iPod, iPhone

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G-Oil bio-based motor oil now available for cars

GET's 5W-30 G-Oil. (Credit: Green Earth Technologies) Green Earth Technologies (GET) declared Wednesday that its environmentally cordial locomote lubricator for cars module presently be available on shelves crossways the U.S. The manufacturer of the biodegradable, copy viewless locomote lubricator prefabricated in conception from the birdlike fat of cows butchery byproducts has been waiting on authorisation from the dweller Petroleum Institute before commerce its G-Oil to the public. G-Oil has conventional API starburst certification, a symbolisation place on a product's packaging to signify it meets specific standards and is recommended for use by leading container manufacturers. GET's automobile lubricator was additionally granted the API assist symbolisation donut, a accolade signifying an lubricator creation has "energy-conserving properties in a accepted test in comparability to a meaning oil." Until recently, GET has only been commerce a 2-cycle G-Oil and a 4-cycle 10W-30 G-Oil for use in small-motor things same lawn mowers and tractors. Now that the API approval has come, GET, which module be showcasing new products at the AAPEX exhibit in Las Vegas incoming week, says consumers module begin to see its G-Oil locomote lubricator for cars and trucks at leading national chains. It already began commerce its creation at National Auto Stores, a Pennsylvania-based chain, as of Oct 1. The declaration is not just good programme for a company. If the majority of the generalized open starts buying locomote lubricator that biodegrades rather than taints groundwater, it could have a meaningful impact on the environment. Used locomote lubricator from a azygos lubricator change that is dumped into the connector crapper contaminate most 1 meg gallons of firm water, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. But, of course, the locomote lubricator has to work well with your car. While the International Motor Sports Association's dweller Le Mans Series has adoptive G-Oil as its authorised locomote lubricator of choice, the actual test module be whether or not the dweller dynamical open and automobile enthusiasts same how it performs in their cars. While no conventional declaration has been made, it's probable a care is in the entireness with the retailers already carrying G-Oil for small motors. This would allow chains same Amazon.com, Home Depot, Ace Hardware, and True Value, among others. In a software-driven world, it's easy to block most the nuts and bolts. Whether it's cars, robots, individualized gadgetry or industrial machines, Candace Lombardi examines the agitated parts that ready our concern rotating. A writer who divides her time between the United States and the United Kingdom, Lombardi has cursive most profession for the sites of The New royalty Times, CNET, USA Today, MSN, ZDNet, Silicon.com, and GameSpot. E-mail her at candacelombardi@gmail.com. She is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not a current employee of CNET. Topics: In the home, Water, Biofuels, Biomass, Environment, Transportation, Waste and Recycling Tags: G-Oil, Green Earth Technologies, locomote oil, water

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Winking robot nav head knows where you're going

MIT's construct mechanism nous mounts on the dashboard to assist with navigation. (Credit: MIT) MIT intends to indoctrinate GPS guidance by making it cordial and predictive, using a cordial mechanism supporter to countenance your needs. The Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA) is a mechanism nous on an jointed neck, reminiscent of flick robots from the 1980s, that mounts in the edifice of the dashboard. It incorporates an expressive "face" that crapper smile, countenance sad, exhibit warning signs, and modify suppress at you. AIDA was matured as a cooperation between the Personal Robots Group at the university Media Lab, MIT's SENSEable City Lab, and Volkswagen Group of America's Electronics Research Lab. AIDA's expressive behaviors are designed to endear the figure to you as it helps in your regular navigation. The mechanism learns your regular commute and which areas you frequent for which purposes. For example, if you ever nous to a portion regularise in your city around party time, it module adopt you same to take party there. After it memorizes your commute, it module automatically plug in your line to impact when you intend into the car on a weekday morning. If you go to a hotel for a dalliance every weekday at noon, it module probably provide you a suppress and a lettered grin as it maps the line for you.

AIDA's mechanism nous crapper exhibit warning signs. (Credit: MIT) More crucially, it takes in accumulation about topical events and reciprocation conditions, and module line around those potential obstructions. It looks at the condition of your car, and might allow a stop at a pedal station if your tank is low. Current guidance systems allow many of these functions. Traffic accumulation and detouring is included in cars much as the author Taurus. And reciprocation accumulation aggregators much as Inrix and Navteq allow circumstance accumulation to let you know when there's a game at the topical stadium, for example. Nissan also showed soured a robotic supporter in its Pivo 2 construct automobile at the 2008 Geneva machine show. The photos university free of AIDA mounted in an Audi appear to be rendered, so we adopt it hasn't progressed to the initiate of working prototype, but we module keep an eye on the Audi booths at upcoming machine shows, hunting for a shut mechanism head. Topics: GPS, News, Concepts Tags: Volkswagen, Audi, MIT, concept, robot, GPS

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BMW tests a wind tunnel against a hairdo

In a test to shew reductions to cabin disorder in the 3-series convertible, BMW convinced land help Sylvie camper der Vaart to set in two 3-series convertibles patch a wind delve generates a 37 mph expose stream. The first car is a 1987 model, patch the second is the underway 3-series. camper der Vaart adopts punctuation covering and material call for apiece of the cars, and we intend to see her flipped material swishing every which artefact in the senior car. And, of course, in the newborn automobile her material is completely unruffled. The lesson: don't acquire a 1987 BMW 3-series redeemable if you hit material issues. Topics: News, New models, Web video Tags: BMW

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Acura bringing TSX Sport Wagon to U.S. in 2010

When the Acura TSX Sport Wagon arrives, it will look something same this...but with a pointier Acura beak. (Credit: Honda) Wagon fans rejoice! After the public's deep getting of the Accord Crosstour and the Acura ZDX, Honda has definite to bring the Accord Touring to North dweller shores. This is a proper wagon, not an mismatched genre-bending XUV. The help will dress a 2011 Acura TSX Sport Wagon badge and will be acquirable in start 2010. If you remember, the Honda Accord Touring was listed among our Top 10 awing wagons you can't have. As you'd expect, we're rattling agog to see it reaching soured of that list. Topics: New models Tags: Honda, Accord, Acura, TSX, wagon

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Highlights: Kickin' off the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show

Although the 2009 Yeddo Auto Show meet kicked open its doors for the public this terminal weekend, industry insiders got a nous move on distribution the bevy of automobiles that are debuting. One of these lucky insiders included Alistair Weaver of Inside Line fame, courtesy of Edumunds.com. Here, Alistair gives us every a vexer on the many new vehicles presented at the Yeddo Motor Show, and this is merely the counsel of the iceberg. In this video clip, Inside Line redness shows a few more cars commendable of Web airtime. While the exhibit seems to be brief on dweller and dweller brands, there are plentitude of interesting creation models and construct cars to analyse out. Edmunds.com makes room for a couple of the forward-thinking "E-cars" that will undoubtedly be exclusive acquirable in restricted quantities, as substantially as organism cars from Honda, Mitsubishi, and the Subaru that has doors straightforward discover of "Back to the Future." And if you think it's every hippy-dippy cars on parade, move till you analyse discover the badass Lexus at the end of the clip. Topics: Web video Tags: Inside Line, Edmunds.com, Alistair Weaver, 2009 Yeddo Motor Show, Yeddo Auto Show, car show, machine show, Lexus, Subaru, Mitsubishi, Honda, construct cars, e-cars, climb cars

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2010 Scion xB: Bring your own cabin tech

Our time with the Scion xB was a taste of an emotive wave coaster. (Credit: Josh P. Miller/CNET) With funky styling and a estimation built around heavy status from the receiver crowd and the sound-off set, we due our Stingray Metallic 2010 Scion xB to be a subject powerhouse. Perusing the description artefact before embarking on the prototypal of many effort drives, we were agog to wager features much as Bluetooth hands-free calling, standard iPod connectivity, payment frequence with navigation, and rear-seat entertainment. Yes, we were every grins. However, by the modify of that prototypal effort drive, we were primed to intend the xB off of a bridge. Nearly every taste of cabin tech was a source of disappointment, from the tacked-on and too simplistic Bluetooth grouping to the crappy superficial "premium" frequence grouping with its maddeningly slow iPod search. We're glad to wager Scion even offering these options, but infotainment should have been the xB's strongest asset. Instead, it turned out to be the weakest point. 2010 Scion xB--photos So, should you refrain the xB? Of course not. It's still a rattling modify little ride. It's a small car with a aggregation of interior volume for your friends and your things. While the xB is nobody's sports car, it handles quite nimbly at municipality speeds; and its Camry-sourced 2.4-liter engine should wage thousands of miles of peppy acceleration. Oh, we same the xB; we just dislike the tech. But the xB isn't a tech car. It's a low-cost grapheme sheet on wheels. Skip the crappy, overpriced dealer-installed tech and garner up a nice aftermarket all-in-one receiver (like our Editors' Choice-winning Pioneer AVIC-Z110BT or the Eclipse AVN726E) and at least a powered sub and the xB begins to attain more sense. Check out the flooded analyse of the 2010 Scion xB for more info and dynamical impressions. Topics: New models Tags: Scion, xB, wagon, Bluetooth, navigation, payment audio, Toyota

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Not-so-better days: Denny Hamlin's Vegas car fire

Over this time weekend, Denny Hamlin managed to upstage Nascar golden pupil Jimmie President at the alkalizer Fast Relief 500 at Martinsville Speedway as part of the underway Nascar Sprint Cup motion series. Yeah, Hamlin's probably not feat to win the championship this assemblage (my prevision is Mr. Johnny Obvious aka Jimmie Johnson--look at the points advantage!), but still it's a career-highlight conclusion that wager his claim as digit of Nascar's stars. But patch most drivers hit their moments of brilliance, they commonly also hit at least a some moments in their occupation they'd kinda block and Denny Hamlin's just digit of the some who've had a reddened brush with death. Today's recording instance is just digit of those scenarios. This recording is from a Nascar Nationwide race from early this assemblage in Las Vegas. The instance cuts right to the motion and shows Denny Hamlin (in the No. 20 car) breaking a ring and effort involved with Mike Bliss (cool name, eh?) and the automobile catches fire. Shortly the flames terminate to only smoke, but still that's got to be a scary situation. The recording follows up with the lucre as substantially as binary angles of the accident, and you can get the best look at the No. 20 car's oxidization most the 2:15 mark. Topics: Web video Tags: 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Chase race, Nationwide, Las Vegas, Denny Hamlin, Jimmie Johnson, Mike Bliss, 20 car, auto racing, automobile accident, automobile fire, 2009 alkalizer Fast Relief 500, Martinsville Speedway

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Next Mazda RX-8's engine isn't ready

(Credit: Automotive News) TOKYO--The next-generation cyclical engine from Mazda Motors isn't ready. The engine, unveiled at the 2007 Yeddo exhibit low the cipher study 16X, was designed as the noesis plant for the next-generation RX-8 sports car to be launched in 2012. Seita Kanai, head of Mazda research and development, said the engine does not foregather the performance and render frugalness guidelines the maker requires for a production help and it continues to impact continues to revilement the rotary's render consumption. The cipher study refers to the process in the underway engine's displacement, from 1.3 liters to 1.6 liters. Kanai declined to say whether it's back to the art commission for the 16X. "The 16X is more a strikingness of a cyclical ease in our concept stage," he said. "It needs more evolution." (Source: Automotive News) Topics: News Tags: Mazda

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Denny Hamlin wins Tums Fast Relief 500, but...

Chances are if you're reading this, you're belike alive by now that Nascar utility Denny Hamlin won the alkalizer Fast Relief 500 "chase race" in Martinsville yesterday, where he led the vie for over 200 laps. It's a big closing for Hamlin, not meet because he secure closing in Martinsville where he was squeezed discover earlier this assemblage by competition Jimmie Johnson, but also because it breaks Johnson's fall success color at this famous speedway. Hamlin's get on Sun also poor Johnson's success structure in this year's Chase as well. But all everyone seems to be talking most is Jimmie Johnson, who came in ordinal locate at yesterday's circumstance and how his advantageous points lead in the Sprint Cup Chase almost make him the succeeder as a foregone conclusion. ESPN modify did a feature most this very concept, and here I am doing the exact aforementioned thing. It's rattling too bad, as this was digit of the biggest victories of Denny Hamlin's career. Here's the final few laps that cemented Hamlin's get at Martinsville yesterday. However it's belike a vine closing for Hamlin, who at digit saucer declared himself the Negro to beat in the Sprint Cup Chase, as Jimmie President ease looms super as the seemingly sure look to verify the Nascar championship erst again this year. Topics: Web video Tags: 2009 alkalizer Fast Relief 500, Martinsville Speedway, Jimmie Johnson, Denny Hamlin, NASCAR Sprint Cup Chase, machine racing, ESPN

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My Favorite Camaro: '69, dude!

One beatific thing about when I intend flamed on this blog is sometimes it gives me ideas for things to see for video to use within this forum. A pair days ago, a reader mentioned that I should go to the upcoming SEMA Show that will take place the first hebdomad of Nov in Las Vegas. Of course, I'd fuck to go but alas my period employ takes precedence and I won't be healthy to intend away. Sigh. Anyway, I'd recently been composition about Camaros, and coincidentally I stumbled upon a Camaro vid taken from a SEMA circumstance roughly a year ago. I intellection this was every a sign, so it prefabricated it onto my blog for today - a amend Sun clip, and here it is. I had mentioned before in this blog that my favorite Chevy Camaro was the 1969, and here we got a Camaro as remodeled by YearOne. Here Kevin King from Y1 discusses how they were approached to create essentially a new car out of an existing Camaro, changed its colouration from chromatic to lightning yellow, dropped in the LSX engine and bespoken to Nth degree. While King does a beatific employ explaining what every was finished to this car, I think the images intercommunicate for themselves. Topics: Web video Tags: 1969 Chevy Camaro, Chevrolet, SEMA, Las Vegas, LSX, YearOne, V8TV, Kevin King

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141: Lexus fires up its first supercar!

Lexus is about to place the V-10 LFA into production; author puts batteries in the Focus; Nissan swears that goofy Land Glider is for real; we discuss ground your radiophone sound haw not work worth a shit in your next new car; and we verify a mate in the wealth elector that started it all. Listen now: Download today's podcast Subscribe with iTunes (audio) Subscribe with iTunes (video) Subscribe with RSS (audio)Subscribe with RSS (video)
EPISODE 141 SHOW NOTES
• Lexus' prototypal supercar is reality: The LFA • Honda CR-Z reaching to the U.S. • California forcefulness rules could restrict in-car radiophone sound reception • CNET's verify on the ordinal procreation Lexus RX350 • Standard charger for electric cars presently to be adopted Originally posted at Car Tech Live Brian Cooley is an editor at super who keeps his fingers on the beat of consumers' attitudes toward tech. His specialty is CNET Car Tech videos, but, frankly, most grouping hit seen him on the TVs at Costco (or in digit of his '60s Fords or Fiats). Topics: News, Podcasts Tags: lexus lfa, honda cr-z, nissan land glider, 2010 gti, automobile computer

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