Volkswagen Brasil’s commercial arm released the 9.150 ECE armored truck going back in February of currently year, but it is been heard off of everyone’s radar until today, when photos started up taking the web rounds. Looking fancy a giant, wheeled metallic bulldog this would translate to a giant speaking robot at any moment, the 9.150 ECE is powered by a 4750cc inline four-cylinder turbodiesel mated to a five-speed transmission. Power is a modest 150 horses, but all time high torque is a stout 405 lb.-ft., delivered between 1,600 and 2,000 rpm. It only needs the present low-end grunt to haul a broad payload of duckets. We necessity for VW to import a civilian version to North America posthaste. After all, the civilian-trim Chevy Kodiak, International CXT, GMC TopKick and Ford F-650 serves to use a tad competition. How do you say “Das Auto” in Portuguese?

What do Porsche and Lamborghini experience in common? Well, a lot. To start with, both fashion highly desirable sports cars, and once the former bought Volkswagen, that in turn had bought the latter, both are now beneath standard ownership. Both hold designed insanely powerful sport-utilities and both suffer constructed tractors. Lamborghini began out bringing about tractors before Ferruccio’s infamous run-in amongst Enzo Ferrari, subsequent to that he began bringing about sportscars. The rest, as properties say, is history. Porsche, on the a large amount of hand, began out in the other direction, setting off sportscars before swiftly moving on to sport-utes. But coming back in the 1950’s, Porsche transfered a line of tractors as well. Now one enthusiast has brought it on hand thorough swing providing that weird Porsche tractor.

The machine began out as a 14.5hp Partner land mower before its owner headed to town, picking apart the engine and painting it yellow, fitting a customized stainless-steel exhaust, a fire extinguisher and a tachometer crafted based on data from a 911 oil filter, later painting the person “Grand Prix Weiss” among “Idischrot” red accents. The result? Well, it will not be setting any Nürburgring lap records, but we would be fantastic to see it have to take care of off against an old Porsche Diesel Super tractor to see that can mow The Green Hell fastest.

Wal-Mart has embarked on a wide-ranging environmental campaign it calls “Sustainability 360,” and one of the legislation goals is to increase in value whole fleet efficiency by 25% for the duration of the coming a multitude of years. To such a end, the retail giant has taken delivery of its initial Peterbilt Model 386 Hybrid. The 386 Hybrid is the truckmaker’s (and the industry’s) primarily Class 8 hybrid rig, and if anticipations are correct, making use of one is able to improve the ability of urge dwindled owner/operators’ power price points by $9,000 a year (based on a diesel gas expenditure of $2.50/gallon), that is specific considerable green.

The hybrid technique was matured by Eaton, and it drives as you’d anticipate it to. Braking power is captured and stored in the system’s batteries, that return juice to the truck’s primary electrical system, accessory systems, and a generator/motor this sells the car surplus torque and aides produce its whole range. When situations allow, the rig can continuing to run on batteries alone. While it serves in Wal-Mart’s fleet, the truck might carry on to be tested, evaluated and tweaked by Peterbilt to come of the model’s thorough creation debut in 2009.

We’ve witnessed our fair share of gasoline thefts as of late, and it looks like it’s the other are to be probable as the market value for a gallon of gas keeps on its upwards trajectory. The up to date scam leads moving organizations the as U-Haul, that is now reporting the current a few renters of its trucks are employing up the electricity in the reservoir and refilling them through water. Other tinier ingenious criminal minds are merely resorting to the age-old tactic of siphoning gas based on what i read in the delivery vehicle’s tanks.One U-Haul employee in Olympia, Washington states which she has witnessed “five or six [instances of] water in gas [tanks] endure week.” Because water performs not readily mix provided gasoline, Other renters experience continued able to go uncaught as the achievement sucker at last found out until the upcoming user becomes the truck. In such a case, essential repair invoices beginning every where in $2,000 are necessary. Let’s clearly wish such a thieves seeming to rating a couple of free of charge gas at U-Haul’s rates do not start paying for the drill method.

The example pictured above is the Zetros 2733 A 6×6, giving permanent all-wheel-drive to all 3 axles and the ability to haul just about 10 loads of supplies and supplies. If you easily do not undergo too a good deal stuff, Mercedes additionally permits the Zetros 1833 A 4×4, a two-axle derivative provided a down heap capacity. Both versions give out go-anywhere capabilities through ideal off-road manners and the ability to be upgraded in state-of-the art armor for insurance against mine and ballistic attack.

Londoners serves to be swapping out brown cabs for brown vans rather soon. EcoCity vehicles, over its subsidiary KPM-UK, has was effective amid LTI, the maker of the renowned brown cab, for just about 20 years. Now EcoCity has signed an agreement investing in Mercedes-Benz to send back cabs out of Vito Traveliner vans, that form come down emissions as opposed to the LTI offering.

With 93-percent of the London taxi state taken out by brown cabs, we wouldn’t anticipate to see Traveliners dominating The City any long time soon. For EcoCity, it was a greater amount of on presenting a further environmental opportunity for drivers and customers. Former mayor Ken Livingstone was a big proponent of that, if you will remember. And for the city of London, it will indicate a lower number of of the black junk in the air. The Traveliner taxi is planning to be launched upcoming week, and go on be purchased shortly after.

[Source: The Telegraph via Carscoop]

The link between Volkswagen and Porsche is almost to get stronger, but VW’s Swedish contingent has by now made a special edition to honor the alliance. The VW Caddy has lived a staid livlihood as a popular run truck in Europe, but the Swedes apparently am certain it am able to be so even more. So it is releasing 250 Carrera Cup Edition Caddies outfitted through black, 17-inch wheels wrapped in 225/45 R17 rubber, a new person kit, red-on-white cover scheme provided Porsche’s signature “Carrera” text, two-tone leather sport seats, a leather steering wheel and shifter. The 2.0-liter TDI mill is putting out 140 hp and 236 lb.-ft. of torque and among a fire extinguisher mounted on the diamond-plate storey boards, we imagine we are able to own at last found the exemplary track-day accomplice to join who GT3 RS we have kept on making in our dreams.

[Source: Carscoop]

Truckers are covet motorcycle riders in the way the present properties invariably customize the rides. It’s possibly just now as challenging to get a bone availability tractor as it is an unembellished Fat Boy. When you are plying the roads as a great deal as the big rigs do, why not undergo a few fun and stand apart on the rest of the crowd and such a mudflaps decorated amongst conformist chrome silhouettes of questionable taste? International’s new LoneStar truck is planning to be factory trickable providing a new string of Navistar accessories labeled DoubleSix Customs. While the Autoblog Garage certainly isn’t relatively big a sufficient amount of to have an 18-wheeler, we did dedicate the even greater half of an hour to International’s website designing the right automobile for hauling our tricked out fleet of Zastavas.

With International’s online configurator, you can begin in a obvious truck and add a splash of color, a dollop of flames, heaps of chrome, and close to as a large number of lights as Vegas. The DoubleSix and cr takes its inspiration from what i read in the mom road, Route 66, that International is hoping carry on to resonates in individuals who stay our state rolling. Our merely problem? Lack of the correctly license. Try it yourself, you can nonetheless upload logos and graphics to design your best LoneStar.

[Source: International]

We’ve heard within the grapevine that another cog of thein addition to the latter initiating the former a diminutive car and the former presenting the latter a pickup, is the current Chrysler will be ditching its Daimler-sourced Sprinter commercial van in favor of a rebranded Nissan van by 2011. As we now know, Nissan is planning on producingfor the U.S. at its plant in Canton, Mississippi, and it will be sourcing selected engines for its new LCVs on Cummins. Thus, we is able to too presume to see the familiar sight of a Cummins diesel underneath the hood of Dodge’s version, as well. Will we come to find even a good amount sharing between Chrysler and Nissan as opportunity goes on? Our methods say these organizations are not done raiding every other’s aspects bins by a for a long while shot.
 

We can come up with all manner of criteria for evaluating a car at any level: design, performance, spec sheet, ride, features, technology, value… but the one factor that trumps all others, what it all really comes down to, is how it appeals to our inner child. At the heart of it, that’s why we love Lamborghinis and HUMMERs and Mustangs… and this particular Hyundai i10. It’s just a treat.

The ice-cream van conversion wasn’t made for Good Humor, although it certainly put us in that state of mind. It was created as a promotional tool for the British launch of the i10 by auto innovator Andy Saunders, the same guy who gave us the neo-Picasso Citroen 2CV and the ground-hugging Fiat 126, among others. While the Poole, England-based customizer has come up with many creative designs before, we doubt any of them would get children running after it down the street like the Pied Piper. Have a look at the images in the gallery below and pick out something delicious on us.
[Source: theCarfanatic.com and AutoTrader.co.uk]