We posted a movie trailer for Transporter 3 a while back but it was not so “car focused” as the newest movie trailer for Transporter 3. The movie, obviously is the 3rd installment of the Transporter and Transporter 2 movies where each included a bad-ass sports sedan. In the first Transporter it was a BMW 7 series (735) and in Transporter 2 it was an Audi A8 W12. In Transporter 3 they up the ante a bit more and introduced an Audi S8.

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Although the car tricks are somewhat unrealistic in part 2, it still adds to the automotive appeal of the Transporter movies. Many car enthusiasts will see this movie solely based off of the automotive thrill and visual effects of the most impossible automotive stunts that you could imagine. Can you think of other movies or even shows that are just as or more car focused as the Transporter movies? How about Knight Rider, Gone in 60 Seconds, Ronin, Bullitt, and many others. What is your favorite?

Link to YouTube version of Transporter 3 Trailer here.

Offical Site for Transporter 3 (including the new movie trailer): http://transporter3film.com/

It seems as if every day there’s a new story about a major automaker having trouble because of the state of the economy, not just in the United States, but worldwide as events build and effects cascade.

• Toyota’s worldwide production is down by 1.3% for the first half of their fiscal year which likely means profits have slumped a little, though they’re still stronger than much of their competition.
• Honda is also feeling the strain. Their North American operating profit dropped 80.6 percent during the third quarter of 2008, and they’ve responded by cutting their outlook for the year.
• Alfa Romeo had planned to bring Alfas to the U.S. in 2010, but has pushed that back to 2011, with planned cars being for the 2012 model year (this marks the third delay – originally the cars were due on these shores in 2005, which then got pushed back to 2007).

Taken separately, these items are unpleasant. Taken together there is cause for alarm, and a sincere wish for some kind of cheap car insurance equivalent available for automobile companies.

Bigger automobile company news comes from sources a bit closer to home, where Chrysler, which has been losing money since Cerberus bought most of it from Daimler last year, has shut down the factory which produces their Chrysler Aspen and Dodge Durango hybrids, just as those vehicles were arriving in dealer show rooms, and General Motors has announced the delay of their 2010 Cadillac CTS coupe and Buick LaCrosse and is spending a lot of time trying to find a way not to file bankruptcy, including idling some of their production plants for a week at a time.

One possible rescue of GM may actually involve Chrysler as well. While GM has little cash, Chrysler has access to $11 billion of Cerberus’s money, and it’s been reported by Bloomberg, Business Week, The New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal that the holding company is interested in some sort of trade in which General Motors acquires Chrysler in exchange for the 49% of GMAC they don’t own already, which would potentially give Cerberus any government bailout funds GM is likely to receive.
The question then becomes: why would GM want to make such a deal? Acquiring Chrysler would increase their assets and bands, but it would also lead to bad press from more worker layoffs. On the other hand, a GM-Chrysler entity would receive a larger share of the $25 billion in federally guaranteed loans to develop fuel-efficient cars, than GM would alone.

Of course, GM isn’t the only company that was looking at Chrysler. Two years ago, says Automotive News Europe Nissan/Renault considered “extending their partnership to General Motors, and investors hated the idea.” More recently, it was reported that Nissan/Renault was in talks with Chrysler, but any such talks have now been abandoned.

With GM and Chrysler both asking for bailout funds as of this morning (October 29th), Fiat keeping Alfa Romeo out of the U.S. market for another three years, and both Honda and Toyota showing significant drops in profits, does this market look good for anyone? Not really. Though all of the attention on the status of GM and Chrysler has boosted sales of Ford’s Focus, company stock is currently hovering around $2.00. Ford CEO Alan Mulally is adamant that bankruptcy is not an option however. In a statement made yesterday, he said, “I just can’t imagine that being a strategy,” he said. “Your revenue would fall off so fast, I don’t know how you’d get back out.”

In a time when nothing is certain, one thing is: those companies that wish to succeed will have to drastically rethink their product offerings. Fuel-efficiency, whether it comes from standard gasoline engines, or hybrid options, is the key to future purchases and profits.

We recently posted another SEMA 2008 show preview of a Lexus IS F by Fox Marketing/Artisan Performance but that was just a tip of the iceberg that Lexus is rolling out on the floor of this year’s SEMA show.

(images and more info after the jump)

Other Lexus cars that will be showcased at the 2008 SEMA show will include:

Five Axis “Project IS F” with a newly fortified engine.

Five Axis “Project GS” luxury sport sedan.

Four new projects based on the IS F high-performance sport sedan.

F-Sport-equipped IS 350 with a new concept body kit.

A specially modified LX 570 luxury utility vehicle.

Lexus marks its return to the SEMA Show with another selection of exciting project cars following its official debut at the 2007 show.

All of the vehicles will be available for viewing at the Lexus exhibit tent, located outside between the Central and South Halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center. The tent sits next to the Motor Trend Proving Ground powered by Lexus, where the 416-horsepower IS F and an F-Sport equipped IS 350 will be available for test drives.

[Source: Lexus USA]

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You all may have seen plenty of posts and images of what the new 2010 Nissan 370Z would look like but now it is official. Here are photos of the new Nissan 370Z. Do not feel shameful as it is not a sin to look at this beauty in naked form. Today the Nissan 370Z gets exposed.

We should get even more details and photos at the time of the upcoming LA Auto Show.

Enjoy the images and let us know what you think about the way it looks? Love it or hate it?!?!?!

(click for hi-res image of the new Nissan 370Z)

0-60 in less than 4 seconds, 460 horsepower 4.3L V8 and a 7-speed dual clutch tranny. Did we mention the engine is in the front of this new Ferrari? This Ferrari is a bit more plushy than the normal. Laced with some extra luxury accents and luxury features this new Ferrari is still able to push you up to 193mph. You still get the best of both worlds in a hard top convertible that retracts in about 14 seconds. Time for another Ferris Bueller!… OH YEA!!!

Enjoy the images and video after the jump!

Images:

Update: Fast and Furious Movie Review (Movie Reviewed) – New Model Original Parts – Is It a Good or Bad Movie?

Update: Link to the 2nd and lastest Trailer in HD (as shown during Superbowl XLIII: The newest Trailer!!!

View the official trailer for Fast and Furious in Hi-Def (HD 1080p)

Update: August – Sept 2008 – New images and Video

The first Trailer/Video clip of the Fast and Furious movie:

Here it is as I promised! The New Fast and Furious Trailer/Video clip of the upcoming Fast and Furious movie!

Enjoy and feel free to spread the word/link! (videos after the jump)

Fast and Furious Trailer – Short Video clip – Fast and Furious

Update: June 2008

Fast and Furious – The official name for The Fast and Furious 4.

The latest word on the street is the 4th installment of The Fast and the Furious will be simply called “Fast and Furious”. Go figure right.

Shown here on this post are three new images from the movie showing off Vin Diesel’s Chevelle SS. WOOT WOOT!

Update: May 2008

New video clips (trailers) of the upcoming Fast and Furious 4 movie are starting to circulate on the internet. Here are a few clips of the production videos/the making of the movie.  ENJOY!

Fast and the Furious 4 Spy Footage

The rumor mill has started up faster than the NOS crave in the first Fast and the Furious movie about a June 2009 release date of the newest Fast and the Furious Movie. Yes folks, a few sources have stated that Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, and Jordana Brewster will return to the new addition of the Fast and Furious movie sequel (part 4).

Update: April 2008

[source: imdb.com and TheHollywoodNews.com]

Vin Diesel and Paul Walker reteam for the ultimate chapter of the franchise built on speed — “Fast and Furious.” Heading back to the streets where it all began, they rejoin Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster to blast muscle, tuner and exotic cars across Los Angeles and floor through the Mexican desert in the new high-octane action-thriller.

When a crime brings them back to L.A., fugitive ex-con Dom Toretto (Diesel) reignites his feud with agent Brian O’Conner (Walker). But as they are forced to confront a shared enemy, Dom and Brian must give in to an uncertain new trust if they hope to outmanuever him. And from convoy heists to precision tunnel crawls across international lines, two men will find the best way to get revenge: push the limits of what’s possible behind the wheel.

The plot outline in various sources sum up a scenario where this movie actually takes place BEFORE the first installment of Fast and the Furious (they go back in time like Batman Begins did) where the movie follows Dominic Toretto’s (Vin Diesel) back story as revealed in the original Fast and the Furious movie. I admit that the sources seem somewhat sketchy but they have confirmed that “A new Fast and the Furious movie” will be produced but cannot make a definite conformation on any additional details.

Take it for what it is worth… here are a couple quotes from other online sources such as imdb.com and one posted yesterday with a strong conformation from Vin Diesel about him doing the new Fast and the Furious (4th installment) posted on beyondhollywood.com:

Beyondhollywood.com:

The whole “Fast and the Furious” franchise may not be high art, but man, people sure love the hell out of it. Maybe it’s the fast cars and loose women, or maybe it’s just the fast cars; either way, “The Fast and the Furious 4″ is coming to a theater near you in 2009, and Vin Diesel talked to MTV about it. In a word: He’s jazzed to come back to the franchise that made him famous.
More:
“I think doing the cameo in ‘Tokyo Drift’ confirmed a lot of things for me. It confirmed that if you create a role that the world kind of identifies with, or the world adopts, sometimes you have that responsibility to revisit that role,” Diesel enthused of his character Dominic Toretto from the “Fast and the Furious” franchise, which he will revisit in the series’ upcoming fourth installment.
Most fans had given up on the idea of once again seeing Diesel in arguably his most famous part, but it turns out the actor just likes to take his time.
“I’m a little bit slower than the average actor that just jumps into the sequel, but I think the time has come to revisit Dom Toretto.”
And yes, he confirms that Walker will return, but we already knew that, didn’t we?

Written by ComingSoon.Net

Brian help the feds stop a heroin importer known as Braga. With the help of an informant named James Park, Brian – and ultimately Dominic Toretto – wins a place on the criminal’s team, where he – and his flashy Nissan – plan to catch the man red-handed.

Written by Fazle- imdb.com

In the previous films the cars were fast. It’s not until the fourth that we see the fury of these vehicles. Vin Diesel as Dominic Toretto is back and he’s out for revenge against the Dynasty drivers for kidnapping his daughter. It began 4 years before the first film took place, Toretto’s back story is revealed and the connection between the Han Warrior Import Club is spiced up. We later learn that Doc has created a portal into the past bringing Toretto back to the future for a sequel to “The Fast and the Furious”, but not the same as 2Fast 2Furious it’s an alternate time line. Sit back and enjoy the thrill of a life time! I don’t want to reveal the movie, but let’s just say that the cars are fast, the good guys win, and they meet a lot of hot women along the way, and at the end have a ton of money.

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The SEMA 2008 auto show will have the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro and one of the versions will be dressed in black. No it is not the funeral procession for the death of GM, at least not yet. It is more like a BUZZ for Chevrolet to show-case the new 2010 Chevy Camaro in a new light, or should we say DARK?

There is a long list of modifications that complete the Camaro “Black” which includes larger exhaust tips, front lip spoiler, new five spoke wheels and red-colored halo/angle eye headlight accents (reminiscent of BMW). More information will be released as the November 4th gets closer marking the opening day for SEMA 2008.

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Below are a few videos of the making of this BLACK Chevy Camaro. (click “read more” to view) Enjoy!

Nissan allowed Motor Trend to take the new upcoming Nissan 370Z out on the road and do a little review. They could not let you view the inside but they allowed them to showcase the car still in tape wraps. Looks like it has a few cues from the new Nissan Maxima and Nissan GT-R-esc designs. We noticed the roofline is very similar to the GT-R while the headlamps may be similar to the new Maxima headlamp clusters. Due to the transmission whoas of the new GT-R this may be a nice alternative to those who want a fast Nissan sports car. Although this will not be super-car status like the GT-R but it is suppose to be faster than the outgoing 350Z model. November 17th should mark the date for the new official stats and unveiling of the new Nissan Z car (370Z).