Archive for Automotive Videos

MINI is officially 50 years and 1 day old today, and BMW AG celebrated the MINI brand’s “birthday” yesterday with a celebration video that you will find after the jump. And of course their other present to the brand would be the new MINI Coupe Concept. In your opinion, do you consider MINI a continuation of the old school Mini? Or something completely new altogether that’s only a few years old now? Is MINI 50 years old or is Mini 50 years old? Share your thoughts in the comments.

Click here to read the rest of VIDEO: MINI 50th birthday celebration song

BMW driver Tommy Milner talks about what it feels like to be a race car driver: it’s not about driving a really fast car, its about racing with someone else, and hopefully winning. We get to see some sights and sounds of the new BMW M3 GTR race car, but lots of the video are actually screens from the Need For Speed Shift game which features the M3 GTR. Watch the video after the jump. It’s quite worth a watch to see what Milner has to say about being in a racecar in the heat of a race.

Click here to read the rest of VIDEO: BMW M3 GTR in Need For Speed Shift

This is quite a funny but kinda long ad for the Perodua Kelisa that I found on Youtube. For some reason I don’t remember ever seeing it on TV, but then again I don’t watch TV that often. It’s directed by Barney Chua and produced by Ira Carissa Shah for Perodua, and is inspired by Ultraman and Thunderbirds, amongst others. The Kelisa special editions (with the stripes and etc) saves the world from a certain Dr Bore.

Click here to read the rest of VIDEO: Perodua Kelisa vs Dr Bore TVC

One of the highlights of the Infiniti M’s reveal at Pebble Beach that the Japanese company kept pimping before the launch was the fact that it was going to use an innovative 3D projection system in the unveiling ceremony. Of course those who weren’t there could not see this but fortunately Infiniti decided to record the whole thing so we could see what they were talking about exactly. The car seems to appear bit by bit, part by part, in a way that reminded me of the scenes in Hollow Man. Watch the video after the jump.

Click here to read the rest of VIDEO: Infiniti M’s 3D Projection Reveal

The BMW ActiveHybrid X6 isn’t about saving the world. It’s about recovering every bit of energy that could have wasted as you’re barrelling towards a corner and braking hard to prepare for it, and using that power to help you get out of that corner faster. It’s an X6 with a KERS booster system. It’s also meant to give the owner that feel-good factor of driving in EV mode.

When the ActiveHybrid X6 and ActiveHybrid 7-Series were unveiled on BMW’s press site simultaneously a few days ago, only the 7-Series had beauty footage accompanying its press pack. The X6 hybrid not have any video, until now that is.

Watch the video after the jump.

Click here to read the rest of VIDEO: New BMW ActiveHybrid X6 in motion

American company Devon Motorworks had originally made a US$5.5 million bid to Chrysler to buy over the Dodge Viper and everything to do with it so it could use its platform to build a new supercar. Devon Motorworks owner is the same guy who runs frozen food company Cole’s. It lost the bid (Chrysler was actually asking for at least US$10 million), but nevermind that – the new supercar became a reality anyway.

The car you see above is the Devon Motorworks GTX which it calls a supercar, and Devon claims that it had set a 1:35.075 laptime at the Laguna Seca raceway in California, beating the Nissan GT-R and Porsche 911 Turbo’s 1:39.62 and 1:39.89 laptimes respectively. The company also intends to beat the Nurburgring lap record with this car sometime in the future.

Not sure what platform the car is riding on – the company may have ended up licensing the Viper platform or some other platform or maybe even built their own? We don’t even know what kind of engine the car is running.

What we do know is the price – US$500,000! There’s also an optional “Racing Package” that goes for US$25,000. You can place a pre-order with US$25,000 and then pony up another US$175,000 upon order confirmation. The balance of US$300,000 is due on delivery.

These photos you see here are just rendering but a prototype of the car will be shown at Pebble Beach today. It was designed by Swedish designer Daniel Paulin, who has penned cars such as the Ford Focus C-Max. From MPVs to a supercar, not bad.

Click here to read the rest of Devon GTX: America’s bid at beating the GT-R

Here’s some new footage of the new Mercedes-Benz E-Class Estate for those who are wagon lovers and admire Stuttgart’s pretty good-looking execution of the wagon bodytype on the new W212 E-Class. You get to see some of the wagon’s features in action such as the easy one-pull handle that can be used to fold the rear seats down in order to extend the wagon’s load area. The rear-facing third row small seats are also mentioned as being optional. Watch the video after the jump.

Click here to read the rest of VIDEO: New footage of the W212 E-Class Estate

Ferrari has released a new video on the Ferrari 458 Italia and the video gives us a new view angle on the 458 Italia that I don’t think we’ve seen before. It’s a view of the car’s tail lamps, which are lit up with LEDs.

Anyway, the video basically features Ferrari Senior VP of Commercial and Brand Dany Bahar and Ferrari Technical Director Roberto Fedeli talking about how awesome and Ferrari-like they think the new Ferrari 458 Italia is. We also learn that the aerodynamics generates 55kg of downforce at 125km/h, and up to 365kg of downforce at 325km/h.

Still not much footage of the actual car in action. More sights and sounds of the car please! For now, watch the video after the jump.

Click here to read the rest of New video on the Ferrari 458 Italia

The rear axles of a rear wheel drive or all-wheel drive car have come a really long way, with the latest systems featuring advanced torque vectoring systems such as the Vector-Drive system BMW uses (they call it Dynamic Performance Control) supplied by GKN Driveline. But still, do you know how a basic differential works? Reader Zali sent in this really cool video that makes understanding how a differential works so simple! It’s about 8 minutes long and great if you like “how stuff works” kinds of content.

Watch the video after the jump.

Click here to read the rest of How do differentials work: old-school video

For some reason, Mercedes-Benz had a great mix of ingredients – a video team, DTM driver Jamie Green and the new Mercedes-Benz E 63 AMG, but the end result was a video that was quite devoid of any action. I believe the appropriate word to be used here would be “yawnfest”. But we do get to hear the sweet V8 growling away, albeit only a little towards the end of the video. And for that alone, watching the video is worth it, though I wouldn’t watch it a second time.

Enjoy the video after the jump.

Click here to read the rest of Jamie Green takes the E 63 AMG to the track