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there you have it a new era of milk for Tosh the biggest story is the technology of materials they pulled some 700 pounds out of the weight of the f-150 much of it by having an aluminum body just about everything you see on the outside of the vehicle is now aluminum that's a big change for the truck market the other third or so comes out of high-strength steel being used in the ladder frame which is tougher lighter but less sort of bulky as a steel goes but they're still steel underneath this guy now when you take 700 pounds out of your vehicle you get to do some interesting things with how you power it including this headline grabber a 2.7 liter v6 EcoBoost that means direct injection and turbocharging this is seen as heresy by some in the truck world where anything below a v8 is seen as just not enough to move a proper truck but this is a small displacement v6 on top of just having two fewer cylinders than tradition what we're seeing here is an engine that is yet to have its horsepower or economy specified that will come later as Ford gets closer to late 2014 release but notice this guy's got standard auto start/stop technology that's also interesting in a full-size pickup although it's defeatable readily in all-wheel drive mode or at any time because truck demands can be so different than regular car ford mustang wasn't unveiled here but we got our first really good look at both body styles and that new engine choice that is raising a few eyebrows ford's done a real major redo on this car it still is like a Mustang clearly but it's less parodic if you will it doesn't have that kind of big honchos you squared off face look although it's much wider in the back now in actual measurements compared to the previous vehicle which gives it a more interesting stance and perhaps better Road dynamics as well now if the body of the new Mustang is different any nothing compared to this new engine this is the new entrant a 2.3 liter turbocharged inline-4 they haven't had a turbo four in a Mustang since a limited production SVO back in the mid 80s this is big news they haven't published horsepower numbers on it yet but guests around 300 a little bit more than that this is also an engine's going to slot in the middle of the line the base engine remains a 3.7 v 6 and of course it's dubbed the big boy the 5 litre v8 that's iconic they could never get rid of that Porsche unveiled the targa version of the new 911 it's the first target that articulates the entire rear glass window up and away to automatically stow the top it starts at a hundred grand and is all wheel drive only truly a car for all seasons if not all budgets Chrysler's been struggling to really compete with the Accord camry fusion sanada Malibu that may change now with the new chrysler 200 this new look is a pretty indicated of Chrysler's new design language they've got the texture grill that's integrating the headlamps with the floating Chrysler badge up front it looks a little third generation subaru impreza to me but it's a good-looking car and it's also very aerodynamically styled now this 200 f model is the sporty-er of the two models that were unveiled today the other one being the 200 see this one's going to have a lot of black trim sport-tuned suspension and whatnot there's some interesting things happening under the hood of these vehicles the new 200 is available either as a 2.4 liter tiger shark inline-four engine that's going to put out 184 horsepower or with the Pentastar v-6 this canal put 295 horsepower that's what you're going to want her to the hood of the sport model now both of those engines is going to be made it to a single option 9-speed automatic transmission that's a lot of forward gears and Chrysler says that's going to help you get a really good fuel economy without having to sacrifice a lot of performance the new seventh-generation corvette got hotted up in a 06 edition with a big new v8 that can assume several positions cylinder why's this guy will do a minimum of 625 horsepower as probably any more than that one hits the market and some 635 foot-pounds of torque now here's well that prodigious power comes from an all new v8 they call the LT for next to its cousin the lt1 no slouch either they did a couple of things here I want to call out first of all dry sump design there is no traditional oil pan down there allowing it to have a shorter under care the oil is pumped in and out under pressure instead and they've also got a very compact blower here sitting almost entirely in the valley between the heads between those two dimensionally reducing feats they've ended up with a very compact engine that they can allow to sit lower in the Bay of the car that does good things for driving dynamics but note that brawny motors actually got some lean and green builds into it it's got cylinder deactivation to run in three different modes four-cylinder eight cylinder without the blower engaged and eight cylinder with the blower engaged I'll be curious to what kind of MPG numbers they can score out of something so overpowering but perhaps the coolest tech actually came out just ahead of this car with something called the performance data recorder it grabs forward video and overlays it with a variety of selectable driving telemetry the first time a car maker has built-in what's traditionally been a specialty aftermarket toy BMWs one series moved up we're really moved out making room for the new 2 series not quite as big and expensive as a 3 and this one's coupe only from the size of three quarter views here's what I see it still has kind of that tragic truncated rump of the 1 series but they got rid of that sad mouth scallop on the side that made the one that I can was melting and bending in the middle overall it's a car with a little more presence but they can still bring it in at a price that's going to be in the zone of folks who would never spend 40 on a car that's a hot zone because Mercedes reason introduction of the CLA has been on fire and that car starts at just a tick under 30 before destination so all the Germans are rushing to do something cheaper now I'm in front of the m235i which is the hot rod model of the two they'll have the inline six that everyone knows and loves but the car i think is gonna be really interesting is that guy the 228 I with a two-liter turbo for the puts out 240 horse gets to 60 and 5.4 seconds and still delivers 23 35 mpg overall to me that's a great story and again a car is going to be starting somewhere around thirty three thousand dollars and what is that the toyota ft-1 concept makes even the hottest of the past supras look like a rental car this car is a signal kind of a shot over the bow that toyota has returned to dramatic styling is returned for the kind of sports cards that they had with the celica in this car we see a lot of aerodynamic features such as these huge air intakes in front to feed the engine these air vents on the side to add cooling to the brakes we have this big spoiler in the back looks like it'll come up or down depending on the speed of the car we even have a transparent cover over the engine that's what about Ferrari kind of thing we've got red valve covers you can even see the the strut brace on the top here now in the cabin here we have a head-up display on a little panel above the dashboard this will show the drivers speed and engine speed and stuff like that and twitter has also put a couple of little displays at the top of the steering wheel here we get to see what mode the cars in whether it's in sport mode or normal mode and also what gear it's in of course all of this is kind of four sho this is actually not even intended for production you can drive it in the Gran Turismo 6 video game they've got a version as downloadable content so you can put it on the track try it out apparently it handles really well in the game but we won't be able to try that on the road finally if you've always thought of the Mercedes c-class is just two starter check out the baby s-class that it's become with the new model here's the 2015 that is free to fly now that the CLA occupies their 30 thousand dollar price point this guys coming upscale notice they make you very obvious of that with that s class style front nose and very curvaceous styling not the kind of pedestrian entry-level look the c-class has often been cursed with in the cabin you're going to find a lot of niceties from really high-end finishes and accoutrement twitch this car didn't always have to a finger handwriting recognition pad you'll see on this car kind of a tablet shaped center screen and the main head unit this car doesn't say mid or low scale anywhere and will include a 235 horsepower 2-liter turbo inline 4 or a 329 horsepower 3-liter v6 they are going to make a wagon version of this but because they hate me they're not going to bring it to the US ah this car comes out in September of 2014 pricing will be locked in around 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