10 Cars with the Best Audio on Audiophile version

Porsche Panamera

Auto Trend - Right now, it's been a lot of car manufacturers who have been seriously working on their sound car audio systems. It does not even hesitate to embrace the top audio manufacturers to work together to develop the best audio systems in vehicles.

The car manufacturers are aware that the need for entertainment is currently not simply just good to hear, but more than that. Especially for audiophile consumers who are critical and have a high demand for a quality sound system.

Here are 10 cars with the best sound system according to the 'audiophile' in US, which released by the Popular Mechanics magazine.

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VW 1.4 TSI Engine Won Engine of the Year

VW 1.4 TSI engine

Auto Trend - VOLKSWAGEN (VW), once again won the Engine of the Year Awardâ for the 1.4 TSI engine in the category of 1.0 to 1.4-liter engine. Due to the principle of twincharger engine that combines turbocharger and supercharger,

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VW Beetle-3 Generation Jumping Faster

Car Trend - Volkswagen AG held a party in three continents. Inter-continental feast marks the rebirth of the model that had become an icon and make VW famous, the Beetle. "The world is home Beetle," VW's statement in a release. Means, Beetle will be marketed to the world!

In many countries, the VW Beetle had its own designation. In Indonesia, known as the Beetle: the fans very much and until now still exist. While in other countries, according to VW, it is called, among others, Käfer, Vocho, Coccinelle, Fusca and Maggiolino.

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VW Golf New "Eyes"

Auto Trend - Embedding LED lights proved to make the car more elegant. Volkswagen (VW) was thinking the same thing when they plan to install LED lights on the latest generation Golf.

The plan deserves positive diapreasi. Understandably, many fans disappointed because VW Golf car produced last year that just does not match expectations.

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2009 Honda S2000 Road Test: a True Sports Car for the Driving Purist

The best definition of a real sports car came from the late John Timanus, a successful racer in the '50s and '60s and long-time technical director of the Sports Car Club of America: "A sports car is a four-wheeled motorcycle." That's the Honda S2000.

As with a motorcycle, a real sports car makes the driver feel as if he is the car: Superman, cape flapping in the breeze. Like a motorcycle, a real sports car needs a skilled pilot for top performance. A real sports car is light: The S2000's curb weight is almost 900 pounds less than that of a Sprint Cup racer. A real sports car has a manual transmission. A convertible top, while not crucial, earns extra points. A real sports car doesn't necessarily have the most horsepower: A well-driven real sports car can be quicker up a mountain road than a pretender driven by one who believes bigger and more makes up for ineptness. The S2000 exceeds all the expectations of a real sports car. And one more: A real sports car allows you to imagine you're driving a real racecar.

Long ago, I tested Comptech Racing's Reynard 95I-Honda Indy car. Driving the 2009 S2000 put me back in that carbon-fiber tub. The S2000's digital dash is a near copy of that racer's. The driver's compartment of an S2000 is tight. You needn't be as short or trim as an Indy car driver, though the big of butt will find the S2000 cramped. Like an Indy car, an S2000 requires skilled foot coordination to get it in motion from rest. Stalls are inevitable.

Like an Indy car, the S2000's 237-horsepower 2.2-liter four-cylinder engine doesn't make a lot of torque at low engine speeds and doesn't reach its peak of 162 pound-feet until 6,800 rpm. Once either the Indy car or the S2000 smells the sweet spot of the torque band, their engines begin revving like crazy. At maximum acceleration, there's little point in putting your right hand back on the steering wheel between shifts of the S2000's six-speed transmission.

On dry public roads, it's difficult to get the S2000's sticky Bridgestone Potenza RE050s anywhere close to their limit. But a light rain prompted me to relive my Indy car experience. Like a knucklehead, I switched off the S2000's stability control and launched from a stop at an assertive 4,000 rpm. There was only a hint of wheelspin as the digital lines of the tachometer raced across the top of the dash. As the tach line turned red I pulled back on the precise, short-throw shifter without lifting fully off the gas. The rear tires lit up exactly like those on the Reynard-Honda when I was rough on the throttle. Fortunately, the S2000's Torsen limited-slip differential helped prevent the rear from stepping out.

I repeated this on the two-three upshift and was rewarded with a bit more wheelspin. The S2000 then told me the same thing as the CART car: "Be more gentle or you're going to make a fool of yourself." Having matured slightly over 14 years, I figured I didn't need to run the S2000 to the redline in third. In the rain. On a public road. Instead, I entered the upcoming off-camber left-hander a hair faster than was prudent. Okay, fast enough to earn chrome wrist jewelry from the police, and was rewarded by a slight and easily catchable tail slide. When the rear settled down, it required every bit of my scarce willpower to keep from going back to wide-open throttle. Old habits die hard.

The first edition of the S2000 appeared in 1999 as a 2000 model. Its 2.0-liter engine suffered from an overly high torque peak. To get maximum drag-race-style acceleration required a drag-car style launch. The driver held the gas and clutch pedals to the floor and, with the engine bouncing against its 9,000-rpm rev limiter, sidestepped the clutch. That early S2000 would then spin its tires about a rotation and a half until the engine bogged below the torque peak. Then it came to life. It wasn't easy on the equipment, but to quote the philosopher Tina Turner, we never ever do nothing nice and easy...we always do it nice and rough. With the new 2.2-liter engine, a best-time launch is accomplished at a more reasonable 4,500 rpm or so.

The S2000 is a spectacular—and real—sports car that would have been a cult legend had it appeared in 1969 or 1979 or even 1989. Unfortunately for it, the S2000 debuted when we were infatuated with three-ton station wagon (also known as SUVs). Still, this is a real sports car.

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Volkswagen Polo

Volkswagen has chosen the eve of the Geneva Motor Show to unveil its new fifth-generation Polo Super Mini. With more and more modern design, Polo offers design elements for the development of Volkswagen Group chief Walter de'Silva calls "the new face of Volkswagen.

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Volkswagen Golf Plus

Volkswagen unveiled the second-generation Golf Plus at the Bologna Motor Show today. The new Golf Plus, which has been improved over its predecessor, will be launched in the European market in March 2009.

Visually, the new Plus forges a link to the classic body style of the recently introduced sixth-generation Golf, also taking design cues from the new Scirocco. This is especially apparent at the front end. The rear bumper and roof rails were also redesigned, while new steel and alloy wheels round out the exterior updates.

Inside, the Plus features new upholstery materials, new generation instruments, a revised steering wheel and an improved user interface for the HVAC unit; details also implemented in the Golf.

Power for the new Golf Plus will be supplied via five gasoline engines or four new common rail turbo-diesel engines, ranging in output from 79hp to 158hp (petrol) and 89hp to 138hp (diesel). Conventional automatic transmissions have also been replaced by 6- and 7-speed dual clutch (DSG) gearboxes.

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