pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/etc/" rel="tag"Etc./a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/videos/" rel="tag"Videos/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/toys/" rel="tag"Toys/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/event-alert/" rel="tag"Event Alert/a/pa href="http://www.speedandmotion.com/pictures/M4Ttoydrive/slides/DSC_0289.html"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/m4trun---2.jpg" //a small div align="center"emstrongPhotos courtesy Speed and Motion/strong/embr //div /small br /It's not often you see this many sports cars chasing a police cruiser, but this was for a good cause. To help get things kicked off for the 5th Annual a href="http:// http://www.autoblog.com/tag/Motor4Toys/"Motor4Toys charity toy drive event/a, a bunch of participants followed a police escort over to a local Toys "R" Us to start buying toys for the December 7th event. The Motor4Toys group has been collecting gifts for needy children since 2004, and to date has donated more than 38,000 toys. The unique thing about this organization is that it is all centered around cars.br /br /a href="http://www.speedandmotion.com/pictures/M4Ttoydrive/slides/DSC_0152.html"img width="220" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="146" border="1" align="right" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/m4trun---1.jpg" //aMotor4Toys taps into the Southern California car community and turns a huge car meet into one of the largest charity toy drives around. Car guys and gals from all over the Southwest show up with their sports cars, exotics, muscle cars, race cars and museum rides to help this worthy cause. Organizers expect to see over 5,000 cars at the event's new home this year, The Anthem Building in Woodland Hills. Entrance to the event is free for everyone, just bring along at least one new, unwrapped toy valued at $10 or more. If you're in the Los Angeles area that weekend, make sure you stop by between 9am and 1pm. And for those who can't make it, PayPal donations are also accepted. Hope to see you there, and remember, every kid deserves a toy! emComplete details including maps to the new location and mandatory insurance waivers can be found on the a href="http://www.motor4toys.com/"Motor4Toys/a website. More photos of the drive can be found at a href="http:// http://www.speedandmotion.com/pictures/M4Ttoydrive/index.html"Speed and Motion,/a who provided a video from last year's event that we have posted after the jump.br //empa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/22/supercars-make-charity-toy-run-in-l-a/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emVIDEO: Supercars make charity toy run in L.A./em/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/22/supercars-make-charity-toy-run-in-l-a/"VIDEO: Supercars make charity toy run in L.A./a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:33:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.motor4toys.com/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/22/supercars-make-charity-toy-run-in-l-a/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1374229/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/22/supercars-make-charity-toy-run-in-l-a/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/Eq05exj2Q25-8y22F-6uJHX40ks/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/Eq05exj2Q25-8y22F-6uJHX40ks/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=AwKAaKx7"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=AwKAaKx7" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=2XKKhbcc"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=2XKKhbcc" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/ZZ6YXG0-OCw" height="1" width="1"/

a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/porsche-panamera-gran-turismo/1179915/"img hspace="4" border="1" vspace="4" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/panamera_hero_450.jpg" //abr /emstrongsmallClick above for a gallery of the Porsche Panamera/small/strong/embr /br /Thanks for the heads-up from our friends at Supercars.net, where a forum poster has uploaded more official shots of the Porsche Panamera (apparently lifted from a href="http://www.autoweek.nl/nieuws.php?id=10305"Autoweek.nl/a) ahead of its official reveal extravaganza scheduled for Monday. The first photo and technical details a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/21/porsche-panamera-image-and-details-leak-out/"trickled out last night/a, and the new batch gives you a better view of the car's a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/porsche-panamera-gran-turismo/1179911/"controversial rump/a, which is already polarizing enthusiasts the world over. It's not so much that we think a round booty is a bad thing -- it's just that Porsche has done it better before. Or have you guys already forgotten about the awesomeness that's spelled a href="http://www.carlustblog.com/2008/05/car-lust--porsc.html"9-2-8/a? Anyway. Have a look at the gallery, and stand by for more on Monday (or whenever the next group of pics gets leaked).br /br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/porsche-panamera-gran-turismo/"Porsche Panamera Gran Turismo/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/porsche-panamera-gran-turismo/1179915/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/3330649c_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/porsche-panamera-gran-turismo/1179914/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/1568747d_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/porsche-panamera-gran-turismo/1179913/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/1568747c_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/porsche-panamera-gran-turismo/1179912/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/1568747b_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/porsche-panamera-gran-turismo/1179911/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/3330649d_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divbr /[Source: a href="http://www.supercars.net/PitLane?viewThread=yamp;gID=0amp;fID=2amp;tID=167628"Supercars.net/a]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/22/more-porsche-panamera-pics-surface/"BREAKING: More Porsche Panamera pics surface/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:01:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.supercars.net/PitLane?viewThread=yamp;gID=0amp;fID=2amp;tID=167628Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/22/more-porsche-panamera-pics-surface/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1380265/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/22/more-porsche-panamera-pics-surface/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/bRLKhQcDiFaPoIvMICD5lq7QC1w/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/bRLKhQcDiFaPoIvMICD5lq7QC1w/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=5tA3aw8Q"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=5tA3aw8Q" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=APh7mstP"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=APh7mstP" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/d-4atQ9jUCo" height="1" width="1"/

pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/coupes/" rel="tag"Coupes/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/sports/" rel="tag"Sports/GTs/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/supercars/" rel="tag"Supercars/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/nissan/" rel="tag"Nissan/a/pa href="http://2009gtr.blogspot.com/2008/11/nissan-going-back-to-nurburgring-with.html"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/2009_gt-r06_opt.jpg" alt="" //abr /br /The a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/07/23/in-the-autoblog-garage-2009-nissan-gt-r/"Nissan GT-R/a has a relationship with the famed Nurburgring in Germany like no other modern car. It has brought the track back into the headlines by taking out much more expensive hardware with a blistering, though unofficial, lap time of a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/gt-r-drops-ring-time-down-to-7-29/"7 minutes, 29 seconds/a. That number has since been eclipsed by the a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/07/10/video-gm-releases-corvette-zr1s-7-26-4-ring-attack/"Corvette ZR1/a and a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/08/27/unofficial-dodge-viper-acr-laps-ring-in-record-7-22-1-w-video/"Dodge Viper ACR/a, but remains ahead of the GT2 despite a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/09/30/porsche-accuses-nissan-gt-r-of-cheating-the-ring/"Porsche's accusation/a that Nissan ran a less-than-stock GT-R. Well, the GT-R in Japan is getting some a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/13/2009-nissan-gt-r-to-get-5-hp-bump-and-tweaks-in-japan/"upgrades for 2010/a, and Nissan is reportedly headed back to the 'Ring to see what it'll do. The changes include a slight increase in power to 285 PS, or about a 5-horsepower bump, as well as a a href="http://2009gtr.blogspot.com/2008/11/new-compound-dunlop-tire-coming-in-2010.html"new compound Dunlop tire/a and suspension tweaks. Other mods include a larger fuel tank and some very minor cosmetic changes that won't make a damn bit of a difference on the track. Will the GT-R be able to best its 7:29 lap time? We're guessing they wouldn't bother to make the trip if they weren't certain there were at least a couple of tenths to shave off. emThanks for the tip, Sean!/embr /br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/in-the-autoblog-garage-2008-nissan-gtr/"In the Autoblog Garage: 2009 Nissan GT-R/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/in-the-autoblog-garage-2008-nissan-gtr/940153/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/07/nissanskylinegtr_abg_01_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/in-the-autoblog-garage-2008-nissan-gtr/940154/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/07/nissanskylinegtr_abg_02_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/in-the-autoblog-garage-2008-nissan-gtr/940155/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/07/nissanskylinegtr_abg_03_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/in-the-autoblog-garage-2008-nissan-gtr/940156/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/07/nissanskylinegtr_abg_04_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/in-the-autoblog-garage-2008-nissan-gtr/940157/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/07/nissanskylinegtr_abg_05_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divbr /[Source: a href="http://2009gtr.blogspot.com/2008/11/nissan-going-back-to-nurburgring-with.html"2009gtr.blogspot.com/a]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/21/nissan-taking-2010-gt-r-back-to-the-ring/"Nissan taking 2010 GT-R back to the 'Ring/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:29:00 EST. 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