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- February 18, 2011
- Land Rover develops Range hybrid, will show it off at the Geneva Motor Show
You know electric cars are in the ascendancy when even the fearsome 4x4s start looking to add an extra little spark to their energy production and storage.
Land Rover has just announced it’ll demo one — there are multiple working versions — of its development prototypes at the Geneva Motor Show next [...]
- February 18, 2011
- Nissan ESFLOW pictured in the flesh ahead of Geneva unveil
Rendery concept images not doing enough to pique your interest in the future-Z concept ESFLOW from Nissan?
Maybe you’d be into some honest to gosh pictures of the real thing sitting pretty on a white-walled photo stage, prepping for its glamour shoot.
All Cars Electric has a suite of photos of the [...]
- February 6, 2011
- Ferrari releases new dynamic images of four-seater FF
Ferrari is taking a bold leap with the unveiling of its brand-new 2012 FF all-wheel drive shooting-brake.
The Italian automaker also understands basic accounting principles, noting that demand is currently high for any images or video of the four-passenger super wagon, yet yet supply is low. Helping satiate our requirement for a fix [...]
- February 6, 2011
- Mazda MX-5 Miata hits 900K … next stop, one million
Mazda has announced that the automaker has turned out 900,000 units of its MX-5 Miata since the car first put tire to pavement in 1989.
Of that astronomical number, a staggering 45 percent were sold here in North America, which means that 388,000 of the droptops have been shipped to our continent [...]
- February 6, 2011
- BBC apologizes for Top Gear remarks about Mexicans
Ugh, fine. We’re sorry. Okay, so that’s not exactly how the BBC responded to Mexico’s Ambassador Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza, but it certainly didn’t fall all over itself in making a formal apology, either.
In case you need a refresher, Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond quipped on a recent broadcast episode of the [...]
- February 6, 2011
- Toyota confirms Yaris HSD concept gas-electric for Geneva
Toyota has big plans to wade into the hybridized B-segment in Europe, and it looks like we may get a peek at the automaker’s first effort in that department at the Geneva Motor Show. The Japanese manufacturer has confirmed that it will unveil its Yaris HSD Concept in March.
The [...]
- February 6, 2011
- TGMY’s Mitsuoka Himiko goes electric, gets 340-mile range
The Mitsuoka Himiko roadster has received an electric makeover that adds green cred to its retro-style allure. TGMY, the company responsible for the conversion, debuted the car at the 2011 Japan EV show, and the two-seater got at least as much attention for how far it could go – the stated range is [...]
- February 4, 2011
- Next-gen Ford GT supercar to be a hybrid, still weigh 500lb less than predecessor?
Ford’s GT came back to life in the mid 2000s to give the brand a much-needed halo car and to re-kindle the fires of those who watched the GT40 trounce the Ferraris at Le Mans in the late ’60s.
It didn’t live long, but rumors of its re-resurrection are growing stronger. Latest [...]
- February 4, 2011
- Suck, squeeze, bang, bust: the death of internal combustion
I don’t smoke and I never have. I can’t say as I’ve felt the temptation to ever try that particular vice, especially given the cost these days.
50 years ago my avoiding that lifestyle choice would have put me in the minority, and if I’d dared asked a smoker to step outside or made [...]
- February 3, 2011
- VW Super Bowl XLV spots push new New Beetle and Passat
Volkswagen of America will run two ads in the Super Bowl XLV February 6, one for the 2012 New Beetle and one for the 2012 Passat, neither one of which is on sale yet.
The first ad, “Black Beetle,” doesn’t show the actual car, but rather shows a black beetle, as in [...]
