March 28, 2024
Smart

Fancy a piece of Smart Chocolate?

To be honest, most of us petrolheads have no trouble in saying no to the little Smart city car. But then again, it’s not really aimed at us is it? That may be so, but the chaps at Mercedes really want it to feel special and to be the sort of car you can’t say

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Ferrari Tuning

Ferrari California heads for Japan in limited edition form

The Japanese Domestic Market is one of the most important in the world, features lots of cars that are only available on it and that are very, very good. However, because the JDM market tends to be exclusive and limiting, many of the great cars outside it don’t get a chance to enter it. This

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Nissan

Nissan Leaf entered series production today

One of the most eagerly awaited EVs of our time, the Nissan Leaf has entered a new stage of it’s existence, it began series production today. The production of the Nissan Leaf began this morning at the company’s Oppama facility in Japan. The Oppama plant is one of Nissan’s finest being able to churn out

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Fiat

Fiat 500 Arancia Limited Edition for Japan

The Japanese seem to be loving the Fiat 500 because the Italian car manfacturer decided to bring to Japan yet another limited edition, this time in the form of the Fiat 500 Arancia.

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Lexus

2011 Lexus IS Receives Minor Facelift for Japan

Pending a recent review of a few brochures we’ve got some information on the Japanese domestic market version of the subtly refreshed 2011 Lexus IS sedan. From what we can make out so far both IS 250/350 JDM versions will receive some subtle styling changes but some more things hide underneath the cover.

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Nissan

Nissan is offering 500 test-drive invitations for the Leaf

Nissan isn’t giving their marketing and development team any break as they have just released a set of 500 invitations to a test drive of the Leaf in Japan. The Nissan Leaf will be the world’s first mass-production electric car and will be available for testing at the plant in Oppama, Japan as part of

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Cadillac General Motors

General Motors will be ending Northstar V8 production this summer

The official stamp has gone on this much discussed, rumored and speculated issue of the fate of GM’s Northstar V8 engine. That stamp reads “terminated!”, well, not quite, but it’s almost there as when this summer is gone so will the engine.

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Subaru

Japan: New Subaru Impreza WRX STI Sedan and Impreza XV

Having been premiered to the world, the four-door sedan version of the 2011 Impreza WRX STI at the New York Auto Show in April and the Impreza XV crossover at the Geneva Motor Show back in March, Subaru has just made another important announcement. Both of these models have been officially confirmed for availability in

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Lexus Toyota

11500 Lexus LS to be recalled

The recall Saga continues as Toyota Motor Corporation has just announced that it plans to call in 11500 Lexus LS worldwide spread over four models in order to fix some issues related to the steering wheel system of the car. The models in question are the LS460, LS460L and the LS600h, LS600hL hybrids, all equipped with

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Lexus

Lexus LFA gets a special Nurburgring package

The Lexus LFA, one of the biggest ever surprises in terms of supercars coming from a manufacturer with no heritage or tradition in this domain will be getting even hotter. Lexus have said that despite the massive asking price for this car they will not be making any profit on it because the technology that

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Lexus Tuning

ASI prepared Lexus LX 570

Japan’s tuning specialist, ASI, had an interesting idea in recent times, they decided the Lexus LX 570 is in desperate need of a bit of tuning magic. With that in mind, enter the Invader package for the big japanese full-size SUV.

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Hummer

Hummer unleashes a recall on the H3

Recalls aren’t big news any more and this concerns me a bit, there are quite a lot going on and with such a great number of them around you may start to think, how much longer until they figure out an issue with my car? Hopefully you will not get the chance to read a

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Honda

Honda is going to Terminate Civic Type R Sedan

Honda has just announced that come August 2010 the Sedan version of the Civic Type R will no longer be made. In order to even out this decision Honda has announced that they will the three-door Civic Type R Euro hatchback into Japan.

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Suzuki

Suzuki Kizashi Sedan will be on sale in Germany this fall

The new Kizashi Sedan from Suzuki is already on sale in Japan and the United States of America has just been confirmed for sale in Germany. This car is a completely new mid size sedan that may mark a new era for the former aeroplane maker and will hit dealerships across Germany in October this

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Honda

Honda unveils electric scooter

A couple of days ago Honda revealed it’s new EV-neo electric scooter prototype and made a very interesting announcement in the process. Honda plans to start leasing it in Japan by December this year. The EV-neo scooter has a lithium-ion battery and a brushless electric motor.

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Fiat

Fiat 500 C Diesel is going to Japan

In recent developments Fiat’s diesel engines have brought major benefits to Chrysler. The 500 C Diesel edition however is a totally different story. The Diesel edition of the Fiat 500 C doesn’t refer to the engine under the bonnet but to an alliance between Fiat and Diesel, the Italian denim ware label.

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Toyota

Massive sale increase for Toyota despite the recall issues

It would appear that the recent blow to Toyota’s image was just a hurt ego as the company has managed a year on year increase of 41% from 132,802 to 186,863 cars moved in the US. The Japanese market has also seen a considerable increase of 51%. The main reason behind this sales phenomenon is

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Electric Cars Honda

Honda CR-Z Unexpected Success In Japan

Looks like Honda has a slightly unexpected problem, the orders for Honda CR-Z are not of 1.000 units as they predicted, but of 10.000. Just think about it, the success of the Honda CD-Z is ensured in Japan, the dealers recording ten times more orders for this CR-Z as they expected. To say it all

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Electric Cars Honda

A version of Honda CR-Z Type R will be alunched in 2011

Here we come with some great news about the lovely Honda CR-Z Type R Hybrid which was considered until now a sci-fi car I mean something that was impossible to build in series but as you can see in the title, the technologies and also funds achieved a point where they afford to do that.

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Mazda

Mazda 6 Atenza got a small facelift

The new Mazda 6 Atenza was presented in Japan, maybe new is too much said because in fact Mazda 6 Atenza got a little facelift, I say little because that’s how it is. The modifications you observe in the pictures most definitely will get on the European model by the end of this year. The

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