The Japanese people from Toyota are planning to launch an electric version of iQ in order to cover the segment of the electric small models. Struggling to cope with the rivals, Toyota plans to launch in the near future an electric version for the small iQ model. The electric Toyota iQ is expected to debut on the European market somewhere...
According to Ernst Lieb, the Head of the U.S. department of Mercedes, the BlueTEC diesel version of the GLK model will be introduced in U.S. starting 2012. We talk about the four-cylinder 2.2-liter propeller which will be found on the C-Classe later in 2013. It seems that the Germans at Mercedes are considering the benefits of a diesel propeller and...
The first hybrid model developed by the Japanese people from Infiniti was unveiled at the American auto show in Los Angeles. Under the hood the hybrid propulsion system offers a 50 kW electric engine together with a 3.5-liter V6 petrol engine and an automatic seven-speed transmission. According to Infiniti, the hybrid powertrain is able to develop around 350 horsepower which...
At the end of last month, Audi came to the SEMA show with a few interesting creations. One of which was the German's take on autonomous mobiles the self-driven Audi TTS built in collaboration with Stanford University. Well, in order to prove that the autonomous Audi TTS is not just show and no go, the Ingolstadters put it to the...
Saab is one of the tradition brands that has been struggling for a while and one which barely survived the financial crisis. After having dodged a bullet in being bought by Spyker the Swedish are trying to avoid another one. A relatively poor sales forecast for Saab put the company's management in a bit of trouble as they had to...
The Germans at Volkswagen came out with a pretty interesting announcement; they plan to invest no less than 51.6 billion euros in their Automotive division. There's more too, VW Group plans to invest this sum over the short period of five years. According to VW CEO, Mr. Martin Winterkorn, this sort of investments are going to be made in order...
Here we have a new concept using the air compression engine system such as the rivals in this competition. This time we talk about a Japanese concept brought towards us by Honda. The model designed by Honda is called Air Concept and as the other several rivals the keyword is "air". The Japanese at Honda managed to provide a total...
The Americans from Cadillac decided to create a concept for the Los Angeles Design Challenge where the Mercedes Biome and Volvo Air Motion are still in for the first place. The concept is called Aera and it's powered by an engine using air compression and manages to achieve a total mass of just 454 kilograms mainly due to the lightweight...
Volvo decided to get in the Los Angeles Design Challenge with a new concept called Air Motion. We recently talked about another concept which aims to win this contest, the Biome concept developed by the Germans from Mercedes. The Swedish concept was revealed recently at the Los Angeles Auto Show and is mainly built with carbon fiber elements in order...
Possibly one the best hot hatch superminis out there you can buy the Fiat 500 Abarth is coming to the United States. The headline is catchy and impressive but once you read the fine print you find out that there's a lot more to be said about this whole thing. First of all, the entire Fiat 500 lineup has been...
