The Swedes from Volvo managed to develop a hybrid truck aiming to destroy some records in this segment. Under the bonnet, Volvo Mean Green comes with a hybrid powertrain combining a 16-liter conventional engine and an electric one able to develop 200 horsepower and 1000 Nm of torque while a revised I-Shift transmission was fitted to make the things right...
Between the SEMA show and all of the gas guzzling high performance hot rods and so on there was always some room for the sensible option. The sensible option is what Kia went for when the opened up a stand with the Forte Hybrid Concept. Apart from the obviously green exterior, green interior and a hybrid badge Kia came up...
The French over at Peugeot are definitely aiming to win at Le Mans whatever it means. After frankly trailing at the back of Audi's endurance racing diesels' at Le Mans they are seriously hungry for wins. I can't blame them, they've taken quite a bit of beating from the Audi R8 TDI, the Audi R10 TDI and the Audi R15...
A recent report from my favorite place in the world "the Internet" the Bavarians have cooked up quite a bit of a surprise. The BMW Vision Efficient Dynamics Concept will go into production after all. Beside the tasty news of the BMW VED Concept being on its way to the dealership floor, the cheeky Germans also sent out some technical...
Renault recently published the official details for the facelifted version of Espace, a French MPV model scheduled to debut at the Geneva Motor Show in January. What's new? Well, the French people fitted the Renault Espace with day LED lights, improved interior materials and a new exterior color. Until then, under the hood the model gets a new 2.0-liter dCi...
The Porsche 911 Turbo benefits from the attention of the Germans at SpeedART, a well known tuning house that this time decided to bring out some improvements as well under the hood as at the exterior. The tuning kit purposed by SpeedART is called BTRII 650 EVO and first of all brings significant modifications under the bonnet. Thanks to a...
The Germans at Audi announced that an upgrade package available for the A4 Sedan and Avant but also for the A5 Coupe is released. Together with this announcement the Germans revealed a presentation image with the Audi A5 S-Line Black Edition. The Black Edition improvement package released for the S-Line range brings just new aesthetic features, the technical and performance...
The Japanese at Honda are well aware of the life many of their imports lead in the U.S. and so they took SEMA seriously. Besides offering quite a lot of customized versions of the 2011 Honda CR-Z they also launched a very special version of the hybrid hatchback. Meet the 2011 Honda CR-Z Mugen limited edition. The limited part of...
The Germans are at war with themselves it seems. After Smart launched the eScooter, Mini came around with their version of an electric scooter. This actually looked like a serious competition between Mercedes and BMW, the companies that own the two electric scooter makers. It turns out that this either isn't true or BMW is seriously interested in taking down...
SEMA finally opened its brand new 2010 Las Vegas shiny doors and revealed a few interesting things. Actually quite a lot of interesting things. One of the most interesting debuts to be seen at SEMA is the New Dodge Challenger's makeover. It's a custom creation that uses the 2010 Dodge Challenger as a base and the old first generation as...
