March 29, 2024
Land Rover

Land Rover announcement confirms Range Rover plugin hybrid

Having launched the newest version of the Range Rover, the British off-road car making specialist Land Rover is announcing where it’s going next. With the new idea about making a car that’s smaller than the Evoque still being cooked, they’ve announced a new version of the Range Rover creeping into our future. It’s one of

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Auto Shows Peugeot

Peugeot Onyx Concept is the life of Paris

We’ve all made a huge mistake. We’ve been looking forward to the Paris Motor Show as if it was the second coming when it was really Sunday in church. Not much happening, very few highlights and a lot of people who were pumped up about getting wine who ended up drinking it through a teaspoon.

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Auto Shows Honda

Paris Motor Show gives us the 2013 Honda CR-Z

In typical Honda style, the CR-Z hybrid has slowly faded away from the public attention. Just about nobody knows what it is if they see it on the street. That’s a shame, especially given Honda’s efforts to make it as good as the car can be with both fuel economy, a bit of a sporty

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Peugeot

Peugeot Onyx Concept previews new French supercar

There’s a lot of worry floating around the future of the French car makers, and Peugeot in particular who’ve recently had an unpleasant episode involving the CAC 40 index. For a couple of years now however, we keep hearing about the way they’d all be creating a set of more luxurious products and move at

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Acura

Acura NSX will go racing

Tony Stark swapped the Audi R8 for the upcoming Acura NSX. Now, as a road car, that’s certainly a better car when it comes to impressing people. It’s more modern, sharper, has more nerd appeal and can even be more sexy when it comes down to pulling up outside a trendy restaurant or red carpet

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Honda

Honda Mugen CR-Z GT teased

Fans of the new Honda CR-Z will probably not like this. The in-house tuner at Mugen just announced a new version of the little hybrid that sings a different tune. It’s called the Honda Mugen CR-Z GT and it was not designed to save fuel or to remind us about the CRX hatchback but to

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Honda

Honda Civic Hybrid’s fuel economy lawsuits come to end

Honda aren’t having the best of times as far as their automotive developments are concerned, but they’ve just caught a break. It’s come from the United States, particularly the legal department. I’m sure Honda would have loved to get a break in terms of market share but they’ll have to settle with this settling of

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Toyota

Toyota Supra successor in the works?

That, ladies and gentlemen, is the million dollar question. Except it’s not being asked and it’s actually worth a whole lot more money than that. More and more reports speak of the elusive Toyota creation that is a followup model to the company’s legendary Supra sports car model. Back when it was tearing up the

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Honda

Honda Civic Hybrid fuel economy problems headed for court

Honda is working hard towards making a comeback to a time when they were simply on a roll these days as far as the products are concerned. We’re seeing this in Acura, we’re seeing it in the future of Honda itself and a lot of marketing on the side. Simply put, the future of Honda

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Lexus

Lexus might send LF-LC into production

Lexus, Toyota’s luxury division, maker of some of the most reliable cars out there and quite the contender to the luxury segment. Unfortunately, they’re also the makers of some of the most boring cars ever made and even though they made the Lexus LFA it didn’t change anybody’s impression of the brand. The latest news

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Porsche

Porsche working on plugin version of the Panamera Hybrid

The Germans at Porsche are just not going to give up on the Panamera and there’s a new version of the super sports sedan they’re working on. This new version won’t be that much of a high performing beast, it won’t be lighter and it won’t have some weird kind of new equipment. Actually, that

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Toyota

Toyota FT-Bh concept unveiled in Geneva

Among the superstars and high performance models of the Geneva Motor Show a few peculiarities have managed to sneak through. One such example is the Toyota FT-Bh. Toyota’s FT-Bh is a concept meant to once again showoff just how much the Japanese cares about the environment and what they’re capable of doing for it. It

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Honda

2006 Honda Civic Hybrid lawsuit won by plaintiff

Honda has been getting a bit of heated action in the U.S. lately after a plaintiff won a suit against them in a small-claims court in California. The lawsuit was regarding fuel economy figures. It seems that Heather Peters (plaintiff) felt she was mislead by Honda since her 2006 Civic Hybrid never managed the fuel

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Citroen

Citroen DS5 pricing comes from the UK

France’s currently most interesting car lineup, the DS from Citroen recently got a little bit larger with the introduction of the DS5 model. Pretty much everything you needed to know about the quirky Citroen DS5 was available and nicely stitched together in incredibly long press releases. In fact, the only thing missing from the equation

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Toyota

Toyota unveils 2012 Le Mans racer

With the 24 hours of Le Mans creeping up on us, manufacturers are starting to make claims about their cars and even unveil them. In the ambitious return segment for this year we find Toyota with their recently spotted 2012 Le Mans racer. Back then, a couple of photos were the only available, now we

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Toyota

Toyota Prius joins Berlin Police force

We all know the sort of cars that are built in Germany, just as well as we know the sort of over-powered vehicles that are part of their Autobahn police force. What most people don’t know is that Germany is really into this green and eco-stuff, with the latest announcement from their police proving it.

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Toyota

Toyota kicks Le Mans project into high gear

Since the registering time frame for Le Mans is drawing to a close, more and more action on this matter is turning up on the matter. After Peugeot’s surprise announcement about cancelling off their Le Mans 24 Hour project, the “slot” will be filled in by Toyota who’ve entered the final stages of development on

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Toyota

Toyota Prius hybrid goes Campinn

For all its evolution so far and all of the new versions Toyota introduced of the Prius hybrid, it has pretty much stuck to a relatively tight niche. A hatchback or some sort of relatively unassuming and aerodynamic shape was the main story behind the presence of each generation of the Toyota Prius. The guys

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Toyota

2013 Toyota Prius C details announced in Detroit

There’s plenty of things a hybrid has that are annoying and since Toyota is a leading manufacturer in this field they’ve set out towards fixing them. With the introduction of a wider hybrid range, they’ve taken the Prius lineup to a new level with the new model being the most precisely targeted of the lot.

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Toyota

Detroit: Toyota NS4 hybrid unveiled

The first major event of the year, the Detroit Motor Show, keeps hitting us with all these unexpected releases and concepts that are actually impressive. A simple example would come from the Japanese at Toyota, who’ve recently taken the veil off the NS4, a new hybrid concept. Pinning certain strong words on the new concept

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