French automaker Peugeot will be showing the latest iteration of their diesel-hybrid demonstration vehicles at the upcoming Frankfurt Motor Show. Previously they had shown a 307 and also Citroen C4 with a diesel parallel hybrid powertrain. The new…
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There's a BMW 123d running around in Michigan
BMW finally launched the 1-series here in the U.S. recently after selling the smallest BMW-badged vehicle in Europe for several years. Unfortunately, since the commercial failure of the 318ti a few years back, they've come to the conclusion that…
Paris Preview: 4-door Audi A1 concept expected to debut
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After showing the A1 Metroproject concept at last year's Tokyo Motor Show, Audi is reportedly planning to reveal a four-door variant in Paris next month. The production version of the A1 will go into production in 2009 at…
Chrysler to cut weight of next-gen Jeep Liberty by 600 pounds!
The Jeep Liberty is not a particularly large vehicle, but Chrysler engineers managed to pack a lot of mass into it nonetheless. The current Liberty weighs in at nearly 4,300 pounds! At the Chrysler business plan meeting today, product development SVP…
Rendered Speculation: 2012 Porsche 911 to look strangely familiar
If ever there were a single car that could be said to embody the Japanese concept of ” kaizen”, or continuous improvement, it is the Porsche 911. Over its nearly half-century run, the range-topping sportscar from Porsche has been in a state of…
Is the new EVO passe before it even arrives? NO says CAR!
The next generation Mitsubishi EVO is due out this September at the Frankfurt Motor Show, and CAR magazine is asking whether drivers have already lost interest. In response, Phil McNamara reflects on his drive of the last of the current generation…
Chrysler Exec explains who is trying to stop alternative fuels
At the Management Briefing Seminar in Traverse City on Friday Chrysler's Loren Beard made some remarks that would come as a surprise to those who think that the automakers are in the pocket of the oil companies. Beard is the Senior Manager of Energy…
London chauffeur car service trades big sedans for Priuses
When you think of chauffeur driven car services you generally visualize a Lincoln Town Car or Cadillac DTS or, in England, a big Jaguar or Mercedes sedan. Now London based car service Pink Express is switching their fleet of over 100 cars over to…
Frankfurt Preview: More on Toyota's new lithium-ion Plug-in Prius
Toyota Prius PHEV – Click above for high-res image gallery
Toyota's new-generation plug-in hybrid Prius will be shown for the first time at the Frankfurt Motor Show next week, and now we've got some new images and details. As expected, the PHEV Prius…
General Motors 2011 VIN decoder reveals new 1.0L, 1.2L, 1.6L four cylinder engines
2010 Chevrolet Spark – Click above for high-res image gallery
General Motors' Service and Parts Operations website has published a pair of new documents for decoding 2011 model year Vehicle Identification Numbers (VIN) which reveal several new…