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Chicago Auto Show: The ladies of the Windy City

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As always at auto shows, the Autoblog crew was never without cameras last week in Chicago. Whenever an aesthetically pleasing photographic opportunity presented itself, your humble…

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Gallery: Nissan-Renault V9X diesel V6

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The clean diesel V6 you see above will supposedly find a home under the hood of the Nissan Maxima sometime in 2010. Back in April in 2007, Nissan announced it would offer an oilburner in…

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Westfield to create hybrid sports cars

In the early 1970s, after Lotus stopped building their iconic Seven, they sold the tooling to a small British company called Caterham who continues to build variants of the Seven to this day. In addition, lots of kit car builders sprung up making…

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Updated 2008 fuel economy numbers are now available

We've all know for some time that the EPA was revising the way they calculate the fuel economy ratings for new vehicles to hopefully make them more representative of real world driving. Well the new updated numbers are finally available at…

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Rendered Speculation: 2010 Fiat Topolino

Last year, Fiat launched the tiny new 500 and now the Italian automaker is working an even tinier machine. The diminutive Topolino is due to debut in 2010 at which time it will take on the likes of the SMART ForTwo, Toyota iQ and Volkswagen up!.…

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Rendered speculation: Audi E1 electric micro car

When the Volkswagen Group starts building its “new small family” NSF micro cars in a couple of years, there will be variants for most of its mainstream brands. That includes Audi, which is likely to use the ultra compact platform to kick off a new E…

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In the AutoblogGreen Garage: 2009 Toyota Camry Hybrid

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Automotive desirability is a strange thing. If you ask any statistically significant number of people to choose any car they desired, surely a large number of them would name Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Aston…