Antony Ingram, Contributing Writer
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Forbidden fruit no longer: Volkswagen's hottest diesel Golf, the GTD, looks like it's finally coming to the U.S.
As Automotive News reports (via Autoblog), the German automaker sees the GTD as an...
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Nissan Planning Electric City Car Rival To Renault's TwizyBuoyed by the quiet European success of the Renault Twizy electric city car, the French firm's Japanese partner Nissan is considering its own diminutive electric vehicle. That's according to Etienne Henry, Nissan's head of product strategy and planning. Speaking to Automotive News Europe, Henry...
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2014 Mazda Mazda6 Gas Mileage Revealed: 40 Highway, 32 CombinedThe automobile market is no longer a stranger to cars achieving highway mileage of 40 mpg, but to see such a figure coming from a midsize car is quite an impressive feat. What's more, the midsize car in question--Mazda's 2014 Mazda6 sedan--has no diesel engine nor hybrid system to help it reach...
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Petition For Tesla Motors Direct Sales Crosses 100,000 SignaturesThe fans have spoken: Over 100,000 people have now signed a White House petition asking for Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] to be allowed to sell its cars directly in all fifty states. Started by one Tesla supporter on June 5, support from across the electric car world piled in with signatures increasing...
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GM, Honda Latest Automakers To Collaborate On Fuel Cell TechThe puzzle is almost complete: General Motors and Honda have signed an agreement to work on the future of fuel cell technology. They're the latest large automakers to announce a fuel cell technology share agreement, as car companies continue to explore the future of alternative propulsion. GM and...
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Pikes Peak Electric Car Contenders: How They FinishedNews at the famous Pikes Peak International Hill Climb was dominated by nine-times World Rally Champion Sébastien Loeb's domination in the Peugeot 208 T16, setting a stunning time of 8:13.878 up the fully-paved mountain course. But further down the field, a host of electric entrants were...
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Many drivers have fond memories of Datsun cars from the 1970s and 80s, and their modern-day values are testament to the brand's endearing simplicity and fun.
Whether the newest Datsun--seen here in...
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2014 BMW i3 Electric Car Unveiling On July 29: VideoThe 2014 BMW i3 electric car is coming... but you knew that already. Still, it gives BMW a chance to release another video, albeit one that tells us absolutely nothing save for the car's official date of unveiling: July 29th. Luckily, previous videos, plenty of spy shots and numerous auto show...
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Toyota's Fuel Cell Car To Debut In Tokyo, Match Tesla Model S On Range, Price?Would you buy a fuel cell car with similar range and at a similar price to the Tesla Model S electric car? Toyota will be hoping some customers will, as Bloomberg reports the Japanese automaker will show its fuel cell vehicle at November's Tokyo Motor Show. The new car is expected to debut in 2014...
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Buy A House (For $1.3 Million), Get A Tesla Model S (Lease)Everyone loves a great deal. Just how many times have you bought an extra bottle of soda because it's on a "buy one, get another free" offer? Or shopped 'til you dropped in an "everything must go" sale? It's not often you're offered a free car though, even when buying a house. That's exactly what...
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Etiquette For Electric-Car Charging: Debates Heat Up Over Who Goes FirstPull up to an occupied gas pump, and chances are you'll have to wait five minutes max for the car in front to vacate the spot. Arrive at an occupied electric car charging space and you may be in for quite some wait--and debate on who should get priority at EV charging spots is beginning to...
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Volkswagen To Produce Beach Buggy Based On Up Minicar?Wind back the clock to September 2011, and one car in particular was making headlines at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show: The Volkswagen Up. VW devoted a huge area of its stand to the simple, fuel-efficient minicar, as well as the range of Up-based concept vehicles it was launched alongside. One of...
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Humans are a lot like cars.
No, seriously--in order to make us work, we need fuel. That fuel is our food, which we metabolize in order to function, and anything not required by the body we produce as...
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Jaguar C-X75 Hybrid Supercar Video: "Veyron Performance, Prius Emissions"Not to be outdone by Ferrari, Porsche and McLaren, Jaguar and the Williams F1 team spent the last few years working behind the scenes on their own hybrid supercar, showing that going green could also be exciting. Originally planned with jet turbine range-extending engines, it was then downgraded to...
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Toyota Auris Hybrid Wagon: Are You Missing Out On Europe's Prius V Alternative?It's easy enough to find a hybrid these days, with plenty of automakers offering cars that blend gasoline engines and electric propulsion to one degree or another. More difficult is finding a hybrid vehicle suitable for more active families, those with greater need for space and practicality. Where...
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Renault Twizy Cargo: Electric City Car Loses Seat, Gains Cargo SpaceRemoving equipment from a car isn't usually the way to make it more appealing, but a new variant of the Renault Twizy city car may have done just that. Called the Renault Twizy Cargo, the French automaker has removed the rear seat from the Twizy's normal tandem layout, replacing it with a larger...
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Volkswagen Passat TDI Smashes World Record With 78 MPG On U.S. TripTwo drivers have set a new Guinness World Record for achieving the lowest fuel consumption in the lower 48 states in a non-hybrid car. Wayne Gerdes and co-driver Bob Winger returned an amazing 78 mpg around the 48 contiguous states in a 2013 Volkswagen Passat TDI, the highest-mpg diesel on sale in...
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Drayson Racing Sets New Lightweight Electric-Car Speed Record: 204 MPHIt's been a good week for electric vehicles in motor sport. At the weekend, Audi's R18 e-tron, a diesel-electric hybrid race car, took victory at the Le Mans 24-hour race. Also at Le Mans, Nissan unveiled its 2014 competitor for the race, the ZEOD RC electric prototype. And on Tuesday, reports the...
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There's a fairly good chance that, over the next decade or so, an increasing proportion of cars will use micro and mild hybrid technology.
That means sourcing batteries with good energy density,...
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Nissan Unveils ZEOD Electric Race Car Prototype At Le MansThe 24 Heures du Mans endurance race, held at Circuit de la Sarthe in France, is the world's most famous endurance car race. It's also a hotbed of automotive technology development. So while Audi's dominance and the sad loss of competitor Allan Simonsen in the weekend's race dominated the on-track...
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Less-Polluting Clean Diesel Trucks Now 28 Percent Of All Diesels On the RoadEver seen the Steven Spielberg film, Duel? The film, its plot about an unseen trucker terrorizing a hapless motorist, no doubt conjures a few preconceptions about truckers and the smoke-spewing beasts they command. Truckers aren't as scary these days, nor do their chariots pump huge smokey stacks...
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Tesla Strikes Deal To Open Superchargers At Five High-End MallsTesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] and CBL & Associates Properties Inc. have struck a deal to put Tesla's fast-charging technology at five malls across the U.S. Five Supercharger points stations will appear at CBL-owned malls at Gulf Coast Town Center in Fort Myers, FL; The Pavilion at Port Orange in...
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Nismo Offers To 'Chip' Your Leaf Electric Car For Better PerformanceNice vehicle though the 2013 Nissan Leaf is, it's just a little... tame, for some people. Those people may be intrigued to know that in Japan at least, there's an option to give it a little more performance. We've covered the Nissan Leaf tuned by NISMO (for NISsan MOtorsport) previously, but the...
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Audi e-Tron Quattro Diesel Hybrid Race Car Wins Le Mans 24 Hours RaceAudi has continued its dominant run at the world's most famous endurance race, winning the Le Mans 24 Hours on Sunday. The team's twelfth Le Mans victory is also the second for its hybrid race car, the R18 e-tron quattro. France's Loic Duval, Scotland's Allan McNish and Dane Tom Kristensen took the...
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