The biggest news at Hyundai's Geneva Motor Show booth is the world premiere of the i-Flow concept study. The sporty-looking mid-size sedan with the 'Cab-Forward' design is said to give Europeans a first look at the Sonata replacement (apparently the...
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Another day, another story of an out of control Toyota. This time it was in San Diego and it involved a Prius. You can watch the news report after the jump, but the driver basically claimed that he pressed the gas to pass someone and...
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According to a recent report in Automotive News, Mercedes-Benz will see its current investment in green tech double over the next two years. The company will expand plug-ins and fuel-cell vehicles to every segment during this time, demonstrating...
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A report in the trade journal Automotive News says that Mercedes-Benz parent Daimler will double its spending on development of various green technologies over the next two years. The company plans to spend $1.4 billion in...
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If you need further proof that the hybrid craze is sweeping across the automotive industry, consider that even Ferrari is planning to offer hybrid versions across its entire range of supercars within the next three to four years. The announcement...
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When the Lexus CT 200h was unveiled at the 2010 Geneva Auto Show on Tuesday, it wasn't a huge surprise to the European audience. Previewed in lightly disguised concept form last year, the smallish hybrid hatchback seemed like a natural...
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It’s become clear Porsche is all in with hybrids. The company rolled into the Geneva Motor Show with the 918 plug-in hybrid supercar concept, which followed right on the bumper of the 911 GT3 R Hybrid slated to compete in the 24 hour race at the...
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We're scratching our heads over the camouflaged Saturn Vues our shooters have spotted putting around Michigan over the last week. They still have Saturn badging in the back, but what's with the taped over Chevrolet grille and Buick...
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Making its debut at the Swiss international auto show is the Audi A8 Hybrid. Even though its officially billed as a study, the gasoline-electric hybrid version of the 2011 A8, which itself just broke cover a few months ago, is scheduled to enter...
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Italdesign Giugiaro's latest design study is a three-car plug-in collection debuting under the name EMAS, which stands for Eco Mobility Advanced Solutions (Emas also means "gold" in Malay). Built in collaboration with Proton and Lotus Engineering,...
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According to a post on Allpar (via Jalopnik), Ram 1500 Two Mode Hybrid production is scheduled to start on November 16. General Motors is supplying Chrysler with the advanced Two Mode transmissions that will be used in the Ram. The electrically...
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While the Survolt sports car concept is definitely the most impressive vehicle at Citroen's Geneva Show booth, the big news for the French firm is the DS High Rider study, a thinly veiled version of the forthcoming DS4 crossover expected to be...
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At the Geneva Motor Show, Mercedes previewed its first-ever, series-production diesel-hybrid model, the E300 BlueTEC HYBRID that will be available in both sedan and Estate body styles when it is launched onto the market at the end of 2011. The...
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The latest in Mercedes' F X00 research series is called the Style. Can you guess what they're concentrating on? Clearly it looks good, and probably foreshadows where the next CLS is going (or possibly the rumored C-baby CLS).Here's what it is: the...
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The all-new Lexus CT 200h premium hybrid hatchback, which had its world premiere at the 2010 Geneva Auto Show today, will be sold in the U.S.A. after all as the news was officially confirmed today by the Japanese automaker. Lexus' second dedicated...
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Making its global debut at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show, is the Hyundai i-flow concept that strongly hints at the Korean firm's Sonata replacement in Europe. Hyundai didn't refer directly to the Sonata, but it did say that the i-flow previews the...
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Hybrids aren’t exactly unique at the Geneva Motor Show, but they’re positive nonetheless. Infiniti used the show to launch the hybrid version of its M35 sedan called the M35 Hybrid. The car is Infiniti’s first hybrid vehicle and will...
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Ferrari’s much-whispered-about hybrid 599 concept is here and it comes with plenty of consonants and vowels: the 599 Hy-KERS vettura laboratorio. We already knew the basics of the hybrid system, but Ferrari has filled in some of the question...
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Peugeot says its SR1 hybrid concept "reveals the stylistic design trends for its future models", and to that Peugeot fans should be saying thank God. This is arguably one of the nicer concepts from the Geneva show, and a home run for the fugly...
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Ferrari made it official today and unveiled the hybrid Hy-Kers we gave you a sneak peek of, and for those of you who think the guys in Maranello are going soft by going green(er), this car is a real Ferrari that could be in showrooms soon....
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This isn't the exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the development of the Porsche 918 Spyder hybrid concept it purports to be. And the voiceover is over the top. But this second video on the 918 Spyder does offer a few more details about the...
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Taking pride of place at the Ferrari stand in Geneva is the new 599 GTB Fiorano HY-KERS "vettura laboratorio" or to put in plain English, a prototype version of the Italian firm's supercar fitted with a hybrid powertrain. According to Ferrari, it's...
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One look around the showroom floor will tell you that there’s no shortage of hybrids, whether that be far-out concepts or forward-looking production previews. However, the general format is largely gasoline engine and electric...
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Did you know that 30 percent of Ferrari's factory is covered in trees? No? Neither did we and we've been there. But that's what Luca di Montezemolo said today at Ferrari's press conference. Then he addressed the big pink...
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Audi is definitely on top of eco-tech at this year’s Geneva Motor Show. Yesterday, it gave a glimpse at the new Audi A1 e-tron concept and it also has an A8 Hybrid concept debuting at the show.Audi boasts about the hybrid A8’s V6-esque power and...
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You know all that stuff we were saying about the Mercedes-Benz F800 and how it was an early look at the next CLS sedan? Forget it, we were wrong. When Mercedes rolled the new concept today in Geneva it was clearly too small to be a...
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Remember way back when we said that we would tell you more about the BMW 5 Series ActiveHybrid concept when we got a chance to see it on the Geneva show floor? Yeah, well, not so much. BMW was not getting into the technical...
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Up until now, we've thought of the One Ford strategy of offering essentially the same car worldwide as a way for Ford to bring European-derived models to the United States. But Ford announced at the Geneva Auto Show that it will sell...
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It appears the Cadillac Converj project is dead. This was the upscale Chevrolet Volt derivative that debuted in concept form at the 2009 Detroit Auto Show. General Motors vice chair said last month that the car would go into production...
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Tonight in Geneva, the ever growing, all powerful Volkswagen group threw its annual extravaganza. This year it included one celebrity, nine new cars and several mentions of Suzuki, which VW added to its list of brands recently. It...
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