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This week’s flap about Renault giving their new electric car a popular female first name piqued our interest in how cars get their names. From animal imagery to alphanumeric codes, a name is a car’s first opportunity to sell itself. It can become the stuff of legend or the butt ...
America
Here at Autopia, we have been fascinated by Tata’s Nano micro-car for some time . On the one hand, it seems like a way to bring cheap transportation to the masses. On the other, does the world’s environment really need more masses of cars? What if the Nano wasn’t a ...
Other
Ratan Tata
Following up on the news of the first flight of the Solar Impulse , we now have video of the short hop down the runway in Switzerland.
Bertrand Piccard, the man behind the Solar Impulse program said on the team’s website that the flight might not look like much, but he believes it ...
Japan
Impulse
In what seems to be a flurry of first flight news at the end of 2009, the one everybody’s been waiting for is back on the schedule. Boeing is expected to to try for an initial first flight of the all new 787 Dreamliner in two weeks. And in an unexpected move, the rumor is swirling around the ...
UK
LOS ANGELES — Porsche hopes to spice up the luxury hybrid market with a gas-electric version of the Cayenne sport utility vehicle.
The German automaker brought the latest prototype of the Cayenne S Hybrid to the Los Angeles Auto Show and said we’ll see it “sometime next ...
Germany
Porsche
Cayenne
LOS ANGELES — EV enthusiasts have been adding extension cords to Prius hybrids for a couple of years now, and Toyota is finally getting in on the act with a plug-in version of the wildly popular hybrid that hits the road later this month.
The Plug-In Prius made its North American ...
Japan
Toyota
Prius
Ford’s great experiment in social media marketing, the Fiesta Movement , has come to an end. After an awards ceremony held at the Hollywood Palladium, it’s clear that participants’ hard work paid off — for Ford.
“Based on the sheer numbers of early ...
America
Ford
Fiesta
LOS ANGELES — Oh sure, we love the Audi e-tron electric car and we want some time alone with a Porsche Boxster Spyder , but these are the wheels that flipped our switch at the Los Angeles Auto Show. After two days of weak coffee, greasy pizza and bad burgers, we’re ready to ride ...
Germany
Audi
Porsche
Boxster
Spyder
Suzuki
LOS ANGELES — Fisker Automotive plans to fire up its production line in May and have the first Karma plug-in hybrids in showrooms by September.
Founder Henrik Fisker revealed the production version of his super-luxe car here at the Los Angeles Auto Show and said the first customers ...
Other
Fisker
LOS ANGELES — Fisker Automotive plans to fire up its production line in May and have the first Karma plug-in hybrids in showrooms by September.
Founder Henrik Fisker revealed the production version of his super-luxe car here at the Los Angeles Auto Show and said the first customers ...
Other
Fisker
Audi’s Q7 SUV might look brutish on the outside, but it’s not so beastly to the environment as far as Earth, Wind & Power environmental awards are concerned. The big Q7 was the first clean diesel vehicle to hit U.S. streets this year was selected by the environmental group as ...
Germany
Audi
Q7
Two weeks shy of the 106th anniversary of Wright Brothers first flight, the Solar Impulse HB-SIA left the ground and completed its first flight in Switzerland today. Solar Impulse founder and president Bertrand Piccard says it was an unforgettable moment.
“For over ten years now, I have ...
Japan
Impulse
LOS ANGELES — For the second year in a row, Green Car Journal has named a German diesel Green Car of the Year.
The 42-mpg Audi A3 TDI topped a field that included three hybrids and two diesels to take the award presented today at the Los Angeles Auto Show. The judges praised the ...
Germany
Audi
A3
LOS ANGELES — The Fiesta has been a huge success in Europe and Asia for about a year now, and Ford is finally bringing the small car party to America.
The sporty fuel sipper marks Ford’s return to the subcompact market it sacrificed on the altar of SUVs in 1997, and the ...
America
Ford
Fiesta
LOS ANGELES — We’d like some of what Honda’s designers were smoking when they came up with the P-NUT.
We swear we heard them giggling before rolling it out at the Los Angeles Auto Show. They said something about it being “a futuristic concept for an ultra-compact ...
Japan
Honda
LOS ANGELES — The Audi e-tron is to electric cars as dynamite is to fishing. There’s no other way to explain an EV with all-wheel drive, impressive power and absolutely absurd torque.
“Here it is - the future of electric mobility,” Peter Schwarzenbauer, marketing ...
Germany
Audi
LOS ANGELES — Porsche divided loyalists with the polarizing Panamera sedan, but it will unify them with the stripped down, maxed-out Boxster Spyder that pays homage to some of the marque’s best cars.
The Boxster Spyder that made its worldwide debut here at the Los Angeles Auto ...
Germany
Porsche
Spyder
Boxster
LOS ANGELES — Porsche divided loyalists with the polarizing Panamera sedan, but it will unify them with the stripped down, maxed-out Boxster Spyder that pays homage to some of the marque’s best cars.
The Boxster Spyder that made its worldwide debut here at the Los Angeles Auto ...
Germany
Porsche
Spyder
Boxster
Just how far has the automotive world come in the past few years? The Toyota Prius has just won Consumer Guide Automotive’s best buy status. And it’s not just a mainstream consumer magazine that is recognizing hybrids, Car & Driver magazine, a publication that is about as oil ...
Japan
Prius
Fusion
Toyota
Ford
LOS ANGELES - General Motors, battered and bruised but still swinging, is taking a shot at Honda and Toyota with the Chevrolet Cruze, an attractive if pedestrian compact sedan it promises will deliver as much as 40 mpg on the highway.
The General unveiled the 2011 Cruze here at the Los ...
