Hybrid Luxury

We are talking about $124,000 hybrid Lexus released by Toyota in Japan. By developing this hybrid Toyota is targeting a niche segment which loves the Gas savings and at the same time helping the environment. It has released in Japan and will end up in Europe and other places.

Top 12 greenes vehicles

Forbes has the top 12 greenest cars in pictures. In this day of $3 gas prices I would imagine that these are welcome all around.

Fuel cell vehicles

AutoblogGreen has a podcast and information about the latest hydrogen powered motorbike and the Mercedes Benz B class car.

Green Hummer?

Tree Hugger has a post on the Hummer that runs on enthanol, biodiesel,hydrogen or natural gas. It gives nice mileage as well.

Honda 2000SR

Honda has released the pictures and images of the Honda 2000SR 2008 edition. Nothing but stunning. Read more
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Porshe sales up!

Porshe reports sales growth in March. This trend proves against the economic indicators as it always been. "Rich get richer and poor get poorer". Ask Kiyosaki or Trump to prove the point.

The First SAAB 99 Television Advertisement on Record

SAAB History Has the exclusive video of Saab-99 on TV but without the audio.

2007 Geneva Auto show - Conquistador

A beautiful big car to say the least and Edmunds blog has the following comment
"Among its many exterior modications are its wheels: "The CONQUISTADOR is staying on mightful forged 24 inch wheels in the typical MANSORY design with tyres in dimensions of 305/35/24 in front and rear," says the Mansory press kit, evidently a hasty translation from German."

Porsche RS Spyder

Porsche as introduced the new spyder in the Chicago Auto show. The Porsche RS Spyder is a purpose-built racecar, an LMP2 prototype, that made its full-season debut in
2006 by winning three American Le Mans Series championships. The car won the constructor's
championship as well as the driver's title for Sascha Maassen and Lucas Luhr (Porsche drivers who tied
for the championship) and also team honors for Penske Motorsports.

With a Porsche 911 GT3 RSR taking honors in the GT2 category, it marked the first time in ALMS history
that one manufacturer won constructor and driving titles in two classes in the same season. More on Autoblog

Crazy cars

Here is one of the crazy cars in the ebaums. There are many others like this.

Hilarious Video of Cars on Sleet!!

Sweet video

Review this video of how the cars dance in the sleet and bump against one another. Must see!!

Lexus LF-A Concept

Lexus unveiled its sports concept with the LF-A featuring V10 engine and more than 500 HP with top speed of 200 mph. Its front mid-engine placement, along with a rear-mounted transaxle and rear-mounted radiators, allows for ideal weight distribution, according to the company. Something to desire for!!

Ford wont sell Diesel Cars

Motor Authority has a post highlighting that Ford will no longer sell the diesel cars in US because of tougher emission standards and low popularity of the diesel cars.

Jaguar Concept - C-XF

Jaguar will be introducing a car that is dubbed as more than a concept in the Detroit Auto show. The car has such design aesthetics that it will make the people stop to see it and have instant desire to own it. Gizmag has a thorough scoop.

Best Cars of 2006

Forbes magazine has issued a list of Best cars of 2006. The exclusive list includes cars from Kia to Saleen and everything in between. Check out the slide show at Forbes pictures

RFID to monitor traffic

NYC is planning to use Solar Powered RFID sensors to monitor the traffic. The idea is to put the EZPass tags on the cars which will be tracked on a trailer parked on the roadside which reads the tag and transfers through a laptop to the servers. Then when the car passes through the next trailer the time is noted and redirect the traffic. If successful it will be a breakthrough to reduce traffic in the most congested cities.

Top 10 Worst Cars

Motor Authority has this post about the "10 worst cars of America". The GM vans top the list and Hummer H2 somewhere in between and this was the most surprising part. I always thought Hummer was a pretty cool car but the review says it otherwise. Check out others.

Volvo concept cars

Volvo has showcased the concept cars in Las Vegas. The show stopping jaw dropping action is sure to take down anybody. More action here.

Lotus in America

A true sports car with 0-100 in 4.3 seconds(0-60 in 4.1seconds) Lotus Exige S 2007 models will be offered in America inspite of the rumors to the contrary. It has the best performance in its class according to New Launches.It gives 25-30mpg which is very good for car of its class and the automaker describes the car as "quickest production car ever made". It is available at $56,990/-

Unfortunate obstacle to the future of Maglev Train

The accident in Germany that killed almost 30 people because of the crash with another train is nothing but human error. But the general opinion would be that it is not safe to travel in the Maglev trains because of the crash. The root cause of this according to CNN

Alexander Retemeyer, spokesman for the investigating prosecutors, said the probe into Friday's crash was focusing on likely human error as the cause and on why the train began moving with the 60-ton service vehicle still on the track.

He said maintenance workers are supposed to inform the control room when the vehicle has been taken off the track, and controllers must then ensure it is safely in its garage. Only then are controllers permitted to turn on the electrical power that allows the train's driver to start moving.

This may be a temporary setup of the technology moving in that direction but definetly not the end of it!