It’s no secret we’ve got a Swede on staff here. And whenever Swedish things pop up in the automotive realm, he tends excitedly ramble on in Scandinavian and lose all focus. This would be one of those times. “Du måste titta på den hår!”, he says. Must be good, then.
What you’re looking at above is [...]

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Europe has always been blessed with decent-looking, super-economical vehicles. That’s largely due to gas prices that make ours look like a joke, and a serious commitment from governments to curb emissions. While we’ve been rolling along in cars and trucks big enough to house two small families, our European cousins have been jetting around in [...]

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Forget the electric cars debuting at the Paris Motor Show, the reincarnation of the hybrid Honda Insight Concept has finally been unveiled – trumping all other green car debuts at the show. Feel free to gaze in awe at the pictures of the “Prius killer”. We’re doing the same thing.
While it may look extraordinarily familiar, [...]

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Gran Turismo 5 Prologue just got an update, and the news is quite good. Included is the GT by Citroën concept shown at the Paris show (no real surprise there as the Gran Turismo Concept logo was imprinted on the car), along with a couple of more conventional performance machines, specifically the Ferrari California and [...]

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For quite some time now, if you wanted a Lexus convertible, you went for the over-the-top V-8 powered SC430. But the SC430 was designed to fight higher up the food chain than some care to spend and, as such, Lexus lost buyers to more conventional coupes like BMW’s 3-Series.
Well, apparently they’ve learned from their mistake, [...]

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