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Friday, June 11, 2010

Volvo C30 (Electric) Crash Test

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Crash test footage showing how the batteries are kept safe.
Thursday, February 04, 2010

EV Future: Renault Fluence Z.E. concept car

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A closer look at the electric fluence concept car. This one of the cars that Renault will actually put on sale. Although probably a bit tone...
Wednesday, January 06, 2010

EV Future: BMW Active E

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Some video footage of a new concept car by BMW. But a very important concept since BMW is serious about it and will sell a similar vehicle b...
Thursday, December 10, 2009

Ford Focus IV

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Autocar magazine recently made an article about the Ford Focus III that we will meet in some weeks time. However, the magazine presented th...
Thursday, December 03, 2009

Honda Personal-Neo Urban Transport (P-NUT)

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Silly name, ugly car, but yet another hint at the future of city cars.
Thursday, October 08, 2009

EV Future: Nissan Land Glider Concept

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This is electric, of course. We are already well into the 21st century, it's time to start driving 21st century cars.
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Gran Turismo 5 - Toyota FT-86 Concept Video

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Finally! So it will be for real and gorgeous.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

EV Future: Renault press conference

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Renault presented some strange EV concepts in Frankfurt. But the interesting feature is that all of them are related to future real vehicles...
Tuesday, September 15, 2009

EV Future: PEUGEOT BB1

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This is so cool! But it's just a concept, for now. However, it is the sort of thing one could expect from a company that makes both cars...
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Monday, August 03, 2009

EV Future: Nissan LEAF

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A real EV for the masses. A real car that people can buy (in 2011). I don't find it very pretty but still I'm very happy.
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Friday, July 31, 2009

EV Future: Pre-Production Volts

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It's really nice to see these prototypes being built in the factory. Hopefully soon we ill see the Volt on sale.
Friday, July 24, 2009

EV future: Lotus electric city car

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This is just a concept but the video presents an interesting discussion.
Friday, July 10, 2009

Chevrolet Volt

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This is not a very good picture but it is important. Because it shows the Volt in a production line testing manufacturing issues. The import...
Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Aston Martin Cygnet

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The image below is relevant to a news piece that is not new anymore. But the thing is I simply did not believe at the time that Aston Martin...
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009

EV Future: Renault electric cars

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Nissan-Renault are some of the manufacturers more serious about their EV future. With clear indications of availability, timeline and cost p...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

Audi A5 sportback

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This elegant vehicle is really a hatchback. So it's for folks that want the 4-door coupe look but with more practicality. Well, in reali...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

2010 Opel Zafira

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The image below shows a possible interpretation of the next Opel Zafira. It looks too much like a station but then maybe Opel goes for a low...
Friday, June 19, 2009

2011 Peugeot 408

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The image below is from L'Auto-Journal and it is consistent with information from other sources. It seems the design of the 408 is final...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

2010 Opel Astra video

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This is rather silly...
Tuesday, June 09, 2009

EV Future: iMiEV Mitsubishi

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The new EV from Mitsubishi undergoing testing. This car is now in series production. Why I'm not enthusiastic about it?... because it...
Monday, June 08, 2009

BMW X1

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This car will be a great success. People love SUVs and if BMW can make it more fuel efficient than the competition... and they will.

The other Citroen DS4

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According to L'Auto-Journal the Citroen DS4 could also be a "premium" compact hatchback, as previewed in the image below. This...
Friday, June 05, 2009

The future of the DS

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The future of this strategy by Citroen will be linked to the commercial success and profitability of the first 3 models. Several cars could ...
Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Citroen DS5

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This is another model that has been sort of confirmed by Citroen. It will actually arrive in the market before the DS4. The Citroen DS5 is a...
Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Citroen DS4

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According to different French sources one of the future DS models is the DS4 previewed below. It’s a 4-door coupe but one or two sizes small...
Monday, June 01, 2009

Citroen DS series

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The image below shows the production version of the Citroen DS3. This car is kind of a upmarket version of the next Citroen C3. The purpose ...

Citroen DS Inside Concept - Interior Detailed

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Starting the Citroen DS week with a video of the first iteration: the DS3.
Friday, May 29, 2009

EV Future: Nissan Electric Vehicle Prototype

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A nice video showing the Nissan EV prototype and some usefull information. Counting down for series production.
Thursday, May 28, 2009

EV Future: Citroen Ev'ie by The Electric Car Corporation

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This car (conversion) is actually on sale now, in England! And it's a real car with proper safety features and practicality. It makes on...
Wednesday, May 27, 2009

EV Future: 2011 Nissan EV

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Nissan has been showing their EV prototype to selected journalists and also presenting more info about the future car. The images below are ...
Thursday, May 21, 2009

2011 BMW PAC (or 3 series GT)

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The CGI below is from Autozeitung and shows a possible interpretation of a “New Crossover” by BMW, the 5-series GT equivalent of the next 3-...
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

2011 Lexus compact

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Reports have surfaced on the possibility of a 1-series fighter from Lexus for the European market. This has even had a sort of official conf...
Monday, May 18, 2009

2011 Ford Focus wish list

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This was sent by a reader: Hello David, I enjoyed your articles about the Ford Focus but I think that to have more success the new car shoul...
Thursday, May 14, 2009

Audi Q5 and its real competitors?

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Well indeed, since Audi makes cars using parts and engines from Skodas and Seats it kind of makes sense to pitch the Q5 against mainstream A...
Monday, May 11, 2009

Discussion on the next Ford Focus III rear design

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Currently there is no reliable information available on the rear design of the next global Ford Focus. A recent photoshop, pictured below, s...
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Thursday, May 07, 2009

Forf Focus 2011

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Just a new CGI from autoweek.nl site. It looks like the sort of design that could work well in Europe and in the United States. However it d...
Wednesday, May 06, 2009

EV Future: the advantages of plug-in hybrids

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The table shows it all. It is from a MIT study of the cars of 2035. The auto-future.
Thursday, April 30, 2009

EV Future: technical bits of the Mitsubishi iMiEV

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Some nice info about a car that we can buy next year... hopefully.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

2010 Ford C-Max

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The picture shows a test mule of the next Ford C-Max. The car is schedulled for presentation in Frankfurt show so it seems that Ford should ...
Thursday, April 23, 2009

Sniffpetrol

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Just wanted to remind the readers about the best site in the world, if one excludes sites related to free quality-porn. Sniffpetrol is in g...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

What's up with the Audi billboard thing?

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Last week Audi was in the news because of a billboard advert making a strike at BMW. BMW bothered to answer, which is kind of strange... Her...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

2010 BMW 5-series

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The image below is not of good quality, just a magazine scan. But it is important, with all the available photoshops of the next 5-series, b...
Thursday, April 16, 2009

Alfa Romeo 169

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This is just a CGI of the future? Alfa Romeo 169. The question mark signals doubts if there is a market for this car... this is a shrinking ...
Tuesday, April 14, 2009

2011 Audi A6

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The CGI below is the work of theophiluschin based on the Audi A7 sportback concept. It shows a possible interpretation of the next A6. Mind...
Thursday, April 09, 2009

EV Future: Segway P.U.M.A. concept

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The image shows a preview of a future production version of the PUMA. Much better looking than the prototype. These things have to look like...
Wednesday, April 08, 2009

EV Future: Project P.U.M.A.

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This is the PUMA thing, a GM-Segway collaboration for a 2-seat urban transporter. It looks quite dorky in prototype shape but at the end of ...
Tuesday, April 07, 2009

2010 Audi RS3

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It seems the Focus RS will have company soon in the exclusive uber-hatchback category. Audi is developing the RS version of the A3 model, us...
Thursday, April 02, 2009

2010 Ford Focus III

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Guess what, so much stuff on the Focus RS and now autoexpress presentes a new CGI and info about next generation Focus. Let's check what...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

The future of the Focus RS

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Despite all the game-changing attributes of the Focus RS we suspect that, had the economic crisis arrived a bit earlier or the development p...
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Focus RS - another fan video

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Another video from some fan checking the press launch. Wonderfull exhaust sound from the best FWD car in the planet.

Ford Focus RS on the Nürburgring

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French Sport-Auto managed 8:10 in the Nurburgring. The car should work well there with the huge power and aero-package.

Ford Focus RS - hooligans

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Watch out for some hooligan behaviour... but some nice shots in green and blue.

Focus RS - fan ride

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You can see this is a special car when fans gather around the press launch for a closer look. This guy got a ride with a journalist and made...

Focus RS Danish test

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I can't understand a word... but they show the RS in my favourite colour.

And here's the science

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We have been watching the effects, this is the science:

Ford Focus RS - Impressions in "Frozen White"

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This one in white would look even better with a dark panoramic roof. Or better yet, a carbon roof as in the BMW M3.

Ford Focus RS First Drive [Drivers Republic]

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Another review. In a green unit, I hate this color. But listen carefully to Chris Harris...

Ford Focus RS driven

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Let's start with Steve Sutcliff from Autocar. He is a reference journalist and a serious guy, hear what he has to say. The car here is w...

Ford Focus RS day

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Today auto-future is celebrating that we were wrong about the new Focus RS. The reader might remember one article about the Revocknuckle wh...
Friday, March 27, 2009

EV Future: Lexus 2054

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The image below shows one of my favourite EVs, the Lexus 2054 from the movie Minority Report. It’s a great design and one that fully uses th...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Opel Calibra

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According to Autozeitung magazine, Opel is developing a coupe version of the next Astra. The novelty here is that the new car will adopt a m...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Seat Ibiza break

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Here it is, trying to look better than the car, which is an easy task... and yet it fails and looks even worse! The thing is going to be nam...
Thursday, March 19, 2009

EV Future: 2010 Mitsubishi i MiEV

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A small video on the i MiEV. This is the one that will also arrive in Europe as a Peugeot.
Friday, March 13, 2009

Should we question BMW’s engineering?

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BMW has always been an engineering-driven company. We can count on BMW for technical supremacy in different areas: best engines in the world...
Thursday, March 12, 2009

2010 Audi A8

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Some new spyshots of the next Audi A8 have surfaced. It's interesting to notice how Audi is copying BMW's camouflage. We understand ...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Hyundai iQ-fighter

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The cute thing below is a new Hyundai model expected to fight the toyota iQ. Or maybe it's a bit bigger to compete against Fiat 500/Ford...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Kia Forte coupe

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This is a spyshot of the next small FWD coupe from Kia. It's looking good and also has some nice wheels. Kia's design is going from ...
Monday, March 09, 2009

2010 VW Touran

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This CGI from Autozeitung shows their interpretation of the next Touran. This should be presented this year. The image shows a rather conser...
Friday, March 06, 2009

EV Future: Magna Steyr

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This is so boring... the car's design, the suit making a speech... but it's highly relevant. Magna Steyr shows a concept car featuri...
Tuesday, March 03, 2009

2010 Ford C-MAX Concept

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This is the Iosis Max Concept. It shows the front design of the next C-Max. It looks predictable, in a good way, with the agressive Fod trap...
Friday, February 27, 2009

Alfa Romeo Milano

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The prototype pictured below and other images recently found show the new Alfa Milano as a not-new car. Basically it’s just a Fiat Bravo wit...
Thursday, February 26, 2009

EV Future: EDAG Light Car

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An electric prototype for the Geneve show. This one looks amazing and brings some innovation in the use of lights. But it's just a study...
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