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It will be fully enclosed to be more all-weather ready

Renault-Nissan has made a big commitment to electric cars in recent years with vehicles like the Zoe, Leaf, Twizy and multiple EV commercial vehicles. The next electric car in the brand’s lineup will be a Nissan version of the Twizy. The...

Slated to produce 70g/km of CO2

Mercedes-Benz is slowly rolling out the engine and body variants of its new S-Class, and the next one coming will be the S-Class Plug-In Hybrid at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September. Mercedes is aiming for emissions of 70g/km of CO2. That e...

New engine will be a smaller turbo engine

Caterham is revealing new details about the car it is developing with Renault that will be both a new Caterham and new Alpine car. Caterham’s engineers have dropped plans to use Renault’s turbocharged 2.0-liter engine for its versi...

It celebrates the centenary of the event

Rolls-Royce has completed the Alpine Trail rally again 100 years after it conquered the 1,800 mile trek through five countries the first time. The rally included 47 classic Silver Ghosts and many modern Rolls-Royce cars. “The Centenary A...

Skoda showing its rare 1950 Le Mans entry

The Goodwood Festival of Speed will begin on July 11, and there will be some very odd but fun cars at the event this year and many interesting rally cars going through the Forest Rally Stage. For example, Renault is bringing its rare Alpine A310 G...

It includes active steering and night and day animal and pedestrian detection

Volvo is showing the new features for the 2014 XC90 before it even reveals the new car, which is not due until the end of 2014. The new technologies include pedestrian detection at night, road edge and barrier detection, adaptive cruise control wi...

Sebastien Loeb will not drive it up the Goodwood Hill

The Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak is on its way right now to the Goodwood Festival of Speed where it will take on the Goodwood hill. At the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb nine-time WRC Champion Sebastien Loeb broke the course record by over a mi...

Sales will begin in the UK and expand from there

Mexico City-based Vūhl has finally revealed its 05 super car. The mid-engined, two-seat roadster comes from bothers Guillermo and Iker Echeverria who aim the car at the track car/road car hybrid market against cars like the Ariel Atom and KTM X-B...

Also races in NASCAR and V8 Supercars

It is another fairly light weekend of international racing, but Formula 1 has a race for a second weekend in a row, this time at the Nürburgring. Outside of the major national and international series, the American Le Mans Series has a race a...

The four scents attempt to elicit certain moods

Mercedes-Benz is working with perfumer Marc vom Ende for the interior fragrances for the S-Class. It is presenting them at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin Spring/Summer 2014. The new S-Class is the world’s first car to come with an active,...