We're barreling quickly toward the 2011 New York Auto Show, where media days kick off in two weeks. While concept cars like the Lexus LF-Gh luxury hybrid sports sedan will get lots of attention, once the media leave, actual car buyers will be just as curious about fuel efficient cars with high gas mileage. And it's shaping up to be a great year...
Say "hybrid" and most U.S. buyers think Toyota, if not Toyota Prius. Indeed, the company just sold its millionth Prius in the United States, where roughly half of the 2 million Priuses it had built as of last fall have found homes since 2000. But Toyota's luxury marque Lexus also has hybrid models, including the dedicated CT 200h compact hybrid...
BMW has taken the wraps off a new plug-in hybrid prototype based on its long-wheelbase 5-Series sedan, which it will be showcasing in just a few weeks at the 2011 Shanghai Auto Show. Built in collaboration with its Chinese alliance partner Brilliance Auto, development of the new prototype is the first major stage of what BMW describes as the...
Electric cars like the 2011 Chevrolet Volt and 2011 Fisker Karma get around the problem of range anxiety the old-fashioned way: They use gasoline engines. They do it because the battery systems of pure electric vehicles are large, heavy, and expensive, but the range they produce is still ...limited. A series hybrid, like the Volt or Karma, makes...
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Hello little Aygo Toyota South Africa Motors (TSAM) has received a lot of flack over the past few years for its product placement and pricing. Since it stopped producing the popular Tazz, the company has not had a budget-friendly option in its line-up, and even the B-segment Yaris was a bit out of reach of the first-time buyers. However, all this has now changed. Enter the Aygo.
Ever since my late grandfather bought me a BMW E28-shaped draadkar, which I imagined was Tony Viana's Winfield BMW M5 modified saloon and "drove" it as though it actually was, I have been fascinated with BMW M cars, and in particular the M5, the grandpapa of modern super saloons. The last one was a super sophisticated high-revving beast, but the new one will be turbocharged and come out with a super-slick paddle-shift transmission… If you like the gallery and video of the new M5 concept, you are going to LOVE the May issue of CAR, believe me! But if you want more accessible performance machinery, check out Wilhelm Lutjeharms' Polo GTi driving impression below, or find yourself in the market for a smart budget vehicle, our story on the Toyota Aygo.
BMW M5 Concept BMW has finally put the patient motoring public out of its misery by releasing official footage of its upcoming M5 Concept…No cryptic teaser shots in dark tunnels, no guessing, just M5-flavoured goodness...
Local company Optimal Energy has been hard at work on an all-South African electric vehicle – the Joule. CAR was recently invited test the prototype versions, making our staff the first journalists in the world to have actually driven the vehicle...
VW Polo GTI The previous 1,8-litre Polo GTI wasn't anything to rave about and we feared that, with a 1,4-litre TSI engine, the new GTI would be a bit of a disappointment. But with 132 kW and 250 N.m on board, the new car punches well above its weight…
There's absolutely nothing like a conspicuously expensive piece of machinery to incite overt envy in certain males. As I write this, I've recently spent a week gliding about in a new Jaguar XJ – which is probably the sexiest super saloon on the planet, second only to the Maserati Quattroporte...
We're barreling quickly toward the 2011 New York Auto Show, where media days kick off in two weeks. While concept cars like the Lexus LF-Gh luxury hybrid sports sedan will get lots of attention, once the media leave, actual car buyers will be just as curious about fuel efficient cars with high gas mileage. And it's shaping up to be a great year...
Say "hybrid" and most U.S. buyers think Toyota, if not Toyota Prius. Indeed, the company just sold its millionth Prius in the United States, where roughly half of the 2 million Priuses it had built as of last fall have found homes since 2000. But Toyota's luxury marque Lexus also has hybrid models, including the dedicated CT 200h compact hybrid...
BMW has taken the wraps off a new plug-in hybrid prototype based on its long-wheelbase 5-Series sedan, which it will be showcasing in just a few weeks at the 2011 Shanghai Auto Show. Built in collaboration with its Chinese alliance partner Brilliance Auto, development of the new prototype is the first major stage of what BMW describes as the...
Electric cars like the 2011 Chevrolet Volt and 2011 Fisker Karma get around the problem of range anxiety the old-fashioned way: They use gasoline engines. They do it because the battery systems of pure electric vehicles are large, heavy, and expensive, but the range they produce is still ...limited. A series hybrid, like the Volt or Karma, makes...
