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Porsche’s Mauer recalls the history of the 918 Spyder, hints about next-gen 911
The night before Porsche handed me the keys to its 2015 Macan to drive on both road and track, the…
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Honda pulling plug on slow-selling Insight hybrid [UPDATE]
Insight hasn’t amounted to even a tenth of Prius sales, and well over half of those sold were JDM. It’s…
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Why the $142M Fisker sale won’t help DOE loan get its $168M back
At the beginning of 2014, it looked like Hybrid Tech Holdings LLC was going to buy the remains of Fisker…
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Toyota increasing Yaris Hybrid production to 222,000 this year in France
More fuel economy means more factory workers and more production for Toyota’s most popular model in Europe. That simple equation…
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Honda ending CR-Z, Insight sales in Europe
Death by diesel? That may be the epitaph of the Honda Insight and CR-Z in Europe, where the Japanese automaker…
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McLaren P1 prototype still sliding hard after 40,000 miles
Even if you’re the manufacturer responsible for producing them, you don’t just hand the keys over to a seven-figure supercar…
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VW Golf GTE plugs in the GTI for guilt-free fun
It used to be that if you wanted a Golf-based hot hatch, you only had to know three letters: GTI.…
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Toyota Prius remains best-selling vehicle in California, wireless charging tests underway
About one in every nine new cars in the US are sold in the California. If we’re just looking at…
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Subaru Viziv 2 presages Tribeca replacement with diesel hybrid tech
Subaru is in the middle of a new product bonanza. It has recent replacements for the Impreza and Forester at…
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Ford C-Max spot aimed squarely at Cadillac ELR ‘Poolside’ hubris [UPDATE]
If we had tried to predict the first video response to the controversial Poolside video for the Cadillac ELR, we…
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Toyota reveals new TS040 Hybrid LMP1 [w/videos, poll]
There’s a new season of motor racing upon us, and while that doesn’t always mean a new crop of cars…
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A123 says goodbye to grid storage batteries, focuses again on electric vehicles
Lithium-ion battery maker A123 Systems is officially unplugging from the grid. The company, which was acquired by Wanxiang Group last…
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Volvo Concept Estate to spawn V90 luxury wagon, joining CUV and coupe
The Volvo Concept Estate garnered Autoblog’s Editors’ Choice award as our team’s favorite reveal at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show…
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Daimler exec hypothetically discusses 3-cylinder engines for small hybrids
Is three the magic number of cylinders for Mercedes-Benz parent Daimler and its efforts to build smaller powertrains for its…
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BMW i8’s three-cylinder sounds like it’s shaping up quite nicely
We’ve run across some rather interesting news… or perhaps we should say interesting sounds. The folks from Bimmerpost have scrounged…