Honda's new AC-X saloon concept

Honda has also revealed the AC-X saloon concept at the Tokyo Motor Show. The Japanese manufacturer describes this concept as a next-generation plug-in hybrid. The AC-X (Advanced Cruiser Experience) concept is between the Civic and Accord in size.Honda says the concept �offers a comfortable and enjoyable driving experience in urban and long-distance motoring�. To that end, the concept is offered with an �automatic driving mode� for more relaxed driving,...

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Acura ZDX

The Acura ZDX is a mid-size sports car developed by Honda for its upmarket cast Acura. The car was originally appointed to be alleged the Acura MSX. The ZDX debuted at the 2009 New York International Auto Show on April 8, 2009. The agent was additionally the aboriginal to be absolutely advised at Acura's southern California architecture studio.The car has been said to be a "new akin of authority for Acura." It appearance Acura's aboriginal six acceleration...

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BMW forays into used-car market

BMW India has made buying a pre-owned BMW easier and more reliable with the launch of its Premium Selection range. Each vehicle is carefully selected, examined for quality and sold with a BMW warranty as well.The examination includes a 360-degree check as well as a technical and visual refurbishment. Additionally, every Premium Selection vehicle will be sold with a detailed history of servicing, maintenance and repairs.The vehicles on sale will be...

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Renault DeZir

The Renault DeZir is an electric concept that was first officially presented at the 2010 Paris Motor Show. The car is a two seater coup� with butterfly doors, and the interior is of red leather. It features a 148 hp mid-mounted electric motor. This gives the concept rivalry with the Audi e-tron, with 0�60 mph (0�97 km/h) in just five seconds and a top speed of 112 mph (180 km/...

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Nissan Silvia

The Nissan Silvia is the name accustomed to the company's long-running band of action coupes based on the Nissan S platform. Although contempo models accept aggregate this anatomy with added cartage produced by Nissan (most conspicuously the European 200SX and North American 240SX in the S13 and S14 generations, and 180SX in the Japanese market), the name Silvia is not changeable with the anatomy cod...

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Lexus launch in India confirmed

Toyota has officially confirmed that it will introduce the Lexus brand in India by 2013. The Japanese carmaker has been evaluating the feasibility of its luxury brand in India for several years now and has finally decided to go ahead with the launch. �We have been watching India with keen interest and we are happy to announce that we will bring Lexus to India in 2013� confirmed Yukitoshi Funo, executive vice-president of Toyota Motor Corporation.The...

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Hyundai Veloster

The Hyundai Veloster is a compact sports car set to activate sales in the Summer of 2011. It was appear on January 10, 2011, at the Detroit auto show, and will ample the abandoned larboard back Hyundai discontinued the Tiburon afterwards the 2008 archetypal year.Hyundai states the assembly archetypal is to accept a direct-injected 1.6 liter 138 hp (103 kW), 123 lb�ft (167 N�m) (@ 4,850 rpm) torque, 4-cylinder engine. A 6-speed chiral gearbox is accepted...

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Volvo C70

The Volvo C70 is a affluence sports car made by Volvo Cars in two generations: the aboriginal from archetypal years 1997-2002 as coup� and from 1999-2006 as a softtop convertible[1]. The additional bearing C70 has been marketed back 2006 as a retractable auto convertib...

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Hyundai i10 LPG launched

Hyundai has launched an LPG variant of its i10 hatchback, called the i10 Blue Drive.This model comes with a factory-fitted LPG kit that has a 34-litre LPG tank while the conventional petrol tank has a 35-litre capacity. According to Hyundai, the LPG-kit is ARAI certified and is impact resistant as well. It is also certified by DOE (Department of Explosives). The LPG-kit is also backed by a two year warranty.The i10 Blue Drive is priced at Rs 4.2...

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Aluminium tech for next Mercedes SL

Nov 23, 2011Mercedes will unveil its sixth-generation SL roadster next year. The new SL roadster will be the very first Mercedes in large-scale series production to use an almost exclusively aluminium lightweight construction.At a preview event held close to last week�s Los Angeles Motor Show, Mercedes showed journalists a completed example of the new two-seater grand convertible�s �body-in-white� superstructure.Made from a mix of chill cast, vacuum...

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Volkswagen Eos

The Volkswagen Eos is a four-seat retractable auto convertible sports car, alien in 2006 as the almsman to the Volkswagen Golf Cabriolet. The Eos is Volkswagen's aboriginal assembly auto back the aftermost Corrado in 19...

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New BMW 3-series review, test drive

It�s encouraging that the sixth-generation BMW 3-series, despite its very obvious eco credentials and its numerous technical innovations, is still just a good-looking saloon that drives rather beautifully at heart. At first, the new saloon may seem like business as usual � with a slick and elegant new style that looks both familiar yet more thrusting. But beneath its new suit, the F30 3-series is dazzlingly different and superior to the car...

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50 New cars for 2012

Nov 24, 2011What�s coming in the next few months? The most common question asked of at Autocar India. We get a huge number of mails everyday from readers wanting to know what�s coming in the near and not-too-distant future, and that�s understandable. In our ever-changing market, you really need to be on top of model upgrades and new car launches, especially if you are about to sign a considerable amount of your savings on an all-new car.The...

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Maybach Exelero

The Maybach Exelero is a high-performance sports car advised and congenital by German affluence car architect Maybach. It was presented in May 2005 in Berlin, Germany. The 700 hp (522 kW) two-seater with a bi-turbo V12 agent is a one-off architecture congenital on appeal for Fulda Tyres. Fulda is application this car as a advertence agent to analysis a fresh bearing of advanced tyres. The German affluence car architect created the one-off archetypal...

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Peugeot RCZ

The Peugeot RCZ is a sports car bogus by Peugeot. It has been on auction back May 2010 and is currently accessible in about 80 countries.It was clearly alien at the Frankfurt Auto Appearance in 2009 and was initially appear as the 308 RCZ abstraction car at the 2007 Frankfurt show. It is accumulated by Magna Steyr, a accessory of Magna International.The RCZ has been a bartering success for Peugeot. The 30,000th one came off the accumulation band...

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Skoda launches Yeti 4x2

Skoda Auto has launched the 4x2 version of the Yeti soft-roader. This model features a de-tuned version of the 4x4�s 140bhp, 2-litre common-rail diesel engine with peak power now a significantly lower 108bhp. This model is, however, a whole 98kg lighter than the 4x4 car. The 4x2 also gets a 5-speed manual transmission in place of the 4x4�s 6-speed manual gearbox.What remains unchanged is the Yeti�s sophisticated all-independent suspension,...

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Maserati Bora

The Maserati Bora is a Maserati two-seater sports car powered by a V8 agent army amidships. Produced from 1971 to 1978, it had a top acceleration of 174�177 afar per hour (280�285 km/h).A accumulated animate monocoque anatomy and anatomy featured a tubular animate subframe at the aback for the agent and transmission. Abeyance was absolute all annular (a aboriginal for a Maserati alley car) with braid springs, scope shocks and anti-roll bars. The...

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Alfa Romeo 8C Spider

At the 2005 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, Alfa Romeo apparent the 8C Spider, a auto adaptation of the Competizione coup�. The Spider abstraction was congenital by Carrozzeria Marazzi. Assembly of the 8C Spider was accepted by Sergio Marchionne on September 25, 2007. It was appear that the Spider would be congenital in a 500 assemblage assembly run and would amount about �20,000 (US$27,500) added than the auto version.Production of the 8C Spider...

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Volkswagen Scirocco

The Scirocco is a 3-door Coupe sports car bogus by German automaker Volkswagen, ability two ancestors of development amid 1974 and 1992 and reintroduced in a third bearing in August 2008.The Scirocco name derives from the Italian chat for the Sirocco wind � and the aeon in its history back Volkswagen called cartage afterwards arresting winds, including additionally Passat (after the German chat for Trade wind), Golf (after Gulf Stream), Bora (after...

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Lamborghini unveils LP550-2 Spyder

Lamborghini has added another model to its drop-top Gallarado range, this time it�s the two-wheel-drive variant called the LP550-2 Spyder.�This is a purists model that adds another dimension of driving fun,� says Stephan Winkelmann, Lamborghini�s president, �this will appeal in particular to a very special group of customers that enjoy a spirited driving style and also like to experience the sheer pleasure of open-air driving."The LP550-2 Spyder...

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Petrol Ventos, Mercs for a steal

The Mahindra First Choice Super Store at Goregaon, Mumbai, has on offer six 1.6-litre petrol VW Vento Autos for Rs 7.75 lakh each. Manufactured in the year 2011, these cars have only clocked 2800-12000km on the odo, and are still under factory warranty.Also on sale is a 2008 VW Passat diesel for Rs 12.50 lakh and an October 2009 Jetta that has been driven 23,000km for Rs 12 lakh. In the premium segment, there are two BMW 3-series� � a 2008 320i for...

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Wiesmann GT MF5

The GT MF5 is a bankrupt two-seater & two-seater auto with added ability than the added models. The GT MF5 was aboriginal produced in 2009, and the auto will be bound to aloof 55 examples. GTspirit gave the GT MF5 Auto a absolute analysis during their road-test in September 20...

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Big end-of-year discounts on luxury cars

The luxury car market is full of serious discounts this month and leading the way is the German trio. Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Audi are offering selected models at prices difficult to resist.Leading the way is Mercedes-Benz with the E200 CGI. The premium saloon is being offered with a Rs 5.5-lakh cash discount and a petro card worth Rs 2.5 lakh (3,500 litres approximately). This adds up to a massive Rs 8-lakh benefit. The base petrol variant will now...

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Pontiac G6

The Pontiac G6 is a mid-size sports car that was produced beneath the Pontiac cast of American automaker General Motors. It was alien in the abatement of 2004 to alter the Grand Am. The car was congenital on the GM Epsilon belvedere which it aggregate with the Chevrolet Malibu and Saab 9-3 forth with added General Motors vehicles. Styling was adapted in a added bourgeois fashion, and the ribbed cladding and rear addle-brain that were accustomed on...

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Jaguar XJ220

The Jaguar XJ220 is a mid-engined cool sports car produced by Jaguar in accord with Tom Walkinshaw Racing as Jaguar Sport amid 1992 and 1994. It captivated the almanac for the accomplished top acceleration of a assembly car (350 km/h, 217 mph) (although it was adapted from accepted to accomplish this), until the accession of the McLaren F1 in 1994. The XJ220 is different to added XJ models, admitting administration the "XJ" pref...

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Skoda Rapid launched at Rs 6.75 lakh

Skoda has launched the Rapid saloon in India at a starting price of Rs 6.75 lakh, ex-showroom Delhi. The Rapid is available in both petrol and diesel engine options, and offered with manual and automatic variants.Built on the same platform as the Vento (code: VW251), the Skoda iteration (code SK: 251) shares most mechanical bits with the VW saloon which includes engines as well. Hence, the Rapid is powered by the same 1.6 petrol and diesel...

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Datsun 240Z

The Nissan S30 (sold in Japan as the Nissan Fairlady Z and in added markets as the Datsun 240Z, again after as the 260Z and 280Z) was the aboriginal bearing of Z GT 2 bench coupe, and after (beginning in the 1974 archetypal year) additionally 2+2 hatchbacks produced by Nissan Motors, Ltd. of Japan from 1970 to 1978. It was advised by a aggregation led by Mr. Yoshihiko Matsuo, the arch of Nissan's Sports Car Styling Studio. HLS30 was the appellation...

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Opel Tigra

The Opel Tigra name has been activated to two absolutely altered cars engineered and produced by the German automaker Opel, both based on altered iterations of the Corsa supermini, the aboriginal congenital in Spain, the additional in France. The aboriginal Tigra was a baby 2+2 sports car, produced from 1994 to 2000. The after hard-topped convertible auto archetypal was alien in 2004. The Opel Tigra was awash in the UK as the Vauxhall Tigra, in Australia...

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TVR Tamora

The TVR Tamora is a 2-seater sports car congenital from 2002 by British close TVR, bushing the gap larboard by the company's Chimaera and Griffith models. It was the entry-level archetypal in the TVR ambit priced at �43,4...

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2011 Smart Fortwo Receives Minor Upgrades

The Smart Fortwo is entering the 2011 model year with an almost invisible change here and there complemented by the introduction of more economical engines.In addition to the new range of available exterior colors that now include a matt finish and the availability of a red or blue colored soft-top for the cabrio models, the updated Fortwo gets fresh fabric and color options for the interior while the tridion safety cell is now optionally available...

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Fiat 500 and 500C get New TwinAir 85HP Two-Cylinder Turbo Engine

Fiat has rolled out the production version of its long-awaited two-cylinder gasoline engine family called TwinAir that's has been developed by FPT (Fiat Powertrain Technologies). The first car to receive the new turbocharged engine is the Fiat 500, in both three-door and convertible forms, with sales to begin from September, 2010.The innovative 0.9-liter two-cylinder gasoline unit implements several technologies, including a small-sized turbine,...

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Suzuki Cooks Up New Alto SZ-L Special Edition for UK Buyers

A new special edition version of the Suzuki Alto has been released in Britain. Featuring various cosmetic and equipment upgrades, the SZ-L model is available in a limited number of 500 units, priced at �8,170 a piece.Offered in either Superior White or Bright Red non metallic colours, the Alto SZ-L is based on the SZ3 mid grade model with air conditioning, pollen filter and side airbags fitted as standard equipment. Exterior upgrades include unique...

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Truck Spills 2,000,000 Euros on the Road, Italian Motorists Coin it in...

Italian motorists hit a mobile jackpot on Monday when a truck carrying some 2 million euros or about US$2,5 million at today's exchange rates in �1 and �2 coins overturned and spilled most of its contents on the road after blowing a tire and hitting another car on the A114 highway near Foggia, in southern Italy.Passing drivers seized the opportunity and pulled over on the motorway literally risking their lives to clean the road from the coin-debris....

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