Italdesign Giugiaro is a familiar name to gearheads the world over, and its designs for everything from Hyundai to Ferrari are well known. Frazer-Nash, on the other hand, is generally considered the answer to a trivia question, but it was once a respected sports car company.

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Choices are good. For consumers, the more choices and competition the better. It is the foundation that keeps the economy healthy, while fostering better and improved products for consumers at the same time.

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Proving that the global economic crisis can’t thwart the American entrepreneurial spirit, the South Carolina-based maker of amphibious vehicles is building a three-wheeled plug-in diesel hybrid. According to inventor John Giljam, the vehicle will have an all-electric range of 50 miles before using any liquid fuel.

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Nissan is close to finishing its own hybrid technology for its luxury brand Infiniti, says Infiniti National Dealer Advisory Board chairman John Capps. Speaking with Automotive News, Capps also revealed that a new M sedan and QX SUV will pop up soon as well-but what dealers really want is another near-luxury entry to compete with the BMW 3-series

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Hybrid cars began grabbing headlines in 2004, especially after movie stars were seen arriving at the Academy Awards in these environmentally friendly vehicles. With worries over air pollution and with gasoline prices topping $2 a gallon, the public imagination has seized on hybrid cars as a high-tech, high-fashion solution.

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Tesla Motors has announced price increases to various options and other changes to the still undelivered 2008 Tesla Roadster. These price increases affect all Roadster orders, including those which were already “locked in” (they’ve now been unlocked).

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Bargain Prices on Small Cars as Oil Gets Cheap.

Without a gas tax to keep prices high, small, efficient cars may never take off in the States, notes the New York Times. ABC news tells us that this theory may well be correct, with sales of small cars tumbling as oil prices dropped and the economy went into freefall.

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Much ado has been made recently about the solvency of Detroit’s Big Three, and if there’s one thing we all know, it’s that none of them will be able to make it out of this financial mess without good products. That makes the arrival of the significantly upgraded 2010 Ford Fusion particularly timely.

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The latest installment of Knight Rider was greened up for NBC’s Green is Universal week. The eco-friendly run involves select NBC shows — like the current version of Knight Rider — getting a fresh coat of green paint.

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So you keep reading about hybrid cars and watching ads on TV about them a lot recently. And it still does not unravel the mystery you have in your mind about what hybrid cars are, except that you know they are more fuel efficient, some use electric energy, some even use no gasoline as fuel, and they all emit much less toxic fumes into the ozone.

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Honda Civic hybrid is the hybrid version of Honda Civic Sedan. Continuously variable transmission and Integrated Motor Assist are used in Honda Civic Hybrid version to make it a more fuel efficient Hybrid Sedan.

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There is nothing better than bending the rules of the Law by driving in the carpool lane with only you as the occupant! That’s right you too can join the ranks of soccer moms and carpooling yuppies. The state of California only made 60,000 Yellow carpool lane stickers available. Those were all scooped up in no time at all.

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MINI the British carmaker now owned by BMW has created this unique clubman cycle for promotional reasons in China the venue for the 2008 Olympic Games. Wouldn’t the cyclist get a good workout pulling some weight of the Mini along?

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The M-77 Dana is the principal self-propelled gun of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and also serves in the Libyan and polish armed forces. It utilizes and modified chassis of a Tatra 815 truck, but with an armoured cab.

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Japanese auto maker car company has decided to make the entry in the market with the new entry level automatic passenger car as the next generation car, named as 'March' to be launched till by 2010.'March' would be 'A-segment' car in Indian market. This car model - Nissan March would be manufactured from the company's plant which is presently situated at Oragadam. According to the company officials there would be nearly nine models of Nissan in the market till by 2012.

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