Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Toyota Celica

Toyota will finally get back into the sportscar business with a sub-$50K rear-drive coupe being developed in conjunction with Subaru. The successor to Celica will be styled by Toyota and built on a new Impreza-ased platform, driving only the rear wheels and powered by a Subaru flat-four engine.> Full Story



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Nissan EV

NISSAN is leading the race to bring a mass-produced zero-emissions electric vehicle to Australian new-car showrooms. The Japanese company announced it will have a plug-in EV electric family car on sale here in 2012. It will be a four or five-seater with an electric range of more than 160km.> full story

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Audi A6

Audi will launch a pair of sub-7.0-litre per 100km ‘green’ models from May. With a $74,500 125kW/350Nm 2.0 TDI four-cylinder, and $84,500 140kW/400Nm 2.7-litre V6 TDI common-rail units. Eschewing AWD, both have Audi’s Multitronic CVT continuously variable transmission which sends drive to the front wheels.> Full Story



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Volkswagen Passat CC TDI four door coupe


NECESSITY may be the mother of invention, but nobody needed Volkswagen to develop a sleeker and lower version of its capable but dull mid-sized Passat sedan. Yet here it is anyway, the Passat CC 'Comfort Coupe', with four doors, four seats and one of the most powerful four-cylinder turbo-diesels available in base TDI guise. The thing is, VW has priced its BMW 3 Series competitor compellingly, packing it with features while matching and even exceeding many so-called luxury rivals for comfort and dynamic capability. So the question is: Do prestige sedan or coupe buyers actually need to consider the Passat CC TDI?> Full Story

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