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Toyota Promises A Plug In Hybrid For 2010

Agent009 submitted on 6/11/2008 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 1:43:23 PM

Toyota is introducing a plug-in hybrid with next-generation lithium-ion batteries in Japan, the U.S. and Europe by 2010, under a widespread strategy to be green outlined today.The ecological gas-electric vehicles, which can be recharged from a home e...

24 user comments | Category: Misc News

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2008 Lexus IS-F Dyno Run

Ironman273 submitted on 3/1/2008 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 11:36:28 AM

You're in a compact sedan with a 5.0-liter, 416-hp V-8 with four-valve Yamaha heads that contain titanium intake valves. Where do you head? The dyno, of course. And so we did. The fellas at Ralph Willis Automotive in Salinas, California cleared th...

60 user comments | Category: Reviews

35 Votes

Ramping Up For The Kill? Lexus To Increase Production By 35%

Agent009 submitted on 2/27/2008 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 12:17:54 PM

Toyota Motor Corp will boost production capacity for its Lexus luxury cars in Japan by about 35 percent in 2009 to meet growing demand in emerging countries such as Russia and China, the Nikkei business daily reported on Wednesday. Japan's larg...

73 user comments | Category: Misc News

41 Votes

GM's Bob Lutz Defends His "Global Warming Is A Crock" Comment

Agent009 submitted on 2/22/2008 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 4:30:34 PM

It amazes me sometimes what kinds of things seem to “catch on” out there. An offhand comment I made recently about the concept of global warming seems to have a lot of people heated, and it’s spreading through the Internet like ra...

88 user comments | Category: Misc News

36 Votes

Is It Just Me Or Are BMW's Designs Making The Competitors Rides Look Old Fashioned?

Agent001 submitted on 2/1/2008 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 1:28:22 PM

As I was driving up to Hollywood the other day and looking at the beautiful rides that adorn the roads here in Southern California, it began to dawn on me that maybe a new trend is emerging.As I looked at the premium cars passing me I started to thin...

125 user comments | Category: Spy Shots

85 Votes

TopGear tests the Lexus IS-F

GoObama08 submitted on 2/1/2008 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 3:55:01 AM

It's anyone's guess what the F in the IS-F name means, but after your first blast in it, I'll bet there's only one word that springs to mind: fast. That's what I was thinking anyway, along with a couple of other choice F words, as I slid off the on-r...

88 user comments | Category: Reviews

46 Votes

Audi Announces Pricing for the All-New A5 Coupe

audispy submitted on 1/30/2008 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 4:45:48 PM

January 30, 2008 11:00 AM - Audi Canada has announced retail pricing for its all-new 2008 A5 coupe starting at $51,850. The A5 Coupe will be available in Audi retailer’s showrooms at the end of the first quarter of 2008. “Audi has a Grand Tou...

15 user comments | Category: Spy News

14 Votes

Want To Know What Most Next-Gen BMW's Will Look Like? Look VERY Closely At This Design Language

Agent001 submitted on 1/29/2008 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 1:17:10 PM

If you think BMW has peaked or their best days are behind them then you would be wrong.The Spies are predicting that over the next few years both BMW AND Lexus will widen their leads against their competitors.Based on what we know about wha...

119 user comments | Category: Spy News

75 Votes

What would you rather buy - the cheaper BMW M3 Sedan or the Lexus IS-F?

omarrana submitted on 1/29/2008 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 8:14:02 AM

Lexus had set BMW’s M3 as a benchmark when producing their competitor for the high-performance sedan segment. According to Yukihiko Yaguchi, chief engineer for the Lexus IS-F, “Since we were coming after the M3, there were numerical targets we had to...

269 user comments | Category: New Cars

84 Votes

Lexus Takes The Rolex 24 At Daytona For Third Year In A Row

Agent009 submitted on 1/28/2008 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 11:06:03 AM

The Chip Ganassi with Felix Sabates racing program became the first team to capture a Rolex 24 At Daytona overall victory in three straight years when Rolex Series stars Scott Pruett, Memo Rojas and NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers Juan Pablo Montoya and Da...

52 user comments | Category: Misc News

30 Votes

Toyota Sales Now On Top Globally! GM Figures Deemed Suspect

Agent009 submitted on 1/24/2008 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 3:52:30 PM

Gentlemen, start your accusations! Not half a day after it was widely reported that GM outsold Toyota globally, with 9.366 million cars to GM's 9.369 million, Automotive News is reporting that the actual figures are 9.37 to 8.89 million, respectively...

52 user comments | Category: Misc News

36 Votes

Lutz says U.S. has little incentive to buy fuel efficient cars

omarrana submitted on 1/24/2008 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 2:08:22 PM

Bob Lutz has always been a vocal opponent of the new CAFE standards, but his most adamant point to date is that, simply, Americans won’t buy more fuel efficient cars unless gas rockets up to European price levels. That would mean eight dollars a gall...

36 user comments | Category: Misc News

27 Votes

Business Week: 2008 Lexus IS-F

r15mohd submitted on 1/24/2008 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 11:58:23 AM

Stereotypes, they say, have their basis in fact. Well, at least in the automobile world, there's some truth to that. Take Lexus, the luxury arm of Toyota , which has a reputation for building beautifully appointed, bulletproof products that seem pred...

79 user comments | Category: Reviews

41 Votes

Hyundai's Profit Falls 31 Percent

r15mohd submitted on 1/24/2008 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 8:50:59 AM

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Hyundai Motor Co. said Thursday its net profit in the fourth quarter of 2007 fell 30.6 percent from the same period a year ago due to weakness in the share price of affiliate Kia Motors Corp. Hyundai Motor, South Korea's ...

21 user comments | Category: Misc News

14 Votes

Still Not Quite There Yet? TTAC 2008 Reviews The Lexus IS-F

Agent009 submitted on 1/23/2008 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 1:07:33 PM

Hammering the IS-F through the sleepy desert two-lanes of Rosamond, California, I tried to remind myself: “I’m driving a Lexus.” But the 416-horsepower sedan leaves little time for inner monologues. Caned hard, the IS-F reels in str...

58 user comments | Category: Reviews

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