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Dacia to introduce production version of Duster at 2010 Geneva show
Click above for a high-res gallery of the Dacia Duster concept AutoCar is reporting that the Duster concept introduced by Dacia at the Geneva Motor Show a couple of weeks ago will hit the streets in 2010. The four-door compact crossover concept was powered by Renault's 1.5-liter 103 hp diesel engine for a claimed 44.4 mpg (U.S.). That engine is expected to be joined by a similarly powerful gas engine for launch. The styling will likely be toned down quite a bit from the concept, including discarding the rear hinged back doors. Given that ... Read more →
Geneva 2009: Infiniti Essence packs powerful, eco-friendly presence Domenick Yoney
Click above for a high-res gallery of the Infiniti Essence Concept One of the hands-down sexiest cars at this years edition of the Geneva Motor Show was touting some green credentials beneath its ...
Geneva 2009 = Honda Insight + ASIMO Sebastian Blanco
Click above for more of ASIMO with the Honda Insight How do you emphasize that your new hybrid is perfect for robot drivers? By introducing it in Europe with the help of ASIMO. That was Honda's ...
Geneva 2009: Fiat unveils new Multiair engine line Jeremy Korzeniewski
Fiat's not planning to give up its title as the lowest CO2-producing line in Europe any time soon. While diesel engines remain the best choice when carbon emissions are the main concern, the Italian ...
Geneva 2009: Chevy Spark interior designer speaks [w/video] Sebastian Blanco
Click above and scroll down to watch the video The Chevrolet Spark was one of the first cars our Geneva team saw when they arrived in town to cover the show. We got some nice shots of the interior ...
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Geneva 2009: Peugeot 908 HY, hybrid LMP1 racer 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for a high-res gallery of the Peugeot 908 HY Prominently featured in the center of Peugeot's stand at the Geneva Motor Show this week was the 908 HY. This experimental prototype was first unveiled last September as a test-bed for the next generation of Peugeot's Le Mans racers. Based ...
Geneva 2009: Mitsubishi Global i MiEV prototype 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Debuting at the 79th Geneva Motor Show alongside the Mitsubishi i MiEV Sport Air concept was an i MiEV prototype that may have been the most relevant electric car of the show. Although quite similar to the i MiEV design we've been showing you for the past couple years, this is the global version of ...
Geneva 2009: NV200 may come to America with electric drive 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for a high-res gallery of the Nissan NV200 Nissan is getting into the light commercial vehicle market in the U.S. next year with its new NV2500 and, possibly, with the NV200 that debuted in Geneva this week. The NV200 is a compact van based on Nissan's European B-segment platform ...
Geneva 2009: Top ten diesels you can't get in America! 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
One of the first things you notice when you start wandering around the Geneva Motor Show is that virtually every major automaker offers diesel engines. Lots of them. Many of them are even in cars that we can get in the U.S. market but only with gasoline engines. As our regular readers know, I'm a ...
Geneva 2009: Lotus touts efficiency of new 2010 Exige S 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for a high-res gallery of the 2010 Lotus Exige S "The same technology that makes a lightweight car a high performer also makes it efficient – how many cars have performance figures of 0 - 100 km/h in 4.77 secs but produce only 199 g/km CO2?" That question was posed by Mike ...
Geneva 2009: Ford's next Focus, the iosis Max now with EcoBoost! 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for a high-res gallery of the Ford iosis Max Concept Ford is preparing to make a major shift to smaller cars over the next few years, starting with the new Fiesta at the end of this year and the new European-based Focus next year. When that next-generation Focus lands in the U.S., it ...
Geneva 2009: Toyota iQ3 in Astral Black with new 1.33l engine 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for a high-res gallery of the Toyota iQ The Toyota iQ has been doing the show (and museum) circuit for over a year now, but we've only seen the car in white. I mean, just look what happens in Google Image Search when you type in "Toyota iQ." Therefore, as excited as one might be ...
Geneva 2009: NLV Quant by Koenigsegg 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for a high-res gallery of the NLV Quant by Koenigsegg The cars created by Christian von Koenigsegg are not renowned for being environmentally friendly. The car unveiled by Koenigsegg today in Geneva is in many ways diametrically opposed to the CCX and its variants. Rather than ...
Confirmed: Ferrari going hybrid 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for gallery of the Ferrari 599XX One of the stated reasons that automakers send prototype race cars around tracks at high rates of speed is to further the development of new technology for their road-going automobiles. There's no higher form of automotive motorsport than Formula 1, ...
Geneva 2009: Ford Tourneo Connect BEV concept 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click the Tourneo Connect BEV for a high res gallery When Ford announced at last month's Chicago Auto show that it would collaborating with Smith Electric Vehicles to bring an electric version of the Transit connect van to the U.S. market in 2010, they didn't actually bring a sample along. Here ...
Geneva 2009: Honda Accord Tourer Type-S 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click the Accord tourer for a high res gallery The car pictured above represents some of my favorite features in a main-stream car: it's a wagon and it's a diesel. I'm also fully aware that I am in a distinct minority on both counts among drivers in the U.S. market. This is the new ...
Geneva 2009: Brabus smart ed revealed 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for a gallery of the Brabus smart ed The Brabus Tesla Roadster is no longer the only electric car that the tuning company will make for you. In Geneva today, Daimler unveiled the Brabus smart ed. The tricked out door frame and interior are just two of the ways that Brabus has made ...
Geneva 2009: Frazer-Nash Namir by Giugiaro 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click the Namir by Giugiaro for a high res gallery Remember Frazer-Nas? The brand that was a famous British car maker long ago is still around, but it's no longer building cars. If you're at all familiar with the name Frazer-Nash, it probably isn't in the context of modern drivetrain technology ...
Geneva 2009: Clever EDAG "Light Car Open-Source" is like safety television for tailgaters 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for a high-res gallery of the EDAG Light Car - Open Source EDAG has presented its new "Light Car – Open Source" concept here at the Geneva Motor Show, and while it outwardly appears to look like any other nondescript electric bubble car, there's a lot of innovative content on ...
Geneva 2009: Seat Leon Ecomotive with 99 g/km of CO2 and 62 mpg U.S. 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for a high res gallery of the SEAT Leon Ecomotive Concept Amid all of the fanciful green concept cars debuting in Geneva like the Rinspeed iChange and the Magna Steyr Mila EV comes something a little more standard looking: the SEAT Leon Ecomotive concept. As you can see from the ...
Geneva 2009: Ruf Greenster evolves the electric Porsche concept 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click the Ruf Greenster for a high res gallery Last fall, Porsche high performance tuning specialist Ruf announced that it had built a prototype electric sports car called the eRuf which was essentially a lithium ion battery-powered 911. That was just the beginning of the story as the company ...
Geneva 2009: Magna Steyr Mila EV concept 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click for a high res gallery of the Magna Steyr Mila EV Like most other suppliers, Magna International and its contract manufacturing unit Magna Steyr are pushing hard to diversify into the area of hybrid and electric powertrain components and systems. In January at the Detroit Show, Magna ...
Geneva 2009: Mitsubishi iMiEV Sport Air 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
click for a high res gallery of the Mitsubishi iMiEV Sport Air Mitsubishi revealed the latest iteration of its iMiEV Sport this morning in Geneva, the Sport Air. This year's version is marginally longer (20 mm) and taller for what Mitsubishi describes as a "more technical" look to the tear drop ...
Geneva 2009: Opel goes Voltec, Ampera coming in late 2011 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for a high-res gallery of the Opel Ampera concept General Motors Europe boss Carl-Peter Forster began this morning's press conference in Geneva with an acknowledgment of the dire financial straights that the entire industry is experiencing right now. Forster also candidly admitted ...
Geneva 2009: Bentley goes flex-fuel, new powertrain in 2012 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for a high-res gallery of the 2010 Bentley Continental Supersports Bentley CEO Franz-Josef Paefgen promised an all-new more efficient powertrain for his lineup in 2012 but declined to give details. In the meantime, he acknowledged that bio-ethanol is an important stepping stone to a ...
Geneva 2009: Rinspeed's Abarth-based E2 concept 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for a hi-res gallery of the Rinspeed E2 Usually one concept is enough to put Rinspeed on the map here at its home-turf Geneva Motor Show, but this year the quirky Swiss coachbuilder doubled down with a modified Fiat 500 that hugs the road and the planet at the same time. Joining the ...
Geneva 2009: Volkswagen reveals Polo BlueMotion concept, 87 g/km CO2! 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for a high-res gallery of the Volkswagen Polo BlueMotion Concept Volkswagen revealed the all-new Polo concept, expected to come to the US market in the next couple of years. This new B-segment car comes in three- and five-door hatchback flavors with a range of gas and diesel engines, ...
Geneva 2009: Ford's all-electric Tourneo Connect 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for a gallery of Ford Tourneo BEV Ford couldn't be bothered to actually bring a battery-powered version of the Transit Connect to the Chicago Auto Show last month (but they did show off four gasoline-powered versions and announced the BEV there). People visiting the Geneva Motor Show ...
Geneva 2009: Ampera comes branded with Opel and Vauxhaull badges 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for image gallery of the Vauxhall Ampera Holden. Chevy. Opel. Vauxhall. These are the brands that we so far know will get a version of the plug-in Volt. Granted, the Europeans will call it the Ampera, but under all those models will be the Voltec technology that gives the sedan a ...
Geneva Preview: Volkswagen unleashes the goods on new Polo 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for a high-res gallery of the Volkwagen Polo Volkswagen is trotting out its new fifth-generation Polo at the Geneva Motor Show tomorrow, but we've got a slew of details and images of the new model to share today. Looking very much like a shrunken Golf, it may take a trained eye to ...
Geneva Preview: Ford iosis MAX concept hints at next-gen Focus 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for image gallery of the Ford iosis Max concept We have to wait until tomorrow to actually see the Ford iosis MAX concept for ourselves (via out team at the Geneva Motor Show), but we do know what it'll look like and that it'll have a 1.6L EcoBoost four-cylinder engine that is 20 ...
Geneva 2009: Kia c'eed hybrid and ISG 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Kia is showing off two new and fuel-efficient variants of its compact c'eed here in Geneva this week. The first, which is going on sale immediately, is the c'eed ISG, or Idle Stop and Go. The ISG, as the name implies, features an auto start-stop system that is claimed to improve urban fuel ...
Geneva Preview: Magna debuts new EV concept 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for high-res image gallery of the Magna Steyr mila ev concept Auto supplier Magna Steyr has chosen the Geneva Motor Show to unveil its new mila ev concept vehicle. You may recall that Magna is currently working with Ford on a production version of the Focus-based electric car that ...
Geneva 2009: Dacia introduces its first concept, the 44.4 mpg Duster 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for a high-res gallery of the Dacia Duster concept Renault's low-cost Romanian-based brand Dacia is unveiling its first concept vehicle here at the Geneva Motor Show this week. The Duster is a 14-foot long crossover with some seriously aggressive looks. Like most concept vehicles, ...
Officially official: Peugeot to offer re-badged Mitsubishi i MiEVs 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
While the partnership between Mitsubishi and Peugeot to bring electric vehicles to market has been officially official for some time, the deal we told you about that would see the Peugeot lion logo perched proudly on the nose of the Japanese automaker's i MiEV hasn't. Until now. On the eve of the ...
Geneva Preview: BMW X3 xDrive20d rescue vehicle, 36.2 mpg (U.S.) 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click for high-res images One of the many vehicles that will be debuting at the Geneva Motor Show this week is an emergency rescue version of the BMW X3. The rescue version is based on the X3 xDrive 20d which is powered by a 177 hp version of BMW's 2.0L four cylinder diesel engine. Drive goes to ...
