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RENNTECH's GLK 350 Spec.R Pike's Peak rally racer wins SEMA build-off
Click above for more shots of the RENNTech Pikes Peak hybrid GLK Remember the hybrid Mercedes-Benz GLK that longtime MB tuner RENNTECH was working up at SEMA? The vehicle was being made as part of a company-sponsored build-off and was going against some stiff competition from BRABUS and some not-quite-as-stiff competition from Legendary Motor Cars and the Urban Whip from Boulevard Customs. Thankfully, the RENNTECH hybrid - our favorite by a very large margin - managed to snag the top spot. In the end, it was clear that the GLK 350 Spec.R ... Read more →
VIDEO: PML F-150 w/in-wheel motors test driven Sebastian Blanco
Click for a gallery of the Hi-Pa F-150 Want to see the PML F-150 Hi-Pa cruising down the street? This all-electric truck that puts out a combined total of 600 hp and 2,000 lb-ft of torque from its ...
SEMA 2008: Making Green Cool Zone trucks Frank Filipponio
Click above for high-res gallery of Making Green Cool Zone trucks from SEMA We are so used to huge trucks with outlandish paint jobs at SEMA, that we barely noticed these monstrosities in one ...
SEMA 2008: Making Green Cool Zone bikes and products Frank Filipponio
Click above for high-res gallery of Making Green Cool Zone bikes from SEMA SEMA surprised us a bit this year with its "Making Green Cool Zone." On display were a dozen or so cars and trucks, along ...
SEMA 2008: Making Green Cool Zone cars Frank Filipponio
Click above for high-res gallery of Making Green Cool Zone cars from SEMA There were a lot of crazy, over-the-top and outrageous vehicles at SEMA again this year. Some of those vehicles were ...
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SEMA 2008: biodiesel Hummer snowmobile update 7 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for high-res gallery of this attention grabber That unholy marriage of a Hummer and a snowmobile turns out to be an Antarctic vehicle by Zero South. This biodiesel-powered truck thing has tracks instead of wheels, and is set to be piloted by the likes of Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin ...
SEMA 2008: Next Batmobile to be a smart? 7 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for high-res gallery of the Batsmart from SEMA var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/autos/Batman_Trades_in_Tumbler_for_smart_fortwo_aka_the_Toddler'; Hey, times are tough, even if you're Bruce Wayne. The downturn of the economy makes fighting crime an even more expensive nocturnal hobby ...
SEMA 2008: Mercedes shows off RENNTech Pikes Peak hybrid GLK 7 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for more shots of the RENNTech Pikes Peak hybrid GLK This year's festivities in Las Vegas mark the first year that Mercedes-Benz has participated at the SEMA Show, and it has done so in grand style with four separate GLK concepts. The one we're most interested in is the RENNTech ...
SEMA 2008: Nissan Altima Hot Rod Hybrid 7 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for more shots of the Hot Rod Hybrid Nissan Altima SEMA's tuner crowd and the green culture seem at first to clash. Starting last year, though, and continuing even stronger in 2008 are green performance cars infiltrating the gas-guzzling ways of the typical SEMA show car. A prime ...
SEMA 2008: Toyota Yaris Tailback runs on CNG 7 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for two high-res shots of the Yaris Tailback concept from SEMA Toyota has brought a really, really green concept with it to the SEMA Show that's currently taking place in Las Vegas. That first bit of green comes courtesy of a compressed natural gas conversion that allows the driver ...
SEMA 2008: Gale Banks Sidewinder diesel dragster 8 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for high-res gallery of the Banks Diesel Dragster Horsepower guru Gale Banks just unveiled his finished diesel-powered Sidewinder dragster here at SEMA. As a follow-up to their diesel D-Max Type-D Pro Stocker pickup, Banks Power designed and built this NHRA Top Diesel Dragster with ...
SEMA 2008: Volkswagen CC Eco performance concept 27/33 mpg 8 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click for a high res gallery of the VV Eco Performance concept Out in sin city at the SEMA show, Volkswagen - like everyone else - is showing off modified versions of its everyday products. Most of what's on display is either about bling, power or both. Volkswagen however, has one car on display ...
SEMA 2008: VW Jetta TDI Street concept, live from Vegas 8 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for a high-res gallery of the Jetta TDI Edition Street Concept Our team of crack journalists at SEMA have located the Jetta TDI Street concept, so we can now bring you some live shots of the car along with all of the assorted details. As we expected when we first heard that VeeDub ...
SEMA 2008: Honda shows Civic HFP Concept, announces Mugen accessories for Fit 8 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for more high-res shots of the Honda Civic HFP Concept from SEMA Honda is accessorizing its two smallest, most efficient models. Debuting at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas is the Civic HFP Concept, which starts life as a stock Civic Si sedan. To this extremely-capable platform, Honda ...
SEMA 2008: Ronn Motors shows off its Scorpion 8 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for high-res live shots of the Ronn Motors Scorpion at SEMA Ronn Motors has delivered on at least one of its ambitious promises by delivering a real concept car to the SEMA Show that's currently taking place in Las Vegas. For its next trick, the fledgling automaker will try and ...
VW to offer Jetta TDI Cup Street edition 8 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for a high-res gallery of the Jetta TDI Cup racers We've been covering Volkswagen's Jetta TDI cup races since the very beginning of the series. We've also heaped some high praise on the efficiency of VW's 50-State clean diesel technology. Unfortunately, you can't take one of VeeDub's ...
SEMA Preview: Hyundai experimenting with cylinder deactivation and supercharging 8 months ago on AutoblogGreen
We've been hearing that Hyundai has big plans for its new V8 engine, despite the fact that fuel efficiency has just recently become paramount in the U.S. market. As the Korean automaker's first-ever V8, the company has plenty to learn. That's fine, since it appears as if Hyundai is truly serious ...
SEMA 2008: If a Hummer and a snowmobile had a baby... 8 months ago on AutoblogGreen
The unholy child of a Hummer and a snowmobile has been found! Located somewhere at the SEMA show that starts today in Las Vegas, the front end shot of this biodiesel-powered truck thing was snapped by our friends at Autospies. With treads instead of front wheels, what look like flat screen TVs ...
80 mpg Mustang back, will drive to SEMA and record mileage 8 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Remember Doug Pelmear, the inventor and mechanic from Toledo, Ohio who claims that his late-80's Fox Body Mustang makes 400-horsepower and still manages to return 80 miles per gallon? Doug's back in Toledo's news and he's making the same claims as before. In fact, Pelmear's Mustang can run on ...
New information on the electric Ford F-150 Hi-Pa coming to SEMA 8 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click for a gallery of the Hi-Pa F-150 When it comes to all things pickup truck related, Mike Levine is the go-to guy. Mike has been continuing to investigate the back story on the PML F-150 Hi-Pa that will making its debut at the SEMA Show next week. It turns out that PML didn't build this ...
SEMA 2008 Preview: PML Flightlink to show Ford F-150 PHEV 8 months ago on AutoblogGreen
PML Flightlink, makers of the 640-horsepower electric MINI from 2006, is headed to SEMA this year with a new concept vehicle to display. Based on a full-size Ford pickup truck, it would be hard to come up with a platform further from the MINI that the company originally used. Still, the concept ...
Ronn Motors plans to introduce Scorpion at SEMA 10 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for more high-res renderings of the Ronn Motors Scorpion Ronn Motors, the company we introduced you to a while back, plans to properly introduce the world to its Scorpion supercar at the upcoming SEMA Show in Las Vegas. We have very real doubts as to whether the vehicle will function as ...
Making muscle greener with the ProPane Chevelle by Mothers 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
This particular story has been a long-time-coming, so firstly... sorry about that. This particular Chevelle is a little different that most that you'd be likely to see driving down... say, Woodward Avenue. The difference is in the engine bay. Making a thousand horsepower from a Chevy V8 engine is ...
VIDEO: Volkswagen talks diesel at the SEMA 2007 show 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Volkswagen had a big presence at the 2007 SEMA show in Las Vegas last week. They brought their Dieselution interactive display out to Sin City and showed off their upcoming Jetta CleanTDI in sedan and SportWagen form. They also announced the 2008 Jetta TDI cup racing series and and their Touareg ...
SEMA 2007: Volkswagen shows the new Jetta SportWagen CleanTDI 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Click the Jetta SportWagen for a high-res gallery Volkswagen is featuring the new CleanTDI Jetta SportWagen at their booth in this year's SEMA show in Las Vegas. The SportWagen is powered by the new fifty state-legal 2.0L CleanTDI diesel that will be going on sale next March. The new engine has 140 ...
SEMA 2007: Canola oil Caddy EXT 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
GM opened the full-scale electric car dialog with the EV-1 (and its demise), Toyota opened the full-scale hybrid dialog with the Prius. Now that Green is Good as Gold, aftermarket folks are opening the mass market dialog when it comes to making the cars you want to buy right now a little less hard ...
VW Jetta TDI Cup racing series coming to a track near you in 2008 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Volkswagen has a long history of grassroots racing series in the US and elsewhere. For the past three decades those series mostly used various GTI models. For 2008, Volkswagen is replacing the current GTI cup with the new Jetta TDI Cup. As the name implies, the new series will use the new Jetta ...
SEMA 2007: Jay Leno's new E85 C6RS Corvette 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Click on Jay's super-Vette for a high-res gallery var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/design/Jay_Leno_s_new_C6RS_Corvette_has_600_horsepower_and_runs_on_E85'; For the latest addition to his mega-garage Jay Leno has collaborated with Pratt & Miller to create a Corvette with body-work inspired by ...
Chevrolet to feature E85 power at SEMA 2007 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
At the 2006 SEMA show in Las Vegas GM made a big splash with the turbine-powered EcoJet concept that they built for some guy named Leno. SEMA is coming up again next week and this time they are reiterating the ethanol message with two of the cars they are showing. First up they have another ...
Biodiesel turbine, super capacitor, series hybrid... HUMMER! (60 MPG and 0-60 in 5 seconds) 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Johnathan Goodwin is the patron saint of green cars (although as of yet, this honor has gone unrecognized by the Vatican). Last April, John was the guy behind the Chevy Impala conversion that smoked a Lamborghini in a quarter mile on the Earth Day special of MTV's Pimp My Ride. Arnold ...
Volvo S80 High Performance devours E85 at upcoming SEMA event 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
What happens when you turn German tuners at Heico Sportiv loose on a Volvo S80? Apparently you get an E85-ready High Performance version tricked out aluminum-and-leather beast. The car will greet public this fall at the SEMA show in Las Vegas. The S80 High Performance Concept got plenty of exterior ...
alé goes for X-Prize 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
Whether there's a consumer market for the alé, a 2-seat 3-wheeler built by Fuel Vapor Technologies, or not, the vehicle is an early contender for the Automotive X-prize. The X-Prize is a global competition designed to inspire automotive innovation, and a multi-million-dollar prize is up for ...
SEMA's Vehicle Design Awards finally add a "hybrid" category, winner is Chevrolet Silverado Classic 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
At last week's SEMA show, a show not known for its embrace of green car technologies, hybrids finally made an impact on the annual SEMA Vehicle Design Awards. The awards finally added a hybrid category, and the inaugural winner was the Chevrolet Silverado Classic Hybrid. True to SEMA's aftermarket ...
Hummer owners can easily switch to biodiesel, hydrogen and propane 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
The promotional brochure for Predator Motorsports has seven photos of Hummers, all them doing a smoky burnout. The Southern California tuner shop is known for hot-rodding the gas-guzzling beasts or outfitting them with trick suspensions, high-priced leather or high-tech electronics. Predator also ...
Erin Brockovich gets your attention, but can magnets improve fuel economy? 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
Erin Brockovich was passionate about confronting world pollution and a physics professor was confident in the technology, but I'm still skeptical about the real-world benefits of a magnetic treatment for fuel. Brockovich and Dr. Rongjia Tao of Temple University were featured speakers at a SEMA ...
Electric Smart from Hybrid Technologies on display at SEMA 2006 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
For $35,000 you could own an electric Smart. Hybrid Technologies showed off one of its early models at the SEMA Show. I didn't ask if the sky graphics were included. Even in factory colors, I'm sure this little gem will draw attention on the street. Not much in the way of technical information was ...
