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2011 Lexus LFA
Of the 500 units of the Lexus LFA to be made, Lexus will only bring 150 to the United States. At first, Lexus announced that the LFA will only be available to lease in the United States – a move made to drive speculators out of the market for the $375,000 supercar. Those who bought the LFA would have to hold onto the car for at least two years before the lease was up. After that, a customer would have the option to buy the car outright.
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Only a few weeks after Honda President Takanobu Ito disclosed plans to equip the next generation of the Civic Hybrid with a new high-output and compact in size, lithium-ion battery, and our spies have captured a pair of test mules in the body of the current, European market Civic five-door hatch, testing near the company’s R&D center in…
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Late in my teenage years, I’d formulated a plan with my father: We’d get the biggest truck and trailer we could without going to truck driver’s school, and then we’d ramble around out West and down South, picking up old cars and trucks that hadn’t rotted to the rooftops. Had we done that, and had we come across this yard full of Lincolns, we definitely would have stopped. From the seller’s description:
Various Lincoln and Continentals, Coupes, Convertibles, Sedans and…
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Reuters reports that Honda has canceled plans to build a new minicar and diesel engine plant north of Tokyo, as the company focuses its product offerings ahead of worldwide emissions standards ramp-ups. Honda’s move away from diesel has been slowly building for years, and the strategy was all but confirmed by the cancellation of a [...]
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Back in the Molson Indy days, the Toronto Indy pretty much took over the city with parties and events. There was a buzz everywhere and just about everyone was talking about the Indy. Charlie Johnstone and the rest of the Honda Indy Toronto team have planned a week full of activities to build that buzz once again.
“This year’s edition of the Honda Indy Toronto is clearly setting a new bar in Canada in terms of on and off-track entertainment,” said Charlie Johnstone, general manager and vice preside…
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Think Cummins is the only firm whipping up some whimsy for the 2010 Goodwood Festival of Speed? Not in the least. To help celebrate the 20th anniversary of the MX-5 Miata, Mazda is building a life-size slot-car track at the festival using (what else?) real MX-5s.The figure-eight course is designed to resemble an overgrown Scalextric set, and features two lanes of travel. Mazda hasn’t indicated if the track will actually be functional, but does plan to represent all three generations of the MX-5 on the tr…
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Europe is a bit hybrid-adverse and far removed from Japan, where the Toyota Prius has been leading the charts for the 12th month in a row. In a move to convert Europeans into hybrid-lovers, Toyota started production of their hybrid Auris in the UK.
According to Jato Research, hybrids have a near insignificant 0.5 percent market [...]
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Fisker Automotive, developer of the upcoming Karma plug-in hybrid sedan, is prepared to build around 100 Karmas this year through a Finland-based contract manufacturer. The initial batch of hybrids will be used for crash testing and other pre-production purposes, including customer tests.Contract manufacturer Valmet Automotive has been assigned the early assembly duties before mass production starts in February. Fisker currently has its sights set on an annual production volume of 15,000 Karmas, which st…
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A U.S. House committee passed an auto-safety bill with a number of changes in the original legislation that the auto industry and Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., were looking for.