Filed under: Performance , Etc. , Aston Martin , UK , Luxury If you’re anything like us, you’ve been waiting to unleash the full might of the Aston Martin customization program on the Toyota iQ Cygnet . What colors, both hideous and delicious, will the pint-sized Aston boast? What kind of leather will coddle the behinds of the overpaid and tasteless
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Aston Martin configurator launches with Virage and Cygnet
Filed under: Convertible , Performance , Lotus , Specialty 2009 Lotus Exige S260 – Click above for high-res image gallery Lotus’s supply of Toyota 2ZZ-GE engines has finally run out, meaning production of the company’s highly popular Exige and Elise will come to an abrupt halt in July. To commemorate its track-day superstars’ success, Lotus will send the cars off with an extremely limited number of Final Editions. With Lotus up to its axles in financial uncertainty, this may represent your last chance to get your hands on a new Lotus Elise or Exige. There are two trim levels planned for the Exige’s parting-shot model
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Report: Lotus to phase out Toyota-powered Elise and Exige with special Final Editions
Filed under: Concept Cars , Sedan , China , BMW , Shanghai Motor Show , Electric , Luxury 2010 BMW ActiveHybrid 5 Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery The Chinese will get their very own plug-in hybrid BMW at next month’s Shanghai Motor Show when BMW debuts the 2011 5 Series New Energy Vehicle. According to BMW CEO Norbert Reithofer, the car – based on the long-wheelbase 5 Series – is aimed specifically at the Chinese market. There wasn’t much else to be had from BMW about the New Energy Vehicle, except that it probably won’t hit North American shores. It may, however, loan some of its technology to the ActiveHybrid 5, which BMW showed off as a concept last year
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BMW confirms New Energy Vehicle, an electric 5 Series for China
Filed under: Convertible , Performance , Etc. , Plants/Manufacturing , Mazda 20th Anniversary Mazda MX-5 Miata special edition – Click above for high-res image gallery Mazda has announced that the automaker has turned out 900,000 units of its MX-5 Miata since the car first put tire to pavement in 1989. Of that astronomical number, a staggering 45 percent were sold here in North America, which means that 388,000 of the droptops have been shipped to our continent over the past 22 years.
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Mazda MX-5 Miata hits 900K… next stop, one million
Filed under: Coupe , Wagon , Bentley , Luxury Touring Superleggera Flying Star – Click above for high-res image gallery Bentley shooting brake, anyone? Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera can hook you up. The Milanese coachbuilder unveiled the Flying Star at last year’s Geneva Motor Show , and stole our hearts in the process. But since the shooting brake debuted and its order books opened, Touring has only made three examples of the custom creation.
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Touring Superleggera ramps up production of Bentley Flying Star
Filed under: Concept Cars , Videos , Alfa Romeo , Design/Style Bertone Pandion concept – Click above to watch the video after the jump You remember the Bertone Pandion . Who could forget: Bertone’s Alfa Romeo show car dropped at the Geneva Motor Show earlier this year to rave reviews and dropped jaws. But as fortunate as we were to lay our eyes on it at all, the truth of the matter is that the poor lighting and commercial setting of a major car expo hardly serve as the best conditions for viewing such a fine example of automotive design. To put as advanced a concept as the Pandion into its proper context, what we really need is some futuristic, post-apocalyptic fantasy world.
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Video: Bertone’s Alfa Romeo Pandion concept goes all Matrix on us