Lincoln Gives Plush People Mover The Green Light (2)
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FoMoCo's flagship Lincoln brand recently announced plans to produce a large soft-roader, dubbed MKT, for the 2009 calendar year. You can call MKT whatever you want- crossover, people mover, glorified wagon - just don't dare utter the SUV acronym. Hell, Mercedes classifies their similarly intentioned R-Class as a GST, or Grand Sports Tourer. With automakers striving to lower emissions and up the MPG anty, gas guzzling truck-based product connotations are the equivalent of Kevin Bacon's ...
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OMG The batmobile mated with Lincoln!
Lotus Builds A Propeller-Driven Biofuel Vehicle On Skis (2)
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Lotus is renowned for building lightweight sports cars with razor-sharp handling, but it's traded tarmac for snow pack with a prop-driven, biofuel-burning ice-rider designed for a 3,000-mile trek across Antarctica. The crew from Hethel built the Concept Ice Vehicle for researchers who will cross the South Pole during the Moon Regan TransArctic Expedition. The point of the journey is to raise awareness of the impact global climate change is having on the continent, but we ...
Lotus Makes Hybrids Sound Like Real Cars (4)
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Lotus tosses a speaker under the hood of that great silent killer, the Toyota Prius, and pumps engine noises through it so people can hear it coming. Blind people and those with earbuds rejoice.
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andronin said:
Why
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slacy said:
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Supply and Demand, Prius Style (6)
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New Concept Car from Honda (3)
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Honda is calling the two-seat OSM Concept [Open Study Model] a “design study”, but many believe it signals a next generation S2000 Roadster. This train of thought makes sense considering that the high revving sports car staple is some 8 model years old, a down right geriatric life stage by today’s auto industry standards. The OSM concept, revealed at the British International Motor Show in London, is being positioned as a stylish sports car that ...
The Bat-Pod Officially Has a Complex (1)
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There are several not-from-this-world motorcycles in our midst. This most likely stems from the surge in sales that motorcycle-industry designers and executives are now savoring, thanks to all that madness at the pump. To capitalize on this newfound popularity, why not innovate with, dare I say it, out-of-the-box approaches to design and functionality. To this end, there is a noticeable influx of radically different concept and production bikes hitting the scene. Each one challenges preconceived ...
Patchouli Power! Lotus Goes Green with Eco Elise (5)
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Lotus embraces hemp, sisal and water-based paint to build a greener Elise that's also 70-pounds lighter. It's just a concept built for the British Motor Show, but there's nothing that says it couldn't be produced.
