The single picture overly has been heard released of the model’s exterior suggests small bit to be excited about, there are undoubtedly tips of TVR inspiration there, but the interior looks as if it’s superb. The smooth, refined and clean seem we see inside their exemplary reminds me one and only of the interiors at last found on the extravagant thinking cars the world’s manufacturers produce.

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The Sienna and Venza can be equipped amid hybrid drivetrains in 2012, providing the Sienna getting a facelift late upcoming year, along surrounded by larger amount of cargo space and room for third-row occupants.

The article goes on to district too the Corolla ought to be redesigned in 2013, along investing in the Matrix, the consequently Camry are able to be given a facelift in 2010, in the new perfect debuting in 2012, and the new Avalon might debut in 2011 as a 2012 model.

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The Escalade achieves 50 per cent improvement in gas economy, resulting in a something uninspiring 20/21 miles per gallon (city/highway).

At a premium of $3,600 throughout a comparably-equipped non-hybrid Escalade, MSRP in the U.S. comes in at $71,685.

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The carry on to unnamed hybrid hatch is just recently one piece of Honda’s large intention of affecting 500k hybrids a year by 2012. Honda is too planning a battery-assisted Fit sub-compact, a new Civic hybrid, and a creation version of the CR-Z coupe concept. We’re excited to see Honda’s dedicated hybrid, that will be able to be the principally true competition to the Prius and an honest to goodness non&wshyp;traditional for the American consumer.

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Edmunds’ Inside Line is reporting the present Honda is hatching a couple of monumental alt-power solutions in the originating ages and all of them are went to the U.S.

The Japanese automaker is presently experimenting amid 15 hydrogen electricity cell vehicles around the U.S., but the higher-ups at Honda find out the current a completely functioning hydrogen infrastructure is carry on to funny things downward the road.

Their legislation in the meantime is centered something like the introduction of a new hybrid automobile for 2009, amongst creation output aimed at 100,000 property per year. In addition, Honda plans on launching a series of clean diesel vehicles so are rooted off of the modern creation cars now obtainable in Europe. The new emissions technology making grown is able to aide Honda’s diesels to pass the strictest of standards, namely people at this moment enforced in California.

Clean diesel technology according to a Japanese automaker? We pray who the boys in Detroit are readying this own arsenal of oil-burners.

From left to right: Sterling’s new (and first) natural gas tractor, the 360 Electrica battery-powered street sweeper, 360 Electrica the Dymac electric truck. Just three of the vehicles Autoblog encountered at the AFVI Expo in Las Vegas this week. The big news might be coming out of San Francisco, though, because the mayor is talking with Project Better Place.

Even in this early, very rough, form, Lutz says the car is meeting and exceeding the goal of 40 miles of driving without running the engine. With this, the E-Flex engineers have demonstrated the performance viability of this concept. However, they still have a long way to go in validating the robustness of the system in different operating environments as well as the long-term durability of the powertrain as a whole.

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Those were some posts from yesterday’s AutoblogGreen. Since today is Earth Day, we’ll have a lot of special features throughout the day. Click early, click often.

We called our contacts within BMW to confirm or deny the rumor, and as expected, our sources could only reiterate BMW’s previous official statements that the cars would be “out by fall.”

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As we’ve heard before, the next generation of AMG-massaged Mercs will have to balance high output with low emissions. That means more turbos, less displacement and (gasp) hybrids.

The big and bad 6.2-liter V8 won’t be around much longer. Instead, AMG is turning its focus towards a new, twin-turbo 5.0-liter V8 that will produce 570 hp and 665 lb.-ft. of torque, with output possibly reaching 700 hp and 885 lb.-ft. to replace the outgoing 612-hp V12 mill.

Forced induction is only part of the equation, as AMG is looking to a new hybrid-equipped V8, dubbed BluePower, that will either come with the X-Trac Flybrid system or a 100-hp electric motor integrated into the transmission. There’s also talk that AMG will be releasing its own plug-in hybrid by 2012 and that diesels will continue to become an important part of the brand.

The other issue with which AMG has to contend is Mercedes’ own turbocharged offerings. Future M-Bs will be sporting turbo’d V8s displacing 4.0-, 4.6- and 5.5-liters, with outputs ranging from 355 to 544 hp.

And what of the upcoming AMG supercar? Car says that the gullwing super coupe, codenamed C197, will debut in March of 2010 and be powered by the same 6.2-liter V8 (likely the last application of that engine) while sending all that energy through an eight-speed automatic gearbox.
[Source: Car]