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Could Toyota Reveal the Prius ‘R’ at NYIAS?

Posted on March 17, 2016 by Jeff

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Toyota announced Tuesday that it would be adding a new “mechanical marvel” to the Prius lineup, to be introduced at the New York International Auto Show next week.

Toyota cryptically said that “the city that never sleeps is about to get a wake-up call.” Whatever that means.

Since Toyota has expanded the Prius lineup pretty extensively with the Prius C and Prius V along with the normal Prius, my guess is that this next Prius will be called the Prius R.

That’s right, Prius R. Why shouldn’t Toyota make a sporty, race-y “R” version to the Prius range? They popularized the hybrid car, and now nobody cares about it anymore. They’ve got to make something to compete with the hyper-hybrids like the LaFerrari, 918, and P1. Toyota even sent a seductively sleek teaser photo of the new car’s taillights.

So here is your first look at the enthusiast-oriented Prius. Mark my words.

Watch the reveal live.

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200mph Jaguar F-Type SVR to debut at Geneva

Posted on March 2, 2016 by Jeff

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Out of the SVR program at Jaguar Land Rover will come a new cat; a 200mph, hissing, spitting F-Type SVR. The car will debut at the Geneva Motor Show and go on sale in summer 2016.

“The new F-TYPE SVR is the first series production Jaguar to be developed by Special Vehicle Operations and benefits from everything we know about precision engineering, performance and design,” said John Edwards, managing director, Jaguar Land Rover SVO. Proving once again that there’s more than one way to skin a cat, Jaguar will offer the F-Type SVR in both coupe and convertible variants.

Jaguar says the F-Type SVR will retain day-to-day usability while exploiting the full potential of the sports car chassis. Making an already-maybe-too-loud car even louder with the help of a new titanium exhaust, the F-Type SVR will be the perfect grocery-getter for the type of person who demands the general public to pay them attention. This car will be sure to be bought by the type of business people who wear running shoes with their suit and talk too loudly on their Bluetooth headsets in a public setting.

Source: Jaguar Land Rover

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BMW displays Concept Compact Sedan: a new 1 Series?

Posted on November 24, 2015 by Jeff

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BMW showed off what it called “The BMW Concept Compact Sedan” this week at the Auto Guangzhou, one of the largest auto shows in China. BMW says its design is influenced by its target market in China, that is, the youthful generation that are “confident, dynamic and extremely quality conscious.” I’m not sure how a generation of people can be dynamic, but we’ll take BMW’s word for it.

Concepts don’t always make it to production, but in this case, it may be within reason to presume that what we are looking at may make it in some way to production as the next generation, front-wheel-drive, four-door 1 series compact. BMW has said that the emphasis of this design was on a roomy cabin for passenger comfort, unlike most car companies whose sole goal is to give their customers chronic backache. Keep a lookout for design cues from this concept making their way into future compact BMWs.

Source: BMW

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