The Honda FCX Concept car is shown at the Los Angeles Auto Show November 29, 2006. REUTERS/Max Morse

The Honda Remix concept car is unveiled at the Los Angeles Auto Show Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2006. The Remix, designed at Honda’s Southern California facility, is a sportier car designed to deliver a ‘fighter jet feel,’ according to the company, while also providing plenty of cargo space.

Tom Purves (L), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BMW USA Holding Corporation, smiles next to member of the board of management of BMW Group Michael Ganal during the presentation of the BMW Hydrogen 7 at the 2006 Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles November 29, 2006.

With the launch of its performance-oriented and efficient Diesel engines in the United States scheduled for 2008, the BMW Group announces another step in its strategy for profitable and sustainable growth.
The engines which are known in Europe for their unique synthesis of dynamic performance and low fuel consumption will be made available for the US, […]

Michael Ganal, member of the board of management of BMW Group, unveils the BMW Hydrogen 7 at the 2006 Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles November 29, 2006.

The giant parking lot with Volkswagen cars, Golf models, ready to be delivered are blocked inside the VW Forest/Vorst by workers in Brussels. Volkswagen’s new boss Martin Winterkorn has come up with a plan to save the German carmaker’s threatened Brussels plant by building a new Audi model there.

A Chinese model poses next to an Audi vehicle during the Beijing Auto Show at the international exhibition center in Beijing, China, Sunday, Nov. 19, 2006. Homegrown Chinese brands stole the show Saturday at the opening of the Beijing Auto Show, upstaging their bigger and better-known international counterparts with original designs and big ambitions.

Dave Hermance, the lead engineer of Toyota’s hybrid vehicle development in the U.S., died on Saturdaywhen his small plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean near Los Angeles. He was instrumental in bringing the Prius to the U.S., and his passing is a blow to Toyota’s hybrid vehicle program.
I met Dave and interviewed him several times. […]

David Hermance was credited with overseeing the successful development and launch of the hybrid car.
The Toyota executive who oversaw the popular Prius gas-electric hybrid car program died in a plane crash Saturday off the coast of California.
David W. Hermance, 59, died when the engine of his small plane evidently stopped working and he crashed into […]

Visitors look at a Mercedes-Benz S300 at the Beijing Auto Show Saturday Nov. 18, 2006. DaimlerChrysler AG is in talks with China’s Chery Automobile Co. to produce a sub-compact car for the Dodge brand, Daimler executives said Friday, in a potential step that could bring low-cost Chinese exports to the U.S. market. China has the […]