Honda’s new hybrid version of “Civic sedan” car is displayed during its launch in New Delhi June 18, 2008. Japan’s Honda Motor Co said on Wednesday it would start selling a hybrid version of its Civic sedan in India from the end of this month as it chases Toyota Motor Corp in the green car […]

A Prius with the new Hybrid engine is seen at the fair stand of Japanese car manufacturer Toyota at the international car show IAA in Frankfurt

A sexy model stands next to a Nissan X-Trail SUV during the Vietnam Auto Expo 2008 at Vietnam Exhibition & Fair Centre in Hanoi

Ford Explorers are shown on a dealership lot in Detroit, Wednesday, June 11, 2008. High gasoline prices are affecting once-popular truck-based SUVs, leading some automakers to close the factories that make them and many industry analysts to declare the SUVs extinct as U.S. consumers flee rapidly from trucks to cars

Wilfried Aulbur, managing director and chief executive of Mercedes-Benz India, poses next to a Mercedes-Benz C 63 AMG sports car during its India launch in Mumbai

The 2008 Honda S2000 CR is like one of those arguments in which one side goes way out on a limb and ends up winning. In this case, the winners of the argument—for once—were passionate car guys within Honda HMC, rather than the bean counters and marketing types who usually prevail in the auto business. […]

Audi is fitting new 2.0 TDI diesel and 2.0 TFSI petrol engines in the A4 line-up, with deliveries of these models from next month.
The 120bhp/214lb ft 2.0 TDI (from £22,150) joins the 140bhp 2.0 diesel already on offer. It returns 55mpg and emits a tax-friendly 134g/km of carbon dioxide. In the A4 saloon, it gives […]

The Toyota Yaris (pictured) has won the Green Car of the Year award from the Environmental Transport Association (ETA), while Dodge’s SRT-10 sports car has been deemed “the least green”.
Announcing the winner to coincide with Green Transport Week next week (otherwise it’s a strange time to announce a yearly winner, surely there are six months […]

Toyota is introducing a plug-in hybrid with next-generation lithium-ion batteries in Japan, the U.S. and Europe by 2010, under a widespread strategy to be green outlined Wednesday.
The ecological gas-electric vehicles, which can be recharged from a home electrical outlet, will target leasing customers, Toyota Motor Corp. said. Such plug-in hybrids can run longer as an […]

A new trend is seeing German automakers offering the public some exciting entry-level cars, and the ability to park a newer Benz, Audi or Bimmer in their driveways for less than ever before. Mercedes has their B200, Audi has the A3, and now, BMW’s offering us the 1-Series.

The One
Not that the 3-Series could be accused […]