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Monthly Archives: June 2008

Where is my M80? ;)

Palumbo Car Company preparing one small wonder. Gas-electric hybrid named M80. This two seat, mid-engine car will be truly sport car in soul, but still practical enough to be driven everyday. It’s roadster with rear wheels driven by 350 horsepower engine through CVT transmission. 0-60 MPH is claimed at 3.9 seconds with 46mpg economy (on [...]

UK Biodiesel racer

Trident Iceni is one special beast. Let’s forget for a minute that look like biodiesel is actually worst for environment and enjoy in this supercar. 0-100 in 3.9 seconds. 6.6-litre V8 – I bet you like that for difference of all electric engines. Iceni actually use GM truck engine tuned to run on biodiesel. Amazing [...]

British Aston-Tesla on it’s way

With specs similar to Tesla, 0-100 in 4 seconds and 250 miles per charge, Lightning Car Company brings you British, Aston-look-like supercar. Car is impressive with full list of features and beautiful lines. It’s take only 10 minutes to recharge 4 in-wheel engines producing 553lb-ft of torque. Lightning GT is not on sale yet, but all [...]

Go green race-cars!

CAR magazine video review on 24-hours of Nurburgring. To preview the future here is a lineup of cars, including hybrid Apollo car from Gumbert and Lexus LF-A (not yet, but expected in hybrid version later). Green technology coming to black tarmac. Enjoy.

BMW Vision Z – who’s vision?

BMW was always jewel of German engineering. To continue with tradition, they had a bit of help from British journalism. CAR magazine in May 08 issue, brings story about Vision Z. Green supercar created from technology BMW already using or currently working on. This hybrid monster would play with 300 horsepower and have low carbon [...]

Keep your supercar!

Always ground-breaking magazine WIRED brings research about what is really enemy of our environment? Conclusion? Read full story online – follow link below.
“Keep you SUV. Forget organics. Go nuclear. Screw the spotted owl.
If you’re serious about global warming, only one thing matters: Cutting carbon.”
Take a cup of your green tea and prepare for really inconvenient [...]

Tesla Fully Electric Roadster

Promotional video for Tesla supercar. 0-100 in 4 seconds and fully electric with around 240 miles on single charge. At the moment this is only fully electric supercar on sale. We heard about few problems with gearbox, but for now it’s doing great.

Tesla Roadster Crash Test

Childish part of me still likes car crashes. This time it’s in green way – Telstra Roadster done very well in this test. 5 minutes of twisted metal slow motion action.

Fuel economy Top Gear way

Guys from Top Gear bring few advices on fuel economy. First is race of supercars on 1 gallon of fuel. Then Prius vs BWM M3 mpg-10 lap race. And you know who will win…
At the end – massage is entirely correct – “change your driving style, not only car”.
 

 

Hello Gorgeous Hybrid – part II

World is changing and to keep primacy in their field – companies change too. Morgan, manufacture of some of most beautiful cars on the World, gone green with new model – LIFE. This unbelievable good looking car run on 4 electric motors with zero emission and real sport car enjoyment. Plus 0-60 miles in 7 [...]