Report: Bugatti Galibier to be available with hybrid power

Filed under: Concept Cars, Hybrid, Sedan, Performance, Bugatti, Design/Style, Luxury

Bugatti Galibier 16C concept – Click above for high-res image gallery

Bugatti models have never lacked ambition, from the company’s original incarnation under founder Ettore Bugatti to its present-day operations under the Volkswagen Group. That unbridled moxie looks poised to gather pace with the brand’s forthcoming Galibier [...]

Michael Boxwell’s The 2011 Electric Car Guide now available

Filed under: Etc., EV/Plug-in

The 2011 Electric Car Guide, written by Michael Boxwell – a man with years of day-to-day experience behind the wheel of battery-powered vehicles – is now available for purchase in both eBook and paperback format.
If you’re new to plug-in vehicles, you’ve undoubtedly got questions about them, right? Are electric cars eco-friendly? What’s [...]

FireBreather now available from Classic Design Concepts

Filed under: Aftermarket, Coupe, Performance, Chevrolet, Specialty, Design/Style

Classic Design Concepts Firebreather – Click above for high-res image gallery

Good news, Poncho fans: the Classic Design Concepts Firebreather is officially on sale. If you were one of the many souls whose minds immediately leapt to thoughts of a resurrected Firebird when GM first introduced the Chevrolet Camaro [...]

Coulomb CT500 Level II home charging station now available

Coulomb Technologies announced that its CT500 Level II (208-240 volts at 30 amps) residential charging station is now available for purchase. The CT500 is a single-output, 7.2-kilowatt charging station featuring the J1772 plug-in connection and networking capabilities.
With the addition of the CT500, Coulomb’s charging options now run the gamut from the basic home charging unit [...]

Viper-based Maybach Exelero replica available for order, yours for only $670k

Filed under: Aftermarket, Concept Cars, Coupe, Performance, Europe, Dodge, Maybach

Maybach Exelero concept – Click above for high-res image gallery

Often imitated, never duplicated. We’re talking about the Maybach Exelero, the high-speed test bed commissioned from Daimler by Fulda tires. Unfortunately, only one was ever made, and it was subsequently sold for nearly $8 million, reportedly to [...]

Diesel “take rate” on the rise; 30 percent choose diesel option if available

Filed under: Diesel, Hybrid, MPG, Green Daily

2010 VW Jetta TDI Cup Street Edition – Click above for high-res image gallery

Today’s new lineup of clean diesel vehicles are light years better than some of the noisy, stench-riddled oil burners of years past and consumers are starting to take notice. Recent data collected by Bosch shows that [...]

Lexus resumes sales of GX 460, software update available to owners

Filed under: SUV, Recalls, Safety, Lexus, Luxury

2010 Lexus GX 460 – Click above for high-res image gallery

Sixteen days after the Lexus GX 460 landed on Consumer Reports “Do Not Buy” list and Toyota issued a stop-sale on the luxury ‘ute, Lexus has developed a fix for the stability control issue discovered by CR and has [...]