Prof. Ferdinand Porsche Created the First Hybrid Car - Semper Vivus - Web Exclusive

Prof. Ferdinand Porsche Created the First Hybrid Car - Semper Vivus - Web Exclusive

He developed the world’s first hybrid car, advanced electric car, and all-wheel drive car a century ago, and now Porsche brings a recreation of his Semper Vivus to New York.

The name Porsche has been associated with pioneering automotive engineering innovations since the beginning of the last century. In 1900 Prof. Ferdinand Porsche unveiled his Lohner Porsche, an electric car with wheel-hub motors driving the front wheels. Soon after, this car featured all-wheel drive and four-wheel brakes, another world first. A highlight of his early years as an automotive designer was the Lohner-Porsche Semper Vivus that went down in history 111 years ago as the first functional hybrid car.

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BMW ActiveE leasing priced at $499 a month, $2,250 down payment

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BMW has released official pricing for its latest foray into the world of electric vehicles, and compared to the rest of your EV options, the Active E is a screaming deal.

Lease pricing for the 1 Series-based Active E is set at $499 a month for 24 months, with a downpayment of $2,250 due at signing. BMW isn't citing exact output figures yet (we're hearing something around 190 hp), but it's quoting a 0-60 time of under nine seconds and a range of 100 miles with its specially developed, liquid-cooled lithium ion battery pack. Reservations will begin this summer and you can get in on the action at BMWActivateTheFuture.com. Full details in the press blast after the jump.

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2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee and Wrangler Unlimited diesels

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Jeep's Best And Brightest Lose Their Spark Plugs, Add Whoop-Ass

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We're all suitably bowled over by the chest-hair enhancing Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8, with its compression-ratio gulping 6.4-liter Hemi V8 booming out 465 horsepower and 465 pound-feet of torque. Love it all, but we have trouble seeing anyone on Earth actually realizing its promised 13 percent improvement in fuel efficiency, much less its pie-in-sky 450-mile range. Give us a break, Jeep. Tell us anything, but don't tell us to embrace this new raging V8 as the ecologists' super SUV. It has Track mode, for the love of Pete. Say hello to $5+ fun every 10 or so miles when the SRT8 is driven as Jeep's engineers have clearly intended. Then we dare you to tow anything and afford it. We're by no means damning the utterly awesome SRT8, just saying...

If you read enthusiast outlets, a diesel Jeep has been one of the leading wish-list items, well... forever.

One other recent improvement for Jeep in time for its 70th anniversary - beyond this latest Grand Cherokee lineup that continues to shine - is the nearly 100-percent better (and now nearly competitive) Compass. Then, in the near future, the Patriot and Compass will likely - and rightly - merge into one model, there will be a new entry-level "B SUV" and we suspect the Liberty will return to its proper name, Cherokee. Top all of this off with the promised rebirth of the legendary Grand Wagoneer three-row down the road, and it's all looking right on track.

So, where's the common-rail direct-injected turbo diesel?

The Europeans have just been shown their next-generation Jeep turbo diesels and we had a chance to sample these latest and greatest oil-burners at the Fiat Auto proving grounds in Balocco, Italy. We grabbed the ones we like the most: the Grand Cherokee 4x4 Laredo with 3.0-liter CRD V6 and gnarly-yet-comfortable Wrangler Unlimited Sahara with 2.8-liter four-cylinder CRD and wondrous six-speed manual. Word has it that the Grand Cherokee CRD is set to hit the States by late 2013. The Wrangler in Trail-Rated Rubicon guise with a 3.0 CRD V6 and six-speed manual is many off-roaders' dream chariot, but there is currently no talk of this happy-hour cocktail coming our way or even ever exiting from Jeep's Toledo, Ohio plant. That'd be a pity.

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NEW RECORD for Porsche set by Evolution MotorSports - Web Exclusive

NEW RECORD for Porsche set by Evolution MotorSports - Web Exclusive

Fully weighted street legal 997.1 Twin Turbo hits 234.6MPH at Texas Mile.

Goliad, TX - Evolution MotorSports (EVOMS), based in Tempe, AZ has set a NEW RECORD for a fully street weighted and street legal Porsche 997.1 Twin Turbo at 234.6MPH. MAYHEM, as it is known, is a 2007 Porsche 997.1 twin turbo with the company’s EVT1500 Performance System. The EVT1500 was piloted by EVOMS European partner from Greece, Mike Paridis.

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Mullin Automotive Museum steps closer to bringing classic Bugatti coupe to life

Filed under: Concept Cars, Classics, Bugatti, Design/Style

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Peter Mullin is nuts for classic French cars. His Mullin Automotive Museum is a beautiful shrine to a very specific period of automotive history. One particular vehicle in his collection is Jean Bugatti's unfinished 1939 Type 64 Coupe. Jean was Ettore's oldest son, and he died while test driving the Le Mans-winning Type 57 C. His Type 64 Coupe chassis never got the body that Bugatti hoped to have built for it... but Mr. Mullin is going to change that.

Using Jean Bugatti's sketches as a guide, Mullin has partnered with Stewart Reed Design to develop a vision of what the car should look like. Now, that pair is joined by Mike Kleeves of Automobile Metal Shaping Company, which means that team officially have someone on their team capable of bringing this bit of conceptual art into the physical world.

For more on the Type 64, check out the up-close look at the car we experienced during a field trip to the Mullin Museum in 2010.

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Gallery: Mullin Museum: Bugatti Type 64 Coupe Chassis

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Review: 2011 Honda Pilot 4WD Touring

Filed under: Crossover, Honda, Reviews

Honda's Big Ute Gets A Little Stale

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The family Crossover Utility Vehicle segment is, to put it mildly, crowded. Every major automaker has at least one option from which to choose. Ford has four choices, while Toyota makes due with three options. Some models feature two rows of seating, while others boast room for up to eight. Then there are the more off-road capable options to contrast with the docile soft-roaders.

Though most automakers have gone crossover crazy, Honda has made due with a simple two-CUV lineup. The perennially top-selling CR-V takes care of those who desire a smaller footprint, smaller price tag and higher fuel economy, while the larger Pilot takes on the three-row crowd. The Pilot has been mostly successful during its nine-year production run, with high marks for safety (the 2011 model has an overall score of four stars from the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration) and reliability (Consumer Reports gave it the organization's coveted Recommended rating). Dancing on the fringes of the CUV segment and selling in low numbers, Honda also offers the nearly gone Element and Accord Crosstour, but it's still the boxier CR-V and Pilot doing the heavy lifting for the brand. Honda made enough changes to the Pilot to keep it competitive with stiff competition like the Toyota Highlander and Chevrolet Traverse? We spent a week with a well-appointed 4X4 Touring model to find out.

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First Look: 2009 Scion tC Release Series 5.0

First Look: 2009 Scion tC Release Series 5.0

The pre-customized 2009 Scion tC Release Series 5.0 sports coupe packs factory installed accessories and limited availability.

Scion's "United by Individuality" ad campaign along with all the custom accessories available for the 2009 tC can be a bit daunting to a buyer. Scion customers may even feel intimidated by the peer pressure to "pimp their ride." Scion has sought to remedy the problem with the latest iteration of the tC, the release series 5.0.

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First Drive: 2011 Chrysler 200 Convertible

Filed under: Convertible, Chrysler, First Drive

An Improved Droptop For The Cruise Ship Crowd

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The previous-generation Chrysler Sebring Convertible was a mainstay of vacation-destination rental fleets. The cars were so numerous that you could pick them out from your airplane flying into Orlando, Miami and Los Angeles.

The old Sebring seemed just about perfect in this role. It was fine for a couple days of fun in the sun, but you never shed a tear when dropping off its keys back at the rental counter. When we arrived at the launch of the new Chrysler 200 Convertible in San Diego, we wondered whether the Sebring's successor would be better enough for us to want to hold onto the keys after our test drive was over.

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2007 Subaru Legacy Spec B

2007 Subaru Legacy Spec B

Subaru is debuting the Legacy Spec B, which was a special edition for 2006, but will be a full-fledged model for '07. The new model gains a sixth forward ratio for the manual gearbox and an electronic throttle and torque management system that Subaru calls SI Drive. SI Drive has three settings: intelligent, sport, and sport sharp. Set to intelligent, the system retards the Spec B's power output and dulls throttle response in an attempt to eliminate the car's jumpy turbo characteristics and ma

Subaru is debuting the Legacy Spec B, which was a special edition for 2006, but will be a full-fledged model for '07. The new model gains a sixth forward ratio for the manual gearbox and an electronic throttle and torque management system that Subaru calls SI Drive. SI Drive has three settings: intelligent, sport, and sport sharp. Set to intelligent, the system retards the Spec B's power output and dulls throttle response in an attempt to eliminate the car's jumpy turbo characteristics and make it easier to drive in day-to-day traffic. Subaru claims that this mode will increase fuel economy by ten percent. Sport mode is the default setting, and sport sharp will heighten throttle reponse and make gearshifts more aggressive in cars equipped with an automatic transmission. SI Drive will also be fitted to all turbo Legacy GTs and Outback XTs.

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1992 Honda Civic CX - Drag 8-Second History Lesson

1992 Honda Civic CX - Drag 8-Second History Lesson

How The Privateer Invented And Reinvented Import Drag Racing

Kevin Kempf's '92 Civic CX
The condensed story of import drag racing thus far: Toyota, Mazda, and Datsun tuners began late-night street racing within the confines of Los Angeles county's industrial parks sometime during the '80s. Honda owners enlisted just after the turn of the decade. By the mid-'90s, sanctioned drag racing events emerged throughout California; privateer racers with little backing and little money trailblazed Hondas to historic 11-, 10, and 9-second passes; spectators crowded the stands. In 2002, General Motors-the first OEM to embrace and spread unwieldy dollars toward a sport compact race team of its own-entered the scene, rendering it nearly impossible for cost-conscious privateers to remain competitive. Import drag racing as far as the amateur racer was concerned was crushed as $15,000 budgets were no match against $150,000 budgets. Today, big-money OEMs have moved on and the privateers are back. The stands are beginning to fill up again. And the cars are faster than ever. The folks at SpeedFactory Racing own one of those cars.

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Feature Flick: Aventador Ad Channels Lamborghini?s Inner Michael Bay

While many supercar fans have already made up their minds about whether or not they like the Lamborghini Aventador, the Italian sports car maker apparently thought it necessary to produce an ad appealing to the summer-movie-going millionaire demographic. Showing nearly three minutes of the Aventador racing through a desert landscape evading a CG doomsday event, [...]

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Tokyo Auto Salon 2011

Tokyo Auto Salon 2011

As the economy worldwide struggles to regain its footing, many look to the TAS event as a measuring stick, to determine the state of the industry.

This year’s Tokyo Auto Salon event carried quite a bit of weight on its broad shoulders. As the economy worldwide struggles to regain its footing, many look to the TAS event as a measuring stick, much in the same way they look to SEMA, to determine the state of the industry. SEMA 2010, though still on wobbly legs, seemed to show signs of revitalization in the tuner market. Unfortunately, other than the CR-Z presence in Las Vegas, the Honda front seemed to be all but forgotten. Across the waters, the illustrious Tokyo Auto Salon numbers were a bit deceiving on paper. Last year’s event drew just over 400 participants, while this year’s show barely managed to eclipse the 360 mark. However, with over 600 vehicles on the display (up from last year) and an increase in foot traffic, the dark cloud hanging over the industry seems to have lifted, even if just for a few days.

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Oktoberfest Track Event - Oktoberfest 2010

Oktoberfest Track Event - Oktoberfest 2010

Carolina Motorsports Park, Oct. 13-14

Track Day As with every year, the Oktoberfest track event at Carolina Motorsports Park struck once again. The deep-rooted group of enthusiasts that have become notorious for a weekend full of track time capped off by nighttime, makeshift campfire beer marathons has continued their tradition for 2010. Roasted tires, a few broken parts, and good times were had by all that attended the two-day shindig, with many already planning to attend in 2011. If you'd like to attend the next event, you've got plenty of time to gear up and take part; don't miss out!

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Beyond Big: Ram Concept Adds Long Bed to Mega Cab

Size is subjective. We, for instance, would consider Ram’s 3500 dually with the optional Mega Cab to be quite large, considering its 78.3-inch height and 248.4-inch length would make navigating our office’s parking garage difficult, if not impossible. Still, Chrysler offers the Mega Cab only with a smaller 6.4-foot cargo bed, leaving those buyers seeking [...]

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First Look: 2009 Scion iQ Concept

First Look: 2009 Scion iQ Concept

Will Scion Sell Toyota's Tiny iQ here? That's up to the youth of America to decide.

Toyota already sells the iQ, a tiny urban runabout, in Europe and Japan, but this is the first time the company has acknowledged a desire to sell the car here in America. The Scion iQ concept that debuted at the 2009 New York Auto Show wears high-zoot bodywork from Five Axis, a car customizer from Huntington Beach, California, but if an iQ comes to your Scion dealership, it likely won't look quite as crazy as this.

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Guy Fieri's Lamborghini stolen from dealer by rappelling thief?

Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Etc., Lamborghini, First Drive, Celebrities

What seems more plausible: that a thief dropped down from a dealership's roof, Mission Impossible-style, to boost a Lamborghini? Or that the car in question belonged to a chef? In an alternate reality where the world actually makes sense, the answer would ostensibly be "neither," but we're talking about California here.

The yellow 2008 Lamborghini Gallardo in question didn't belong to any random short-order cook, but to celebrity chef Guy Fieri (above), host of such TV shows as Minute to Win It and the long-running Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Fieri's car was back at the exotic car dealership on San Francisco's Van Ness Avenue overnight when a thief climbed onto the roof of the building, rigged up his gear, rappelled down into the showroom, busted the lock on the garage door and made off (presumably at a rather rapid pace) in Fieri's Gallardo.

Local police figure it wouldn't be easy for the thief to offload the exotic supercar, but from our read of the story, we'd bet that such a prepared thief already had a buyer lined up. And while it may be difficult to sell a stolen rare car locally, if he or she could get it to the docks, it could already be in another country by now. Top tip, Tony!

[Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Image: Jay West/Getty]

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BMW?s New Three-, Four-, and Six-Cylinder Engine Family Detailed, Magicked Into Being By Laser-Wielding Sentient Robots

Sweeping changes are afoot at Bavarian Motor Works, as the automaker confirms plans to bring three-cylinder diesel and gasoline engines to market as part of a new, modular engine family. The base engine in the family?its heart, if you will?is a four-cylinder, from which an inline-six will be derived; that engine in turn forms the [...]

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Fiat 500C to Start at $20,000, Configurator Live

U.S. pricing for the Fiat 500C has been announced, and the diminutive droptop will start at $20,000 for the base Pop model, or a hefty $4000 more than a 500 Pop three-door hatchback. (For reference, Smart puts a $3K premium on the convertible version of its Fortwo Passion.) The top-spec 500C Lounge, the only other [...]

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Review: 2011 Kia Optima EX

Filed under: Sedan, Kia, Reviews

The New Benchmark, For Now

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Nobody remembers the 2010 Kia Optima, but just like that, the 2011 model may be the mainstream sedan to beat. While some consumers - the uninformed and brand-bigoted - might remain skeptical, the 2011 Kia Optima is the new benchmark. How could the Optima go from warmed-over also-ran to the segment's latest front-runner?

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