The Stig has finally tossed the Nissan GT-R around Top Gear’s race track. The lap time had leaked before the show but I decided to wait for the official numbers. Turns out the leak was infact true (a surprise considering most e-rumors are blatant lies). Sorry to the few that complained. Anyway, the GT-R did [...]

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The LA Auto Show might be 111 days away, but Nissan has decided it’s never too early to market their Cube where Nissan’s favorite Gen- Y target audience wastes time - on the internet.
Judging the Cube’s site, I get the feeling Nissan thinks young car buyers care less about the car itself than bold slogans [...]

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As if the Toyota Crown Hybrid was not quiet enough, the engineers at Toyota have made it even quieter. Instead of adding insulation to the cabin, Toyota has adapted a similar technology used in noise cancelling headphones to reduce engine noise.
The company’s Active Noise Control system uses three microphones to monitor the cabin for engine [...]

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Mitsubishi has unveiled their entrant in the 2009 Dakar Rally which has recently relocated to South America. The Mitsubishi Racing Lancer MRX09, MRX standing for Mitsubishi Rally Cross Country, will be a three door version of the Lancer sportback with typical offroad bits - raised suspension, fat tires, piss pouches…
Before I get ahead of myself [...]

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Toyota has pretty much dominated the green car market with its Prius Hybrid and it now plans on upping the ante with solar panels on higher end models. The panels, according to Reuters, are Toyota’s way of responding to a “growing demand for green cars.” Don’t get too excited just yet, Toyota has admitted that [...]

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Ever since Cadillac introduced night vision in its models, other car makers have been quick to adopt the life saving technology. In the case of Toyota, their latest Crown Hybrid will transform what Toyota dubs their “Night View” technology from a heads-up-display to an embedded 1280 x 480 pixel LCD panel mounted directly above the [...]

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I’m not sure if this is NSFW or not, but Subaru just got a bit sexier with its latest commercial. The sixty second television ad takes the traditional idea of “hot chicks washing a car and rubbing their bodies” and adds sumo wrestlers to the mix - minus the hot [...]

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Toyota has got to be loving high gas prices. Ten years after launching the Prius, Toyota has just announced increased demand has pumped sales figures well above the one million mark. Records show they’d have sold 1,028,000 Hybrid Electric Priuses by the end of April.
The Prius, while originally revealed in 1997, was released in North [...]

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