2011 Archive

  • Filed under: Concept Cars, Detroit Auto Show, Budget, Sedan, Hatchback, Chevrolet, GM 2012 Chevrolet Sonic Z Spec Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery General Motors seems intent on banishing all memories of the unloved Aveo – so much so that it’s gone and renamed its entry-level fighter in...

    Detroit 2011: 2012 Chevrolet Sonic is not an Aveo

    Filed under: Concept Cars, Detroit Auto Show, Budget, Sedan, Hatchback, Chevrolet, GM 2012 Chevrolet Sonic Z Spec Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery General Motors seems intent on banishing all memories of the unloved Aveo – so much so that it’s gone and renamed its entry-level fighter in...

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  • The Chevrolet Volt plug-in electric car, the centerpiece of General Motors’ comeback, was named 2011 North American Car of the Year at the Detroit auto show Monday. msnbc.com: Autos

    GM’s Volt named 2011 Car of the Year

    The Chevrolet Volt plug-in electric car, the centerpiece of General Motors’ comeback, was named 2011 North American Car of the Year at the Detroit auto show Monday. msnbc.com: Autos

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  • Filed under: Concept Cars, Detroit Auto Show, Crossover, Ford Ford Vertrek Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery It may look like the strange lovechild of the 2012 Ford Focus and the European-spec Kuga crossover, but the Blue Oval’s new Vertrek crossover concept is indeed a visual upgrade compared...

    Detroit 2011: Ford Vertrek Concept previews future global small crossover

    Filed under: Concept Cars, Detroit Auto Show, Crossover, Ford Ford Vertrek Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery It may look like the strange lovechild of the 2012 Ford Focus and the European-spec Kuga crossover, but the Blue Oval’s new Vertrek crossover concept is indeed a visual upgrade compared...

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  • Filed under: Concept Cars, Detroit Auto Show, Hybrid, Hatchback, Toyota Sprinkled around Cobo Hall this morning in the wee hours of the 2011 Detroit Auto Show, we discovered a number of promotional images from Toyota teasing the big Prius announcement that’s coming later this afternoon. We don’t know with 100...

    Detroit 2011: Toyota Prius family will grow with a smaller hatchback?

    Filed under: Concept Cars, Detroit Auto Show, Hybrid, Hatchback, Toyota Sprinkled around Cobo Hall this morning in the wee hours of the 2011 Detroit Auto Show, we discovered a number of promotional images from Toyota teasing the big Prius announcement that’s coming later this afternoon. We don’t know with 100...

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  • Filed under: Concept Cars, Convertible, Hybrid, CES, Audi, Electric, Diesel Audi eTron Spyder – Click above for high-res image gallery Audi CEO Rupert Stadler rolled onto the stage in the same eTron Spyder we saw in Paris, but for the crowd in Sin City, Audi swapped the silver paint for...

    CES 2011: Audi shows off revised eTron Spyder

    Filed under: Concept Cars, Convertible, Hybrid, CES, Audi, Electric, Diesel Audi eTron Spyder – Click above for high-res image gallery Audi CEO Rupert Stadler rolled onto the stage in the same eTron Spyder we saw in Paris, but for the crowd in Sin City, Audi swapped the silver paint for...

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