The first PHEV-converted Ford F-150 pickup truck features a huge improvement in mileage over the normal ICE-powered model. With its 41mpg, the fuel-sipping F-150 consumes less gasoline than an average sedan.

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If you think that current BMW M5 is not sporty enough, then you may consider installing the new body kit from Japanese elite tuning company Wald International. In contrast with aggressive-looking body kits of European origin, Wald's package makes the M5 look more elegant and, well, somewhat ready, if you know what I mean.

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Porsche has finally revealed some info on its Porsche Cayman S Sport model, which is meant to somehow increase sales of its outgoing Cayman S clearly stalling before the arrival of the facelifted model. Of course, the official version is the celebration of Porsche's 60th Anniversary.

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Jaguar XK120 was the British brand's first model since the end of the WWII. Launched at the 1948 London Motor Show as a concept vehicle, the XK120 proved that Britain indeed survived the war. The car was met with such an enthusiasm that Jaguar's owner Sir William Lyons decided to put the XK120 on assembly line. Now, it's XK60's turn to prove that Jaguar is still alive.

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Although the new TH!NK city electric vehicle is not as sexy as the Lightning GT EV, it is certainly much more viable solution for a city suffocating in CO2 and clouds of soot.

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If there were a prize for the ugliest car of the British International Motor Show this year, the upcoming IFR Aspid Sports Car roadster would have a good chance to be a winner. Certainly inspired by Lotus' and Caterham's super-light sports cars, the Aspid certainly looks like a product of interbreeding between Frankenstein and a cheap Chinese ghetto-blaster stereo (omg, just look at those head lights!).

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Although the British Lightning Car Company, which is behind the whole project, is taking pre-orders for the Lightning GT EV since March, it will be only tomorrow that the prospective customers and general public will have the first chance to see and actually touch the mighty electric car. Trying to get extra publicity, the company has released a fresh set of images of the upcoming EV. Enjoy.

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With its first public appearance at the British Motor Show in London, the new Ford Fiesta ECOnetic model officially joins the Mondeo and Focus models wearing the same ECOnetic badge. Although the car doesn't feature an EV or a hybrid drivetrain technology, its eco-friendliness is undeniable since it emits just 98g of CO2 on every kilometer traveled.

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The British NICE Car Company is going to start selling another city electric vehicle. Based on the highly popular 2008 Fiat 500 super-mini and built by the Italian EV specialist Micro-Vett, the EV will have a 70 mile (112.6 km) range and a top speed of 60mph (96km/h). This is pretty much enough for your average daily commute, but will inevitably subject you to the range anxiety panic attacks if you don't have a normal diesel-powered car in your garage handy.

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Subaru will use the ongoing British Motor Show in London to showoff its Subaru Impreza WRX STI concept vehicle. If the customers' feedback proves to be positive, the Japanese company will probably produce a limited lot of the cars during the next half a year.

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Based on the current Renault Megane 230 F1 Team R26 hot hatchback, the R26.6 comes equipped with the same 2.0-liter 230hp engine, six-speed manual gearbox and limited slip differential, but is 123kg lighter, thus featuring better acceleration and much less comfort.

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Audi of America has just introduced a set of changes for its existing models for the model year 2009. Although the upcoming Audi A4 sedan and Avant models, as well as Audi Q7 3.0 TDI and Audi Q5 SUVs are still out of the price list, there are some candies for the rest of the pack, including the fire-breathing Audi R8.

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Lotus CEO Mike Kimberley says that his new baby, the 2+2 GT Lotus Evora f.k.a. Eagle will be available to the European customers in the first half of the year 2009. Only 2000 cars will be hand made each year.

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VW and North Sails have joined their forces to create a maritime inspired Volkswagen Touareg North Sails design study. Although certainly lacking sails and a proper hull, the concept vehicle nevertheless leaves a strong nautical impression.

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Both coupe and cabriolet versions of the tiny BMW 1-Series sport car may be equipped with new aero kit presented by the German tuning specialist Hartge. Being as ugly as it is, the 1-Series really needs some extra plastic parts to make it look just a trifle more presentable.

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The Swiss tuning specialist Caractere has revealed its first exterior styling kit for the 2008 Audi A4 (B8) compact sport sedan. Just like most its recent works, the kit looks, err, polarizing.

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Looks like GM has finally got it right and decided to keep the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro production version as close to the concept car as possible. The car even retains those cool dials and instrument gauges on the center console inspired by the Camaro of 1969 model year.

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Mitsubishi will officially debut its new Pajero Sport seven-seating SUV at the Moscow Auto Salon in August. Unlike the previous generations of the popular off-roader, the new Pajero Sport will feature a built-in ladder frame instead of a body-on-frame and unibody constructions.

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Ferrari has ordered a party of 200 special edition 2008 Fiat 500 to put them to work as spare vehicles at its European service centers. Painted in the same red color, the cars will bear an extensive list of equipment you just won't get on a standard car.

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Vauxhall starts selling its Corsa VXR Arctic Edition mini hatch. Set to be presented to general public next week at the British Motor Show in London, the spec.ed. will feature a Glacier White body paint, black 18-inch V-spoke alloy wheels with low profile 225/35 tires and a Remus Sports exhaust system.

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Mexico has a good chance to join the exclusive club of exotic sport car manufacturers. Their upcoming RWD Mastretta MXT coupe, which is still in its prototype phase, will be presented next week at the British Motor Show in London.

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With its body 411cm long, 179cm wide and 161cm tall, the upcoming Kia Soul mini MPV will be 3cm longer, 6cm wider and just 1cm lower than the yet to go on sale Citroen Picasso C3 MPV. It will have to compete against the Honda Jazz and Renault Modus compact people movers.

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Although coming equipped with more muscular body kit and lowered ground clearance, the new Ford Fiesta Zetec S fun car doesn't actually leave an impression of a hot mini. Rather, it looks like a little fat guy wearing the Chicago Bulls uniform.

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The Austrian motorcycle manufacturer KTM is working on a seriously upgraded version of its successful X-Bow (Crossbow) race car. If anything goes as planned, soon we will see an X-Bow R with a 30 percent more powerful engine and a set of amenities making the car more comfortable for all-weather driving.

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The price is for the entry-level 2009 Mazda6 SV model, which is powered by a 170hp 2.5-liter inline-four engine mated to a six-speed manual transmission. Although the price doesn't include a $670 destination charge, the car will nevertheless be almost $600 cheaper than the outgoing model and will definitely beat its main competitors: Chevrolet Malibu, Honda Accord, Nissan Altima and Toyota Camry. At least, in terms of price.

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Lotus has revealed the first hi-res picture and some details on its upcoming Lotus Evora (Eagle) 2+2 sports car. Equipped with a 3.5-liter 280PS V6 outsourced from Toyota, the new car is claimed to be faster than Elise and more stable than Exige.

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Chrysler's autoparts supplying arm Mopar revealed first official detail on the recently announced drag race package for the Dodge Challenger muscle car. Featuring a choice of 6.1-liter or 5.7-liter HEMI or 5.9-liter Magnum Wedge engines, the package may come with either automatic or a manual transmission.

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Looks like SSC's PR department is so excited about the upcoming SSC Ultimate Aero EV electric supercar that they didn't even notice a grossly misleading typo in their press release.

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There are tuners, there are super-tuners, and there is 9ff. The German tuning specialist doesn't waste its time creating plastic body kits and exclusive velour floor mats. Instead, the company takes any given Porsche, takes it apart, throws everything away leaving about 2 per cent of the original car, and then makes its own, street-legal monster.

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Well, guys from the Islands keep getting better offerings than the rest of Europe. The facelifted Mazda RX-8 R3, for example, will be available in the United Kingdom with a new body kit, better interior and a set of new alloys.

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Mitsubishi will soon start selling its long-awaited Galant Fortis Ralliart 4WD sedan. Known outside of Japan as the Mitsubishi Lancer Ralliart, the car is more powerful and sportier than a normal Lancer but stays a step below the real Lancer EVO (you may put a respective Latin numeral here).

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The refreshed 2009 BMW 3-Series family of sedans, coupes and station wagons has received a rather extensive facelift, getting sportier, more muscular looks. Unfortunately, the choice of engines remains the same, except that Americans will finally receive the 335d version of the car equipped with a 265 hp, 425 lb-ft green twinturbo diesel engine featuring the AdBlue-based BluePerformance system similar to Mercedes' BlueTEC.

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Mercedes has finally revealed to the public some official info, as well as photos, on its upcoming Mercedes Benz SL65 AMG Black Series coupe. Being 550 pounds (249kg) lighter than the standard SL-Class and featuring a powerful twin-turbocharged 6.0-liter V12, the car will sport better acceleration time and top speed numbers than the good old SLR McLaren 722.

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Wald International, one of the top Japanese tuners, has released a first bunch of images previewing its upcoming tuning kit for the Bentley Continental GT super coupe.

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The Hummer brand may be up for sale, but GM still wants to get maximum return on the money invested. And this time its new offering is not only about showing-off, it delivers some value, too. Here comes the long-awaited Hummer H3T SUT midsize pickup truck.

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Although initially supposed to be revealed during the Frankfurt motor show next year, the upcoming Peugeot 308 CC coupe convertible received such an enormous wave of enthusiasm among European drivers that the company apparently changed its mind and decided to officially present the car the this year's Paris Motor Show in September.

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It's been more than a year since the Bavarian company introduced its facelifted 2008 BMW 6-Series coupe and convertible sport cars. Both Lumma and AC Schnitzer already offer their own tuning kits for the refreshed car and now Hamann pulls a joker out of its sleeve.

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BMW will soon ship 500 electric Minis to California to comply with the local ZEV program. Of those five hundreds EVs, 490 will be leased to select customers (OMG, they still lease these cars!) and the remaining ten will be kept in the showrooms.

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G-Power keeps introducing tuning kits for the BMW cars. This time it's a supercharger kit for the Z4 roadster equipped with a 3.0-liter petrol engine. Consisting of an ASA T1-12 supercharger, air-to-air intercooler, oil cooler, remapped ECU and completely new sports exhaust system with racing-headers and catalytic converters, the kit increases the Z4's performance to a level of Z4M red-hot roadster.

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Nissan's UK design center in Paddington, London, has created a hard top rear bed cover for the Navara Aventura double-cab truck. Made of the SMC composite material, the X-Back cover is resistant to minor impacts, has heat exchange properties similar to those made of steel, and it is recyclable, too.

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Kahn Design and Cosworth have finally presented their first baby: the Kahn Cosworth Sport 300 tuning program for the Range Rover Sport luxury SUV. Although both companies from the very beginning of the partnership promised to deliver a series of "truly sensational" cars, the first product of the collaboration doesn't look sensational at all.

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Citroen will soon start producing its new Citroen C3 Picasso baby MPV. Set to compete against such established players as the Fiat Idea, Honda Jazz, Lancia Musa, Nissan Note, Opel Meriva and Renault Modus, the new MPV will be based on the Peugeot 207 platform and will feature a generous 500l of luggage space.

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After four years on the assembly line, and sales approaching to 1,000,000 units, the French Citroen C4 has finally received a facelift treatment. Apart from slight changes to the vehicle's interior and exterior, the refreshed C4 also got a pair of new 1.6-liter petrol engines co-developed with BMW.

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German tuning studio Lumma Design has revealed a preview of its upcoming Lumma CLR X650 body kit for the new BMW X6 SAC. Looks like the highly unpractical car, which is neither a coupe, nor an SUV, will soon receive a body kit of just the same kind.

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German tuner Abt is readying its first comprehensive tuning program for the new Audi A3 Cabriolet. Four different engine tuning kits significantly increase the A3 Cabrio's available power making the small sporty car even faster. Almost like the new Audi S3, I'd say.

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The 5th generation BMW 7 Series luxury sedan has finally been unveiled. Going on sale next spring on both European and North American markets, the new 7er will be available as the 730d, 740i and 740Li, 750i and 750Li versions, although the US will only get the last pair of cars. Well, with their ridiculously low gas prices, the Americans may consider the 400 hp, 450 lb-ft twin-turbo 4.4-liter V8 quite an affordable one.

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GM Asia-Pacific has built exactly 30 copies of its new Chevrolet Corvette S-Limited special edition model. Available on the Japanese market starting 4th of July, this limited lot is split evenly by its exterior color -- half will be shipped in Black and another half in Arctic White.

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At the end of July, Ford Europe will officially present its 2nd-gen Ford Focus RS super-hot performance hatchback. Although still in its development phase, the upcoming Focus RS will feature a turbocharged five-cylinder Duratec 2.5-liter engine capable of producing more than 300bhp of power and 410 Nm of torque. All this power will be transferred to the front pair of wheels, so the second-generation Focus RS may become one of the most powerful FWD cars ever produced.

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Visitors to the upcoming London Motor Show will have a chance to behold the launch of Land Rover's over-the-top of the range 2009 Range Rover Autobiography special edition luxury SUV. Claimed to become the most luxurious Range Rover ever, the off-roader will feature new leather trim with semi-aniline leather covering the seats, the center console and dashboard, door casings and bins.

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The 2009 Chevrolet Traverse crossover SUV is available at a modest price of $28,990, including a $735 destination charge. For the money, you'll get a 2WD LS model with a 3.6-liter mated to the Hydra-Matic 6T75 six-speed automatic transmission.

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