With the steady rise of gas prices, the appeal for a car with great gas mileage is growing nationwide and owning a hybrid car is now a major trend, at least for those with the cash to make the switch. The main difference, of course, is right under the hood.

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One battery-powered sports car, the Tesla, is already on the market, and others are expected to join it soon. Mainstream battery cars should follow in a year or two. Hydrogen, it seems, is fading fast.

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The MV Agusta F4CC, a wickedly purposeful machine from Varese, Italy.

This MV Agusta does share some qualities of costly items. First, there is scarcity, with only 100 F4CCs having been built, and it comes from a company with a celebrated racing history. Also, it is an object of intrinsic beauty, carefully hand-wrought and lavished with precious materials.

And, oh, the F4CC’s 4-cylinder engine packs a 200-horsepower punch, with top speed limited to 195 miles an hour.
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Based electric vehicle maker Ultra Motor Company today launched a high-range electric scooter, Marathon, priced at Rs 31,047 (ex-showroom Kochi) in India, which it claims would travel 100 km on a single charge.
“Marathon is primarily targeted at 24-plus year olds, riding a petrol scooter or a moped and who are looking at economy and utility,” Ultra Motor India Director (Marketing) Deba Ghoshal told reporters.
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Scooters are bucking the credit crunch as people look for economical transport and Sachs have given their SX1 a facelift for Summer 2008 to make it even more attractive.

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Nissan and Project Better Place promise that their 2010 electric cars will be pure electric—not plug-in hybrids like those planned by many green competitors. I want a pure electric car,” said Carlos Goshn, chief executive officer of Nissan. “I don’t want a hybrid”.

As a result, Nissan’s cars will be 100% emission free, Goshn declared at a ceremony to dedicate Nissan’s new North American headquarters in Franklin, an affluent suburb in the hills south of Nashville. » Read the rest of the entry..

A Troy company that is carrying on the Fisher Body name to develop lightweight hybrid buses made its formal launch Monday and said it is looking for 50,000 square feet of manufacturing space to begin pre-production development in the Detroit area for deliveries in 2009.

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With prices soaring all around us, it’s nice to come across a hot product that bucks the up-trend. Of course, sacrifices have to be made.

FOR a non-national car model which sold some 100,000 examples since its introduction five years ago, the Toyota Vios is a tough act to follow.

While it somewhat replaced another top-seller — the Toyota Corolla which has gone up market with a bigger body and more luxurious appointments — the cheaper and smaller Vios edged in as the new entry-level Toyota.

At a glance, the Toyota Vios J looks pretty much like any other Vios variant. The dashboard looks similar but the audio system is a single-DIN type now. The wing mirror adjustment is manual. The wheels are steel, dressed up with hub caps. BY thestar.com.my

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