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Opel planning a new minicar for Europe, looking for development partner

According to Alain Visser, Opel's head of sales and marketing, Opel needs a minicar to compete. However, developing a new minicar is a huge expense, and even though Opel has set aside €250 million for this car, the company would like a partner. It's not unusual: Ford and Fiat share the Fiat Panda/Fiat 500/Ford Ka platform; Toyota and PSA share the Toyota Aygo/Citroën C1/Peugeot 107 structure. Opel has already a similar model, the Agila (shown above), which is jointly made with the Suzuki Splash but it's a little big for the ... Read more →

EVstores helps MyCar finally make it to market [w/VIDEO] Domenick Yoney

After overcoming myriad mountains and monkey-wrenches, the MyCar CV.2 is now officially available and being delivered to customers. Most recently rescued by London electric vehicle retailer ...

VIDEO: Toyota iQ: Small Car, Font Jockey Chris Shunk

Anyone who has ever used a computer knows that there are a lot of fonts out there, but we can't think of one that was designed with the use of a cute little hatchback. Letmedesign typographers ...

Enter the rumormill: Renault to build a Smart/IQ contender Xavier Navarro

Renault Twingo - Click above for a complete gallery A few French media outlets are toying with the possibility that Renault could build a microcar to compete with the smart fortwo, the Toyota IQ ...

Fiat plans new brand for low-cost cars Jeremy Korzeniewski

It's been widely reported already that Fiat is working up a new city car that would revive the old Topolino nameplate in Europe. Now it seems that the Italian automaker is considering launching a ...

Details on Gordon Murray's T25 continue to leak 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

2014 is a very long ways off. It's pretty much impossible to predict what the automotive landscape will look like just a few years in advance, let alone a full five years. But, that's exactly what Gordon Murray's design team is trying to do with its latest project, the T25. This twenty-fifth ...

Early shots of Gordon Murray's T.25 surface 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Gordon Murray has very big ideas, but sometimes those ideas turn into something very small indeed. Such is the case with the T.25, which is the twenty-fifth unique design to come out of the man's head. Past projects include the McLaren F1 and the Rocket, two vehicles that weren't quite in the ...

No GM minicars in U.S. for the time being 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

With sales of the smart going well and cars like the MINI flying off the showroom floor, you might expect the big automotive giants to want in on that action too. Perhaps they do, but it doesn't seem likely that General Motors will be entering that particular segment of the market anytime soon. ...

Gordon Murray's Type-25 city car gets fleshed out 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Since first hearing that ex-McLaren F1 supercar designer Gordon Murray had left the famous racing company to create his own design house and that its first product was to be a revolutionary city car, we've been anxiously awaiting more details to come to the surface. Lucky for us, they just have. ...

VIDEO: Fiat Phylla powered by sunshine 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Ah, those Italians and their penchant for rolling art. While the Fiat Phylla solar car concept may not yet exist in drivable form, it's asymmetrical styling sure is an attention getter. Presented a few days ago in Turin, Italy during "Uniamo le energie," this city car is designed to use solar ...

Paris '08 Preview: Mazda1 micro-car to debut 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

At October's Paris Motor Show, Mazda will be the latest manufacturer to unveil a new city car with the new 1. Based on this initial sketch, the micro sized 1 will apply the swoopy lines seen the company's recent concepts and apply them to a competitor for the VW up! and Toyota iQ. The concept ...

Register your interest for Mitsubishi's i-MiEV in the UK 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/autos/Green_Tech_Mitsubishi_s_i_MiEV_all_electric_city_car'; If you live in the UK and have been pining for a chance to buy the i-MiEV all-electric city car when it appears on your shores, now is the time to register your interest with Mitsubishi. According to poster ...

City Transport Cell electric concept car - neat, but unlikely 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click on the link for more images As part of a project to create a Volkswagen concept city car for the year 2020, Stefan Mathys, Christoph Bigler, Florian Kaufmann, and Thomas Spycher came up with the City Transport Cell (CTC). Besides being completely electric, there are some novel ideas in this ...

Cool videos: BAE's electric tank, MIT's stackable car 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The video above is of a BAE Systems' electric-powered military vehicle. According to one of video description, BAE Systems has made military vehicles with "electromagnetic hub mounted wheel motors from MST." The military is very interested in the silence and efficiency of electric vehicles because ...

Somewhere between a Segway and a SmartCar . . . 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

...there is the CityCar! This is a joint concept first issued by MIT, GM and Frank Gehry back in 2004. It has gone thru a number of iterations since then until this version appears in the current Business Week "IN" section. Filled with the necessary technology to survive in a 21st century urban ...

UK: Toyota Aygo gets the blues 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Click image to enlarge While US automakers like GM ponder whether or not our market is ready for an ultra-compact city car, in Europe, the segment's old news. Ultra-compact, easy on the wallet, and stingy with fuel, urbanites have a wide range of vehicles from which to choose. Toyota has a stylish ...

Possible rendering of the new VW Smart challenger 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Last month we brought you a report that Volkswagen was developing a city car to challenge the Smart ForTwo. At the time it was reported that the new car would be smaller than the current Fox but would still be a four seater. Now Auto-Bild has rendering of what the new car look like. Like the Smart, ...

MIT creates a foldable, stackable "City Car" 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Ever go to a big city and wonder how in the world you were going to get around? This happens to me, as my wife and I make several trips to Chicago every year for weekend getaways. The problem is that there are tons of cars there, traffic snarls a lack of good places to park, unless you want to pay ...

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