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Quick Spin: Mitsubishi i is a good car with a bad name

We're looking at a long, nearly straight, almost totally traffic-free downhill. We'd climbed up to the base of the Palm Springs to Idyllwild Ariel Tramway. Our goal was to see how fast Mitsubishi's tiny i could go. We're on the gas, and the teensy, turbocharged 660cc three-banger is giving us all its got. The speedometer ticks upwards, now cresting 100. In front of us is nothing but inviting tarmac. Deeper and harder we push and the numbers keep ticking up. 119, 120, 121 and then finally hitting 122. We felt we left a little on the table ... Read more →

Subaru unveiling plug-in Stella at Hokkaido G8 summit Alex Nunez

Subaru has cooked up another electric kei car for me to park in my fantasy green garage, right next to the R1e and Mitsubishi i MiEV I don't currently have. It's a plug-in concept version of the ...

New York 2008: AutoblogGreen drives the Mitsubishi i MiEV (w/ VIDEO) Alex Nunez

Honda investing more in kei cars, plans to build new plant Jeremy Korzeniewski

Honda Zest Japanese kei cars, or "light automobiles," have become increasingly popular in Japan due to legislation making them cheaper to license, insure and pay taxes on. As a byproduct of their ...

Mitsubishi delivers i MIEV to Chugoku Electric Power Co. Alex Nunez

Click image to enlarge As part the ongoing testing with the "i MIEV" research vehicle, Mitsubishi has delivered one of the cars to the Chugoku Electric Power Co. Earlier this year, cars were ...

Quick Spin: Mitsubishi i is a good car with a bad name 5 days ago on Autoblog Green

Subaru unveiling plug-in Stella at Hokkaido G8 summit 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Subaru has cooked up another electric kei car for me to park in my fantasy green garage, right next to the R1e and Mitsubishi i MiEV I don't currently have. It's a plug-in concept version of the Stella, and it will make its formal debut at next month's G8 summit in Hokkaido, Japan. Five of the cars ...

New York 2008: AutoblogGreen drives the Mitsubishi i MiEV (w/ VIDEO) 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click above for a high-res gallery of the Mitsuibshi i MiEV (22 photos) var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/environment/AutoblogGreen_drives_Mitsubishi_s_electric_i_the_i_MiEV'; I drive a Ford Mustang GT; I'm Autoblog's resident HUMMER aficionado; and I think my favorite car in New York this year is ...

Honda investing more in kei cars, plans to build new plant 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Honda Zest Japanese kei cars, or "light automobiles," have become increasingly popular in Japan due to legislation making them cheaper to license, insure and pay taxes on. As a byproduct of their small size and small displacement engines, they are also generally quite frugal on gas and low on ...

Mitsubishi delivers i MIEV to Chugoku Electric Power Co. 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Click image to enlarge As part the ongoing testing with the "i MIEV" research vehicle, Mitsubishi has delivered one of the cars to the Chugoku Electric Power Co. Earlier this year, cars were delivered to Tokyo Electric Power and Kyushu Electric Power as well. The power companies are evaluating the ...

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