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Audi Q5 Hybrid Quattro (2011) CAR review

3.5

Ben Pulman, 12 January 2011 16:36

This is the Audi Q5 Hybrid Quattro, the first full-production hybrid road car from Audi and our first taste of the modular turbocharged 2.0-litre petrol engine/electric motor mated to a lithium-ion battery pack. We'd better get used to this: the same tech will appear in the A6 and A8 Hybrids. CAR has just tested the new Audi Q5 Hybrid Quattro, so ...

Cadillac Escalade Hybrid (2010) CAR review

2.5

Tim Pollard, 01 November 2010 10:15

The Cadillac Escalade really does represent all that was wrong with old GM. It might have briefly enjoyed a cult status as the preferred vehicle of choice for rap artists, overpaid footballers and other bling merchants but - believe me - the Escalade is so off the pace, it never really made it off the starting line. We tested the ...

Porsche Cayenne S Hybrid (2010) CAR review

2.5

Ben Pulman, 03 September 2010 14:00

The Porsche Cayenne caused controversy when it was launched, angering Porschephiles who believed that the Stuttgart sports car company shouldn’t be building such monstrosities. Of course the looks didn’t help the Cayenne’s case with traditionalists, but since the Mk1 Cayenne went on sale it’s proved to be a cash cow for Porsche. Now there’s a new version of the big ...

VW Touareg 3.0 Hybrid (2010) CAR review

Georg Kacher, 02 August 2010 13:52

When the original Mk1 VW Touareg was released in 2002, CAR Magazine drove it across North Africa and even let the real Tuareg tribespeople have a go in it across the Sahara. Now our own Georg Kacher has had a go in the latest hybrid version. 4x4=bad, but hybrid 4x4=good? This is the first VW to use the same hybrid technology as the Porsche Cayenne. The big VW ...

BMW X6 ActiveHybrid (2009) CAR review

3.5

Jethro Bovingdon, 08 November 2009 00:01

BMW doesn't do things by halves. This is their first full hybrid model, the ActiveHybrid X6, and it's the most powerful hybrid in the world. It combines a 407bhp 4.4-litre twin-turbocharged V8 engine with a fiendishly complicated gearbox that contains two electric motors, one optimised for low-speed running, one to boost power at higher speeds. The X6 ActiveHybrid's electric motors ...

Porsche Cayenne S Hybrid (2010) CAR review

Tim Pollard, 18 June 2009 13:00

You know a car is long awaited when it’s given an entire engine transplant before it’s even been launched. CAR first rode in the new Porsche Cayenne Hybrid back in July 2007. Two years later, it’s still not on sale and now it’s been transformed from a 3.6 V6 into the Cayenne S Hybrid toting Audi’s new 3.0-litre supercharged V6. ...

VW Touareg Hybrid (2009) CAR review

Ben Oliver, 12 February 2009 10:40

We’ve just driven the new Porsche Panamera. And the 2010 Porsche Cayenne. And the new Volkswagen Touareg. Well, we’ve driven one of the engines they’ll all share, at least. This current model Touareg is fitted with the new hybrid powertrain VW has developed with Porsche for all these new cars, and which Audi will use in a slightly modified form ...

Lexus RX400h (2007) CAR review

Ben Oliver, 31 July 2007 09:25

It’s the one SUV Red Ken can’t object to… Not quite. Full credit to Lexus for making the RX400h the first car in both the luxury and SUV sectors to have a hybrid powertrain; its impressive CO2 claim of just 192g/km gives it a low company-car tax band and the fact that it’s a hybrid makes it congestion-charge exempt. Others ...

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