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>> UPDATED STORY: a second Land Rover Defender concept has been unveiled at the 2011 Frankfurt show. Read about it here. The new Land Rover DC100 concept car, ready for a 2011 Frankfurt motor show arrival - points to the company's planned replacement for the Defender 4x4. Land Rover has now confirmed officially that it'll launch a successor to the ...

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Land Rover DC100 concept (2011) - it's the new Defender

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Tim Pollard, 13 September 2011 09:00

Infiniti FX designed by Sebastian Vettel (2011)

Tim Pollard, 01 September 2011 12:59

This bespoke one-off Infiniti FX has been designed by reigning F1 champion Sebastian Vettel - and it'll be at the 2011 Frankfurt motor show. Vettel, who drives for Red Bull Racing, is also an ambassador for Nissan's upmarket car division. Infiniti is a sponsor of RBR, and so Vettel is often seen at Infiniti events. You can watch him discussing ...

Peugeot SXC concept car (2011) first official pictures

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Tim Pollard, 14 April 2011 09:00

Peugeot will show this SXC crossover concept at next week’s 2011 Shanghai auto show. It’s a large hybrid 4x4 designed in Peugeot’s Chinese styling studio and shows a few pointers for how a future crossover could look. We’ll take that to mean the next 4007 then. China is a growing market for Peugeot, which expects to sell 200,000 cars there ...

Land Rover Range_e concept hybrid (2011)

Mark Hamilton, 18 February 2011 12:13

Land Rover will show off the new Range_e diesel-electric hybrid prototype for the first time at the 2011 Geneva motor show. Haven't we seen the hybrid Range_e before? Yes and no. CAR readers may be familiar with this modified Range Rover Sport, which was reported here in May 2010. However, this is the first time we've seen a working prototype of the Range_e ...

Audi Q5 Hybrid Quattro (2011) first pictures

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Ben Pulman, 10 November 2010 12:59

This is the new Audi Q5 Hybrid Quattro. It’s Audi’s first hybrid road car, and combines a turbocharged 2.0-litre petrol engine, an electric motor and lithium-ion batteries in a Q5 SUV body. Unfortunately this system isn’t Audi’s much-anticipated electric Quattro system, with a combustion engine driving the front wheels and an electric-powered rear axle – the Q5 Hybrid has permanent ...

Range_e (2013) - the hybrid electric Range Rover Sport

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Tim Pollard, 11 May 2010 15:02

Land Rover today confirmed its first hybrid models will be launched in 2013. The new Range_e is a showcase for the company's diesel-electric hybrid tech in a current Range Rover Sport bodyshell. Tests will start in late 2010 with a small fleet of five hybrids - but bosses have set a 2013 production date, coinciding with the launch of the ...

Porsche Cayenne (2010): the new SUV unveiled

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Tim Pollard and Ben Barry, 25 February 2010 09:00

brightcove.createExperiences(); Want to know why the new, second-generation Porsche Cayenne – unveiled today – is so important to Porsche's business model? Consider this. They've sold more than 170,000 of them, and it routinely makes up a third of Porsche's annual volumes, outselling even the staple 911 breadwinner. In fact, for those who consider the Cayenne 4x4 anathema to the sports ...

VW Touareg (2010) first official photos

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Chris Chilton, 10 February 2010 20:00

Volkswagen’s all-new Touareg range includes a clever hybrid version that can hit 62mph in 6.5sec or travel 30 miles on electric power alone.Set for a Geneva motor show unveil in March 2010 alongside the Porsche Cayenne – with which it once again shares a platform and most of its hardware – the new lower, curvier Touareg is 40mm longer than ...

BMW ActiveHybrid X6 (2009) first pictures

Ben Pulman, 13 August 2009 10:30

This is BMW’s new ActiveHybrid X6, the company's first full production hybrid car. With two electric motors mated to the twin-turbo V8 powerplant, BMW claims its new SUV is not only the world’s most powerful hybrid, but also offers a reduction in fuel consumption and emissions over the equivalent petrol-only X6 by around 20%. And all to the ‘joint enhancement of ...

Lexus RX450h hybrid unveiled at LA Auto Show

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Digby Fullam, 20 November 2008 16:14

Lexus showed off the new RX450h hybrid at the LA Auto Show – and when the car comes to the UK in 2009, it will be a hybrid only range with not a smokey petrol-only model in sight. Are you sure you haven’t been tricked? The 'new' RX looks the same to me! While the looks of the latest version ...

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