Skip to content

Secret new cars

You looked for...

and found 11 items

Hide Categories

Matches found in Secret new cars

Results 1 - 10 of 11

Leading article image

Toyota Prius hybrid (2009): leaked photos

Rated 3.5 out of 5

Tim Pollard, 20 October 2008 15:53

Have you seen these official-but-leaked photographs of the new Toyota Prius hybrid car? They've been doing the rounds on the internet for a few days, but now they've been confirmed as genuine pictures of the new petrol-electric battery Prius. The third-generation Prius (the Japanese are light years ahead of their European and American rivals – they've been building production hybrids ...

Leading article image

Honda 'world's cheapest hybrid' scooped

Rated 3.5 out of 5

Ben Pulman, 02 September 2008 10:25

Honda will launch what it believes to be the world’s most affordable hybrid in spring 2009 – and CAR has obtained more details of the car before the concept is unveiled later this month. The new five-door, five-seat car is based on an all-new platform and will be Honda’s fourth-generation hybrid system. Honda promises it will cost less than any ...

Leading article image

Honda's new hybrid: the spy photos

Rated 3 out of 5

Tim Pollard, 17 July 2008 10:15

Is this Honda's new global hybrid car? Our latest spy photos from America scoop a new Honda model that looks like a home-grown green car rival to the petrol-electric Toyota Prius. But CAR's new spyshots raise as many questions as answers. Honda president Takeo Fukui confirmed in May 2008 that the company would launch a slew of new hybrid models ...

Leading article image

Lexus RX (2009) spy shots

Rated 2.5 out of 5

Ben Whitworth, 08 July 2008 09:52

We caught the next-generation RX off-roader undergoing drivetrain tests this week, just as our sources revealed that Lexus UK is on the verge of canning all petrol versions. So the new RX luxury SUV will become a hybrid-only line-up.  When it launches the new RX in summer 2009, Lexus expects the luxury soft-roader to be the best-selling model in the ...

Leading article image

BMW X6 hybrid (2009) spy photos

Rated 3.5 out of 5

Ben Pulman, 04 July 2008 00:00

BMW is preparing the antidote to SUV-haters everywhere. Our car spies have snapped hybrid versions of the X6 testing in the USA with a new bonnet that marks out this ‘green’ car. Due in 2009, the BMW shares technology jointly developed with Mercedes, GM and Chrysler. Right, so this BMW X6 hybrid will be green? Green-er. While BMW got a ...

Leading article image

Mercedes E-class spied

Rated 3 out of 5

Ben Pulman, 14 March 2008 12:36

These are the best shots yet of the new Mercedes E-class. Spotted testing on the streets of Germany this exec limo is shorn of most of its disguise. Only black tape covers the nose and tail. CAR has also snapped the E-class’s interior and the estate for the first time too, and both bodystyle will be available with as a ...

Leading article image

Mercedes S400 Hybrid

Rated 3 out of 5

Ben Pulman, 01 February 2008 11:20

Hello hybrid. CAR Magazine has caught Mercedes’ first hybrid model testing in Scandinavia before a European launch in mid-2009. This is the S400 Hybrid, and our spy shot under the big limo’s bonnet appears to show Merc’s second big step towards going green – the first was their NOx-busting Bluetec technology. The S400 Hybrid will come with a 274bhp petrol ...

Leading article image

Porsche Panamera Hybrid

Rated 3 out of 5

Ben Pulman, 07 January 2008 10:37

Porsche's new hybrids - the Panamera saloon and Cayenne off-roader - will achieve comfortably more than 30mpg, the company revealed today. Porsche's first petrol-electric car will be the Cayenne Hybrid and it will land in showrooms by the end of the decade, capable of 31.4mpg or 9L/100km. Although Porsche's claims are annoyingly vague (is this figure an average consumption, or at a steady 56mph? ...

Leading article image

BMW 7-series Hybrid

Rated 3.5 out of 5

Ben Whitworth, 04 December 2007 11:05

This hearse looks vaguely familiar…   This is BMW’s new 7-series, and yes, we snapped it first in late 2006 when it broke cover in Germany. The car’s hefty disguise may not have changed much - but its location has. This prototype was caught less than a mile from Milford, GM's main proving ground in Michigan. Why? This is the hybrid petrol-electric ...

Leading article image

Honda hybrid spied by Benjy007

Rated 2 out of 5

Benjy007, 30 November 2007 15:34

"Saw this prototype in America, not sure what it is though. Somebody told me it was hybrid..." Spoted: 4.34 km from Valley View Trailer Park, United States

Results