Peugeot has unveiled a new emission-free electric car in the market coined the BB1. This new concept electric car can seat up to 4 adults and can go as far as 75 miles. It is easy to park and is fitted with two electric motors mounted at the rear wheel. It runs on two lithium-ion batteries and the passenger compartment ventilation keeps operating in daylight thanks to solar panels on the roof of the vehicle.

No word on whether this will become official nor numbers to support it. But maybe when everything is ironed out, we can get more specifics about this latest electric car from Peugeot.

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Here’s a little SEMA surprise: the Toyota Tundra Midnight Rider Tailgater. Inspired by Brooks and Dunn, it is the ultimate tailgate party vehicle.

It includes an infrared barbecue, Grill N Chill cooking space, slide-out cargo box, and a 42-inch flat-panel TV with complete sound system. It also has something that no pickup truck has: Belt Buckle door handles.

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A graphic designer named Kevin Morgan put a Trans Am rebody on a new Camaro at last year’s SEMA 2008. Autoblog has another version this year with the “Phoenix” 2.0.

This year’s model has a quad-healight front fascia, and hearkens back to the age of the Firebird. If you want to get in on this action, there is plans for a kit to be made available sometime in early 2010.

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We’ll be covering the SEMA car show in Las Vegas a lot this week, and here is one of the craziest. This is the Toyota Tacoma All-Terrain Gamer, aka the Taco ATG (as printed on the license plate).

The Taco ATG has huge gull-wing doors that are essentially the front and back doors welded together. It also has a six-foot bed, along with four X-box 360 elites hooked up to four foldable 24-inch Samsung LCDs.
Did I mention an energy drink dispenser? It has it.

Just riding this is enough to make the geekiest gamer cool.

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Take a look at what many are referring to as the Corvette Centennial. Of course, I believe a centennial is actually a period of one hundred years. Chevrolet has recently unveiled the 50th anniversary of the Corvette Stingray with this concept model.

Already, it is a star, having appeared as Sideswipe in the hit (yet awful) movie Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. It also made an appearance at the Chicago Auto Show.

So what else does it have? See after the jump:

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As if the Audi TT-S driving up Pike’s Peak by itself wasn’t exciting enough, Volkswagen and Stanford University to create a robotic Passat.

They are investing $5.75 million dollars for this endeavor, and so far, this Passat finished second in the 2007 DARPA urban challenge, where robot cars can automatically avoid obstacles and drive through busy intersections. By the way, the Passat can also automatically parallel park.

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What you see above is the Hennessey Hyundai Genesis Carbon Coupe, a vehicle created by John Hennessey and students of his recently launched Tuner School.

This vehicle features 500hp and 465 pounds-per-feet of torque thanks to a turbocharger, new high flow fuel injectors and a plehtora of other upgrades. The creators say the vehicle can reach 60 mph in just 3.9 seconds and complete a 1/4 mile in just 12.5 seconds.

Want it? Too bad as it’ll probably never see public production.

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I have heard that there are cars that can help parallel park for you, with the aid of computers and rear mounted cameras. This particular experimental model uses a different method, but it cuts down the time of a parallel parking in half!

Check it out on the video. Please note the use of the fifth wheel, the one that isn’t in the way!

I have got to get me one of these!

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Considering there is now enough vacant land in Detroit to cover the city of Boston completely, the place is definitely hurting for some good news.

Remember what I said about car shows going downhill?  Well, a reader alerted me, and I just saw the news today myself so I’ll pass it directly on to you.  The 2010 International Auto Show in Detroit is BOOKED SOLID.

There will be seven hundred different car models on display there, and what’s more, fifty of them will be never before seen models.

I can’t understand for the life of me, however, why Detroit is putting this show on in JANUARY.  January poses one of the biggest chances for inclement weather in the entire year, possibly only matched by February or maybe December.  The key thing is, about the closer you get to mid-January, the more likely you are to get serious snow mixed with ice mixed with a slow frozen death.

There’s an old joke in Michigan, and it’s got two endings.  The joke:

People say Michigan is a four-season state.  Not true; it only has two.  The two seasons in Michigan are winter and road construction (some substitute “road construction” with “winter’s coming”).

And this is why it’s probably a terrible idea for Detroit to have this show in the Russian roulette of horrible weather that is January.

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French motorcycle designer Lazareth has made a Ranger Rover V-8 powered Renault Twingo known as the Trophy. It has quite a look to it, doesn’t it? It has about 180 horsepower, and will probably cost about $100,000. Not certain what else to say about it.

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Andrey Trofinchuk has recently unveiled a new version of the Maserati that comes in the form of an SUV. I’ll bet you thought that Maserati could ever be done as an SUV, didn’t you? Well, you thought…I’ll let you decided if they did it justice.

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Knight Rider, look out, as you are about to have some competition. Stanford plans to create a driveless car for a big test drive come next year, up Pike’s Peak Hill Climb.

They’ve already tested their experimental Audi TT-S out at the Bonneville Salt Flats, and I would imagine a successful test at Pike’s Peak could usher in an era of driverless cars.

I don’t think I am ready for that yet. And I better end this report before I start counting too many unhatched chickens.

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Daihatsu had more on display at Tokyo than the Tanto Exe. The Deca Deca concept car known as the “super box” seems to follow the aesthetic of the Cube, Element, or similar of type of vehicles. This one has spacious interior with movable fold-up seats, table, an LCD television.

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The other day we reported on how Steering Wheels are a Dying Breed, and this particular FT-EV II concept car is proving that theory correct. As you can see, the wheel and pedal controls have been replaced by some sort of steampunk looking, gilded joystick doohickey.

Is this the look of steering wheels for the future? More like the ghost of steering wheels past.

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The last we heard of the Mitsubishi PX-MiEV concept was when it was rumored to be lending its drive train to the Lancer Evolution XI. Today the car has been shown off during the Tokyo Motor Show and we have finally have some solid specs.

The car will feature 2 electric motors producing 82 hp and 200Nm of torque and will be coupled with a 1.6-liter engine good for 116hp and 125Nm of torque. Thanks to this combination, in addition to regenerative braking, you’ll be looking at a none-too-bad 117 mpg.

When exactly we will see if PX-MiEV hit dealerships, if ever, is still a mystery.

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