Rodeo Drive Concours d'Elegance

If you are looking for something fun and free to do on Father’s Day in the Los Angeles area head to the 2009 Rodeo Drive Concours d’Elegance on June 21. It will happen in Beverly Hills featuring over 100 exotic cars on exhibit lining Rodeo Drive north of Wilshire Boulevard.

“In addition to our traditional and classic collector cars featured at the Rodeo Drive Concours d’Elegance, this year we are also proud to showcase a unique selection of alternative energy vehicles, micro and electric cars, and solar vehicles, amongst others,” notes Bruce Meyer, co-chair of the Rodeo Drive Concours d’Elegance. “From the display of luxurious, cutting-edge automobiles to the world-renowned fashion boutiques, Rodeo Drive offers something for everyone to enjoy on Father’s Day.”

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It looks like this mini car from Toyota is coming to the U.S. The iQ seems like a scooter with doors to me but it might get you places. It will arrive at the LA Auto Show in November and the Toyota will be wearing Scion badges.

The iQ was designed for Japan and Europe initially. It has a weird 3+1 seating arrangement and it’s powered by a 1.0 liter three-pot or a 1.4 liter diesel engine. We might see Yaris’ 1.5 liter engine mounted on the iQ designed for the States.

So the Scion iQ might get a price tag of only $15,000. Pretty expensive for a scooter, but it has space for 3+1 inside.

via motortrend

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How do you like this concept car in the pictures here? It’s the MMR25 Rally Racer from Mitsubishi and it’s the model chosen to enter this year’s LA Auto Show design competition. Last year’s theme was “green” and this year’s theme is Motorsport 2025.

The MMR25 certainly looks like the future race car. It works on four lightweight, high-efficiency, in-wheel electric motors. Their output will be boosted by eight additional motors. The batteries will get you about 1,000 miles on a charge. Besides keeping the much needed power, the batteries will also lower the center of gravity bringing better stability to the table.

If you think the wheels are funny that’s because the MMR25 has an “8×4″ wheel drive. Every single wheel has an independently controlled electric motor. Driving, drifting, moving sideways is now possible with this unique concept.

The driver sits inside the center wing. There’s no actual windows but the driver has a 360-degree panoramic screen which will display all the images around him like he would see them through a glass.

Well do I get one? I only have about 17 years to wait for it!

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Teasers can be the most effective campaigns when it comes to upcoming cars. I don’t thing the 2010 Ford Mustang doesn’t have enough publicity already, but some teaser shots will always come in handy.

Here we have the seats and the center console. The seats seem good looking and I would assume they will be more than comfortable. The center console has a little door in the middle for all that stuff we end up with in our car and it works perfectly as an arm rest.

The whole 2010 Ford Mustang will be shown later in November at the Los Angeles Auto Show. Until then we’re going to take in whatever we can find about it.

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