Earlier this month we got our first official look at Nissan’s forthcoming all-electric vehicle entitled Leaf. Today, we are given a glimpse at the automaker’s latest promotional campaign to hype up the market for the car. Included above is an image from said promotional campaign that states the car is 100% powered by electricity, will feature a 100 mile range, will have 100% of its torque available from 0 rpm.

Will this campaign be enough to make Nissan’s Leaf a hit? Only time will tell.

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While this deal probably won’t apply to the average folk, for those of you with millions sitting in your bank account, read on — Pearl Motor Yachts has recently started a promotion for buyers of their $1.4million Pearl 60 Yacht.

As the promotion goes, if you buy the Pearl 60 you will be given a free Bentley Continental GT. Unless you’ve been living under a rock you’ll know that Bentleys are about the exact opposite of cheap.

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Mini has thought up a creative incentive to get buyers focused on their vehicles after utilizing the Cash for Clunkers program.

As you can see, if you buy a Mini with Cash for Clunkers credit you will be given a bumper sticker that says “My other car was demolished by the government.” Creative? Yes. Would I put it on my car? Probably not.

KickingTires reports that the cheapest Mini gets 28MPG in the city and 37 on the highway which means you’ll get the full $4,500 from Cash for Clunkers. I mean, you could probably sell the bumper sticker on eBay for a couple bucks in the future but will it really rake in more buyers?

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It seems that to celebrate the 100th anniversary of GM’s purchasing of Cadillac, there will be a Cadillac branded line of men’s products released.

This lineup will reportedly include cologne, deodorant, aftershave along with hair and body wash. All of these products will be produced by Beauty Contact Inc. and come in grapefruit, chamomile, tarragon, cinnam, geraniums, incense and sweet spice.

There isn’t much regarding prices but according to Jalopnik the cologne will run $73. Jeeze.

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Toyota has announced that in a stint to continue their 2010 Prius promotion they will place several giant sun flowers, pictured above. The first being in Boston then expanding to New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco later on.

These giant sun flowers will feature solar panels that will provide users with power outlets to charge things such as their laptops and cellphones. Along with that, the giant flowers will provide free WiFi access to the surrounding area.

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Transformers has been a hit ever since the first movie hit the bigscreen. Recently, Transformers 2 made its way to the market to what has been generally well reception.

This reception has led a mall in Beijing to promote the movie in a somewhat peculiar way. What you see above it said mall’s creation; a Transformer made completely from a Volkswagen Jetta.

To my knowledge, there are no Jetta based Transformers in the movie, but at least they tried, right?

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Now exactly how the two above vehicles will help the US Air Force I don’t know but apparently that’s who they were created by and why.

The white Mustang featured on top is dubbed the X-1 and features everything from a full jet cockpit and ejector seat to a flight stick styled shifter knob. Autoblog reports that the body has been widened all around to accommodate for the largest tires you can throw at it. What everyone cares about though is under the hood which is a 500HP, V8 engine outfitted with nitrous.

The second vehicle, entitled the Vapor is a heavily modified Dodge Challenger looking to be the stealthiest vehicle on the block. It apparently features an infrared thermal camera along with a display that covers the entire front windshield, a command center themed cockpit with 3 large LCD screens for surveillance, solid carbon fiber wheels and the added feature of two mufflers for a quitter ride.

Now what i’m wonder is, are all these features street legal?

You can see more pictures along with two promotion videos here.

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It was recently announced that popular automaker Honda has teamed up with C3, the people behind Lollapalooza and the Austin City Music Festival.

Honda will sponsor the event and in turn get direct acess to the thousands of music fans present at the events. Apparently, Honda will have a booth set up displaying their Insight Hybrid and even a raffle of a 2010 Insight.

To get in on the action you’ll have to attend either Lollapalooza from August 7th-9th in Chicago or the Austin Music Festival from October 2nd-4th in Austin. Be there, or don’t be green!

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