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Kia Optima Hybrid Makes Its Debut

The 2011 Kia Optima is getting ready to launch late this year. But even bigger news is coming from the Korean auto maker - Optima is going hybrid.

The 2011 Kia Optima Hybrid will make its debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show in November, with sales beginning in early 2011.

The Optima Hybrid should come in around 37 mpg city and 39 mpg highway. Power will likely come from a 2.4L four-cylinder engine, producing…

Mazda To Build Greenest Car Engine

By 2013, Mazda wants to have the greenest engine around - and if all works out they will. Mazda's plan is to implement a 70 miles per gallon drivetrain into their upcoming MAZDA2. A Mazda spokesman clarified the 70 MPG result was from a Japanese test cycle. Fuel economy numbers will be lower in the United States, but still well above the competition's.

The official announcement is a "15 percent better gas mileage than…
Tokyo, April 2, 2010 -- Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) displayed the North American version of its all-new crossover utility vehicle (CUV) at the New York International Auto Show at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York City, which runs from March 31 (open to the general public on April 2). The CUV*1 was first unveiled in Japan in February, then in Europe at the Geneva Motor Show in March.
The North American-spec CUV will?

Press Release: Two Millionth Mazda6 Comes Off the Line

HIROSHIMA, Japan-Mazda Motor Corporation has announced that the cumulative global production volume of the Mazda6 (known as Mazda Atenza in Japan) reached two million units at the end of August 2010. The Mazda6 reached this milestone in the eight years and six months since production of the first generation Mazda6 commenced in February 2002 at Mazda's Hofu Plant No. 2 in Yamaguchi prefecture. This achievement marks the second fastest time - after the Mazda3 - to produce two million units of one model since Mazda launched its new generation Zoom-Zoom product lineup in 2002.