Mercedes-Benz Ener-G-Force – Debut @ L.A. Auto Show
Mercedes-Benz will reveal the Ener-G-Force concept vehicle later this month at the Los Angeles Auto Show.
It’s an imposing seven-seater dressed in highway-patrol vehicle guise, and it also provides the centerpiece for the German carmaker’s entry into this year’s Los Angeles Design Challenge.
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Fiat 500 Abarth heads for L.A. Auto Show
The track-bred, enthusiast-oriented Fiat 500 Abarth will be revealed in November at the Los Angeles auto show. This is the much-anticipated performance variant of the 500, which has spurred Fiat’s return to the United States this year.
The Abarth version gets the 1.4-liter MultiAir engine and upgraded brakes and suspension pieces. More details will be revealed closer to the show.
Fiat has sold 13,861 copies of the 500 through the first three quarters of 2011.
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Scion iQ / Toyota iQ
At a thumping club-scene reveal in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday night, Scion debuted seven cars that will be on the stand at the SEMA show in Las Vegas next week. We immediately picked a favorite.
To make the iQ MR, fabricator John Kuchta of Specialty Cars in Fullerton, Calif., took an ordinary Scion iQ, removed the stock 1.3-liter four and its accompanying continuously variable transmission, and put in a 1.5-liter four with a manual transmission–both mounted in the back! A rear-engine, rear-wheel-drive screamer with a lively manual transmission instead of the soul-sucking CVT is just what Toyota‘s youth division needs, so we spent the entire evening cornering Scion executives and trying to convince them to let us drive it.
Art of the State 