Peugeot 908 HDi FAP Hybrid Racer Debuts, Fails To Charge Audience

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Recently, Peugeot unveiled their new green Le Mans contender, the Peugeot 908 HDi FAP Hybrid Racer. Although heralded as a major achievement in the racing industry and praised for its environmental progressiveness, I am not enthused. If an automobile doesn’t translate into a real world application, like the Peugeot 908 hybrid racer largely fails to do, then I’m just not interested. To be perfectly honest, I think dropping that kind of cash to engineer a top performance race car that stores any unused kinetic energy is a waste. When was the last time a Formula 1 racer interrupted his crew chief by saying, “Well yes Hank, 0-60mph in under 3 seconds is very impressive, but what kind of gas mileage does it get?”

I’ll hand it to Peugeot though, the design department did a hell of a job creating an aesthetic for the 908 HDi that was both sleeking and imposing, in an impending-alien-probe sort of way. Bottom line: if this were street legal, I’d be all over it, but as it stands, it doesn’t seem particularly exciting.

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Global Production of The New Ford Fiesta Begins; Only Shriners, Clowns Rejoice

New 2010 Ford Fiesta

On Thursday, Ford Motor Company began global production of the new Ford Fiesta, the B-car intended to serve as the “blueprint” for Ford’s new “Global Ford” program. Ford, publicly struggling to tread water in the midst of rapidly sinking SUV and truck sales, announced months ago plans to condense its global market and shift priority focus to smaller, more fuel-efficient cars. 

Launched in 1976, the Ford Fiesta was a hit with the part-time-job-at-The-Gap tax bracket in the United States until production was officially cancelled in the U.S. in 1997. Obviously huge fans of fruity little cars, the European market continued to prove receptive to the Fiesta long after it had run its course in North America. Now, with 2/3 of Detroit looking towards to the fuel-efficient, compact car European market success for financial salvation at home, Ford has decided to bring the whole operation back home to roost with the 2010 Ford Fiesta. 

In December of 2009, Ford will begin reconstructing its truck plant in Cuautitlan, Mexico to prepare for the mass production of the Ford Fiesta in the United States. In early 2010, the newly assembled models are anticipated to hit showroom floors nationwide. According to Ford, the new Ford Fiesta will serve as direct competition to other small cars like the Toyota Yaris and Nissan Versa, and is described as”crucial” to Ford’s competitive edge. Being incredibly optimistic, Ford also revealed that in five years, they plan to build about 1 million vehicles a year globally using the Ford Fiesta platform. Now, if you don’t mind, please excuse us while we go sob quietly into the steering wheel of our F-150.

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Exclusive: Ronaele Debuts their Monoceros 700hp Mustang at Daytona Turkey Run

There seems to be plenty of Specialty Mustangs and Mustang Customizers out on the market these days, and the word coming down from Ford is that the demand is still there for more. But one Auto Customizer just raised the bar for themselves and the rest of the market. With their car 95% completed Ronaele finds the Turkey Rod Auto Show in Daytona Beach to be a great location to debut their Monoceros 700 R Mustang. What started out as one man’s wish-list based off a stock Mustang GT has turned into one mean street machine that is eager to see its time in the sun.

Monoceros was told to us to be an Indian word that stood for something mythological and unattainable; such as a Unicorn or Dragon. In the case of Ronaele’s Monoceros 700R Mustang and for the rest of us that just may be the case. And do not let that 700 R moniker fool you into thinking this is all about the badging. The Monoceros earns its 700 marking as she is dyno’d at 700-hp at the rear-wheels; because 699-hp would just not suffice.
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