This year Honda has unveiled something very interesting at the LA Auto Show: the FC Sport. It’s a three-passenger sports car concept that is built on the Honda V Flow fuel cell tech. Made out of lightweight materials, with an improved aerodynamics and also a low center of gravity, you can’t fail, or so we hope and Honda hopes also.

What we have seen so far from this little “buggy” is very nice, with great shapes and angles, inspired from Formula 1. No specs were released until now, but as soon as we will hear of any, you will be the first to know. Until then, take a look at one of the pictures of the FC Sport.

Underground, but not struggling in it, there is PGO. Hailing from France, they have announced their new offspring, which is nothing new, it actually looks like an old-school car. Some of you may have the feeling of seeing this before while looking at the picture of the Hemera. Well, you are not crazy, it does look like something you have seen before, it looks like a Porsche.

Hemera takes up from all around, and let me tell you, the guys at PGO don’t have bad tastes. It uses a Peugeot gas engine with 140 horsies which can get this car from a stop to 60 in less than 7 seconds and with a top speed of 124 miles per hour. Not bad, but I think it was not built for speed, but for class. Let’s wait and see how it rolls in the streets when it will be launched at sea.

The picture below seems to be the only official image of the new four-door “coupe” Porsche Panamera. This new Panamera Grand Turismo has a few new improvements on the shape that make it rather slippery through air, but it kept the fat back side that I personally like. Along with the doors and wheels and other things that you expect in finding on a car, you will have an electronic air suspension, an LSD and the power can be sent to either the rear wheels or to all four.

Let’s talk engines, shall we? After all this is why we buy cars, right? Because they have engines and they make the wheels roll. So, the slowest, if I am allowed to put it like this, will be the 3.6-liter V6 with 300hp. Up on the ladder there is the 4.8-liter V8 Panamera S with a herd of 400 horses packed inside and at the top there is the Panamera Turbo with a twin-turbocharged version of the V8 that can put out about 500hp. We heard some rumors about a diesel version and a V6-hubrid with 350hp, but that won’t be available until later on.

Porsche seems to don’t give a damn that most of us don’t have time or money to buy new cars, as we are trapped in the economical crisis or we are simply broke. They keep doing their thing and keep bringing us bigger and better cars, like the new 2009 Boxter and Cayman. Both of these babies will benefit from the Porsche-Doppelkupplungsgetriebe transmission or the PDK from the 911 Carrera PDK. Also they will have improved engines with direct injection. This means more power to burn on the road and improved fuel economy.
Porsche is throwing for the 2009 Boxter and Cayman two engines: one is a standard 2.9-liter flat-six with 255 hp and on the S models a 3.4 liter engine will ride with310hp. The beginning of 2009 will bring thee new rides in showrooms so we can see them live.

The LA Auto Show is not open yet but Ford are one step ahead of the game and unveiled their new 2010 Mustang in a Santa Monica airport hangar. the show started with a car parade of all 45 years of Mustang. Some of the guests, who were mostly members of the Mustang club, brought their rides to show off.
After the car catwalk, came time for the real deal, the moment everyone was waiting for. The star of the show came out in in screetching and burning tires. First in line was the new 2010 Ford Racing / Falken Tire Drift Mustang with Vaughn Gitten Jr. at the helm. For now all we know about this baby is that it has a supercharged Ford Racing crate motor and a completely stripped interior, but stay tuned for more. Next in line was the V6 and the GT. After the cars were introduced one by one, it was time to see how they look and feel. The interiors are just cool and a step forward from the previous versions. The outside, well that is another beautiful story. The lines are flowing and there is nothing useless about it. For now only 315 hp have been thrown under the hood, which is not a very good news for us hungry people, but let’s hope Ford will bring better news about this, and it might be at Detroit, or so we suspect, as the Ford boys said they will have something cool then.

Nissan just threw us a some photos of their Cube, includind some with the US-Spec version that will be at the LA Auto Show. The JDM Cubes have inside a 107-hp or 109 lb-ft 1.5L four-cylinder roller with a CVT transmission. There will be two versions, one with front or four-wheel drive.
Inside of the cockpit, so to say, things will look good also, with the return of the bench seats and a mix of materials for more comfort.
If the Cube will be as fine as the JDM we will be in for a new favorite buggy from Nissan.

Chrysler recently came out with a prototype of am electric car. Most of the car is Lotus-manufactured. A litle while ago the Dodge EV looked locked and loaded, but it was delayed and it seemed that the plans to launch this baby into production would be thrown under a pile of bigger plans.
The Dodge EV is built on the core of the Lotus Europa, but with lithium batteries and a 268 hp electric motor to replace the 2.0L four cylinder engine and transmission on the standard version of the car. From what we hear, the people there at Dodge want to give this buggy 0-60 time of under 5 seconds. With a 4-hour recharge from a 220V outlet or 8 hours from 110V you should be ready to hit the streets and burn rubber.
Plans are to be released for showrooms by 2010, and who knows when it will be available for us mortals.

Like and angel of darkness Nissan’s new 2009 370Z sports coupe was unveiled by the boys and girls from Inside Line with a rain of ashes. Nothing new from what have already seen in the pictures on the design. But the pictures have no meaning when it comes to the real-life feel of the car.
The Z34 was also on display and it caught eyes because of the more space for stuff in the trunk. Good news for the ladies i think. we didn’t get too many tech questions answered on the spot, but one thing we were told for sure is that the downshift rev-match option will be on the sport models of the Z and will work through feedback on clutch engagement, brake pedal position, rpm, throttle position and gear selection. Say tuned for more on this baby.

Maybe the Camaro stole the spotlights in Las Vegas, but Challenger is the choice of many tuners living in the know. Of all, both kits from ProCharger that will be available for all you Challenger owners out there, definitely caught my eye and made me feel all tingly inside. Both have under the hood ProCharger’s P-1SC-1 centrifugal supercharger pushing 6 psi of boost, a 3-core air-to-air intercooler, upgraded fuel system and all necessary tubing and brackets.

But wait, there’s more! Stage 2 will give us more power while pushing the pedal thanks to a dedicated drive system for the supercharger and an upgrade air intake. Go burn some rubber, baby!

Hello again muscle car fans, we it’s time for a little history lesson. Not many of you know that life for the Mustangs and the Camaros and the Trans Ams wasn’t so easy back in the days. They had pretty big competitor in the race the race to win our hearts. That competitor was the AMX made by American Motors.

AMC might be returning with the AMX, or say gossips from AMC fan club sites. Also, Jeff Teague, the son of the classic AMC designer Dick Teague, came up with a few ideas of what the Javelin (the previous version of the AMX) and the new AMX might look in case of a revival.

All we can do is hope for the best and I say power to all the people who will bring back the classics that deserve to walk on the streets once again.