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2012 Infiniti M35 hybrid confirmed

Infiniti confirmed on Wednesday that the M35 will include a hybrid version that arrives as a 2012 model. That's about a year after the conventionally powered M35, which launches next spring as a 2011 model. It's the first hybrid in the 20-year history of Infiniti.

'Father of the iPod' Tony Fadell joins Autoweek Design Forum

Join Autoweek as we present top designers from inside and outside the auto industry during the 2012 Autoweek Design Forum. This year's event, themed "Designing for Today's Consumer," features presentations by: -- Max Wolff, Design Director, Lincoln -- Clay Dean, Director, North America Advanced Design, and Cadillac Brand Champion, Cadillac -- Peter Schreyer, Chief Design Officer, Kia -- Peter Horbury, Senior Vice President, Design, Geely Group -- Tony Fadell, Founder and CEO, Nest, and "Father of the iPod" The Design Forum will be held at the College for Creative Studies A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education in Detroit.

Project Car Hell, Straight Eight, Two Doors Edition: '47 Buick or '53 Packard?

Welcome back to another session in the Hell Garage, where you choose between a pair of projects that match coolness with torment. We've been through air-cooled German cars, cheap Italian cars and incomprehensible French cars in recent weeks, and now we're going to winch a couple of big American two-doors with straight-eight power out of the Lake of Fire. Before the V8 reigned supreme in luxury-car land, cars with long hoods and smooth-running inline-eight engines showed that you had made it, and we've found a pair of such cars that should be gorgeous when restored…after about a decade of work.