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Toyota TS040 Hybrid (2014) first official pictures

By Ollie Kew First Official Pictures 27 March 2014 12:00 Toyota has shown its hand as the titanic clash of the 2014 24 Hours of Le Mans draws ever closer. This is the Toyota TS040 Hybrid, which will fight the Audi R18 Ultra and Porsche 919 Hybrid for LMP1 honours this year. It’s the biggest (and possibly the best-sounding) engine of the three LMP1 big-hitters.

Contest: Volkswagen Slipstream wins 2007 LA Design Challenge

Volkswagen's Slipstream concept has won the fourth annual Design Challenge competition, part of the Design Los Angeles automobile designer's conference. The award was presented during the second press day of the 2007 Los Angeles Auto Show.  The theme of this year's competition, RoboCar of 2057, asked eight automotive design studios in California to form their vision of the future by depicting a vehicle that incorporates artificial intelligence engineered to make life easier and more attractive to consumers 50 years from now. Designers entered two-dimensional renderings and concept descriptions predicting how the rapidly advancing field of artificial intelligence will integrate into the automobile to make life safer, more practical and attractive, and the entries were judged by multi-discipline design professionals who selected the winner based on its originality of creative concept, integration of robotics and level of adaptation to a variety of environmental conditions and consumer needs.

Porsche 918 RSR Debut +video

The Porsche 918 RSR – the Hybrid Racing Lab We thought that Porsche’s something special was likely to be a Porsche 918 Spyder Coupe for the track, especially after this morning’s tease. And it is. The Porsche 918 RSR takes the 918 Spyder from Geneva last year and crosses it with 911 GT3 R Hybrid to create the next stage of Porsche’s hybrid journey.