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Kia To Finally Show Its Sporty Side

KOREAN car maker Kia has released a teaser image ahead of a big reveal at next month’s Detroit motor show. Keen to take a slice of the global sports car market, the firm is to unveil a racy-looking concept car. To date Kia has resisted producing anything overtly performance orientated, although earlier this year it dipped its toe in the water with the launch of the Pro Cee’d GT ‘warm hatch’.

BMW ActiveE – the BMW 1-Series Electric – at Detroit

BMW has reveled the BMW Concept ActiveE at the Detroit Motor Show BMW obviously think there’s room for more than just the MINI E to be punted round the roads by Joe Public to shake out all the wrinkles in their electric car gubbins as they’ve brought along the BMW ActiveE Concept to the Detroit Motor Show – basically an electric BMW 1 Series – which we first reported on back in December. The ActiveE Concept gets a rear mounted electric motor that divvies up 170bhp. Unlike the MINI E BMW has managed to stick the batteries under the car instead of ripping out the back seats to store them.

Ferrari F620 new tease – but does it have KERS for over 800bhp?

A new video tease from Ferrari on the F620 We have a second video tease for the Ferrari F620 (new 599) which shows nothing new. But does the F620 have KERS? We know the Ferrari F620 (or F620 GT or whatever Ferrari decide to call the replacement for the 599) is going to be revealed on the 29th February, because Ferrari told us so a couple of days ago.