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Mercedes-Benz E250 BlueTec Concept – Auto Shows – Car and Driver
November 27, 2011 | 
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There was a time when a higher number on the back of your Benz meant elevated status. Things change, and it now seems that lesser figures and fuel-friendly names may help your street cred. To that end, Mercedes has conceptualized a small-engined diesel E-class that keeps the power but decreases the thirst for fuel, giving the illusion that its driver has sacrificed some form of personal satisfaction for the greater good. Dubbed the E250 BlueTec, it will be displayed for the first time at the.
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Porsche at Goodwood Festival of Speed 2011
Porsche at Goodwood Festival of Speed 2011 Latest Porsche supercars on the hill include 911 GT3 RS 4.0 and Panamera Turbo S
Porsche will once again showcase an exciting array of new, iconic and historic models at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, 30 June – 3 July. The 2011 Festival’s chosen theme is Racing Revolutions – Quantum leaps that shaped motorsport, a perfect fit for Porsche given its reputation for race-bred engineering innovation.
Porsche highlights at the Festival Over 100 years ago, company founder Ferdinand Porsche was working on hybrid automobile technologies and the Semper Vivus (‘always alive’) of 1900 – with its electric wheel hub motors and petrol engine – can claim to be the forerunner of today’s hybrid cars and makes its UK debut at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed.
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I wasn’t sure what he meant. “It’s a Corvette,” I said, thinking maybe he’d never seen one, which was true of a dozen or so Yukonners we’d already met.
“No,” he said. “What I mean is, you think you’re goin’off-road with that?” Then he spit on the floor behind the cash register.
“I live in Michigan,” I said, trying to prove I wasn’t a city slicker. “I’ve been off-roading a lot. We’re going up the Dempster.”
“Got news for you, pal,” he replied. “First, you ain’t in Michigan anymore, eh? Second, that whatchamacallit ain’t goin’ up no Dempster, ‘less it’s on the back of a flatbed.”
In the Yukon, we were cheechakos , the Chilkoot word for greenhorns. Or it might mean cheesecake. Either way, that’s what we were.
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