2015 Volvo V60, Carbon Fiber Sports Car, January Sales: What’s New @ The Car Connection

From The Car Connection:

2015 Volvo V60 Review

The 2015 Volvo V60 wagon wouldn't normally be such a big deal, except that it's the first "real" Volvo wagon to be sold in the U.S. in a few years, after the Swedish automaker canceled its last conventional wagon and went all-in on crossover utility vehicles. So the V60, the wagon version of the S60 mid-size sedan that's been on sale since 2010, is getting more than its share of attention despite Volvo's expectation of relatively low sales.

Your Dream Of Owning A Carbon Fiber Sports Car Just Got A Little More Real

3D printing is coming, and it will change the way that automakers do business. (It will also shake up the military, medicine, and the entire field of confectionery, but those are subjects for another time.)

January 2014 Car Sales: Snowbound

Polar vortex? Snowmageddon? Whatever you wanted to call it, January's horrible weather took its own hits, as some big automakers blamed it for poor sales last month.

From Motor Authority:

2015 Mercedes-Benz C-Class Enters Production

The first retail example of the all-new 2015 Mercedes-Benz C-Class rolled off the line today at the car’s plant in Bremen, Germany. The event marks the start of another chapter for Mercedes’ best-selling vehicle, which has found a home with 8.5 million customers since the nameplate’s introduction in the early 1990s.

2015 Subaru Legacy Leaked

Subaru’s all-new 2015 Legacy is set to make its world debut on Thursday at the 2014 Chicago Auto Show, but the first images of the car have already hit the web. No, we’re not talking about Subaru’s teaser shot released a week ago but leaked images showing the car in full.

Paul Walker's Fast & Furious 4 R34 Nissan GT-R For Sale, Priced At $1.35 Million

The car world is still recovering from Paul Walker's untimely and unfortunate death late last year, but love for the Fast & Furious franchise--and especially its modified cars--has never been stronger. As the next movie, Fast & Furious 7, moves onward, some lucky collector will get to take a look back at the R34 Nissan GT-R Walker drove in the fourth F&F film.

From Green Car Reports:

2014 Jeep Cherokee To Be Offered With Diesel Engine--In Europe

Jeep will use the Geneva Motor Show in March to launch the latest addition to its Cherokee range--the Cherokee Diesel. Hurrah! The bad news is that there are no intentions to bring this model to the U.S, where the most efficient Cherokee currently utilizes a 2.4-liter, four-cylinder gasoline engine. Boo!

Targeting Tesla Model X: 2017 Audi Q8 e-tron All-Electric Crossover Utility

For the most part, the selection of truly practical electric vehicles--or even hybrids, for that matter--has been relatively poor. In terms of all-electric crossovers, there's the Toyota RAV4 EV and... well, the Toyota RAV4 EV.

Glucose-Based Battery Has 10 Times Energy Of Lithium: Researchers

Humans and batteries--and indeed most other things in the natural world, operate on largely similar principals. Energy is generated somehow, stored, and expended for work.

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