Fisker Automotive unveils the Atlantic If you’re in the market for a luxury plug-in hybrid sedan, start saving up the $50,000 to $60,000 you’ll need to buy the Fisker Atlantic sedan. And you’ll have plenty of time — don’t expect to see the car in the showrooms for another couple of years. Details of Fisker’s second plug-in hybrid were leaked to Insideevs.com . The Fisker Atlantic, formerly known as Project Nina , is the startup’s follow-up to its $100,000 Karma plug-in hybrid sports car.

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(Credit: Google Street View Screenshot: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET) As so many struggle with the ins and outs of advertising cars on Facebook, one piece of sublime inspiration from Sweden might show there are other media with more promise. An employee of Fiat near Stockholm, Sweden noticed that Google’s fine Street View drivers were making a sweep of the area. As the Daily Mail reports it , he drove a Fiat 500 and parked it in front of Volkswagen’s HQ in Sodertalje, around 30 miles south of Stockholm. He thought it might make for a fun picture when the Street View car came around. He was right

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Nowhere is it written that muscle cars must be ancient relics, stuffed full of carburetor-fed, hydrocarbon-belching V-8 engine and fitted with the kind of primitive suspensions usually found on farm wagons. There are plenty of muscle cars available from new car dealers, like anything with an SRT badge, the upcoming Chevy SS and the Cadillac CTS-V series. Most discussions of muscle cars don’t extend to station wagons, either, but the CTS-V wagon is equally adept at hauling groceries, hauling the family or just plain hauling ass. Unlike that Buick Roadmaster wagon your grandfather owned, the CTS-V wagon handles as well as anything with the mass of a small planet can, thanks to both its Magnetic Ride Control suspension and the electro-wizardry of stability control. On a dry track, the CTS-V is quite a bit faster than you think it will be

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While just about any navigation system on the market will get you where you’re going, not all of them are created equally. This is especially true in the world of OEM in-car navigation systems where screen size, interface design, feature sets, and (most importantly) price vary wildly from manufacturer to manufacturer. Some automakers offer cutting edge GPS navigators with innovative features that you’ll wonder how you ever got along without. Others will make you wish you’d skipped the pricey navigation package and just packed a smartphone. We’ve taken a look back on the most recent OEM navigation systems to have graced the Car Tech garage and picked out a few manufacturers, in no particular order, who consistently knock it out of the park when it comes offering the best in-dash technology for getting from where you are to wherever you want to be.

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Five OEM navigation systems that are worth your bucks

The AirPod is a three-seat and three-wheel car that runs on compressed air. (Credit: CNET) An air-powered car may not be a pipe dream after all. Tata Motors announced last week that it is beginning phase two of development to bring this technology to market. Lightweight cars powered only by air have made the rounds on the auto show circuit for the past two years. But since 2007, the Indian automotive manufacturer has been working with Motor Development International, which is pioneering this technology, to make this highly conceptual propulsion system a reality

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Tata commercializing an air-powered car