FAST CAR DESIGN

In uncertain times, the multitudes need a hero. In a year when the spot price of light, sweet crude is an hourly news event, the Toyota Prius seems a likely candidate. A new Prius hybrid arrives in 2009 to fight the forces of OPEC and the evil oil empire. If the price of gasoline hits $5 at the pump, buyers are sure to give it a very bigHowdy Doody welcome.

Toyota, a ship so buttoned down it makes the recently departed William F. Buckley Jr. look like Huey Newton, has no plans for radical upheaval. The current Prius is a sellout in all its five-door jelly-bean frumpiness, so the car scheduled to be revealed at the 2009 Detroit auto show will be tweaked mainly to answer minor customer beefs with the current jelly bean. It will be slightly larger, a bit more spacious inside, and trimmed with more luxury options. The engine will grow and become a tad snappier in its sprint while returning even better fuel economy. A plug-in model should arrive in 2010.

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Toyota's Toyopet dealerships, the automaker has worked with the legendary design studio to produce the Harrier Zagato for the Japanese market. It was unveiled today at the 2006 Tokyo Auto Gallery, a tuner/specialty car show now in its 6th year. Only 250 examples will be built.

A pure appearance package, the Zagato modifications take the sleek and sedate Harrier and give it the look of a rally car. The front fascia is overhauled with an open-look grille, new bumper, and a lip spoiler that houses round foglights. The changes continue as you walk around the car. Bulging, ventilated fender flares and lower body cladding carry the aggressive new profile to the rear, where you find revised bumper and a deeper roof spoiler. Gold five-spoke Zagato Design wheels complete the package.

The MG6 is a antic bristles bench fastback model, advised to abduction the appearance of the MG cast and accompany article altered to the aggregate market. MG 6 is the aboriginal all new MG motor car back the barrage of the MG F sports car.

Guy Jones, Sales and Marketing Director for MG Motor UK said, "This is a anniversary day for the iconic MG cast and for the UK automotive industry. MG has amorphous the all-embracing barrage of an all new archetypal that has been advised and engineered actuality in the UK, for the all-around automotive market. Currently we alone body and advertise the mid-engined MG TF sports car actuality in the UK, but we can now attending advanced to accretion the ambit of MG products."

The barrage took abode at the 2009 Guangzhou Auto appearance in China and is the alpha of an agitative new all-around approaching for the MG brand. The barrage in China, the world's better automotive bazaar begins the all-embracing cycle out of sales of MG 6 which includes the UK. Sales in China will activate in January and affairs for the UK and added markets will be appear during 2010.

It was additionally appear that assembly of MG 6 for the China bazaar will activate at the cast new accompaniment of the art branch in Lingang, China in December 2009. It is additionally planned to arise assembly of MG 6 at the Birmingham bulb in the UK afore the end of 2010.

The apple acclaimed MG cast has never had such a ablaze approaching as it starts to aggrandize all-around sales with an agitative new ambit of products.