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Future Audis may time traffic lights for you

Here's a trick efficiency-chasing hypermilers have been using for years: spotting the cycles of stoplights from 100 to 200 yards out and letting the car coast up to the light just before it turns green, then carrying on without ever letting the car come to a complete stop. These hypermilers, along with professional truck drivers, do this because they know that accelerating from a standstill burns the greatest amount of fuel, and because letting a car coast up to the light with the automatic transmission downshifting by itself is easier on the transmission than stomping on the brakes right beneath the stoplight. Oh, and it's easier on the brake pads as well.

One Lap of the Web: Humvees, abandoned Ferraris and a Volvo collection

We spend a lot of time on the Internet -- pretty much whenever we're not driving, writing about or working on cars. Since there's more out there than we'd ever be able to cover, here's our daily digest of car stuff on the Web you may not otherwise have heard about. -- Auto Blog drives a military Humvee that's fully armored for duty in combat zones, weighing in at 14,400 pounds.

Kia cee’d Trim 4 with more goodies & more power launches – prices & specs

Kia cee'd Trim 4 - available as a saloon or estate The Kia cee’d – perhaps best known as Top Gear’s latest car for celebs to thrash round Dunsfold – is a decent car. And now it gets a bit more decent with a new range-topping cee’d ’4′ with a bigger spec and – very welcome – extra horses to play with. Whether you opt for the regular cee’d or the estate ( the cee’d SW) the changes and improvements are the same.