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Toyota smashes electric car lap record at Nurburgring

Toyota has set a new electric car record at the Nurburgring – with a silent but speedy 7min 47.794sec lap of the Nordschleife. You can watch the record lap in our video above. Ring specialist Jochen Krumbach was at the wheel of the Toyota Motorsport EV P001 racer, obliterating Peugeot's previous 9min 1.338sec record in the EX1 concept car.

Nissan mulls Titan engine variations

Nissan engineers and designers are playing catch-up to create the next-generation full-sized Titan pickup, now that the project is back on their plate. A plan to develop the pickup jointly with Chrysler off the Dodge Ram collapsed last year. Now Nissan must make up for lost time.

Mercedes CLC spied on video & CLC Shooting Brake confirmed

Mercedes CLC spy video It would seem the consensus is now that the baby CLS Mercedes has been planning is going to arrive as the Mercedes CLC and not, as we thought, the Mercedes BLS. Probably. So for now we’ll go with Mercedes CLC and move on from there.