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Electric cars battle performance purists as the UK’s largest auto show turns green

By John Voelcker Posted 7.24.08 at 1:10 pm 0 Comments

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TOYOTA AYGO CRAZY
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This “crazy” one-off boy-racer concept is meant to add pizzazz to the Aygo, Toyota’s smallest European car. It combines an Aygo body shell, or most of it, with a purpose-built chassis, a full roll cage, and a mid-mounted 1.8-liter turbocharged engine putting out 197 horsepower and driving the rear wheels. It’ll do 0-60 in less than 6 seconds.
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MORGAN AEROMAX
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Morgan treasures its image as the last of the British eccentrics, offering wood-framed open cars with wire wheels—albeit also compliant with crash and emissions rules. But purists took years to recover from the 160-mph Aero 8 supercar, using all-alloy construction and a 330-hp BMW V8 engine to blaze from 0 to 60 in 4.5 seconds. More jaws dropped this year at the classic beauty of this Aeromax closed coupe.
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