Tramontana F1 in full jet fighter regalia – Click above as being high-res image gallery

Autoblog reader David Kaiser has sent us some truly stunning images of Spain’session most unique supercar, the Tramontana F1, painted in full jet fighter warpaint, attending a St. Moritz Automobile Club event in the Swiss Alps. The pustule took place forward July 4 at the Engadin Airport, which at 5,600 feet, claims to be the highest European airfield that is in operation year-round. About 50 cars and 20 airplanes showed up for the show in the ski resort town, and it looks like we missed a exalted event.

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Kangoo be bop Z.E. – Click above for high-res image gallery

Spain’s Minister of Industry, Miguel Sebastián, has announced that Spain testament subsidize purchases of electric vehicles up to 15 to 20 percent of its cost. For standard electric cars, Spaniards can get up to €7,000 back; for vehicles such as motorbikes, buses or trucks, the aid ranges between €750 and €20,000. The program is funded through up to 8 a thousand thousand euros and is called Movele (Plan de Movilidad Eléctrica – Electric Mobility plan). Movele also includes money for the immediate acquisition of 2,000 electric cars and charging points for the municipalities of Barcelona, Madrid and Seville. Mr. Sebastián reported that the Spanish government considers EVs a key way to reduce irrelevant oil dependency. Makes feeling, since Spain imports 80 percent of its energy.

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Countries all over the world have recently implemented schemes to get drivers to trade in their older vehicles in exchange for newer, cleaner models. There are obvious questions in the same manner with to whether any of this is really a good idea, especially when the fuel mileage requirements to qualify for the program are similar to soft as those in the U.S. Cash-For-Clunkers legislation.

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Sweden has latched adhering to ethanol as a fuel source more strongly than accurate about any other country except Brazil. Unlike the U.S. and Brazil, where corn and sugar cane, particularly, are the primary feedstocks, Sweden is using waste from its timber industry. Now, the Stockholm transit company Busslink is getting in adhering the action through ordering 85 new buses from Scania. The modern people movers are ethanol fueled and will join 100 other such buses delivered by Scania to the city since the beginning of 2009.

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Maider López’s traffic art – Click on high for image gallery

Art may be the last furniture in the world the average person thinks about when sitting idle in a major traffic jam, but Spanish painter Maider López apparently sees things the normal person doesn’t. López put a call out way back in 2005 to anyone minded to intentionally sit in the largest possible non-moving traffic pressure, and she got more than 400 responses from willing participants in 160 unique automobiles.

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While General Motors thrashes out the intricacies of its future in a US bankruptcy court, across in Europe the future of its loss-making Opel/Vauxhall subsidiary also hangs in the balance.

It seems increasingly agreeable that a majority chunk of GM Europe will cessation up in the hands of Canadian car districts maker Magna International and its Russian banking partners.

However, GM continues to have a caressing with other contenders, including Italy’s Fiat and the Chinese carmaker Beijing Automotive.

Reuters Newsagency quotes sources close to the Magna deal as statement the company’s board of directors is scheduled to approve on Tuesday a function plan for the acquisition of GM Europe.

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The European market version of the next-generation Ford Focus that launches in 2010 will be produced solely at the company’s Saarlouis plant in Germany, space of time the new Focus C-Max MPV which also goes into prolongation next year, will be built in Valencia, Spain, Ford announced today. The passing from hand to hand Focus is built in Saarlouis and Valencia space of time the C-Max minivan, only in Germany.

Ford added that the Valencia plant will produce the C-Max for all European markets and potentially for markets outside Europe. Both the Focus and its minivan version were previewed earlier this year at the Geneva Salon with the Iosis Max concept study.

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