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There’s a tidal wave of Subaru special edition cars coming out this month in celebration of the company’s 50th anniversary. This one’s the Impreza 15S Comfort Selection. (more…)

There’s an overdose of Subaru special edition cars coming out this month in celebration of the company’s 50th anniversary. One of them is the Forester Black Leather Limited, available on 2.0XS and 2.0XT trim levels. It’s comes in standard Subaru colors Sparkle Silver Metallic, Obsidian Black Pearl and Satin White Pearl (¥31,500), but also a new hue introduced on the limited edition, Sunlight Gold Pearl. Special equipment list after the jump. (more…)

So that’s what they mystery car was from the G8 Summit lineup. I had heard Nissan had an FCV X-Trail in the works, but as you can see, this light blue cornering machine doesn’t look anything like the current X-Trail, or even this other green-cred seeking X-Trail Clean Diesel. Congrats, Nissan, you have fooled me.

But you can’t fool me into thinking this FCV’s lap of 11:58 around the Nürburgring really counts for much, because it’s the only hydrogen powered car to ever attempt a record. Let’s get the Honda FCX Clarity out there and see how it fares. It wouldn’t be it’s only time out on the track.

[Source: Nissan]

Honda wants you to know that the new Open Study Model concept, unveiled today at the London Motor Show, is merely a design study and not intended for production as the next S2000 or otherwise. The low-emissions OSM shares the stands with the FCX Clarity and CR-Z, showing that green cars can be fun too.

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The Mazda compact crossover concept to be revealed at the Moscow Motor Show now has a name and photo. Kazamai means “swirling crosswinds” in Japanese and is part of Mazda’s ongoing series of Nagare, or “flow,” concepts that have been making the auto show circuits recently. But let’s face it, after the Furai, everything else is just going to look tame.

[Mazda]

Mitsubishi’s funky bulldog-looking Concept-cX from the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show is headed for production with a 134hp 1.8L clean diesel mated to a version of the Twin Clutch SST transmission from the Evo X. It’ll be a bit smaller than the Outlander and will probably not look as cool as the concept.

[Car Central via Autoblog]

This is a rendering of the Honda OSM lightweight open-top concept that will debut at the London Motor Show, which opens July 22. Sources say this is not the S2000, just a design study.

[Autoblog]

According to this story on Gotham Cable News, Wayne Enterprises has been on a multinational shopping spree buying up companies, mostly high-tech firms with military contracts. However, the montage of purchased companies included this image, which is the unmistakable dashboard of the 2007 Nissan Pivo2 concept, complete with R2-D2-like droid copilot. Does this mean we’ll see a VK56DE-powered Tumbler or a GT-R pulling out of the east wing of Wayne Manor? God, one can only hope.

Mazda will unveil the latest concept at the upcoming Moscow International Automobile Salon. Details are harder to pin down than trace amounts of polonium in your bloodstream, but we do know that this time the Nagare design theme flows its way onto a compact crossover. The Moscow Auto Show starts August 26.

[Mazda]

Honda has long been playing second fiddle to Toyota in the hybrid wars, mostly because its electricity-boosted offerings have either been impractical (Insight) or resembled non-hybrid versions (Civic Hybrid, Accord Hybrid). Not any more. Prez and CEO Takeo Fukui announced that the a sporty petro-electric car based on the CR-Z concept is coming down the pipeline, along with a separate model not based off any current Honda but which will draw inspiration from the FCX Clarity in design.

[Carscoop]