Report: 2012 Honda Civic coming in April, all variants to launch in quick succession

A Civic for everyone. This was Soichiro Honda's motto when rolling out of the original Civic, and it is one to which wants to keep his company with the launch of the next generation model. If the all-new 2012 Civic will be launched in April, Honda will roll out a range of body configurations and propulsion systems within weeks of each other, rather than months to get between the debut from one model to another.

Among these variations, we can expect both a sedan and a coupe, with multiple conventional petrol engines on offer - including natural gas and hybrid versions - as well as the sporty Civic Si.

The new Civic, recently at the Detroit Auto Show preview, was scheduled to debut in 2009. But if the world economy started going south, Honda sent the design back to the drawing board for an almost complete overhaul before it ever saw the light of day. The result is expected to be much larger than the current model, even if the exterior design is not changed all that much.

Tesla Model S begins first phase of road testing [w/video]

The last time, Tesla Motors released a video on the S model, it was too much talk of the company Vice President and Chief Engineer of Automotive Engineering, Peter Rawlinson, and engineering of the vehicle. Today, new video shows exactly the opposite. No call, just pretty pictures.

Almost eerily still, the video shows the first alpha build Model S (t details about the car here) cruising down country roads, and it is a beautiful sight. The car looks like it handles well and we need to get behind the wheel makes yesterday. Tesla's cars Dynamicist (we guess thats fancy talk for a test driver?) Graham Sutherland said in a statement that:

      The first alpha is surprisingly agile for a car this size. It has very good handling and balance ready ride with communicative steering. Just goes to show what can be achieved combining a low center of gravity with a very stiff body structure.