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FIAT has reached the lowest CO2 emission value in 2007 . Jato (a world leader in the automotive business) has confirmed that FIAT has overthrown larger brands in the emission department .

FIAT  scored a value of 137,3 g/km compared to the other brands : Peugeot (141.9 g/km), Citroen (142.2 g/km), Renault (146.4 g/km), Toyota (141.9 g/km), Ford (149.1 g/km), Opel (152.9 g/km), Volkswagen (161.7 g/km), BMW (176.7g/km) and Mercedes (188.4 g/km)

As we can all tell from this report , the small Fiat cars are pretty green . Also the executives of this company said that they are still working on getting the emissions even lower , the Eco Drive system developed with Microsoft will be the key to make the green greener

Opel has unviled its new atraction on Friday. The new sedan will be the base for the replacement for the Saturn Aura.  The new Open Insignia  will replace also the Vectra model (its been with us for a long time) .

A hatchback version will be launched in the future. The sedan has front or all-wheel drive , six speed manual or six speed automatic transmission . The engine is a great asset : seven choices from the 115hp up to 260hp(V6) , and of course three of these versions are diesel. The largest diesel will have 160hp.

The Insignia will be built in Germany at the Russelsheim plant – the quality is guaranteed .

The car will be launched at the London motor show in July. The price is unknown yet.

We will come back with more news on this later

The Twingo CC is aimed to be one of the cheapest roadster around . The price is expected to start from £10,000. His competitors are Vauxhall (Opel) Tigra and Peugeot 207 CC , and as you can see they do have something to be afraid of.

This awesome car will be built at Renault’s factory in Dieppe making it a very sporty car. A genuine two-seater it is Renault’s first car like this since 2005 (Clio V6) . Although buyers will have only 1 option : 1.2-litre four-cylinder engine , the manufacturer says it will be an active car , a car for the young and the old .

In the future we may expect a 131bhp 1.6l engine : Twingo RS that should be the hot version . At this moment Twingo CC will reach only to 120bhp “only