Your next new car may need windows produced from high-strength plastic. That allows you to shed as much weight as possible to assist boost fuel economy, vehicles just like the new Ford Transit Connect may soon use the plastics to switch the rear window, and the 2014 Fiat 500L already does, The Detroit News reports. The large benefits to using the high-strength (polycarbonate) plastic in automotive windows is its light weight and skill to be molded into almost any shape – proof of which are present in current automotive headlights, 95 percent of which might be fabricated from the high-strength plastic. Though glass windows reportedly only make up about 100 pounds of a vehicle’s weight, polycarbonate windows have the capability to shed half that weight. The ability for the high-strength...

Subaru has teased an idea vehicle dubbed the VIZIV, before the 2013 Geneva Motor Show in March. Though the automaker says it’s a crossover, information about its size, powertrain, and place within the Subaru range are omitted. Does the VIZIV preview a better Tribeca or its three-row replacement Is it a small, sub-Forester model geared toward the Mini Countryman and Paceman, or is it simply a preview of Subaru’s future design language We’ll must wait a month to determine, but until then, we will speculate. Subaru says the VIZIV’s name is encouraged by the phrase “vision for innovation,” and that the subsequent-gen concept embodies the brand’s values of “enjoyment and peace of mind.” Unfortunately, that tells us nothing in regards to the upcoming concept. All we’re given to work with...

Call it a primary for Volkswagen: the 2014 Golf R Cabriolet you spot this is the primary time that the automaker has lopped the head off one in all its high-performance R models. However the results are impressive: the Golf R Cabriolet is actually a 261-hp, 155-mph GTI with a roof made up of cloth. The VW Golf R Cabriolet is strictly find it irresistible sounds — it’s a convertible version of the VW Golf R, that’s in turn a hopped-up version of the GTI hatchback. The Golf R Cabriolet uses the automaker’s 2.0-liter turbocharged I-4 (the EA113, for the VW fanatics at home) to provide 261 horsepower. Unlike the U.S.-market Golf R, however, the european-market Golf R Cabriolet sends all that power and torque to front wheels through an average...