Click the Ford Kuga for a high-res gallery
The Ford Kuga that we first saw in concept form at last fall's Frankfurt Motor Show is now ready to hit showrooms.The Oval's first European crossover is based on the same C1 platform as the Euro Focus and…

A couple of years ago, biodiesel production appeared to have a very bright future. World oil prices were on the rise, the price of petroleum diesel was moving past gasoline and every automaker seemed to be on the verge of introducing new diesel…

2012 Lexus LFA Nürburgring Package – Click above for high-res image gallery
As if the LFA wasn't going to be rare enough with a production run limited to 500 units, Lexus has announced a special edition Nürburgring Package for that extra helping of…

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Volkswagen is featuring the new CleanTDI Jetta SportWagen at their booth in this year's SEMA show in Las Vegas. The SportWagen is powered by the new fifty state-legal 2.0L CleanTDI diesel that will be…

2009 Volkswagen Routan – click above for a high res image gallery
Earlier this spring as Chrysler stumbled toward bankruptcy court, one of the announced cost-cutting decisions was the elimination of the third shift at the Windsor assembly plant.…

Honda has already announced their plans to make a production version of the fuel cell powered FCX concept available to the public in limited quantities starting in 2008. Now in an interview with Kyodo News in Japan, Honda President Takeo Fukui has…

Up until now Subaru has never produced a diesel engine, and didn't have the resources to develop both diesel and hybrid drive-trains. This all changed a year ago when General Motors sold the Subaru stake they bought in 1999 to Toyota. General Motors…

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been researching where the bottlenecks are inside lithium-ion batteries that limit charging and discharging rates, and they've learned some interesting things. Lithium iron phosphate…

A couple in France, Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen who go by the name HeHe Association describe themselves as reverse cultural engineering the technological systems that surround us. They've got a lot of interesting concepts on their site that are…

2010 Hyundai Santa Fe – click above for high-res image gallery
The 2010 edition of the Hyundai Santa Fe isn't getting a full redesign, but a visual refresh does provide a few hints of the “fluidic sculpture” design language that debuted last month on…