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Depending on whether you bought a Subaru or a Yugo, Malcolm Bricklin is either the phoenix who keeps rising from the ashes or the roach you just can't seem to stamp out. Either way, he's back and…

Michigan's economy has been hurt badly in the past decade by the troubles of the domestic car industry and attempts to attract new business have not created nearly as many jobs as those that have evaporated. The latest venture that's attracting…

You may have noticed that there have been a large number of reports recently about Toyota and the continuing series of recalls it has announced in recent weeks. Here at Autoblog we try to be fair and tell the story as best we can without being…

Bridgestone conducted safety checks on over 29,000 cars in nineteen different countries in Europe over the past two years and found some pretty dramatic results. Over ninety percent of the cars checked had under-inflated tires. Of those, almost forty…

At the Essen Motor Show in Germany, Audi has announced a new part of its 2009 motorsports program. After three years of running its pioneering R10 TDI, Audi's diesel racer is being replaced for 2009. The manufacturer has designed an all-new diesel…

When the Dodge Journey debuted here in the U.S. market a couple of years ago, it looked decent from the outside. Sadly, the interior was pretty atrocious and the performance and fuel economy were mediocre at best. For 2010, Journey buyers can get up…

Amid all the turmoil about a potential sale of Chrysler, the DaimlerChrysler supervisor board has signed off on partnership agreement with Chery Automotive of China. Chery and Chrysler will work together and small cars manufactured by Chery will…

Volkswagen of America kicked off their big cross country DIESELUTION tour at the Auburn Hills MI headquarters this morning as they prepare for launch of their new CleanTDI vehicles, next March. New VWoA CEO Stefan Jacoby unveiled the 53 ft long,…

We first saw the aptly named Venturi Eclectic at last year's Paris Motor Show and the company has now brought one to sunny southern California. The sunny part is important since the roof is covered with photo-voltaic cells. If left parked in the sun…

Earlier this year when we spoke to Dr. David Cole, one of the risks that he mentioned of relying solely on fuel economy standards as a way to reduce oil consumption was the threat of oil prices dropping. If nothing is done to help create demand for…