As General Motors launches their new Two-Mode Hybrid SUVs, they are clearly trying to burnish their green credentials. They have posted a series of new ads which will presumably start showing up on TV in the near future. The ads highlight most of…

European carmakers may not be universally happy about the proposed new European Union CO2 limits with some like Porsche threating to leave the EU market while others are moving forward. Analyst Jato Dynamics says that the 130g/km limit is driving the…

Last week the Napa Unified School District in California received its first plug-in hybrid school bus. The bus was built by IC Corporation which is a subsidiary of Navistar and a major producer of school buses. The bus uses a parallel hybrid diesel…

Hyundai doesn't offer any diesel-powered cars in the US yet (a diesel V-6 is apparently coming to the Veracruz in a couple of years) but many of their overseas models use compression ignition. Also not available to American drivers is the new Hyundai…

Last spring, General Motors wrapped up the fou- year Challenge X program where 17 university teams from the United States and Canada competed to design and build a hybrid drive Chevrolet Equinox. At the conclusion of Challenge X, GM announced that…

Three weeks into his new assignment as president and chief operating officer of Toyota North America, Yoshimi Inaba came to Detroit to talk about the state of the business. This is Inaba-san's third stint working for Toyota in North America after…

Apparently not everyone in Stuttgart is thrilled about the deal that Chrysler has struck with Chery to assemble small cars for sale outside of China. Erich Kelmm is chairman of the DaimlerChrysler works council and thinks having DCX branded cars…

Warning: Do Not Try this at home! ABG reader Joseph wrote in the other night to let us know about some videos featuring some street racing between A Tesla Roadster, an unidentified sport bike, a Mercedes McLaren SLR, a '63 Corvette and a Ferrari…

It didn't take long for Bob Lutz to respond to the Detroit News report that GM was backing off on the Volt. In a post yesterday on the GM Fastlane blog reiterated that General Motors is fully committed to developing the Volt into a production…

Honda global design director Nobuki Ebisawa – click above for high res image gallery
For the first time in its history, Honda invited a select group of North American media to visit its design studio this week after the Tokyo Motor Show. While we…