24 Hours of Le Mans Qualifying and Practice – Click above for high-res image gallery
The 2010 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans is now well underway and as it has been for years now, the big enduro has turned into a twice around the clock sprint.…

It looks like the theory behind the creation of full-size hybrid SUVs may not hold water, at least from a marketing perspective. Certainly adding a hybrid drivetrain to a big truck will save more gas for a given number of miles driven than doing the…

2010 Toyota Prius – c lick above for a high-res gallery
In honor of Earth Day last week, the team over at Kelly Blue Book sat down to generate its annual list of the greenest cars available on the U.S. market. The list goes beyond just fuel…

Ford CEO Alan Mullaly told Detroit radio station WJR that the company is reconsidering whether to bring its smallest car to the U.S. market. Ford officially introduced the second-generation Ka last week at the Paris Motor Show and up until now has…

The new Green Party mayor of Tübinge n Germany is fully in support of the city's “10% less CO2 by 2010” policy and he's got a new ride to demonstrate it. Boris Palmer has selected the Smart ForTwo MHD as his official ride when on city business. The…

The European Investment Bank has approved €866 million ($1.14 billion U.S.) in loans to automakers to fund the development of greener cars. Two thirds of the funds for the new loans come from the European Economic Recovery Package and are targeted at…

2008 ALMS at Laguna Seca – click above for a high res image gallery
On Friday, prior to this weekend's Petit Le Mans, the American Le Mans Series announced its planned 2010 schedule. Tentatively, nine of this year's 10 venues are carried over, with…

The SAE task force that is currently working on a standard for a conductive connector for plug-in vehicles could finalize that work as soon as this fall. The proposed plug standard is currently going through certification testing at Underwriters Labs…

The last-minute relocation of the factory to build the new Tata Nano has meant an overall delay to the program. On top of the that, the diesel version has been delayed even longer. Most recently, Tata had planned to launch the diesel version of the…

The law of unintended consequences has struck again and once again corn ethanol is at the center of it. The net benefits of producing fuel ethanol from corn are constantly debated here and elsewhere. Now there is yet another potentially huge cost to…