The engineering and business schools at Imperial College London in England are cooperating a program called EnVision 2010, that brings together students from two groups to help train them better for the world they will enter after school. Their…

Within the past month, Porsche has stated that it has no intention of installing diesel engines in itsvehicles and would instead focus on hybrids. The automaker has also threatened to pull out of the European market if new mandatory CO2 regulations…

Hyundai America CEO John Krafcik delivered a keynote address at the opening of the Chicago Auto Show media preview where he called on the industry to dramatically change the way it does business. According to Krafcik, for decades, extravagance has…

2008 Mazda MX-5 – Click above for high-res image gallery
Just as it appeared that winter was finally drawing to close here in Michigan, one of the definitive summertime cars turned up on our doorstep — the Mazda MX-5 Miata . Somewhere back in the…

American Audi race fans were hugely disappointed when the German automaker announced at the end of 2008 that it would not be competing in the full 2009 American Le Mans Series season. This came as a particular blow since Audi has built an all new car…

One of our eagle-eyed readers happened to accidentally record an automotive program recently that included an interview with Lexus PR Manager Bill Ussery. Ussery gives the interviewer the full rundown on the Lexus RX400h hybrid crossover, explaining…

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Here in Chicago this morning Toyota unveiled the redesigned 2008 Highlander with the mantra Bigger! Wider! Safer! As you might imagine, the new crossover is larger in all…

2010 Toyota Sai – Click above for high-res image gallery
Toyota unveiled its de-badged Lexus HS250h/Sai in Tokyo this week and hopes that this model will be another incremental step toward its goal of 1,000,000 annual sales of hybrids. Initially at…

2011 Chevy Volt – click above for high-res image gallery
General Motors announced today that it will spend $ 230 million on four facilities in the Flint, Michigan area that will support the production of the new Chevy Cruze compact and the Volt…

For the past dozen years Ward's Auto World, an industry trade magazine has been naming what it considers the ten best engines each year. Three new engines made the list this year including the new Ford 3.5L V-6, BMW's turbocharged inline-six and the…