Former National Highway Traffic Safety Administration chief and current head of Public Citizen Joan Claybrook has long been a thorn in the side of the auto-makers. Now in a follow-on to this earlier story about problems with flex-fuel Ford Tauruses…

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Karl Stracke, General Motors VP of global engineering, has unequivocally denied the recent rumors about a mid-engine version of the next-generation Corvette with a…

Starting with the 2009 season. Formula One teams are allowed to use kinetic energy recovery systems ( KERS) to boost performance. Over the course of the 2008 season, most of the teams started testing a few different systems with varying degrees of…

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There have now been two sets of spy photos that have turned up showing a development mule wearing a hacked up Nissan 350Z body. At first everyone assumed it was a Nissan vehicle. However, in…

One of the biggest concerns people have with buying smal cars is crash safety. More specifically, there are concerns about what happens when a small car meets a larger one in an accident. Regardless of size, all cars are required to meet the same…

One of the biggest problem areas that a military force faces in a time of conflict is maintaining supply lines to the troops. Keeping troops fed and fueled is critical. To that end, being able to maximize fuel efficiency, and also getting fuel…

Following a recent post about a short drive in a prototype fuel cell powered Ford Focus, some questions were raised in the comments comparing Ford's technology with that of Honda on their FCX fuel cell concept. AutoBlogGreen posed some of these…

Apparently, even a battery company can hedge its bets on future automotive powertrain technology. Such is the case with Ener1, which held its first quarter earnings call yesterday. We've regularly covered updates from Ener1's lithium ion battery…

One of the things that makes automakers so important to the economies of many industrialized countries is the jobs that go along with those companies. The carmakers and their suppliers employ several million people worldwide. Over the past century…

While the seemingly bottomless pit of torque available from a big turbodiesel engine would seem to be more in character for a Bentley than a hybrid system, it looks like the latter might be the first option for the VW-owned British brand. The…