In another sign of good things to come from Ford later this year, the company's new Fiesta has just won a Car of the Year award from What Car? magazine in the UK. Specifically, the Fiesta 1.25i Zetec was selected by the publication's editors. They…

new Nissan Global sub-compact – click above for high-res gallery
Nissan first sent out sketches of its next-generation small car in early October but we'll have to wait until the Geneva Motor Show next March to see it in the metal. This time around,…

Click above for a high-res gallery of the Ford Mustang FR500CJ Cobra Jet
We first told you about Ford's new Mustang Cobra Jet factory drag car in June of 2007 and last week Ford posted a video on YouTube of a test session with the new car showing its…

Volkswagen Golf BiFuel – Click above for high-res image gallery
Volkswagen has expanded its range of BiFuel-capable vehicles capable of running on either gasoline or liquified petroleum gas (LPG) with the addition of the new Polo BiFuel. Like the…

The price of gas first spiked up to the $3.00 per gallon zone in the United States in September of 2005 following Hurricane Katrina. Even though the storm lost some of it's strength from it's peak before it made landfall, it still caused an enormous…

It's looking like all auto shows are going to be feeling the pinch of a shrinking auto market going forward, including the mighty Frankfurt Show. Honda has joined Nissan in pulling out of this fall's Frankfurt show in order to save money. Earlier…

Monster Tajima and his Suzuki SX4 hill-climb special – Click above for high-res image gallery
While Rhys Millen and his new Hyundai V8 powered Pikes Peak challenger have been getting the most attention, Nobuhiro “Monster” Tajima has no intention of…

As part of the Nissan Green Program 2010, the Japanese carmaker will be adding fuel efficiency gauges to all of their new models over the next few years. The first US models to get the new gauges are the Infinity G35 and Nissan Altima. The Altima…

Toyota Prius PHEV – click above for high-res image gallery
Ever since we started getting government estimates of fuel economy for new vehicles back in the 1970s, the first thing people noticed was that the numbers rarely reflected reality. The…

Peugeot may well be the first team to run a hybrid vehicle at Le Mans and it looks like it will be a diesel, too. New Peugeot CEO recently told the French paper L'Equipe that a diesel-hybrid prototype is currently under development and that it may…