The Oscar Mayer Weinermobile is one of America's automotive icons. The giant hot dogs have rolled around the country since the original appeared in 1936 promoting the brand's products. There have been numerous generations over the last seven decades…

A proposal put forward recently by Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich to provide a way out of new fuel economy requirements for carmakers if they committed to using alternative powertrains on all their cars by 2020 appears to have died on the vine. It looks…

2011 Porsche Cayenne Diesel – Click above for high-res image gallery
In Europe, Porsche has begun customer deliveries of both the gasoline and diesel V6 versions of the all-new Cayenne SUV. Both new models are equipped with the eight-speed Tiptronic…

While New York City is using Ford Escape Hybrids as taxis, that simply wouldn't do in the Middle East. General Motors has delivered ten of its Chevy Tahoe hybrids to the Dubai government for a taxi fleet test. The test program was kicked off by His…

South Korea's Hyundai sent one of their prototype fuel cell powered Tucson crossovers to Shanghai China last week for the Challenge Bibendum and it put in a pretty good showing. The fuel cell Tucson was the only vehicle of it's type to get a perfect…

Mercedes-Benz/Tesla press conference – Click above for ABG's liveblog coverage
During a press conference held at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart this morning, Dr. Thomas Weber, the head of research and development for Mercedes-Benz, announced…

2010 Chevy Spark – Click above for high-res image gallery
The Detroit News is reporting that sources at General Motors' Lake Orion, MI assembly plant have been told the plant has been selected to build a new small car for the North American market.…

Even though biodiesel is becoming more widely available all the time, it can still be hard to find in some locales. For those times when you really need some veggie oil on the go and you're in an unfamiliar location, just call NearBio and they'll…

Saturday afternoon we went for what may have been the shortest and quickest first drive in the history of Autoblog. When we go on a typical first drive with a manufacturer, we get to drive a vehicle around for at least a few hours in a variety of…

click for a gallery of images of the production Chevy Volt
GM Europe president Carl-Peter Forster said again this week that the company would launch E-Flex-based extended range EVs on the European market in 2011, about a year behind the Volt launch…