2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid – Click above for high-res image gallery
Recently, we had our third opportunity to drive the 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid. Actually, the last go around was with a Mercury Milan Hybrid, but aside from a different nose and fanny, it…
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Gilligan's Island tech? Coconut oil-fueled, bamboo taxi
Increasing powertrain efficiency is just one area in which vehicles' environmental impact can be lessened. A significant portion of the total energy used to operate the vehicle over its lifetime comes from sourcing and processing raw materials into…
GM asks Detroit and Michigan for tax breaks for Volt production
No major manufacturer ever builds a new factory without getting lots of tax breaks from state and local governments. In fact, what happens is they announce plans to build a factory without specifying a location and then sit back and wait while the…
Zap picks up steam with record sales and profit
Electric car maker Zap! has benefited from rising gas prices in the past and their financial numbers are showing it. They had record sales of $9.9 million for the first nine months of 2006, compared to $2.9 million during the previous year. Sales…
Spy shots: Cadillac CTS-V coupe spotted again, so close… yet so far
It hasn't been a secret for a long time that Cadillac is prepping a high performance V edition of its upcoming CTS coupe. It's also no secret that we're big fans of the CTS-V in the virtual Autoblog office. And yet Cadillac continues to tease us by…
Hydrogen powered H-Racer named Time's “Invention of the Year”
Time magazine has named their inventions of the year for 2006 even though there's still more than a month to go on the calendar. In the transportation category, the winner is the H-Racer, the worlds smallest fuel cell powered car. The H-Racer is six…
Spy Photos: 2009 Ford Fiesta/Verve that's coming to the US!
The first decent spy photos of the production version of Ford's new B-Car have turned up on the interwebs. The 2009 replacement for the Ford Fiesta which may well be renamed the Verve after the concept car that will appear on stage in Frankfurt this…
Base 2008 Cadillac CTS caught in wild
Since the Detroit Auto Show last January we've been seeing many fully-loaded examples of the new 2008 Cadillac CTS. Now a reader of GM Inside News has managed to get some closeup time with a base-level CTS in someone's driveway. The interior shots…
Chinese carmakers now doing mashups! Meet the Lexiac RX Torrent
UPDATE: Added more live shots from Autoblog Chinese
click above image to view more pics of the Huanghai Fast NCV, aka Lexiac RX Torrent
Over in Shanghai this week, all the local producers are bringing out their latest wares. By now we've gotten used…
VW developing new ultra compact car to take on Smart
The current European VW Fox
The hits just keep on coming from Ferdinand Piech's new man, Martin Winterkorn. The new Volkswagen CEO has been shaking things up since he took over the reins in Wolfsburg, with 20,000 redundancies and longer working hours…