Category: Autoblog

The salt covered tail of the Fusion with its new vent pipe. Click to enlarge
As soon as Ford's Fusion 999 team finished setting their 207 mph land speed benchmark on Wednesday, they loaded the car up on a truck to return to Michigan for the Woodward…

Audi R8 5.2 FSI Spyder – Click above for high-res gallery
Audi has officially dropped the lid on the new R8 Spyder and and this time around it's opening fire with the big gun V10 engine. As we've already seen in previously leaked photos, the Spyder…

The Swedish oil company Statoil is currently selling E85 ethanol at 170 of their gas stations throughout Sweden, a number which should increase to 260 by the end of 2007. Last year they sold 5.2 million gallons of E85, an increase of 270 percent…

Click the Astro II for a high res gallery of the Chevys at Woodward
Chevrolet has one of the largest displays at the 2007 Woodward Dream Cruise in a prominent spot at the north end of Woodward in Birmingham. They brought the usual array of Nascar…

Ricardo Bazzarella and his partner Akos Toth founded Hymotion only two years ago. In that time they have developed a conversion kit for retrofitting Toyota Priuses and Ford Escapes to plug-in hybrid capability and were bought by A123 Systems last…

As usual when the status quo changes, there are those who lose out during the transition. When the self-propelled automobile took hold in the early twentieth century, the buggy whip and saddle manufacturers felt the pain. However, where you find…

Lexus CT 200h aerodynamics – Click above for high-res image gallery
Aerodynamic performance is getting increasingly important for every new vehicle as automakers strive to improve fuel efficiency and reduce noise. That's especially true for hybrid…

According to a Reuters report from Tokyo, Nissan will finally enter the hybrid market with a completely self-developed vehicle in 2010. Currently Nissan isn't selling any hybrids although they have a hybrid Altima coming in 2007. The Altima will be…

Over on General Motors' Europe “Driving Conversations” blog, VP John Smith has posted an update on the company's negotiations to sell a majority stake in Opel and Vauxhall. Although no final decision has been made yet, it's looking increasingly…

It looks like Honda won't be the only Japanese manufacturer producing new clean diesel engines that don't require urea injection to meet Tier II Bin 5 emission standards here in the US. Honda announced the new catalyst technology that they've…