Category: Autoblog

Click on the image for a high-res gallery of Smart photos
If you've been hankering to get one of those cute little Smart cars that you can almost park in your tool shed, now's your chance to get on the official waiting list. Smart USA will start…

UPDATE 2: Video of MKS in motion added after the jump
UPDATE: Many more high-res pics added to gallery
click above image to view high-res gallery of the 2009 Lincoln MKS
For the past two decades, the only thing consistent about Ford's Lincoln…

At an Automotive Press Association meeting this week, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) released the results of a new cost study on battery electric vehicles and it doesn't look good for electric vehicle fans. BCG thinks it is unlikely that the cost…

For the first 36 years, the existed in name only with no place to call home. Unfortunately, the same economic conditions that have afflicted the industry it celebrates (and the area in which it resides) have come to haunt the hall. Falling attendance…

Given that the United States military spends a large amount of its resources fighting to secure regions of the world that are most important as a source of crude oil, it would certainly make tactical sense to reduce its dependence on those fuels.…

Last year, we heard about a very interesting sounding experimental engine that Ford was working on dubbed the “Bobcat.” The engine in question is a 5.0-liter V8 that featured turbocharging and two independent fuel injection systems. The primary…

AutoblogGreen sat down for a chat with Dave Barthmuss of General Motors after the Chevy Volt reveal yesterday (Sunday) to answer some questions about GM's alternative fuel strategy and even the EV1. Dave is the Manager of Public Policy, Environment…

Click on the image for a high-res gallery of Lotus APX images
A couple of weeks ago we had a story about the next model from Tesla possibly being a crossover utility. A reader asked whether the rumored vehicle might be based on the Lotus APX concept…

2011 Nissan Leaf – Click above for high-res image gallery
Automakers like Nissan are well aware that the future engineers of the world need to learn more about the vehicles of the future, namely electrified types. Many companies are working with…

French researchers Jean-Jacques Chanaron Research and Julius Teske have taken the growing fondness for gas-electric hybrid vehicles to task. In a new article in the International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management the pair assert that…