Category: Autoblog

2011 Buick Excelle XT – click above for high-res image gallery
Back in August, when General Motors gave the media a tour of its design studios to show off most of its upcoming lineup, one of the cars we saw was a compact four-door Buick sedan. That…

Just weeks after debuting its new diesel racing Lancer in the 2009 Dakar Rally in South America, Mitsubishi has pulled the plug on the program. In a terse statement (available after the jump) the company blamed the declining economic situation for…

One of the chief criticisms leveled at the the Jaguar XJ after the sedan's last redesign was that it looked too much like the XJ of 1968… only without the sleekness. From a technical standpoint, Jaguar had done an admirable job of making the car…

The other day I had the opportunity to talk with Peter Savagian of General Motors about a study that he and his colleagues E.D. Tate and Michael Harpster completed. They used real-world driving data recorded from over 600 drivers and ran simulations…

A123 Systems may be picking up another customer for their lithium ion batteries. Renault and Nissan, which up until now had been working with batteries from Nissan's partnership with NEC, are considering cells from the Massachusetts based supplier.…

Bob Carter, group vice president and general manager of the Toyota brand, came to Detroit on Monday to have lunch with some local media. Among the topics of discussion at the gathering were Toyota's plans for zero emissions vehicles.
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There are human powered transportation devices and then there is SpeedFit. Anyone who has ever spent time on a treadmill knows how dull and tedious it can be. Now you can use your treadmill and get fresh air at the same time. The creators of this…

2009 BMW X6 – Click above for high-res image gallery
I must be missing the gene that makes high-riding vehicles appealing to so many other people. As a car enthusiast and an engineer, I can certainly appreciate the performance that companies like BMW…

Following the Challenge-X presentation presentation at General Motors headquarters last week, a group of bloggers including myself, Matt Kelly of The Next Gear, Lyle Dennis of gm-volt.com, Todd Kaho of Green Car Journal, Scott Anderson of Hydrogen…

Transport for London and Metrobus have just taken delivery of the first of seventeen new hybrid double decker buses. The two-story buses have been iconic image of central London for over half a century and now they are rolling forward into the 21st…