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MINI D gets Best Small Car from UK's Fleet News

Due to some arcane tax rules in Great Britain, it's financially beneficial for many companies to provide cars to employees. As a result, a disproportionate number of sales in the UK are to company fleets. Thus, publications like Fleet News get a lot…

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Who should get carbon credits, automakers or utilities?

Toyota Prius PHEV – click above for high-res image gallery
Governments everywhere are trying to use a carrot and stick approach to get reductions in emissions, particularly when it comes to greenhouse gases. The stick is well-known approach: fail to…

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Review: 2009 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8

2009 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 – Click above for high-res image gallery
In many ways, the Jeep Grand Cherokee is one of the best vehicles in Chrysler's lineup. Along with the Wrangler, it packs real off-road capabilities into an angular, no-nonsense…

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Using only the sun to split water and make hydrogen

As cool as the promise of quick refueling and emitting only water is, fuel cells still have that sticky issue of needing hydrogen before they can really catch on. In spite of hydrogen being the most common element in the universe it almost never…

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REPORT: Mercedes to add four cylinder diesel to S-class

If Autocar is correct, Mercedes-Benz will impose some serious downsizing in the engine compartment of the S-class next year. Six cylinder engines are nothing new in European-spec versions of the big Merc. However, Daimler is now set to install its…

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Spotted in Detroit: Pre-production 2011 Chevrolet Volt

We've still got about six and a half months until the official Job One production date for the Chevrolet Volt, but GM's plug-in savior is popping up on the streets around Detroit. Most of the Volts spotted in public are from the fleet of 80 IVER…

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Geneva Preview: Hyundai reveals diesel hybrid i-Flow

Hyundai's home office in Korea has dropped the first frontal image of the new concept that will be shown next week in Geneva along with some technical details. The i-Flow is a D-segment sedan meant to go up against cars like the Ford Mondeo in…