Category: Autoblog

It looks like Ford won't be the only company getting lithium ion battery packs from Magna International. The Magna Steyr division of the supplier announced last week that it will begin production of packs at its plant in Graz, Austria next month. The…

2009 Ford Escape – Click above for high-res image gallery
The 2008 redesign of the Ford Escape and Mercury Mariner wasn't the clean-sheet redesign Ford would like people to believe. In fact, only the parts visible to the naked eye were “all new.”…

Since Pontiac added coupe and convertible versions of the G6 a couple of years ago, they have only been available with V6 engines. It looks like the current economic conditions are triggering a change in the coupe lineup. Pontiac will be adding an SE…

Sometime in the next few years Alfa Romeo is supposed to return to the US market, but whether we get the 147 or its successor is still questionable. The 147 is Alfa's smallest model, comparable in size to a VW Golf and they offer engines with 120 or…

At the Frankfurt Motor Show, Ford will take the wraps off their own lineup of special low CO2 variants of their European model range. Joining VW's BlueMotion and GM's ecoFlex, Ford has created the ECOnetic brand for their cleanest models. The first…

Saab has been selling their bioPower variant of the 9-5 wagon in Europe for some time now. bioPower is Saab's brand name for their flex-fuel vehicles. The bioPower engines are able run on up to 100% ethanol fuel, but are optimized for E85. Now Saab…

In a generally awful sales month in May, one car had an exceptionally hot reception in the marketplace. In a month where the Ford F-Series pickup tumbled from the overall top spot for first time since 1981, the Honda Civic raced to the top of the…

Kia is not a brand most people think of as being on the cutting edge of alternative drivetrain technology, especially in the U.S. market. Here they are mostly thought of as a purveyor of inexpensive, decent but not outstanding cars. However we can't…

Click the new XF Diesel S for a high res gallery
Jaguar has just announced a new version of its XF sports sedan with a an updated 3.0L diesel V6 that putts out 275 hp and has a massive 443 lb-ft of torque. The new engine replaces the older 2.7L…

The World Solar Challenge is back for its tenth outing across the wilds of Australia this October. Students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are the only ones to have competed in every single running and Eleanor is their tenth such…