Category: Autoblog

Click on the photo for a high-res image of the new Mazda2, suitable for wall-paper
Ford has said for some time that they are working on a new B-Class car, smaller than the Focus for the North American market. I also recently spotted a Ford Fiesta…

Having transformed themselves from a low-volume sports car manufacturer to a twenty-first century “CarbonNeutral” car-maker, Venturi is showing a pair of very interesting concepts at the Paris Motor Show this week. The first is the Eclectic, looking…

Nissan Leaf iAd on 4th generation iPhone – Click above for high-res image gallery
One or two of you may have noticed that Apple CEO Steve Jobs “officially” revealed the new fourth-generation iPhone today at the Apple World Wide Developers Conference.…

Chrysler's efforts to develop more environmentally-friendly vehicles have been distinctly overshadowed by the drama of their divorce from Chrysler and that 800lb green gorilla called Volt. New CEO Bob Nardelli is continuing to shake things up,…

Hot on the heels of the BMW X6 introduction at the Frankfurt Motor Show last week comes word of a yet another variation from Munich. The V5 is not a new engine configuration, it's a new body style for BMW. Looking like a pretty standard five door…

Just over a month before we get to see the 2009 Nissan Maxima for real at the New York Auto Show, the first spy shots of the new sedan have popped up on the net. According to a Nissan spokesman we talked to at the Chicago Auto Show, the new Maxima…

Making the transition to electrified vehicles will bring with it a vast array of issues that will need to be dealt with. There are, of course, the obvious problems of charging EVs in urban areas and disposal and recycling of batteries. Then there is…

When Corporate Average Fuel Economy regulations were instituted by the US Congress in the mid-seventies, the law included fines for automakers who failed to meet the standard. The first company to fall prey to CAFE fines was Jaguar in 1983 when they…

Honda has already announced plans to introduce a new 2.2L four cylinder clean diesel in the US market in 2009, likely in the Accord. Honda CEO Takeo Fukui also discussed a diesel V-6 in an interview last December in Automotive News. It now looks like…

When the Honda Insight went from concept to production in late 2008, it stayed mostly true to what was first shown at the 2008 Paris Motor Show. However, as usual, there were a few detail changes, chiefly to the lighting. The concept version had…