Category: Autoblog

Click the A4 TDI for a high-res gallery
This week Audi invited invited a group of auto scribes to come over to their home turf and drive the newest edition of the A4 sedan. We spent a day driving a couple of hundred miles around Bavaria in the A4 TDI…

Traditionally, diesel engines haven't been thought of as performance alternatives but for the past decade Gale Banks has worked hard to disprove that perception. Now in his fiftieth year of building high-performance powerplants, Banks has been…

If you are in the Boston, MA area this weekend you might want to swing by the Boston City Hall Plaza on Saturday or the Larz Anderson Auto Museum on Sunday. Ford, General Motors, Honda, Toyota and Volkswagen as well as Azure Dynamics, and other…

Allowing customers to customize colors and materials has become a popular and profitable option for many automakers in the last several years. Most offer customers the opportunity to pick up their new ride at the factory and even watch it being…

Chrysler's first production hybrids will go on sale in September in the shape of the Dodge Durango and Chrysler Aspen Two-modes. However, as GM has learned this spring, even having the most advanced hybrid powertrain on the market may not be enough…

2011 Renault Megane Coupe-Convertible – Click above for high-res image gallery
For 2011, Renault is launching an all-new version of its Megane coupe-convertible. Like the last generation model and most of its European market competitors, the Megane…

Nissan will be joining Mitsubishi in providing electric vehicles the sunny principality of Monaco. The Nissan-Renault alliance and officials of the Riviera enclave have signed a deal that will see the automakers supplying battery-powered vehicles by…

It looks like Volkswagen's new up! mini-car will be a little bit less of a modern incarnation of the Beetle than originally planned. The original three concept versions of VW's “new small family” (NSF) featured a rear-mounted engine and drive to the…

Toyota may be on top of the world right now having the brought the first practical modern hybrid cars to production and selling more hybrids than anyone else, but that doesn't mean they are in the lead on everything green car related. They just…

The San Jose Mercury News did an interview last week with Tesla Motors chairman Elon Musk. Musk made his fortune by founding PayPal and Zip2 and now he wants to change the world. He has personally kicked in $30 million of his own money to the Tesla…