Category: Autoblog

During a media preview of the new BlueTec diesel powered Mercedes SUVs here in Vermont, Thomas Ruhl Director of R-Class, SUV hybrid and BlueTec discussed some of the alternative drive systems coming from Stuttgart in the near future. While he didn't…

Magna International's Austrian contract car building division, Magna Steyr, will be showing the third in a series of concepts at the Geneva Motor Show next week. Like its Magna Innovation Lightweight Auto predecessors, the new MILA Alpin is focused…

A couple of years ago the city of London, England began charging a congestion tax on cars coming into the city, as way of cutting down on the insane amount of traffic, particularly in the central part of the city. Now the local parking authority in…

When the current generation of General Motors' Zeta platform was conceived and developed by the company's Holden division in Australia, we lived in a very different world when it came to life. Gas was still cheap, and GM was planning to revive a…

click for a high res gallery of the new Aygo
We already showed you the refreshed 2009 versions of the Peugeot 107 and Citroën C1 earlier this week. Those two A-segment mini cars are part of a joint venture between PSA and Toyota that also produces…

After weeks of teasing and even letting some European media drive prototypes, the crew over at BMW's Munich headquarters finally released all the goods on its newest and smallest crossover, the X1. The U.S. branch of BMW has also confirmed that the…

Click above for a high-res gallery from the Ford Racing Invitational
I went into the Ford Racing Racing Invitational drag race this weekend with only a cursory knowledge of drag racing. Sure I was aware of all the usual suspects like Garlits,…

Over the past couple of years, Volkswagen has been introducing low CO 2-emitting variants of several of its mainstream car models under the BlueMotion banner. The latest addition to that lineup is the big Touareg SUV which is getting some tweaks to…

The second of nineteen plug-in hybrid school buses being supplied by Advanced Energy is going to the Nazareth Area School District in Pennsylvania. Nazareth is the first district in Pennsylvania to get one of these new buses which are built IC…

Peugeot 908 HDi practicing for 2010 Le Mans – Click above for high-res image gallery
It looks like the Peugeot and Audi diesels will again be the cars to keep up with at Le Mans this year. During Wednesday night's first qualifying session for this…