Category: Autoblog

At the introduction of the Nissan Forum concept, VP of Product Planning Larry Dominique talked about diesels beyond the 3.0L V-6 being developed for the Maxima. If the slow-selling Titan pickup truck survives into the next decade, Nissan wants a…

When I was growing up in Hamilton, Ontario the local bus system known as the Hamilton Street Railway had a long history of clean operations. They ran electric trolley buses in the lower part of the city as recently as the early 1990s and were one of…

2008 GMC Yukon Two-Mode Hybrid
One thing that's been repeatedly noticed over the last few decades is that as new technology is added that improves cars and trucks, drivers have a habit of adapting in a way that negates that benefit. When ABS started…

Volvo plug-in hybrid – click above for hi-res gallery
Volvo is building several plug-in hybrid prototypes of its V70 station wagon to begin field tests this fall in Europe. The cars are using lithium ion battery packs that will be supplied by…

In a survey of readers conducted by the German magazine Auto Zeitung, Volkswagen came out on top in two categories. Based on initiatives like their BlueMotion series and their direct injected TSI engines, readers selected VW in the economic…

After spending an inordinate amount of time over the last two years denying that it would ever build a diesel vehicle because diesels were incompatible with Porsche's image, the company finally relented and announced it would put a diesel in the…

We've talked here before on numerous occasions about how the average fuel efficiency of new cars and trucks hasn't really changed much since the late 1980s. We've also discussed the fact that simply mandating that car makers produce more efficient…

Sweden has latched on to ethanol as a fuel source more strongly than just about any other country except Brazil. Unlike the U.S. and Brazil, where corn and sugar cane, respectively, are the primary feedstocks, Sweden is using waste from its timber…

Last year at the Detroit Auto Show, Ford announced its intention to introduce a lineup of EcoBoost engines as a cost effective means of getting a significant improvement in fuel efficiency. The first of those EcoBoost engines is a turbocharged and…

Jeremy Clarkson and Top Gear crew aren't the only car show on British television. In fact Top Gear was canceled by the BBC and the producers relaunched it as Fifth Gear before the Beeb eventually revived Top Gear as well. Fifth Gear is still around…