Category: Autoblog

Converted Saturn SC1 EV – click above for high-res image gallery
Is the mass retrofitting of older vehicles the solution to a rapid transformation to an electrified vehicle fleet? Felix Kramer, founder of Cal Cars, certainly thinks so. The problem…

In the early to mid-nineties, Australia's Orbital Engine Corp was very popular in the auto industry. They had developed an innovative pneumatic direct fuel injection system that was paired up with two-stroke engines. Several of the big automakers (…

Toyota is expected to debut the final production version of its iQ super-min next month at the Paris Motor Show, one year after showing the original concept at Frankfurt. The production iQ is expected to get a 1.0L gas engine to move it along but the…

If you've been eying that gorgeous new Maserati Quattroporte but the current economic malaise has you thinking twice before signing on the dotted line, now is the time to act. Maserati of Palm Beach, Florida is offering a Black Friday blowout this…

Toyota sales are still on a roll through the first half of 2007, particularly their sales of hybrid vehicles. While Toyota sales are up 9.1 percent for the first six months of the year, sales of Toyota hybrids have jumped 69 percent to a total of…

They won't look like the second-generation Prius plug-in pictured above, but Toyota has announced the first of its non-European leasing programs for its new PHEV (see here). Starting late this year Toyota will start leasing 200 plug-capable Priuses…

The National Science Teachers Association was offered 50,000 free copies of the Al Gore documentary An Inconvenient Truth for classroom use. The group however decided to decline the offer because they didn't want to upset ExxonMobil. The oil company…

Most of the talk of ammonia in the car industry these days is related to diesel after-treatment systems. Shawn Grannell of Ann Arbor MI has a different idea. Grannell is working on his doctoral thesis in applied physics at the University of Michigan…

Click on the photo of the F1 for a gallery of high-res images of the BMWs at Amelia Island
BMW is bringing two of their most classic endurance racing vehicles to the in Florida next week. The 1939 BMW RS 500 motorcycle that won the Isle of Man…

Last week, PickupTrucks.com held one of its periodic load lugger shootouts where it brings together the heavy haulers from General Motors, Ford and Chrysler to see which pickup truck is the top dog. After running acceleration tests at Milan dragway,…