Category: Autoblog

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When Volkswagen introduced the Phaeton luxury sedan to the US market in 2004, onlookers were left scratching their heads. Who did Volkswagen think they were trying to sell an $85,000 car to compete with Mercedes-Benz?…

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A couple of new videos have landed on the tubes dedicated to presenting all the yummy details on the new Ferrari 599 GTO. The only problem – for us, at least – is that both videos are in…

General Motors got far and away the best reviews of any of the domestic automakers, perhaps any automaker period, at the Detroit Auto Show. The new Caddy CTS, Chevy Malibu, the Volt and Camaro concepts were all very highly regarded. Unfortunately,…

The Mercedes-Benz Atego is a commonly used delivery truck in urban areas of European cities. That's why clean emissions are important, and Mercedes has attacked the problem by adding their BlueTec 5 technology to the Atego. The Atego now gets NOx…

The powers that be in Formula One have been tossing around ideas for making the sport more environmentally and technologically relevant for several years. While many if not most of the readers would respond to that discussion with the answer that it…

The oft-spied Rolls-Royce RR4 finally has a name — 200 EX — and will be unveiled in concept form at the Geneva Motor Show in a couple of weeks. The 200EX will be a new, smaller model to slot in below the current Phantom sedan and coupe, riding on a…

Just as TTAC has finally put down their Tesla Birthwatch series and the first actual customer car has been delivered, the EV manufacturer has seen fit to update their customers on plans for the rest of the year. Although the car with serial number 2…

With the UN Climate change conference currently under way in Copenhagen Denmark, it's not at all surprising that a member of the Danish royal family would make an appearance at some of the events. Of course it wouldn't do to show up at such a…

Traditionally Mercedes-Benz has defined model designations based on the displacement of the engine. Since all their vehicles used either gas or diesel engines the performance of the vehicle generally corresponded to the size of the engine. A higher…

As the pressure to reduce fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions continues unabated, it's not just gasoline engines that are getting the right-sizing treatment. The diesel engine is set to shrink as well, at least at BMW and Mercedes-Benz.…