Category: Autoblog

Ford Focus EV Mule – Click above for high-res gallery
The U.S. Department of Energy will finally announce the first recipient of low interest loans under the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Incentive Program. The first winner is Ford, and…

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The two biggest highlights of the movie Little Miss Sunshine are the fabulous performance of Alan Arkin as the heroin-addicted, porn-reading grandfather, and the seemingly immortal…

Brian Wismann on the Brammo Enertia – click above for high-res image gallery
A few weeks back, we got to meet a couple of the guys from electric motorcycle maker Brammo as they set off on a road trip from Ann Arbor to Washington, D.C. We thought the…

After the rather dismal sales of the current generation Accord hybrid, Honda has apparently decided not to offer a hybrid version of the new 2008 Accord due this fall. Honda will focus the hybrid applications on smaller cars like the Civic and the…

Nissan Leaf – Click above for high-res image gallery
Following the recent UK elections where David Cameron became prime minister, he and his Conservative party began looking for ways to slash spending. Among the programs on the chopping block are the…

Virtually every driver will, at some point, get that sinking feeling that comes when your car doesn't start. Digging out a set of jumper cables to boost a battery is a rite of passage. Jump-starting a car can be a slightly tricky process, though. The…

Toyota has decided to add a four cylinder option to the Highlander lineup for 2009. Previously, the mid-sized Highlander had only been available with a 3.5L V6 or a 3.3L V6/hybrid setup. The 2.7L four will be paired up with a new 6-speed automatic…

The McLaren Formula One team has joined Ferrari, Renault and Williams in backing the return of kinetic energy recovery systems ( KERS) to the series in 2011. A handful of teams experimented with these hybrid drive systems in 2009 but everyone…

Over in the UK, the Telegraph has had a chance to spend some time with the new Ford Fiesta ecoNetic and came away with the realization that as mileage goes up you pay an increasingly high price for smaller and smaller returns. The problem, as we've…

Apparently the diesel V-8 available in the 2007 Range Rovers is so quiet and refined that the Land Rover engineers felt there was a serious risk of people forgetting and putting gasoline instead of diesel into the tank by mistake. In the UK in 2005…