Category: Autoblog

When most people shop for a car, they may be aware of the brand of tires or the kind of stereo, but few people think about who manufactured the seats. One exception to that is Recaro. The German company has long made seats for carmakers like Porsche…

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In mid-2006, General Motors released their first mainstream hybrid vehicle with first Saturn Vue Green Line. Prior to that the company had offered a mild hybrid system in the Silverado pickup but since that was really only offered in…

Starting on January 1, 2007 car-makers doing business in Britain will be required to dispose of cars from their brands when they are no longer in use. Approximately 2 million cars a year are scrapped in the UK, currently at the owners expense. The…

Honda CR-Z concept – click above for high-res image gallery
Honda's new CEO, Takanobu Ito, has finally announced the on-sale date for the company's next hybrid model, the CR-Z. The CR-Z coupe will go on sale in Japan in February 2010 with a launch in…

One of the more useful bits of technology we encountered at the Chrysler What's New for 2009 event last week was “Rear Cross Path Detection,” a byproduct of the new blind spot monitoring system on 2009 minivans that employs two radar sensors mounted…

Now that President Obama had appointed the task force that will study the future of the auto industry in this country, its time for them to get to work. The team spent last week looking over the latest viability plans from General Motors and…

Click the image for a high res gallery of the GMT900 hybrids
When General Motors gave us our brief (and I mean brief, it was only about ten minutes behind the wheel) first exposure to the new Tahoe and Yukon hybrids the other day they weren't there…

Have you ever been sitting in your car stuck in a traffic jam with the smell of all the fumes wafting into your car? Nokia has now built a concept mobile phone with a built-in air analyzer. The Eco Sensor concept can detect carbon dioxide, carbon…

For most of this decade, Toyota has been the darling of the environmentalists (if such a thing is possible for a car company) due primarily to the Prius and the addition of the company's hybrid system to their other models. That honeymoon seems to be…

click above for high-res gallery of the 2009 Acura RL
Here in Chicago this morning, Acura unveiled the redesigned 2009 edition of its flagship RL sport sedan. One of the main criticisms of the current RL has been the anonymous face and rather bland…