2009 Volkswagen Jetta TDI Sportwagen – click above for high-res image gallery
Undoubtedly one of the vehicles that could have profited handsomely from this week's expected rush by Americans to unload old gas guzzlers for something more thrifty was…
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Honda working on more fuel efficient successor to NSX sports car
When Honda first introduced the NSX in 1990 it was designed to take on the best exotics that Europe had to offer while providing levels of comfort, refinement and efficiency unheard of from the likes of Ferrari and Lamborghini. Among all their other…
Is a Ford Volt coming at some point? Possibility of sharing E-Flex
Is it possible that we'll see a Ford Volt at some time in the not to distant future? If a story in the Detroit News is to be believed, yes! Ford and General Motors are apparently in talks to share the E-Flex powertrain technology that underpins the…
Detroit 2009: Dodge Circuit EV, now with cross-hairs
Click the Dodge Circuit EV for a high-res gallery
In spite of the large Dodge EV branding that was on this car when it first appeared last fall, it was obvious to all that it was simply a Lotus Europa. In spite of Chrysler's seemingly inexorable…
Gordon Murray launches new car company
The man behind the legendary McLaren F1 and some of the most innovative Formula 1 cars of the seventies and eighties has launched a new car company. Gordon Murray is working on a new small car so efficient that the savings will allow an owner to save…
Regenerative energy from your knees?
Brake energy regeneration is all the rage these days on everything from full out electric vehicles to hybrids and even straight up gasoline engines on new BMWs. On all of those vehicles, the kinetic energy that would normally be transformed into heat…
Quantum to supply mobile hydrogen filling stations to GM
Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies is one of the largest suppliers of fuel storage systems for compressed gas fuels like natural gas and hydrogen. Now they are supplying three mobile hydrogen filling stations to General Motors for refueling fuel cell…
CAFE? Yeah right! says Porsche
The way the draft rules have been defined for the new Corporate Average Fuel Economy standard, Porsche is at a distinct disadvantage. Because the standards for any given vehicle are based on the size of the vehicle, Porsche's relatively small cars…
New Volkswagen Sharan minivan gets 42.8 mpg (U.S.)
2011 Volkswagen Sharan – Click above for high-res image gallery
Volkswagen has just launched the third generation of its popular Sharan minivan in Europe, and the new version is the most fuel efficient people mover in its class. The new Sharan has…
Saturn dealers giving up a different kind of car company
Saturn was created by General Motors chairman Roger Smith in the late 1980s to be a Different Kind of Car Company. While the first Saturns were generally pretty unremarkable, it was the retail experience that really set the automaker apart from other…