Category: Autoblog

Click the FC Sport concept for a high res gallery
In an age when there are fewer and fewer surprises at auto shows as embargoes get broken and information leaks out early, Honda pulled off a big surprise at the LA Auto Show this morning. After…

2010 Mercedes Benz ML450 hybrid – click above for high-res image gallery
This week brings the official launch of the first European-branded vehicle equipped with the two-mode hybrid system that was co-developed between General Motors, Daimler, BMW…

Renault Twizy Z.E. in Sims 3 – Click above for high-res image gallery
In the coming weeks, players of Electronic Arts' Sims 3 game will be able to go green thanks to Renault. Renault and EA have signed an agreement that will see the release of an…

In the early 1970s, after Lotus stopped building their iconic Seven, they sold the tooling to a small British company called Caterham who continues to build variants of the Seven to this day. In addition, lots of kit car builders sprung up making…

Just over a year after debuting in concept form at the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show, the Toyota iQ will be going on sale in Japan. Japanese drivers will be able to pick up Toyota's answer to the Smart ForTwo starting November 20. Toyota has managed to…

Click for a high res gallery of the new Nissan-Renault diesel
The clean diesel V6 you see above will supposedly find a home under the hood of the Nissan Maxima sometime in 2010. Back in April in 2007, Nissan announced it would offer an oilburner in…

Carole Taylor, Finance Minister of Canada's western-most province (British Columbia) delivered the provincial budget on Tuesday and introduced what would be the first carbon tax in North America. The tax will be applied to fossil fuels used for…

Click on the Kia Kue concept to see a gallery of high-res images
As always at auto shows, the Autoblog crew was never without cameras last week in Chicago. Whenever an aesthetically pleasing photographic opportunity presented itself, your humble…

Wind power has some definite advantages as an energy source, being readily available and infinitely renewable and definitely pollution free. It's also increasingly popular with 3,000 MW of new wind powered generating capacity being installed in the…

Click above for high-res image gallery of Jason's Tesla Roadster
One of the long-time keys to profitability in the car business is the up-sell. The extended warranties, under-coating, improved audio systems, wheels, pin-stripes and so on. It looks…