Since our first encounter with General Motors' HCCI (homogeneous charge compression ignition) engines in August 2007, the powertrain research engineers at the GM Tech Center in Warren, MI have continued plugging away at the technology, trying to turn…
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Mini E range plummets as winter hits the northeast
Mini E – click above for high-res image gallery
Our friend Dr. Lyle Dennis of GM-Volt.com is one of the 450-odd privateers in the New York and Southern California areas that managed to get on the list of lessees for the battery-powered Mini E. Dennis…
Ford to shift U.S. truck plants over to producing Euro car models
In what may be the obvious move in recent memory, Ford is apparently scrambling right now to figure out how to quickly re-tool truck assembly plants churning out trucks that no one wants in order to build cars that they can't get enough of. The…
2011 Lincoln MKX gets best in class mileage, 19/26 mpg with V6, Ecoboost still to come
2011 Lincoln MKX – Click above for high-res image gallery
Ford has managed to achieve best-in-class EPA mileage ratings (at least for the moment) for its revamped 2011 Lincoln MKX, and presumably the mechanically identical Ford Edge as well. The Feds…
London may abandon plan for CO2 based congestion charge
A year ago, London Mayor Ken Livingstone announced plans to revamp the congestion charge system for the central part of the city. The heart of the changes was to go from a single £8 per day flat rate for all vehicles to a system where drivers would…
Diesel V-6 could replace hybrid Honda Accord
Honda has already announced their intentions to introduce super-clean diesel engines into their lineup starting in 2009. Now comes word from digital buff-book Winding Road that the abysmally slow selling Accord Hybrid may get dropped in favor of a…
Detroit automakers issue joint statement on their meeting with President Bush
On Tuesday, November 14, the CEO's of the three Detroit based car-makers finally got the White House meeting that they've been waiting for so many months. GM's Rick Wagoner, Chrysler's Tom LaSorda, and Ford's Alan Mulally got to sit down with the…
Mercedes-Benz starts production of the SLS AMG at Sindelfingen
Mercedes-Benz kicked off production of the SLS AMG this week in preparation for its March 27 on-sale date in Europe, and unlike the SLR that was built in the UK by McLaren, the gull-wing SLS is rolling out of Mercedes' main Sindelfingen plant in…
Want a trike but don't have room to store it in your apartment?
If you're looking for some alternative transportation that doesn't pollute and doesn't take up much space when you're not using it Di Blasi may have what you're looking for. They have a folding trike that collapses into a very compact package in two…
LA 2007 Preview: Cadillac Escalade Hybrid, all the details
Click the Escalade for a high-res gallery
Word slipped out earlier today about the biggest, baddest hybrid of them all the new Cadillac Escalade and now we have most of the details. There aren't really any big surprises here as the Escalade is…