Category: Autoblog

Click the ML350 for a high-res gallery
It's been a decade since the original car company finally started production in the US deep south and that means it's time for special edition model to celebrate. In September 1997 Mercedes-Benz starting…

Almost a year after announcing their new diesel boxer engine at the 2007 Geneva Motor Show, Subaru has finally put it on sale in the UK. The Outback and the Legacy Sports Tourer (aka station wagons) go on sale in February in the the UK with a 2.0L…

Click on the Tesla for a high-res gallery
Warning! The following report will likely sound to many readers as though it comes from a fanboy. Perhaps I am, although I have tried to report on the problems and realities that Tesla faces as well as all…

Back in the early 1970s when Volkswagen and Porsche collaborated to create the 914 sports car it's unlikely that either company imagined that the little roadster would someday become a popular platform for electric drive conversions. Nonetheless…

The German Government has decided to raise the mandatory biofuel content of motor fuels from 5 percent to 10 percent. This applies to both ethanol blends in gasoline and biodiesel blends although an implementation deadline has not yet been set. the…

In the absence of any substantive competition in the American Le Mans Series GT1 class, the team of Corvette Racing has decided to create its own challenges for the C6R Corvette. At the ALMS press conference today in Detroit, Chevrolet General…

Honeywell is better known in the automotive space for providing turbochargers for many of the latest-generation diesel and gasoline direct-injected engines. This week, however, one of the company's numerous divisions received a $27.3 million grant…

Click on the photo for a gallery of high-res images of the Q7 V12 TDi
It looks like the Audi Q7 V12 TDi Concept that appeared at the Detroit Auto Show in January may lose the last word in it's name before long and actually move into showrooms. During…

At last year's New York Auto Show, the Chevrolet mini car triplets were the stars of the show, particularly the lime green Chevy Beat. Later in the year at the LA Auto Show, GM announced that the Beat would indeed go into production around 2010. The…

Many mainstream cars are now available with GPS navigation systems from the factory and after market systems are available for well under $1,000. They're generally pretty reliable about finding the shortest or fastest route to a destination,…