Category: Autoblog

The Focus FCV isn't the only hydrogen fueled Focus that Ford has built in the past few years. They also built a few with internal combustion engines running on hydrogen. Now Ford has also built a C-Max with the same hydrogen ICE for demonstration in…

While most cars and trucks have been getting progressively heavier over the last three decades, Mazda is making a concerted effort to turn that around. In designing the new Mazda2 they focused on weight as one of the ways to improve fuel consumption…

Toyota TF109 – Click above for high-res image gallery
It appears that Toyota's aborted 2010 Formula One car design may finally make it to the track in 2011 under the banner of the Hispania Racing Team (HRT). The freshman Spanish team has struggled so…

Ford has teamed up with California-based Coulomb Technologies to give away free charging stations to early customers of its electric vehicles, starting with the Transit Connect Electric.
Coulomb is spending $37 million to install 5,000 of its…

Kia Cadenza (K7 in Korea) – Click above for image gallery
Kia has dropped the first official photos of its new top of the line sedan, which has been officially dubbed the K7 in the Korean Domestic Market and Cadenza outside of South Korea. The…

The first images of the new three-door Opel Astra have turned up and the new hatch appears to be shaping up to be even more attractive than its predecessor. The prototype appears to have a more steeply raked windshield than the five-door currently…

This year's Barrett-Jackson Auction featured twelve pairs of classic cars, of which seven pairs were sold as matched sets. One of the pairs being offered included two 1969 Boss Mustangs. The pair of black 'Stangs both have white stripes and 4 speed…

Even though BMW has been working on a joint development program with General Motors and DaimlerChrysler for the two-mode hybrid system for a couple of years now, it looks like the system may never actually get installed in a BMW vehicle. BMW has been…

As if Ford didn't have enough problems, they also have to contend with the gift that keeps on giving: their cruise control switches. The company previously recalled 5.8 million vehicles because a manufacturing problem with the switch could cause a…

Click the plug-in hybrid Escape for a high res gallery
Ford has announced that when it starts building its first series production plug-in hybrid in 2012, the lithium ion battery packs will be supplied by Johnson Controls-Saft. JCS has already been…