Click image for a high res gallery of the 2009 Acura TSX
AutoblogGreen spoke with Honda of America spokesman Sage Marie at a media event yesterday about the company's plans to introduce a clean diesel to the US market in 2009. The new 2.2L diesel…
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Breaking: Tesla has a solution for their transmission woes: get rid of it!
The primary issue that has been preventing Tesla Motors from getting their electric Roadster into full production for the last several months has been the unfortunate tendency for the transmission to self-destruct in only a fraction of a car's normal…
ECO Racing to finally debut its diesel LMP1 car at Petit Le Mans
After an aborted attempt to debut at the end of the 2008 season, ECO Racing is apparently finally ready to take a crack at competing with its new diesel-powered Le Mans Prototype. The team led by Ian Dawson has prepared an LMP1-class Radical SR10 for…
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2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid – Click above for high-res image gallery
If you've gone shopping for a hybrid vehicle in the last several years, you may have noticed that they often have substantially higher price tags than conventional counterparts. Of…
Rendered speculation: Porsche's hot hatch? The ultimate GTI? What!?!
With impending European Union limits on carbon dioxide emissions, makers of high performance vehicles like Porsche have been scrambling to find a way to meet the new requirements (whatever they may be). One obvious way is to make smaller lighter…
Imperial College London get grant to study solar powered H2 production
Imperial College London has picked up $8.4 million in funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to work on cost effective means of generating hydrogen from solar power. The school will be investigating both…
French small car sales improve in wake of new CO2 taxes
While sales in other countries have mostly fallen in recent months, French car dealers are happy right now. With an overall first half of the year increase of 4.5 percent, small and mini cars have led the way with a 15 percent jump in France. Small…
REPORT: Chevy Traverse to join GM's group of Lambda CUVs
Like the Ford Explorer, Chevy Trailblazer sales have been in a tailspin lately, dropping 33 percent in the first four months of 2007. Unfortunately for Chevrolet dealers, there's not a full lineup of crossovers to take up the slack. When General…
POLL: Tell us what you think of Car and Driver's redesign
Ok! Ok! You wanted a poll, you got one. Earlier today we posted about the new design of Car and Driver magazine and how its readers are responding to it. You all wasted no time telling us your opinions. We were actually surprised how split down the…
HWA and Mercedes Benz readying a second sports car
HWA is the racing operation set up by AMG founder Hans-Werner Aufrecht to build and campaign many of the Mercedes Benz competition vehicles including the current C-Class DTM cars. HWA has also built some very limited production road going machines…