Category: Autoblog

Click the photo for a gallery of high-res shots from the GM Truck Challenge
To mark the availability General Motors' latest heavy-duty GMT900 full-size trucks, the automaker invited us out to its Milford Proving Ground to drive its big trucks along…

Since the second half of 2007, the price of diesel fuel in the United States climbed from its traditional place selling at or below the price of regular gas to a point 15-20 percent higher than premium through much of 2008. For automakers that were…

click for a gallery of images of the production Chevy Volt
GM Europe president Carl-Peter Forster said again this week that the company would launch E-Flex-based extended range EVs on the European market in 2011, about a year behind the Volt launch…

Toyota only made the decision to abandon its Formula One program a few weeks ago, but the lead time for developing a new car is a much longer than that. The engineering team at Toyota's Cologne F1 headquarters had been working on the 2010 car for…

Saturday afternoon we went for what may have been the shortest and quickest first drive in the history of Autoblog. When we go on a typical first drive with a manufacturer, we get to drive a vehicle around for at least a few hours in a variety of…

Next-gen Ford Focus live unveiling – Click above for high-res image gallery
After unveiling the new Focus Monday, Ford made another announcement at the Detroit Auto Show about its battery plans. Like General Motors and other automakers, Ford has…

Even though biodiesel is becoming more widely available all the time, it can still be hard to find in some locales. For those times when you really need some veggie oil on the go and you're in an unfamiliar location, just call NearBio and they'll…

Mitsubishi recently brought its iMiEV road show down under to Australia. One reviewer who sampled the little electric four door was pleased with the driving experience but less impressed with some other aspects of the car. As we and others that have…

2010 Chevy Spark – Click above for high-res image gallery
The Detroit News is reporting that sources at General Motors' Lake Orion, MI assembly plant have been told the plant has been selected to build a new small car for the North American market.…

With the U.S. dollar reaching an all-time low against the euro, EU-based manufacturers are looking to the United States as a low cost manufacturing site. Audi's parent company Volkswagen has been contemplating building an assembly plant somewhere in…