For decades, automakers have been trying to reduce the mass of major engine components. For the most part casting cylinder blocks and heads in aluminum rather than the traditional iron has been considered the preferred approach. The problem is that…

BMW 3.0L twin-turbo clean diesel
At last year's Detroit Auto Show, BMW started showing off their latest six cylinder clean diesel and told us that they would introduce them to the U.S. market in 2008. What they didn't say was which vehicles would be…

The Wall Street Journal talked to Mitsubishi President Osamu Masuko ahead of this week's Moscow Motor Show about some of the company's recovery, its involvement in the Russian market and its plans for marketing electric vehicles. Masuko reiterated…

Over at the Petrozero.org web-site, reader Scott has put his Photoshop skills to work creating a rendering of what the production Chevy Volt might look like. Working from one of the original images of the concept, the shots of the taped up wind…

The low-cost Indian “peoples car” has finally been shown in public for the first time at the New Delhi Auto Expo. Developed by Tata Motors to a target price of $2,500, the four seater has a 624cc gasoline engine mounted under the rear seat and is…

When we saw the Kia No 3 concept at the Geneva Motor Show in March, it was largely agreed that in spite of its unimaginative name, it appeared to be a pretty decent little vehicle. As we move on to the Frankfurt auto show next month, we'll be seeing…

Audi RS4 Cabriolet – Click above for high-res image gallery
Just about the time that a Misano Red 2008 Audi RS4 Cabriolet arrived in the Autoblog Garage, the very last examples of the breed were rolling off the assembly line at the Quattro GmbH…

Click above for high-res image gallery of the 2010 BMW Z4
After releasing photos and information on its new Z4 roadster yesterday, we now have a pair of videos showing the Z4 in action. In the first clip BMW Automobile design head Adrian van Hooydonk…

The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and the Association of International Automobile Manufacturers have both decided to a appeal a September ruling on a Vermont emissions regulation. In early September, federal judge William Sessions ruled…

Click the MINI E for more shots of the car
This afternoon BMW representatives took the wraps off the first “production” MINI E, # 1 of a run of 500 that will be leased to customers in the southern California and metro New York areas starting in…