Ethanol is all the rage these days especially among politicians from corn states. The relationship between ethanol and cars is hardly new as any old-time NASCAR fan can tell you. Many of the original NASCAR stars like Junior Johnson got their start…

Over the past decade, Audi has consistently used Le Mans prototype racing as a venue for proving out and improving technology that gets fed into production cars. That includes gasoline direct injection and clean diesel. Following the recent…

Recently the European Commission has been looking at making heretofore voluntary carbon dioxide emissions limits for automakers, mandatory. As might be expected, automakers are not thrilled by that prospect, and they are fighting back. Bernd…

Automotive research and analysis firm JATO does an annual assessment of vehicle carbon dioxide emissions in the European Market. For several years, Fiat and Peugeot/ Citroen have been going back and forth as the leader. For 2007, JATO's analysis…

The new Honda Insight will be making its world debut in production form at the Detroit Auto Show next month without a press conference. The first official photo of the production model came out this morning and it should come as a surprise to no one…

A Lotus Exige-based mule has again been spotted out and about wearing tacked-on fender extensions to facilitate a significantly wider track than current versions. Sources suggest that this machine is drawing power from the same Toyota-sourced…

Since Toyota, like other automakers doing business in the U.S., is currently unable to supply enough hybrids and other small fuel efficient cars to meet consumer demand, they are offering up other suggestions on how to conserve gas. Over on the Open…

The dream of perpetual motion never dies, it just gets gobbled up by evil oil companies as they suppress great ideas. Undoubtedly, the lawyers from Exxon, Shell and BP are already all over this one. It's not that we ever want people to stop dreaming…

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Toyota brought along their FJ Soft Top that they first showed last fall at SEMA. There's nothing new to report on this supercharged 4.7L V-8 SUT, other than confirmation that…

One of the primary safety concerns with hybrid and electric cars (aside from thermal runaway of the batteries of course) is the potential for shocks with a high voltage battery on board. Formula One teams are currently developing kinetic energy…