When the time comes for government departments like the Environmental Protection Agency to produce new regulations, they have to do a cost-benefit analysis as part of the overall process. If the cost of implementing a new regulation exceeds potential…

A couple of weeks back we had a report on PlanetTran, a company now offering transportation services to San Fransisco, San Jose and Oakland airports from Bay Area communities with a fleet of Black Toyota Priuses. Now Marketwatch.com has a video…

Click for a gallery of images of the Saab 9-X Air concept
You can check out a video of the Saab 9-X Air in action along with some discussion with GM Europe Design VP Mark Adams after the jump. Like the 9-X BioHybrid we saw at Geneva last spring, the…

OnStar is soooo 2007. Rather than building some kind of old school cell phone telematics system into its cars, Mini is going the hip, modern route for roadside assistance. Mini USA has collaborated with insurance company Allstate to create an Apple…

After unveiling their new Volkswagen up! mini-car at the Frankfurt Motor Show last month, VW is set to show two more variants in the next month and a half. The Tokyo Motor Show at the end of October should see a small five door mini-van based on the…

Over on the Open Road Blog, Toyota has a post about making the case for SUVs that was prompted by an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer. They pretty much echo what has been said here before, mostly in the context of discussing hybrid SUVs like the…

Over the years I've bought numerous repair manuals from the likes of Chiltons and Haynes. I've always like working on cars and when vehicles have needed repair my budget has often not correlated with the labor charges involved. Manuals from either…

Volkswagen wants to expand its presence in the European fleet market and plans to use a new version of the Passat to do it. In early 2008, VW will start building a Passat that can run on compressed natural gas that can be easily refueled at central…

Aston Martin Cygnet – click above for high-res image gallery
Earlier this year, we saw photos of Aston Martin designers working on a clay-covered Toyota iQ in the studio and applying typical Aston styling queues to it. Creating a leather clad urban…

Wayne Gerdes explains hypermiling before the Ford Fusion 1,000 mile challenge
Recently we got a question from a reader regarding the benefit of using the common hypermiling technique of “pulse and glide” with a battery electric vehicle. Given the…