Click for a high res gallery of the new ML320 Bluetec
Those of you planning to buy the new Bluetec diesel SUVs from Mercedes Benz will want to make sure you don't miss your regular service intervals or ignore warning lights. If you do, you might find…

We all know that electric vehicles are nothing new. Battery-powered vehicles began appearing not long after Karl Benz drove out of the garage in his first MotorWagen in the mid-1880s. The crew over at Hemmings Auto Blogs stumbled across this example…

VW Golf Plus – Click above image for high-res gallery
Volkswagen has added another LPG-fueled model to its lineup with the new Golf Plus BiFuel. Like most other vehicles capable of running on liquified petroleum gas, the Golf has a dual fuel setup…

Engineer Bob Kearns had been granted a patent for a design of intermittent windshield wipers in 1967, two years before Ford introduced them in production. Unfortunately for Kearns, Ford had “developed” its own system rather than licensing Kearns'…

2010 Audi R15+ – Click above for high-res image gallery
Audi has just dropped a bunch of photos of the new livery that its R15+ TDI race cars will wear for 2010, beginning with the cars competition debut this weekend in France. The heavily revised…

2010 Tesla Roadster Sport – click above for high-res image gallery
We just received the October edition of the Tesla Motors newsletter and a careful read indicated a very troubling statement near the end:
If you custom-order your car online, in…

Freeman Thomas with the Airstream concept
During the concept car ride that Ford held at their Dearborn proving ground this week, some of Ford's top designers including Peter Horbury and Freeman Thomas were on hand to answer questions from the…

Click on Jay's super-Vette for a high-res gallery
For the latest addition to his mega-garage Jay Leno has collaborated with Pratt & Miller to create a Corvette with body-work inspired by the C6R racers and ethanol flowing through its veins. The C6RS…

Ford Transit Connect – Click above for high-res image gallery
Following yesterday's announcement that Canada Post would acquire 1,175 Ford Transit Connects for its fleet, DTE Energy has acquired 19 of the vans as part of its sustainability efforts.…

A few weeks back I did some informed but utterly unconfirmed speculation about the nature of the deal that Tesla Motors had struck with Daimler. Of the two scenarios that I posited, the more likely was that Tesla would be supplying lithium ion…