We've been hearing plenty of horror stories this past week about people trying and failing to trade in their vehicles under the Cash for Clunkers program. We recently received an e-mail from a reader named Rex asking about his particular case.…

Bob Lutz and A123 CEO Dave Vieau
General Motors Vice Chairman is announcing this morning that the company will now start working directly with A123 Systems on lithium ion battery technology. Up until now A123 has been what is known as a tier 2…

2010 Audi R8 LMS evolution – Click above for high-res image gallery
2009 proved to be a very successful opening campaign for Audi's new customer race car, the R8 LMS. Eight cars were sold to a variety of teams and between them, the cars won 23 races…

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It's been a busy day in Wolfsburg as VW followed up the release of a sketch of its upcoming mid-sized sedan with an announcement about new electric drive systems. VW and Toshiba have signed a letter of intent…

If you've been paying any attention at all, you'll be aware that we hold the G-Wiz electric quadricycle in the same sort of “high” regard that Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson does. What more can be said about a “car” that implodes in a standard crash…

In spite of all the promotion from General Motors of E85 as an alternative fuel, the reality for most people has been that is simply doesn't make sense from an economic perspective. As the West Lafayette, Indiana police department found out last…

ZipCar is getting to be pretty well known here in the US and even has a branch in London England. However they aren't the only car sharing service and one located in England is called StreetCar. Streetcar has done a deal with British railway operator…

Bosch has long been a major supplier of many different automotive components to Fiat, and the company is hoping to leverage that association with the new Chrysler. Bosch provides a higher proportion of the parts and systems that go into the Italian…

The other day we told you about some of the new internal combustion technologies that Volkswagen is developing. The crew at AutoExpress over in England actually got to visit Volkswagen's Ehra-Lessien test track to evaluate a Touran MPV equipped with…

Toyota and Honda topped the corporate fleet average fuel economy for the 2007 model year and Honda has been at or near the top of the industry for much of the past three decades, along with Hyundai. Volkswagen has been right up there, especially in…