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US Used Small Car Prices Drop Along With Fuel Prices

1 Jun 2012, 12:42 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Despite the downsizing trend sweeping the US along with the rest of the world, apparently, due to the 3.5% drop in fuel prices when compared with 2011, small car values on the used market are steadi...

Lexus ES and ES300h Performance and Economy Details Released

1 Jun 2012, 10:57 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Having yet to price their new ES sedan, the Japanese manufacturer has made the fuel-economy and performance figures available and they are more than adequate for a car of this size, with a 3.5-liter...

Departed 1980s Sitcom Star's RV Now for Sale

1 Jun 2012, 10:38 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / If you were around (and aware) in the early-to-mid 1980s, you may remember a sitcom called Diff’rent Strokes (back then, sexual references were less well hidden than they are in today’s ...

Colorado-Based Company Developing 1,000x More Powerful Battery

1 Jun 2012, 09:02 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Despite saying that an improved version of the Lithium-Ion battery was at least 10 years away, apparently, it may not be the case, as a Colorado-based company founded in 2010, Prieto Battery, aims t...

Volkswagen's Chattanooga Plant Produces Its 100,000th US Passat

1 Jun 2012, 08:02 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The North American VW Passat was launched back in April 2011, hitting the 10,000 sales mark in September of 2011, with 50,000 coming up in February of this year. It is quite a bit different to the E...

BMW M6 to Get Manual Gearbox in the US

31 May 2012, 15:09 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Just like in the case of the M5, BMW denies European buyers the choice of a manual transmissions, but is OK with this in the US. Thus, the M6 Coupe and Convertible are set to receive a six-speed man...

Volkswagen May Build Mid-Sized SUV in Tennessee - US

31 May 2012, 13:08 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / With the Touareg and Tiguan on sale in the US, and the tendency to create niches where there really aren’t any, Jonathan Browning, CEO of Volkswagen of America, said, after a Automotive Press ...

IMF Report Warns of Doubling Oil Prices in the Next Decade

31 May 2012, 11:50 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Car manufacturers have been hard at work for at least the last two or three decades to reduce cars’ fuel consumption, to make them cleaner and to also promote the shift towards more eco-friend...

Ram Pickup Tops List of Most Dangerous Cars in America

31 May 2012, 10:31 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / In the US, there are many entities that asses the safety offered by a vehicle and we’ve now reached a point where we can mix all their conclusion and tell you what are the most dangerous cars ...

Carbon Emissions Reach Record High According to IEA

31 May 2012, 10:37 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / We’re all familiar with the carbon dioxide and monoxide emissions problems faced by our planet. We’re also aware that we are slowly (but surely) doing irreversible damage to the environm...

Ford Wants You to Drive the Focus ST [US]

31 May 2012, 09:05 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The Focus ST is one of those products of the Blue Oval that US consumers need some introducing to. The carmaker might have united its US and European performance division, with the go-fast version o...

New Lexus GS to Ditch Separate Chassis and Gain Turbocharging?

31 May 2012, 08:13 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Building SUVs on ladder chassis is as old as the first SUVs themselves, with all manufacturers adopting the technique for their products at some point. Despite the trend to ditch the ladder chassis ...

Gumball 3000 2012: Indianapolis to Kansas City

30 May 2012, 16:35 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / OK, we have to admit it: Gumballers don't drive in a drift, on two wheels, with their legs out the window, doing triple digit speeds, flipping the bird and so on all the time. There are quite a...

Fisker Try to Achieve Sales Goals with Some Help from the Dutch

30 May 2012, 10:31 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Having sold no fewer than 1000 of their Karmas in the first months of the year, as previously reported, and Fisker having announced that their revenues for the period have exceeded $100- (€80-)...

Industry's Green Focus Shifts but Obama Still Supports Hybrids

30 May 2012, 10:20 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / After having reported that President Obama may be shifting his focus from the (still very promising) hydrogen fuel cell technology, towards the more commercial and frankly less interesting and promi...

Ford Proud of Sustainable Materials Use for 2013 Fusion

30 May 2012, 09:41 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Since so much of each material has been produced so far in our history (plastic, steel, paper, various types of cloth) it would be foolish of us not to reuse at least some of the leftovers before in...

Consumer Reports Tests Economy of Small Sedans in 'ECO' Guise - US

30 May 2012, 09:10 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The trend of making a regular car more efficient, by fitting it with various systems and gadgets in order to increase its fuel economy isn’t a new thing. The ball was put in motion by Volkswag...

Scrappage Scheme to Be Revived by Chinese Government

30 May 2012, 08:38 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Scrappage schemes have been used successfully in 14 European states, ever since the dreaded recession hit us in 2008, with Norway using a version of the system as far back as 1978. Furthermore, in R...

Video Shows Tesla Model S Body Panel Stamping Process

30 May 2012, 08:02 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / With deliveries of the all-electric Model S set to begin on June 22nd, Tesla is apparently making a really big deal of this and they will even have live coverage of the first delivery, as opposed to...

Selena Gomez Removing Bugs From Her Windscreen at Gas Station

29 May 2012, 14:40 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Women have been scientifically proven to be better at multitasking then men are. As you can see, 19 year-old actress and pop star Selena Gomez cleans her windscreen while talking on the phone - a re...