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- CAFE and Opportunity
- While some people might look at the impending CAFE standard calling for an average of 54.5 mpg by 2025 with consternation and trepidation (i.e., they are both agitated by what is generally considered a stretch goal and have managed to soil their str...
Blog Published: 2/19/2013
- CNG Availability and Price Proposition
- Although there is a tremendous amount of interest in the electrification of the vehicle—there must be something there, not only because of the tremendous investments being made in the technology (for example, there’s this article in the current issu...
Blog Published: 2/18/2013
- Alfa Romeo 4C: Six Things
- One of the most anticipated cars coming to North America is certainly the Alfa Romeo 4C.
Blog Published: 2/15/2013
- BMW On Ice
- Although the BMW 320i sedan that was introduced at the North American International Auto Show last week is certainly of interest, what is of especial interest—because it isn’t exactly the sort of thing that one ordinarily associates with a car compa...
Blog Published: 1/25/2013
- 2014 Chevrolet Corvette: Design, Technology, Engineering
- If the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette—the Stingray, harkening back to the 1963 version of the car (Mark Reuss, GM North America president: “Like the ’63 Sting Ray the best Corvettes embodied performance leadership, delivering cutting-edge technologies, bre...
Blog Published: 1/17/2013
- Range Rover, Airstream and European Travel
- If you’re an American and have spent any time on European roads, you’ve undoubtedly noticed the rarity with which you spot a large vehicle of any sort that isn’t a commercial truck of some sort or another.
Blog Published: 1/10/2013
- Audi R18 Ultra Chair: An Audi for a Dining Room?
- Audi’s interior designs were long the benchmark of the auto industry.
Blog Published: 1/2/2013
- Cadillac ATS and Why Materials Matter
- Recently, a friend who writes about cars for a living (he is a bona-fide car reviewer in my estimation, someone who has not only driven all manner of cars in locales all around the world, but who has a love and knowledge of cars such that he even cu...
Blog Published: 12/28/2012
- The Last LFA Produced
- Last Friday, the last Lexus LFA rolled off the line at the LFA Works within the Motomachi Plant in Toyota City.
Blog Published: 12/21/2012
- More McLaren Carbon Fiber
- As has been mentioned before, McLaren Group is a builder of composite-intensive vehicles, and its McLaren GT group, which produces race cars, is getting even more intense with the 12C GT Can-Am Edition.
Blog Published: 11/27/2012