The Truth About 60MPG

There is furious lobbying going on, as the automakers and the greens try to sway the Obama administration on future CAFE standards.  The gre...

Tuesday Night Cruisers

A few pics from Woodward Ave as the sun was setting.

The Ritchie Boys At Holocaust Memorial Center

One of the Detroit area's hidden gems (well, it isn't that hidden) is the Holocaust Memorial Center . A fascinating, if grim, museu...

The MONOTYPE Car

Designer Fernando Ocana has published a Master's of Art project for an urban vehicle he calls MONOFORM. A 3-person compact city car, h...

Green Vehicles RIP

Another one gone, another one gone, another one bites the dust. Green Vehicles of Salinas CA has closed its doors. They were trying to dev...

CR (Still) Hates American Cars

Consumer Reports, which claims to be an impartial advocate for the consumer, to my mind is really a left-leaning organization of dubious int...

Space Shuttle Joke

Saw this suggestion for a practical joke making the rounds. "When the Space Shuttle lands, everyone wear ape suits!" Heh.

Nissan Leaf vs Chevy Volt Pricing

Nissan has announced that it is increasing the price on the 2012 Leaf, by $2,400 over the 2011 model, to $36,000.   Compare that to the pric...

Auto Alliance CAFE Web Site

The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers has launched a web site to promote the automaker's side of the CAFE debate.  You can find it ...

Toyota: No Electric RAV4 For You!

According to this source , Toyota will reserve its plug-in RAV4 product (co-produced with Tesla) for fleets and government entities, and won...

CNG Civic: Cheap Running But Slow

The Honda Civic GX is slated to be sold to retail customers nationally in 2012 (it was only available in four states, previously).  Since it...

A Couple Evening Car Photos

I went to Woodward to get some ice cream today before sunset. Spotted a few neat cars. This one appears to be a GM guy driving a late pre-p...

Carbon Motors, Aptera, VPG, etc.

For a while, it looked like all of the smart kids knew how to make a better car, and how to run the business better than the big boys.  Ther...

Survey: U.S. Consumers Unwilling To Pay For CAFE

The Boston Consulting Group, a business consultancy, has issued an interesting report about how automakers can achieve the stringent 2020 f...

CAFE May Cramp High End Luxury Market

An interesting piece in the WSJ, here , expains that luxury car makers such as Porsche and Mercedes may be severely impacted by future CAFE ...

The Tablet Race?

Somehow, the wizards at Apple figured out that the next big thing in personal computing was going to be the tablet. Apple's iPad wasn...