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...

Consumer Reports Pushing 62 MPG

One of the reasons I dropped my personal Consumer Reports subscription is that they have become consistently liberal in their outlook, takin...

Buick Wagon Lust

I can't remember the last time I felt open, unguarded lust about a Buick.  But now GM comes out with a Buick turbo wagon, as if breathin...

Obama Leaks Some Oil

Obama's energy department yesterday announced it would release 30 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which hol...