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...