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Four Cylinders Take Largest Share of US Market
By Chris Haak It's not the sixties anymore, kids. Though certainly there are still high-horsepower holdouts, the days of the V8 and even V6 (or inline six)-powered family sedan...
Review: 2011 Hyundai Elantra Limited
By Chris Haak Having reviewed more than a hundred new cars for this site, and having driven several hundred more over my two decades behind the wheel, it's kind of hard for a car...
Rolls-Royce Shows Phantom EV Prototype
By Chris Haak Rolls-Royce announced said on Sunday that it has developed an electrically-powered version of its Phantom flagship sedan, called the 102EX. Though the company...
German Automakers Driving a US Diesel Boom
By Chris Haak US consumers tired of the complexity and poor acceleration performance of hybrids (not to mention an unnatural driving feel) have been flocking to diesels in the US...
Smart to Test Electric Cars in US
By Chris Haak Struggling minicar maker Smart has announced plans to launch a 250-car electric vehicle test fleet in select metro markets this October. Cities that will be...
EPA Announces Top-Ten Fuel Sipper Lists, 1984-Present
By Chris Haak The US Environmental Protection Agency issued a news release yesterday that listed the top-ten fuel sippers from the period 1984 to 2010. During the 27 model...
Honda Delays Next-Generation Civic
Many auto-industry watchers have been wondering the fate of several new models that never made public auto-show debuts in production form (or in some cases, in any form), in spite...
2009 Detroit Auto Show: Volkswagen Concept BlueSport
By Chris Haak 01.11.2009 Volkswagen's two-seat sports car concept made its debut today in Detroit, and it turned out to be a two-seat mid-engine convertible called the Concept...
GM Has Oopsie, Releases Production Volt Images Early
By Chris Haak 09.08.2008 Today, GM accidentally posted several high resolution photos of the exterior of the forthcoming (early in the next decade, two years from today)...
75% of Americans Favor 40 mpg by 2010? Really?
On Wednesday, an organization called the Civil Society institute, which advocates a 40 miles per gallon CAFE standard for US vehicles by 2010, issued a press release that has been...