One of the chief barriers to entry for alternative powertrain vehicles like electric cars and plug-in hybrids is the price, as even entry level models are spendier than economical sedans.  Read More

Electric cars are actually very old, as they were being sold well before Henry Ford cooked up the Model T in every color as long as it was black. One  Read More

Lots of people have pets and lots of people have cars, many of which have to have antifreeze and a small number of those pets drink that antifreeze, which is  Read More

A growing number of car makers are employing cylinder deactivation to save fuel economy, especially in cars with larger engines. The technology has been around for a couple decades though  Read More

GPS navigation units are certainly a wonder but do make the occasional error, which is why one should keep a bit of an eye on it. A Belgian woman didn’t  Read More

The Federal Trade Commission thinks its rules on used cars, namely sales of them, needs an update and has proposed a few changes. The new FTC used cars rule, at  Read More

Among other events at the Detroit Auto Show, former General Motors’ exec Bob Lutz made an appearance to shill for Via Motors, a very interesting company specializing in trucks that  Read More

Say what you will about the nation of Iran’s totalitarian regime, brutal and tyrannical Islamic police and so forth, but on the car front there is one thing they do  Read More

Some people might have heard of Caterham, a curious little company in England that makes modern copies of the iconic Lotus Seven. The company has announced a new Caterham sports  Read More

Some might not have heard of Inrix, a Microsoft-derived company that works with traffic data and works with the auto industry and navigation systems companies. They’ve announced Inrix Parking, a  Read More

The Consumer Electronics Show is normally where a person would go to see new television sets, phones and other gadgets, but car makers have been showing up there in recent  Read More

If one must steal, as Woody Allen famously said, steal from the best and Ford has decided to take a page out of the Google playbook. Just like how the  Read More

A lot of carmakers have smartphone apps that can control certain aspects of the car, like doorlocks and remote start, though they’re usually only for one type of phone and  Read More

The continuously-variable transmission offers an infinite number of gear ratios, meaning greater efficiency and fuel economy. However, not everyone is a fan of driving cars thus equipped, which is why  Read More