We know it’s been a rough year for US automakers, and perhaps for GM most of all. Since their business has been built around Hummers, Tahoes, and full-size trucks for the last decade, their current market value is now lower than Mattel — maker of Matchbox cars. There is some good news however, …
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With gas prices going through the roof and regulators requiring cars to be ever more miserly, Volkswagen is bringing new meaning to the term “fuel efficiency” with a bullet-shaped microcar that gets a stunning 282 mpg.
Volkswagen’s had its super-thrifty One-Liter Car concept vehicle - so name…
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It’s easy abundant to know what kind of fuel economy a new car gets - it’s printed right there on the window sticker. Finding out how much pollution it emits is a little harder whether you don’t know what terms like LEV, SULEV and PZEV mean.
The California Air Resources Board is making it eas…
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They aren’t fancy with their limited legroom and lack of capability outlets for laptops, but at least they can still roll. Salt Lake City has decided to put New Jersey Transit’s old rail cars on UTA’s tracks in response to crowding on some of the city’s FrontRunner commuter trains.
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They aren’t fancy with their limited legroom and lack of potential outlets for laptops, but at least they can still roll. Salt Lake City has decided to put New Jersey Transit’s old rail cars on UTA’s tracks in response to crowding on some of the city’s FrontRunner commuter trains.
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Sunday, passengers taking the Bx12 Limited bus route in New York’s Bronx experienced a different ride than the usual. The buses had changed colors and the stops became “stations.” With the use of committed lanes, pre-paid boarding, and limited stops, the city hopes to reduce the instance to trav…
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Chrysler hasn’t precisely made a lot of headway when it comes to greening its fleet. certain it’s got some hybrid concept vehicles on the trade show circuit, and a couple of oxymoronic full-sized hybrids coming out next year — but even among the ‘big 3′ automakers, Chrysler is easily in last place….
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Tony Markel drives a plug-in hybrid that runs 50 miles per charge, goes 100 miles per gallon and gets capability from the sun. whether he has his way, you’ll drive one too before distant.
His 2006 Prius has a lithium-ion battery six times more vigorous than the nickel-metal hydride pack Toyot…
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Portable navigation systems are flying off the shelves, but the latest generation offer two-way communication and could manufacture their predecessors seem like a dead-end street. Traditional portable navs get GPS info to keep you on track, but one that’s already available and a few coming d…
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Portable navigation systems are flying off the shelves, but the latest generation offer two-way communication and could prepare their predecessors seem like a dead-end street. Traditional portable navs get GPS info to keep you on track, but one that’s already available and a few coming down …
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Airport-style X-ray screening machines and bomb-sniffing dogs are coming to a “handful” of London Underground and National Rail stations that summer, but the threat of widespread passenger rebellion kept authorities from installing them at every station.
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London Tube and National Rail passengers will see shield checkpoints fully intact with x-ray screening machines and sniffer dogs at a “handful” of stations starting that summer. Screening at every London Underground station was ruled out that week considering of fears of passenger revolt.
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With the SmartTwo selling like hotcakes, it was only a matter of moment before folks started doing crazy things with it - like wrapping it in outlandish bodywork and seeing how many folks can squeeze into it.
Austrian tuners Koenigseder went to town on a ForTwo Cabrio. Flared fenders widen it…
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Mazda says it will cut the fuel consumption of its cars 30 percent by 2015 in a sweeping campaign that will see the automaker replace nearly every engine in its lineup, shave at least 220 pounds from every car it builds and continue developing its hydrogen hybrid.
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