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For years small cars have been that strange compromise between price sensitivity and safety. Mainly, small cars have been inexpensive with the compromise that they aren't as safe as their larger brethren. Some manufactures have set out to change that perception and basically challenge what we have considered to be the norm in the small car market...
Have you ever noticed that car companies will put models out that have both a hatchback and sedan version? In some cases it is hard to tell why, like with the previous generation Mazda 6 where they had the sedan and the lift-back version. The two cars where almost unintelligible, which begged the question as to why they tooled up to have to...
Land speed records have long been a integral part of motor racing, but for many years electric vehicles have been viewed as slow and cumbersome. With a 0-60 mph time of less than four seconds, the 2010 Tesla Roadster Sport certainly puts the myth of slow vehicles to bed, but just how fast can an electric car go? On Tuesday this week, a team of...
We've always had a soft spot in our heart for the tiny Tata Nano, the world's least expensive car and India's equivalent of the Ford Model T that put the U.S. on wheels a century earlier. The Nano may or may not ever be sold in the United States, though Tata says a revised version will be offered here in 2012. But as full-scale production ramps up...
The global platform model is a strategy near and dear to the heart of today's Ford Motor Company. It is a theory that the company can design and market cars based on a design that will meet the criterion of multiple markets around the world, including the tough American small car market. The 2011 Ford Fiesta is one of Ford's most anticipated new...
It's been almost three weeks since we published a Tesla story. We trust that means that the Silicon Valley electric-vehicle startup is working away feverishly on the designs, engineering, production plans, and manufacturing site for its Model S four-door sports sedan, which it is still promising will arrive during 2012 (perhaps as a 2013 model)...
Remember how we found out a few weeks ago that some Nissan dealers in the U.K. were blissfully unaware of specifics of Nissan's first publicly sold production electric car? According to the dealers we spoke to, the 2011 Nissan Leaf would charge to full in ten minutes, would not be eligible for purchase assistance grants or credits and was only...
It was so much easier just a few short years ago. Luxury cars wafted and sports machines roared, with nary a thought to gasoline consumed. Hybrids were for weenies, and everyone knew their place. But now? A hybrid Ferrari, a hybrid Porsche race car, an electric BMW ... what is the world coming to? And, more seriously, why are the world's luxury...
A century ago, Henry Ford was known for insisting that parts be shipped to his factories in wooden crates whose slats were sized so they could be reused to build parts of the Model T body. Now a similar spirit of saving scrap is being used to stamp fender baffles for the new 2011 Ford Explorer out of steel left over after door openings are cut...
Day 1 Knowing I’d have to drive to San Diego from the home office in Long Beach and then on to Sonoma, a car that gets great mileage was extremely important. So I chose a 2010 Toyota Prius V, the top of the Prius ladder. The first day is always a get-to-know-you thing, where the controls become intuitive and the driving position comfortable...
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