It’s no secret that car buying trend news has been pretty much devoted to hybrids, plug-in electric hybrids, and fully electric cars for the past few years, and that’s fine, because going green is important, but something you may not find out from the nightly news is that there’s been a new upsurge in the [...]
Car and Driver reported today on their blog that the Porsche 918 Spyder, the concept car originally revealed the night before the start of the 2010 Geneva auto show, last March, will go into “limited series production. This car is a performance hybrid with four different driving modes, and a KERS-type overboost feature similar to [...]
Last month, the folks from Volkswagen took over New York’s Times Square and hosted a huge media event to reveal the new 2011 Volkswagen Jetta. Thanks to the nice folks at YouTube, we’ve got video of the event:
There are two recalls in the news today. First, Subaru has issued a recall of more than 800 of the 2010-2011 Outback and Legacy models with six-speed manual transmissions. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the recall was triggered by a manufacturing error. Apparently some of the manual transmissions on the affected models [...]
Legislation approved by a Senate committee earlier today could put millions of electric-powered cars and trucks on the road, significantly reducing the United States’ dependence on foreign oil, as well as dramatically lowering carbon emissions. The legislation, which was passed by a 19-4 vote, was one of several bills cleared by the Senate Energy and [...]