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For at least the last several years, the state of the automotive industry has been fairly predictable. "Import" car sales from companies like Honda/Acura, Toyota/Lexus and Nissan/Infiniti have been on the rise. They have continually impressed the American buyer on value, quality and reliability to name a few points. You can see this with the […]

It now appears that that those state and local police agencies have an extra incentive to write even more tickets. They can earn free police pursuit vehicles courtesy of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and your fuel tax dollars. NHTSA’s National Law Enforcement Challenge Award judges police agencies based on ticket […]

 
$30K for a 197HP/166TQ riced out Civic, or $30K for this?

I think I made the right choice
Honda prices Civic MUGEN Si Sedan from $29,500 - Autoblog

This article comes via Alex and is a thoughtful look at past and present muscle cars. The paragraph below really sums it up: old vs new technology. But in a lot of cases the same principles still apply: cheap and fast.
This time around, they will come with all of the required safety and emissions equipment […]

Green is huge right now: carbon neutral business operation, fuel efficient vehicles, power efficient electronics (computers in particular) and more. If a company isn’t talking about how Green it is, its competitors likely are.
This initiative at electronics company Kyocera is very cool and while not the most practical green-contribution a company can make, hopefully […]

If anyone cared to ask my opinion of Ford’s decision to rename the Five Hundred to Taurus, I’d have told them this very thing would happen. When the announcement was first made of the rename, a Ford exec was quoted as saying they have millions of dollars put into the brand equity of the Taurus […]

Edmunds Inside Line has a first drive of the Vauxhall VXR8 aka Holden Commodore SS aka Pontiac G8. What most stuck out to me was the curb weight noted: 4,037 pounds. This is about what I expected, given the larger sedan body built around a similar chassis as the GTO/Monaro.
The LS2 is of course […]

The public is right to be upset to find that hybrids don’t automatically improve mileage by 20 MPG. Most hybrids now, compared with the market just a few years ago, are a bunch of SUVs with only slight improvements in mileage and very high annual fuel costs. The SUV fad began dying, so SUV makers […]

Update 7/27: Doh, hybrid owners among others are exempt!
Unfortunately there are some exceptions. The Cummins diesel in the Ram trucks will keep its current 5 year/100,000 mile warranty. Another important exception will be the new Dodge Durango/Chrysler Aspen hybrids which are coming next year. According to a Chrysler spokesman, the hybrid powertrain and battery will […]