Some publications try to put together top ten lists of the cars that are "most green." Here's a top ten list of the ones that aren't. Our favorite is the Gumball 3000 Lambo at the bottom. [Guardian.co.uk]
With the EPA's new test methods for calculating fuel-economy estimates in effect for model-year 2008, some new…
We've all heard Jeremy Clarkson's foaming-at-mouth diatribes against everything that smacks of vehicular…
We've all known for a long time that EPA fuel economy estimates should be taken with a grain of salt. Well,…
Y'all remember John Edwards railing against SUV's earlier this week? Yeah — we do too. Somehow as we were…
The year we spent in Austin, Texas, was our first exposure to a proliferation of law-enforcement vehicles that…
Ford's Alan Mulally thinks a gas tax could be the way to go. [Detroit News]
Flying cars that dart about on the collective power of midichlorians are still a few years out. One of the wicked…
Wonder why the House is backing down from the fuel standard increases? All we know is Rep. Markey's making a run for the Massachusetts hills. [Freep]
U.S. House decides not to decide on new fuel economy standards. Because, you know, why fix what ain't broken — or was it fix what is broken? We can't remember. [Detroit News]
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Want a check for 10 extra-large (that's millions)? All you have to do is prove you can design, build and bring to…
Ann Arbor EPA lab comes up with 93 gadgets that don't help save gas. [Detroit News]
Apparently the temperature ain't the only thing that's sky high in Death Valley these days. [Winding Road]
Is it in some way ironically terrible the next OPEC production meeting's occurring on September 11th? [Bloomberg]
We've got to admit Wert looks much more poised than we thought he'd look after his encounter with the exploding…
Cerberus hates the Senate fuel economy proposal, just like a real automaker. [Detroit News]
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Our senior editor from Detroit's been called into service yet again to have a pundigasm on air on CNBC's On The…
US automakers working with Toyota to — gasp — lower fuel economy standards! Well, at least they're not trying to play the "SUV's are safer" card this time. [Detroit News]
Jim Press, the North American president of the number-one super-best-awesome automaker from the land of the rising…
The dirty little secret on the old-school EPA tests for fuel economy numbers has always been they're not good at…