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Ford Wants You to Drive the Focus ST [US]

31 May 2012, 09:05 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The Focus ST is one of those products of the Blue Oval that US consumers need some introducing to. The carmaker might have united its US and European performance division, with the go-fast version o...

New Lexus GS to Ditch Separate Chassis and Gain Turbocharging?

31 May 2012, 08:13 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Building SUVs on ladder chassis is as old as the first SUVs themselves, with all manufacturers adopting the technique for their products at some point. Despite the trend to ditch the ladder chassis ...

Gumball 3000 2012: Indianapolis to Kansas City

30 May 2012, 16:35 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / OK, we have to admit it: Gumballers don't drive in a drift, on two wheels, with their legs out the window, doing triple digit speeds, flipping the bird and so on all the time. There are quite a...

Fisker Try to Achieve Sales Goals with Some Help from the Dutch

30 May 2012, 10:31 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Having sold no fewer than 1000 of their Karmas in the first months of the year, as previously reported, and Fisker having announced that their revenues for the period have exceeded $100- (€80-)...

Industry's Green Focus Shifts but Obama Still Supports Hybrids

30 May 2012, 10:20 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / After having reported that President Obama may be shifting his focus from the (still very promising) hydrogen fuel cell technology, towards the more commercial and frankly less interesting and promi...

Ford Proud of Sustainable Materials Use for 2013 Fusion

30 May 2012, 09:41 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Since so much of each material has been produced so far in our history (plastic, steel, paper, various types of cloth) it would be foolish of us not to reuse at least some of the leftovers before in...

Consumer Reports Tests Economy of Small Sedans in 'ECO' Guise - US

30 May 2012, 09:10 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The trend of making a regular car more efficient, by fitting it with various systems and gadgets in order to increase its fuel economy isn’t a new thing. The ball was put in motion by Volkswag...

Scrappage Scheme to Be Revived by Chinese Government

30 May 2012, 08:38 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Scrappage schemes have been used successfully in 14 European states, ever since the dreaded recession hit us in 2008, with Norway using a version of the system as far back as 1978. Furthermore, in R...

Video Shows Tesla Model S Body Panel Stamping Process

30 May 2012, 08:02 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / With deliveries of the all-electric Model S set to begin on June 22nd, Tesla is apparently making a really big deal of this and they will even have live coverage of the first delivery, as opposed to...

Selena Gomez Removing Bugs From Her Windscreen at Gas Station

29 May 2012, 14:40 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Women have been scientifically proven to be better at multitasking then men are. As you can see, 19 year-old actress and pop star Selena Gomez cleans her windscreen while talking on the phone - a re...

Justin Bieber's Trucker Hat Now Makes Sense

29 May 2012, 14:27 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Of all the weird things we’ve seen stars driving, none are stranger and more unexplainable than Justing Bieber’s matte Mercedes Sprinter - a pointless for an 18 year-old pop singer to be...

Michelle Trachtenberg's Grey Range Rover Sport

29 May 2012, 14:09 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / We admire those stars who have genuinely good and positive movie appearances and seem to be generally down to earth kind of people, like Michele Trachtenber. She was spotted recently getting aboard ...

First Electric Ford Focus is Delivered to Customer

29 May 2012, 09:31 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The current Ford Focus isn’t a looker by any standards, specially not compared with the facelifted version of the previous generation, with its long C-pillar mounted rear lights and smart fron...

EVGT-40 - Ford GT-40 Inspired EV

28 May 2012, 13:56 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / You may have noticed that EVs nowadays still aren’t lookers, so if you want style while you’re driving completely combustion-free, you’re not spoiled for choice. It would be nice t...

EV Maker Coda Is a ‘GOOD’ Company According to IBM

28 May 2012, 13:27 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Coda is an EV manufacturer which uses Chinese parts imported from China to make its Mitsubishi-based sedan. The company is based in Los Angeles and has only recently launched its first ever model, t...

US-Bound Volkswagen CC R-Line Gets Golf GTI Engine

28 May 2012, 13:26 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Volkswagen CC may look sleek and sporty, but it’s basically a Euro-spec Passat underneath, the previous generation of the car was called the Passat CC, let’s not forget. VW have deci...

Americans Giving Up Gas Guzzlers in Favor of Smaller, More Efficient Cars

28 May 2012, 11:59 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Americans are world famous for their simply monstrous sedans and pick-ups, which used to be twice as heavy their European or Japanese counterparts. This ‘upsizing’ trend was fueled (lite...

Gumball 3000 2012: Start Grid Tour with All the Cars

25 May 2012, 13:17 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Earlier today, we showed you the supercars that take part in this year’s Gumball rally lining up at the start of the event in New York. Now we’re back to Times Square to give you the ful...

Mazda Shuffling Around its Production. Leaving Michigan

25 May 2012, 12:46 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / After announcing its collaboration with Fiat, Mazda seems to be going through a rather thorough process of restructuring and rethinking. Having started production of the US version of the Mazda 6 in...

Fiat to Increase its Chrysler Stake in July

25 May 2012, 11:19 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / After announcing Alfa Romeo’s joint-effort with Mazda, to design and build the new MX-5 and an Alfa-equivalent, Fiat (Alfa Romeo’s parent company) is likely to increase its stake in Chry...