In the eye candy department, visit AutoblogGreen’s post Detroit 2008: More photos than you can shake a stick at, to take your own tour of the Detroit Auto Show. (Haven’t had enough, search for “Detroit auto show” on flickr and you’ll get 22,524 pictures past and present. Don’t believe me? Click here.)
Smart Dashboard
As if our […]
Posted on January 24th, 2008 by Shorty
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Don’t be surprised if you start noticing a blitz of Toyota advertising between now and March. The company is dumping better than $40 million into a campaign called “Why Not?” Toyota bigwigs say the media push has nothing to do with their recent bad press, especially that coming from the green side of the aisle, […]
Posted on November 5th, 2007 by Shorty
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Popular Mechanics is reporting that Japan may get the first plug-in Prius to hit the market. In a briefing by Toyota’s Project General Manager for the company’s Hybrid Vehicle System Engineering Development Division, Yoshitaka Asakura, the indication seemed to be that Toyota won’t wait for lithium-ion batteries to get perfected to go ahead.
I confess my […]
Posted on October 22nd, 2007 by Shorty
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Well, looks like there’s going to be a new player in the green automotive game and this one intends to be a gold label player. Fisker Automotive, Inc. is a joint venture of Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc. and Fisker Coachbuild, LLC.
They’re planning on a whole range of “premium” environmentally friendly cars with the […]
Posted on September 6th, 2007 by Shorty
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Blame those old Folger’s ads for the newest innovation in automotive advertising. Ford Motor Co., which was surpassed by Toyota this year as number two in American vehicle sales, is offering a new ad campaign which begins airing today: Swap My Ride.
Named to evoke a similarly titled MTV show, Ford’s new ads feature new-car owners […]
Posted on September 4th, 2007 by QueenMab
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