BMW will be showing off a Vision EfficientDynamics concept at the Frankfurt Auto Show set to open on September 14. This is one of those instances when pictures speek much louder than words. Here’s the video BMW has posted on YouTube and thanks to TreeHugger.com for pointing us toward the info.
GearLog has a nice run down of the top ten green cars at the New York auto show this year. Their picks were:
- Mercedes-Benz E250 Bluetec concept
- Fisker S concept
- Chevrolet Volt
- Honda FCX Clarity Fuel-Cell
- BMW X6 Hybrid
- GM/Segway PUMA
- Chrysler 2000 EV
- Toyota Prius
- Mercedes-Benz ML450 Hybrid
- Mercury Milan / Ford Fusion
In a [...]
Almost since the creation of affordable automobiles for the general public, cars have been immortalized in art. Sometimes the art is the design itself – blueprints, models, and even specifically chosen lines, curves, and proportion. Other times the art has been in the form of hand-painted advertising posters, often created by well-known artists, in much [...]
For many of us, the Toyota Corolla was our first introduction to Japanese automobiles. Often, they were the first new cars we could afford, back in the days before Kia and Hyundai on the market. Most of us grew beyond our Corollas, but that doesn’t keep us from remembering them fondly. Then there are the [...]
While most of us are lucky enough never to experience the agony of buying a car that turns out to be a lemon, for those of us who are caught in such a situation, it’s important to know where you can find both information and advocacy when the dealer drops the ball. That’s why TexasLemon.com [...]
Small cars must be feeling like the unlikely candidate who just got named Homecoming Queen. And if there’s any small, sporty, sharp little beauty I’m craving, it has to be the Mini. Over the weekend I was poking around on the net and ran across miniology.com. Instant love. For one thing, I’m coming to appreciate [...]
On the surface, the concept of CarType seems a little strange. This is, after all, a site devoted to car-related typography – the fonts, whirls, and logos that instantly bring into mind iconic cars, and the companies that make them.
Look beyond the surface, however, and what you find is a website that not only [...]
I just returned from a week in San Francisco (and let me just say that Mark Twain was right about the summer weather there), where I kept seeing these cute, tiny yellow cars populated by one or two helmeted tourists, and sharing audio GPS with passers by. I was curious, of course, so I [...]
Tesla Motors, is all over the news this week, with three different announcements of new developments, all released yesterday.
First, they’ve introduced the new Model S, a fully electric five-passenger sedan that will be able to go about 225 miles between charges, and comes with a pricetag of about $60,000. If that seems a lot, consider [...]
Generally sites that claim to be encyclopedic or comprehensive fall far short of their own press. RawHorsePower.com doesn’t. It would be hard to find a site that is more useful in terms of news and resources for enthusiasts who love power and performance from their machines — all kinds of machines. If your thing is [...]