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I love cars, but I am very aware of their shortcomings. Perhaps nothing bothers me as much as parking lots. They are in many ways just wasted space, and the bigger the store the bigger the parking lot. We’ve sort of grown into though, and parking lots make great meeting places for all sorts of [...]
Weight is the enemy of fuel efficiency, literally an anchor weighing our cars down and causing them to consume more gas. Alas, Americans keep demanding more from our cars; more power, more room, more safety, and of course more cupholders. I do not envy today’s engineers who somehow have to fit everything into the car [...]
The furor over the Chevy Volt seems to have subsided a bit, which means I can go back to picking on the other guy. I am of course referring to the Nissan Leaf, which unlike the Volt is a 100% electric car. No gas motors here. Furthermore, the Leaf is about $7000 less than the [...]
The ERA RaceAbout electric car from Finland was one of the competitors in the recent Automotive XPrize, but while plenty of photos and specs existed, I hadn’t yet stumbled upon a good VIDEO of the car in action. Michael Graham Richard, over at Treehugger, found this video of the little electric runabout, and I thought [...]
I have a soft spot in my heart for Mazda. For one, they made one of the best sports cars of the 1980′s, the RX-7, and they did it their own way via a rotary engine. Mazda has also been integral to Ford’s renewed success, as the Blue Oval’s mid-size lineup (Fusion/Milan/MKZ) are based off [...]
The battle of the micro-cars is heating up, and perhaps the most important battleground is the country we call him. Yes, America’s love affair with oversized automobiles may finally be cooling and smaller cars like the Ford Fiesta and Fiat 500 are ready for the limelight. How small are Americans willing to go though? Very [...]
I much prefer driving on four wheels than two. Personal preference is all, though I’ve got plenty of friends who get their kicks on motorcycles. Most of them like to ride crotch rockets, those Japanese bikes that are little more than an engine and two wheels. Besides going fast as all hell, these bikes are [...]
Automotive News recently published their analysis of Toyota’s “sustainability report”, which looked at the Prius’ total environmental impact, “from factory to junkyard“. As expected, the Prius compared favorably in terms of lifetime emissions of carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide and sulfur oxide (according to Toyota), but unexpectedly poorly when compared to a “class average” in the [...]
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