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| East Meets West | 9.0 | EDITOR: "How a new Buick was made to appeal to a skeptical U.S. audience, as well as to the booming market in China." | ||
| Behind the Wheel of a Smart Car | 9.0 | EDITOR: "Smart" review of the Mercedes Smart car. | ||
| The Think City: In Norway, they're building your first electric car | 9.0 | EDITOR: Cars from Norway? | ||
| The Top 10 Cars Women Buy More Than Men | 8.0 | EDITOR: Interesting, but I'm not sure why? | ||
| Keating SKR supercar launches in Britain | 7.0 | EDITOR: Your choice - up to 650 HP! | ||
| Clean Machine | 8.0 | EDITOR: Is the China connection enough to make this car a viable player... | ||
| Streamlined Search for Perfection | 9.0 | EDITOR: "SURPRISING TWISTS AND TURNS IN THE EVOLUTION OF AERODYNAMIC DESIGN" | ||
| Nicola Bulgari's American Gems | 9.0 | EDITOR: Good slide show of some great old American cars! | ||
| Nicola Bulgari's American Gems | 9.0 | EDITOR: Good slide show of some great old American cars! | ||
| The Huge Hybrid: Few Takers for a New S.U.V. Twist | 8.0 | EDITOR: Better mileage, but at a high $ cost, and it really does very little to solve high mileage problems. | ||
| GM: Live Green of Die | 9.0 | EDITOR: "The lumbering, money-losing giant finally sees that gas engines are a losing bet. But is it too late?" This ominous quote from the article is a sad testimony to a once great company." | ||
| Diesel Cleans Up for an Encore | 8.0 | EDITOR: "Guaranteed" to no longer be noisy and smelly. | ||
| BMW's New Baby: Fast, Not Fresh | 8.0 | EDITOR: Damming with faint praise... | ||
| In New York, Parking Is Ever So Easy - with the Smart ForTwo. | 7.0 | EDITOR: Well, at least Rich thought it was roomy... | ||
| Today's Gas-Guzzling Exotic Cars May Get Zapped by New Fuel Rules | 8.0 | EDITOR: Will this mean I won't be able to buy my yearly Bentley or Ferrari? | ||
| Running on Empty: Cars that Never Need Gas | 9.0 | EDITOR: "...then there are electic cars that are charged by solar panels on the roof of one's house. They never need gas, and the power is free after the set-up cost." | ||
| Mini Boasts Soaring Sales | 8.0 | EDITOR: Insight into the changing dynamics of car buying - gas prices the key factor. | ||
| Smart Fortwo: Ready for Its Hollywood Close-Up | 8.0 | EDITOR: Cute - but there are a few problems... | ||
| Nissan - 50 Years of Memorable Cars | 9.0 | EDITOR: Nice little history of Datsun/Nissan in the U.S. | ||
| Think "Ox" Concept | 9.0 | EDITOR: GE and Kleiner-Perkins are investors in Think, so maybe we'll see this concept someday! | ||
| Final Jaguar From Ford's Litter | 8.0 | EDITOR: The outside is not a home run, but the inside is... | ||
| Skeptics Doubt We'll See ZAP's $30K Electric Sports Car in 2009 | 8.0 | EDITOR: "A California company known for its funky, electric commuter cars says it will break into the high-performance market with a 320-horsepower, three-wheeled sports car by 2009." | ||
| Bollore' Concept | 7.0 | EDITOR: Another "city car" for the future. | ||
| Lumeneo Smera | 8.0 | EDITOR: Slightly odd, ultra-narrow city car with tilting chassis. | ||
| GM Knows Its Future Must Be Greener | 8.0 | EDITOR: "CARMAKER PINS HOPES ON CUTTING OIL DEPENDENCY WITH GAS-ELECTRIC HYBRID" | ||
| How To Make a Prius Look Good | 8.0 | EDITOR: It's simple - chop the top and presto - a "new" design! | ||
| Want a plug-in hybrid? Get in line for a battery | 8.0 | EDITOR: Have a Prius? Go from 30 MPH to 100 MPH with this new battery. | ||
| Driving On Air | 9.0 | EDITOR: "Guy Negre's car can zoom about on compressed air, but can it be more than a novelty?" | ||
| Designers, Decorators, Architects Pick Great Car Designs | 8.0 | EDITOR: ...and what cars are included in your list? | ||
| Chris Bangle on Cars As Art | 8.0 | EDITOR: The answer is "Yes"... | ||
| 10 Best Car Designers 2006 | 8.0 | EDITOR: Forbes view. | ||
| The Future of BMW design | 8.0 | EDITOR: "Designers and artists opine on the looks of the new BMWs" | ||
| In China, Hybrids Are Tough Sell | 8.0 | EDITOR: High costs deter most consumers; The Prius lesson. | ||
| Barely a Motorcycle but a Really Easy Ride | 9.0 | EDITOR: Super-modern looks. I like the no feet down required at stop lights. Does this make it a car? | ||
| Think Cars to Launch In US | 8.0 | EDITOR: A Norwegian Car? "Th!nk Global, the Oslo, Norway, maker of electric vehicles, announced on Monday in suburban Los Angeles that it is launching operations in the United States. " | ||
| Cars Deserve Only Half the Blame for CO2 | 8.0 | EDITOR: "New study from Purdue University, which essentially creates an inventory of carbon-dioxide, has some surprises. Among the top-20 cities that emit CO2, would you have guessed that San Juan, N.M., Camden, ALA.., Titus, TX. or Valparaiso, IND. would be on the list?" | ||
| Fearless Prediction: Plug-In Hybrids Will be the Hot Rods of the 21st Century | 9.0 | EDITOR: "Plug-in hybrids are the latest rage among cutting-edge planet savers. By combining a big battery with an electric motor and a small internal-combustion engine (75 or so horsepower) hooked to a generator, a plug-in hybrid delivers the pollution-free exhaust of a pure electric car for about 40 miles, which encompasses most trips for most people" | ||
| The Race to Build the Supergreen Car | 9.0 | EDITOR: "Known as the AXP, the competition will award at least $10 million to the team that builds a 100-mpg machine and then wins a race against other green vehicles. " | ||
| Keeping Up With the Prius | 8.0 | Paul Franz: "Even with U.S. gas prices over $3 a gallon, up 50 percent in three years, marketing experts say U.S. buyers want hybrids that not only reduce fuel consumption and emissions but also make a statement about the driver's commitment to the environment." | ||
| That Blissfully Quiet Electric Car Might Just Kill You | 7.0 | KRS: "From the department of unintended consequences, we now have a bill before Congress that would address one of the biggest problems with electric cars: They're too quiet." | ||
| The Little Engines That Would | 9.0 | KRS: "These new vehicles are zippy and green, but are American drivers ready for cute?" | ||
| Jump Start | 8.0 | Paul Franz: "GM may yet beat Toyota in plug-in cars, but its breakneck development pace is fraught with risk." | ||
| Mercedes sees electric-car progress | 9.0 | Paul Franz: "Mercedes-Benz says it will have a demonstration fleet of practical, if small, electric vehicles on the road in two to three years." | ||
| Tesla Motors gets rolling with Roadster production | 8.0 | Paul Franz: "Tesla Motors, the Silicon Valley electric-car start-up, said Monday it has begun "regular production" of its first car, the 2008 Roadster." | ||
| Revving Up Nissan | 8.0 | John Silver: "The GT-R--part luxury vehicle, part sports car--is Nissan's bid to compete head on with Ferrari and Porsche." EDITOR: Note the supercar introduction without typical advertising. | ||
| Smart Review | 9.0 | Sam S.: What else can make a Mini look large? EDITOR: Cool Slides | ||
| What Young Designers Dream Of | 8.0 | Gerald S.: "THE design studies known as concept cars, which are staples at auto shows and often inspirations for the cars of tomorrow, are also test beds for new ideas. The newest designers in an automaker's studio often have a hand in these — with ideas that spring from creative young minds to become dream-car matter." | ||
| Edgy Jaguar's New Cat | 9.0 | Ry S.: "Can this one solitary cog, even as handsome as it is, restart Jag?" | ||
| EcoDrive Teaches Fiat Drivers How to go Green | 8.0 | Paul Franz: "By next year, some drivers in Europe will be able to track their driving habits and exhaust emissions, download the information to their computers and get lessons on greener, more efficient driving.Fiat's EcoDrive, introduced at the Geneva International Motor Show this week, is built on top of the Blue&Me technology developed with Microsoft and launched two years ago to wirelessly connect mobile phones, iPods or MP3 players to a range of Fiat autos." | ||
| Speedy, Costly Hybrid | 9.0 | Paul Franz: "A niche car manufacturer from California believes that virtually every automaker will install super-efficient lithium-ion batteries in hybrid vehicles within a decade, but that their slowness opens up a booming market for a range of greener cars." EDITOR: Less costly than the Tesla, not quite as fast but perhaps better looking. Designed by star Aston Martin designer, Henrik Fisker, also the head of Fisker Automotive, the car manufacturer. | ||
| Tesla: Little Electric Roadster that Could | 9.0 | Ry Smith: " A little roadster that goes into regular production in two weeks is already electrifying the auto industry." EDITOR: I have a friend, Chris Paine, who has one on order. I'm eagerly awaiting his opinion and maybe a spin at the wheel! | ||
| Green Sports Car Set For Launch | 9.0 | Mark Durham: "A "zero-emission" sports car with a top speed of nearly 100mph is set to be unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show." | ||
| Driving the Green Diesel | 8.0 | Kathy Jones: "Even with no more smell and no more black smoke, the diesel has yet to achieve mass appeal in North America" | ||
| Italian Police Bust Fake-Ferrari Ring | 8.0 | Gerald Spencer: Italian auto body shops build fake Ferrari's using Fiero chassis. | ||
| I'm Just Wild About Fuel Cells | 8.0 | Chris Cohen: Fuel cells, batteries, hybrid - what will it be - or perhaps all three! | ||
| Bond Would Be Proud - but also Wet | 9.0 | KRS: "Swiss submersible convertible sQuba lacks firepower of 007's amphibious Lotus Esprit" EDITOR: Imagine driving on land, on water and - under water. Not sure this is for me! | ||
| The 25 Most Beautiful Cars Ever | 8.0 | KRS: Most of these cars would be on everyone's list. | ||
| New York to Paris - 100 Years Ago! | 9.0 | KRS: "THE telephone call that would change George Schuster's life and, perhaps, the course of the automobile industry didn't give him much time to prepare. He had barely 12 hours to catch an overnight train from New England so he would be in New York City the next morning, Feb. 12, 1908, for the start of the longest auto race in history: around the world, from New York to Paris." | ||
| Monterey 2007 | 9.0 | KRS: Cool photos of many great cars | ||
| The Yes! Roadster | 7.0 | KRS: "German specialist automaker Funke & Will has updated their Yes! roadster, a hand-built Lotus Elise competitor with a new engine - Audi's 3.2 liter V6 engine." | ||
| Hybrid Drive for Porsche Panamera | 8.0 | Ry S: Integrated electric motor goes deep into Porsche history | ||
| ZAP $30K Performance Electric Car | 8.0 | KRS: "California-based automaker ZAP, which stands for Zero Air Pollution, has announced plans for a new electric car, called the Alias, that will be able to do 0 to 60 in 5.7 seconds with a top speed of 156 miles per hour and cost about $30,000." Bill W.: I don't see how ZAP can make this sports car to sell at $30k when Tesla is doing about the same thing with a $98K price. Even at that price I don't think Tesla will make money. | ||
| A Foundation in the Classics | 8.0 | Ry S.: A Morgan Plus 8 in detail: "...the elegant little roadster looks like something one would have found bumbling across the British lowlands 60 years ago, perhaps with a picnic basket in the trunk." EDITOR: Everyone likes this classic Morgan, but it takes guts to keep one in NYC! | ||
| Beyond Ethanol | 8.0 | KRS: "Can a genetically engineered microbe make butanol the biofuel of the future?" | ||
| Nissan Cube: The Right Angles | 8.0 | KRS: "A sneak peek shows the truck-nugget tackles today's big issues: driveability, fuel efficiency, space." EDITOR: This may be one of the "cool" cars of the future. | ||
| The Electric Car Acid Test | 8.0 | Ry S.: "Shai Agassi's audacious effort to end the era of gas-powered autos"; 1st stop - Israel EDITOR: This is a major effort to prove that the electric car is "the" answer to oil dependence. | ||
| NY Times Editor James G. Cobb Answers Questions | 9.0 | KRS: "Mr. Cobb has edited the Sunday Automobiles section since its inception in 1994, and oversees the auto pages at nytimes.com and the Wheels blog." EDITOR: I like the response to how writers stay independent of advertisers | ||
| India's "People's' Car Effect On the Environment | 8.1 | EDITOR: There are environmental concerns that the Tata Nano may be more menace than miracle in a country that is already having severe problems coping with increasing pollution, poor roadways and chaotic traffic. | ||
| Don't Call It a Station Wagon | 9.0 | KRS: "They're coming back, but despite their practicality, carmakers are avoiding the stigma the W-word carries." EDITOR: Did you know, the station wagon name came about because you could drive your luggage to the railroad station. | ||
| Restoring a Rolls with Royal Roots | 8.0 | KRS: "A 1933 Rolls-Royce comes out of mothballs" EDITOR: Dreams do come true - at least they did for Chad Wilson who found this Rolls in a state of total neglect, and brought it back to respectability. | ||
| Crooks are getting better at faking collectible cars | 9.0 | KRS: "Figuring out the value of a collectible car these days can be more like an episode of "CSI" than "Antiques Roadshow."" | ||
| Renault, Nissan to go Electric | 8.0 | Ry S.: "Renault and Nissan are teaming up with former SAP AG executive Shai Agassi to offer electric cars that are powered by lithium-ion batteries and would go about 100 miles on a single charge" | ||
| Bright Idea - The Electric Company | 9.0 | KRS: "How do you power a fast car without gas? With a really big battery." EDITOR: This article is all about the Tesla - a new San Carlos, CA located car company with its genesis at Stanford. | ||
| Clever Car-like Vehicle | 9.0 | KRS: A new 3-wheel environmentally advanced, urban concept from BMW EDITOR: It tilts like a motorcycle but the 2 wheels at the back provide added stability. | ||
| China's Plucky Plug-in Hybrid | 7.0 | KRS: "BYD's car hits the stage at the Detroit auto show but will it really be ready to roll this summer?" | ||
| Electric Car Firms Get Star Investors | 9.0 | KRS: "The race to develop an electric car is heating up and drawing increasing interest from the same venture-capital investors who helped build Silicon Valley.": Fisker Karma is featured | ||
| Toyota Aims to Roll Out Plug in Hybrids by 2010 | 8.0 | KRS: "Its announcement at the North American International Auto Show ramps up the pressure on GM, whose Volt vehicle has been delayed." | ||
| 2 Green Technologies Race for the Driver's Seat | 8.4 | KRS: "Fuel cells and plug-ins vie for funding and favor that could decide what's on the road." | ||
| Race to Make Electric Cars Stalled by Battery Problems |