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Iconic VW Golf revised for sixth generation

AP News 9 days ago

2010 Golf already "World Car" and tops in fuel mileage The sixth-generation Volkswagen Golf, heralded by European automotive media as World Car of the Year, finally comes to U.S. showrooms this fall and instantly is the most fuel-efficient, non-hybrid compact car for ...

Hybrid automaker Fisker to buy shuttered GM plant

AFP Global Edition 10 days ago

Budding US hybrid car maker Fisker Automotive will reopen a shuttered General Motors plant in Delaware to build fuel-efficient, plug-in cars, the White House announced Tuesday. US Vice President Joe Biden said the re-opening of the plant was part of the Obama ...

Auto Reliability

AP News 10 days ago

FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2008 file photo, the 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid is seen at the Ford Product Design Center in Dearborn, Mich. Asian brands again dominated Consumer Reports' 2009 car and truck reliability survey, but several Ford Motor Co. ...

Biden Fisker Automotive

AP News 10 days ago

Vice President Joe Biden applauds before speaking about the announcement that Fisker Automotive will produce plug-in hybrid electric vehicles at the former General Motors Boxwood Plant, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Rob Carr) Copyright 2009 AP News

This technology will replace 148 billion barrels of oil

Stockhouse 11 days ago

Warren Buffett quintupled his money in a little over a year Not many investors noticed in September 2008, when Warren Buffett took a 10% stake in Hong Kong-based battery maker BYD Co. Ltd. for $230 million. They should be noticing now. Shares ...

Japanese automakers' hydrogen car drive

AFP Global Edition 12 days ago

Imagine a car that can be refuelled in minutes but emits only water. Sounds like science fiction? In fact it already exists -- Hollywood star Jamie Lee Curtis has one. So does Honda president Takanobu Ito. Yet while some see them as ...

Making Use of Nitrous Oxide to Increase Your Supercharger Performance

articlesbase.com 12 days ago

There arrives a point in your control buildup where you may think adding nitrous oxide shot to your supercharged vehicle. This point classically corresponds with attaining a stage of performance that denotes amplified investment and retreating returns from your supercharger. For instance, ...

New NY company to roll out electric cars in 2010

AP News 14 days ago

New NY company to roll out electric cars in 2010, employ 250 workers A new New York company hopes to complete financing of a Syracuse plant to make electric cars by the end of this year and start rolling out plug-in hatchbacks ...

Electric cars take on hybrids at Tokyo show

AFP Global Edition 17 days ago

Futuristic concept cars, plug-in hybrids, zero-emission electric vehicles and even a hydrogen-powered scooter jostled for the limelight as the Tokyo Motor Show kicked off on Wednesday. From a super-skinny Nissan electric car that leans when going around bends, to a lightweight Toyota ...

Best-selling Lexus still refined, quiet

AP News 17 days ago

2010 RX 350 sticks with successful formula, adds features The best-selling vehicle at Lexus just got better for 2010, and it did so subtly. The third-generation Lexus RX crossover sport utility vehicle — a crossover because its based on a car platform ...

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