Sometimes, the frog leaps before he’s cooked. Remember the story about the frog and the pot of boiling water? So…

In the “no kidding?” hall of fame, a special place has been reserved for the just-released Transportation Research Board study…

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Here’s an irony for you: In the 1980s, as gasoline got cheaper, American automakers downsized their fleets — switching from…

Big Brother may be about to get just a bit bigger. General Motors just announced a new and improved version…

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Would you like your next new car or truck to get 35 mpg? That’s the bait being put before the…

“Pre-emptive war” got us into a real mess in Iraq. So maybe we ought to think twice before adopting similar…

Who “killed” the electric car? It wasn’t General Motors — despite the innuendoes floated by conspiracy theorists who believe the…

New cars are pretty green — hybrid or not. Thanks to chemical exhaust scrubbers (catalytic converters), the precision of electronic…