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True to its Tokyo breeding, Nissan cube is ideally sized and packaged for congested streets in urban America. Mechanical details and even the styling of “box cars” like the cube, Kia Soul, and Scion xB are secondary to how well they fit into crowded urban and beachside neighborhoods, and how simple they are, how minimalist [...]
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Let’s assume for the moment that the ethanol lobby is telling the truth. According to its claims, by 2030:
Cellulosic ethanol (produced from corn cobs, wood chips, wood waste, straw, grasses, and other waste) will produce 80-100 billion gallons of ethanol in the U.S. using commercial technology.
Average corn yields will increase from today’s +150 bushels per [...]
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For a number of years, the combination of a January time slot, official “International Auto Show” status, and good economic times made Detroit one of the “must see” auto shows. Automakers both domestic and foreign came to Detroit’s aging Cobo Center to hawk their latest wares. That was especially true when the Los Angeles Auto [...]
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Well, I thought highly of the Taurus. Fiesta? Not so much, though there’s nothing so horribly wrong that the car can’t be fixed before market launch next spring/summer. Thanks to an invitation from Ford PR, I had a chance to drive a Fiesta last week at the Orange County Auto Show. Ford hired an event [...]
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I am hearing disturbing rumors from inside the American automakers. They are not about profitability or any of the myriad things that fill the newspapers in Detroit and elsewhere every day. My moles–and there are many–are telling me about the battles taking place to save their new lines of small cars from being dumbed-down and [...]
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I was really looking forward to the new Ford Fiesta. I was. That was until I discovered that the car will be available only as a four-door sedan or a five-door hatchback. I neither need nor want the two extra doors. Give me a coupe or a three-door, but not one of these junior family [...]
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