Pretty in Green- all photos used with Lesley Slenning’s permission. Classy Asia DeVinyl next to a really cool rod. I am a HUGE fan of photgrapher Lesley Slenning. She does some incredible photography of cars, bikes, and women too. If you have ever seen or purchased a Hot Rod Dolls calendar...

The LTI taxis which are the popular models used in Great Britain (and some other places) as cabs are known for a convinced thirst of fuel, although interior room and city handling are just awesome. A taxi company in London has decided to improve their green side by running their taxis with a 30 percent...

Here’s another gem via our buddy Vince Taliano at the Cadillac & LaSalle Club’s Potomac Region: Each May, the American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM) in Baltimore hosts the East Coast Kinetic Sculpture Race Championship on the shore of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. The eight-hour race...

My, what a big luxury sedan you have. All the better to drive you with, my dear. Not that Lexus is a big, poor wolf in any way, but at the Chauffeur Drive ‘07, they might as well be the only sponsor of the event, considering it’ll be their show. All the luxury amenities, stylishness, gadgets...

Some cars that run on vegetable oil leave behind a smell of a fish & chips shop but one might think that the exhaust gases can’t be too good for our health. In theory yes, but proof has arrived from the Bayerische Institut für Angewandte Umweltforschung und -technik (Bavarian Institute...

Filed under: Flex-Fuel, Hybrid, Honda Honda has big plans for the future. In addition to their already admirable goals of CO2 reductions, they called out from the rooftops earlier that month that they are going to be building next-generation clean diesel engines that will meet the Tier 2 BIN 5 NOx emissions...

Would Lindsay Lohan be increasingly popular whether she changed her name to Oprah? Or would things be even worse whether she opted to go by Osama, instead? Just how critical is a name in obtaining acceptance and avoiding failure? According to a new study by CNW Marketing Research, a name is vital,...

Mazda will deliver a dual-fuel vehicle (think BMW Hydrogen 7) to the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) tomorrow. The vehicle, a RX-8 with a Hydrogen rotary engine, can switch within gasoline and hydrogen at the “flick of a switch” and will be used by METI for daily...

According to a recent study by the Schweizerische Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (EMPA, roughly translated as Swiss Federal Technical University), the best biofuel in terms of CO2 balance is biogas. Not a new thing for our readers, but their study shows that it reduces up to 90 percent of...

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, HybridFest Our own team member Shane went to the HybridFest in Madison, Wisconsin, final weekend and he’s got lots of coverage already posted and still increasingly to come, but he wasn’t the only one there. ABG friend Matt Kelly of the NextGear and Amanda...

Toyota is battling with Saturn by the title of the most affordable hybrid on the market. The 2008 Prius reclaims that title with a stripped “Standard” version that will start at $20,950. There will plus be the better equipped “Touring” model, which starts at $23,220. Neither...

Let’s celebrate the world’s innovations in clean transportation technology with… the tax break! That’s right, ladies and gentlemen, it’s back and better than ever, considering electric cars aren’t good sufficient on their own - to buy them we need incentives other...

You’ve got waste grease plugging city sewers and causing spills. You want to save money on fuel. You want to help the environment. What do you do? whether you’re Talladega (Alabama) public works director James Swinford, you propose a grease recycling/biodeisel manufacturing process for...

One of us may have just bought a new Subaru Outback himself, but that doesn’t mean the car doesn’t get the full expert review treatment, just like everything else. Kelsey Mays takes on the 2008 Subaru Outback L.L.Bean Edition with the panoramic roof and comes absent unimpressed by the...