To scientists, running vehicles on hydrogen makes all the sense in the world. Hydrogen can be derived from so many different things, including water, and constitutes roughly 75 percent of the universe's chemical elemental mass. ...
Continue Reading »While we shouldn't be shocked at anything Madison Avenue dishes out anymore, there's a part of me that's incensed to see Honda use the music of Judas Priest to advertise its new Odyssey. I mean, come on-the opening riff of the greatest album from these heavy metal gods deployed, not in the service of Satan, but to sell a minivan? ...
Continue Reading »Haven’t we seen this play called before? Take a well-regarded European model, tweak it for the U.S. market, slap on a badge from a beleaguered North American brand, and hope for a touchdown. Indeed, the Buick Regal conforms to what has become General Motors’ version of the spread offense. Never mind that this wasn’t a winning strategy for Saturn, which tried selling various deriv ...
Continue Reading »The Chevy Volt has finally, successfully, made the leap from science fiction to fact. Quite a bit has changed in the nearly four-year journey from the 2007 Detroit Auto Show to last week, when GM let us drive a production-spec car. The Volt may not be the stuff of Blade Runner, but it's a technologically advanced showpiece for GM, and the first widely practical electric vehicle, ready and wa ...
Continue Reading »It's Labor Day Weekend and summer driving season is coming to a close. But not before one last trip. With gas prices much lower this season than the summers of recent past, the annual family road-trip vacation could be making a comeback. But before you hit the highways, you will want to think about a few things to make your journey safer and more enjoyable.1. Flashing lights are only fun in ...
Continue Reading »Contrary to public perception, SUV’s are not dead, not by a long shot. Hummer may have driven off into that outlet mall parking lot in the sky, but new SUV’s still clutter our highway and byways, even if many of them are now called “crossovers.” But aside from the marketers spreading this term of confusion among the populace while engineers continue to enact legitimate stru ...
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