Tagged: Auto news

Jeremy Clarkson Meets the 2009 Cadillac CTS-V 1

Jeremy Clarkson Meets the 2009 Cadillac CTS-V

Top Gear host and automotive curmudgeon Jeremy Clarkson has consistently professed his disgust for American cars, claiming that a European variant of the Chrysler 300 had “wallow-matic suspension” and that driving the Jeep Grand...

Track Gas Mileage with Milemarker 1

Track Gas Mileage with Milemarker

I’ve never been very good at keeping track of gas mileage for my personal vehicles, but I’ve always wanted to. A new website called Mymilemarker.com promises to take the drudgery out of computing your...

Google Unveils Hybrid Car Initiative 0

Google Unveils Hybrid Car Initiative

Internet search behemoth Google unveiled a new initiative last week designed to raise awareness of plug-in hybrids and “vehicle-to-grid” technology. The currrent program involves a number of conventional hybrids (specifically 4 Toyota Priuses and 2...

Honda’s mind-controlled robot hand 2

Honda’s mind-controlled robot hand

News today from the AP that Honda has recently demonstrated a robotic hand controlled by brainwaves. The article goes on to say that Honda believes the technology may eventually have use in automobiles as...

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VW’s Robotic Car Garage

Having a hard time finding space to park the few dozen Porsches and Ferraris in your auto collection? Take a look at this robotic parking garage, located at a Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg, Germany....

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Ford GT Gets the Transformer Treatment

While many of us may sit in our pens at the cubicle farm and daydream of motoring into the office carpark in a Ford GT or Dodge SRT-10, we can at least have a...

DARPA Unveils “Urban Challenge” for Robotic Vehicles 5

DARPA Unveils “Urban Challenge” for Robotic Vehicles

Fresh off the success of the DARPA Grand Challenge that saw several robotic vehicles successfully navigate a 131.2 mile road course, DARPA — the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — recently announced another challenge,...

Automaker input benefits upcoming “Cars” film 1

Automaker input benefits upcoming “Cars” film

The Detroit news has an article by Ann Job that discusses the upcoming Disney/Pixar Cars movie and how closely Director John Lasseter and his crew worked with real-life auto designers during development of the...

Ford to Shutter Truck Plants 0

Ford to Shutter Truck Plants

Ford announced today that they plan to close down their Twin Cities Assembly Plant in St. Paul, Minn., and the Norfolk Assembly Plant in Virginia sometime in 2008 as part of their new “Way...