As an automotive journalist, it seems that whenever I tell someone what I do for a living, the first thing out of the other person’s mouth is “what is your favorite car” or “what car would you buy right now” so this week, a few of us here at TorqueNews will offer up the vehicles that we would buy if we were shopping right now.
INRIX is a leading tracker of traffic data, publishing a monthly index monitoring congestion in 100 US cities. Their data now reveals a two-month uptick in year over year gridlock reversing a two-year decline in most of the country and signaling an economy on the mend.
We’ve all heard the expression, “You are what you eat,” but no one has ever said, “You might be driving what you eat!” If you own a late model Ford you may be doing just that.
When a company misses deadlines to file financial reports it's a big red flag, but when Tesla failed to file it's fiscal year 2012 SEC report the investors yawned and sent the stock price up 2.4%.
Electric taxis seem like a perfect city idea but can they take on the amount of miles driven a day and withstand both hot and cold temperature in the long run?
This year, a new limousine for the Russian president will be commissioned and automaker Marussia Motors and CarDesign.ru from open-sourcing the design as a contest worth $5,000 to the winner.
Over the past five years, thanks to the economy, many people have been repairing their current vehicle to avoid the expense of a new one, but how far can this be pushed before it becomes a losing proposition.
Two California twins have invented a candle that emits hydrogen blue sparks caused by HydroBlaze, a water-based hydrogen fuel that gives combustion a boost of hydrogen energy.
A current report before the Virginia house of delegates suggests a tax on diesel fuel nearly double the levy on regular gas, aimed at compensating the state for the damage 18-wheelers do to the roads, but perhaps unfairly penalizing the 250,000 citizens who will soon drive diesel passenger vehicles.
Running a red light is one of the most dangerous things any driver can voluntarily do and, according to the National Coalition for Safer Roads (NCSR), red-light cameras can reduce the incidence of the riskiest violations as much as 86 percent.
Tesla's quarterly results confirmed reaching production of 400 Model S's per week, showed continued large losses, but Musk promises profitability by Q2 2013.
As an exercise in speculation, and in honor of the observation of his birthday tomorrow, we started wondering what George Washington would drive today, if still alive at the age he left the White House and aware of the events of the interceding 216 years.
Criminals are not known for their street smarts, but we pity the fool in Georgia who purloined a Krispy Kreme doughnut delivery truck from a convenience store parking lot in Dacula – can you imagine the fervent zeal of the pursuit?
A brave CNN reporter repeated last weeks ill-fated trip by NY Times' John Broder, and easily drove from Washington D.C. to Boston on electricity, in the winter, stopping only at Supercharger stations.
Here’s a PowerPoint presentation that will convince any spouse to let their husband buy a new 2014 Corvette Stingray C7 or any other Corvette you may want.
Literally millions of seemingly sensible men (an oxymoron) picked up lovely and perfect women (another oxymoron) in the quest for the perfect Valentine’s date last night – but if what the British division of Hertz discovered is true, one in three were in a rental car presented as their own property.
As part of an effort to green New York City, Mayor Bloomberg has set in motion changes to add significant new electric car recharging infrastructure, creating conditions that might make electric vehicle adoption more attractive.
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk shows off vehicle log data to back up claims that John Broder essentially fabricated a no-win situation that ended up with the Tesla Model S he'd borrowed on the back of a flatbed truck.
When the NY Times writer John Broder wrote about his failed Tesla Model S road trip, experienced electric car drivers world-wide rolled their eyes in disbelief over the mistakes he'd made.
The need for heel-toe shifting is going away as the world turns to new automated transmissions. We turned to a pro to give us some insight on what may become a lost art.
The new trend in manuals is the rev-matching stick shift. Offered in some of the hottest sports cars in the world, this technology might just save the manuals.
The former star of the series Fast Times and the film Life in the Fast Lane, Patrick Dempsey has been challenged to a race in a matching set of 600 hp Hamke Super Late Model Chevy Impala SS racers by Washington’s teenage racing sensation Jessica Dana as a charity fundraiser.
In a recent piece in Forbes Magazine, Bob Lutz, the range-extended electric car guru, bashed on hydrogen fuel cells in what amounted to a self-serving, myopic view of the automotive industry.
Electric car sales aren't a flash-in-the-pan success, but they are growing rapidly, and many electric car owners look to long term trends to justify their purchase.
