Opinion

It may have fallen off the best-seller lists in four hundred years or so, but Sir Isaac Newton's 1687 tome, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, has a lot to recommend it.In the book, Sir Isaac sets forth his "laws" of physics, explaining to the world the motion of an object, and ...    Read more

Recently, German automakers DaimlerChrysler and BMW have threatened to take legal action if certain Chinese cars are shown at the Frankfurt Motor Show.The Frankfurt Auto Show is scheduled for early September.According to the International Herald Tribune , BMW and DaimlerChrysler state that commercial vehicle maker Shuanghuan Auto's Noble and ...    Read more

New York City residents and business people always have to contend with traffic issues. If it isn't crowded streets and subways it is subways that don't run and taxi driver strikes. Well, it appears that the taxi drivers are again threatening to strike. Why? Because they don't like the GPS ...    Read more

If you've been hiding under a rock for the last several weeks, then you don't know that there has been a credit squeeze in this country.Basically, many people who own homes are unable to make their monthly payments. And that has sellers, like the auto industry, nervous. Sales figures for ...    Read more

We all have our "war stories" on racing.One of our writers recently shared his days of glory. During the first say four, five, six years, he said, when driving, he would sometimes take the machine just a little bit over the speed limit. Not much, mind you. Just a little. ...    Read more

This morning, during my daily grind commute, I had the radio tuned to the local talk radio station, and I could hardly believe my ears. No, it wasn't a salacious scandal involving a politician, or yet another member of the Bush cabinet resigning. That's the usual fodder. What caught my ...    Read more

Perhaps the most fun one can have following the ups and downs of the car industry is the anticipation of the new, we mean real new, models that will be coming out in the not-to-distant future.Unlike waiting for just the next model year, there are cars that you know is ...    Read more

No doubt you've heard that saying, "You are what you drive." Interestingly enough, even though we're carfolks we've never really been able to understand that saying. We guess psychologists think that we choose our car in accordance to our personality. Somehow, when we go car shopping, our subconscious kicks in ...    Read more

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., 08/27/2007 CarMax, Inc. has named the Hyundai Sonata as one of the top 10 cars for college students. To help students and parents find the best car, CarMax, Inc., the nation's largest retailer of used cars and Driver's Edge, a national nonprofit organization that provides youth driver ...    Read more

If the results of your work is modest pay, you are looking for ways to keep expenses in line. During our lifetime, major expenses usually end up being buying a house and buying a car. We assume that most of us don't buy (or can't afford) a new house once ...    Read more

Woodcliff Lake, NJ - August 24, 2007... The all-new 2007 MINI Cooper's crashworthiness received the top rating of 'Good' in the evaluation of offset frontal crash testing by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's rating reflects performance in a 40 mph frontal offset crash ...    Read more

American consumers may not really be ready for plug-in hybrids, according to a major automaker. This comes from Ford or Chrysler right? Uh-uh. Toyota. The International Herald Tribune reports that Bill Reinert, Toyota's American national manager for advanced vehicle technology, thinks American consumers don't actually understand the ...    Read more

In advance of this year's Frankfurt show, there's been an annoucement of yet another crossover introduction. This time, the vehicle in question is the Dodge Journey, a midsize, Avenger-based tall wagon. Even the purveyor and standard-bearer of the modern minivan is noticing the growing ubiquity of this market segment, and ...    Read more

Judas Priest sang "united we stand" on their 1980 heavy metal opus British Steel. In an interesting twist of fate, a lack of unity within American steel could very well jeopardize ongoing negotiations for retiree health care with the United Auto Workers. According to the ...    Read more

It's almost time to send junior back to college. But this time, mom and dad feel generous and want to buy a car to take back to the campus with him or her. Question is: What kind of car should they buy?Known for its lists, Forbes.com once again ...    Read more

The news on the sale of Jaguar and Land Rover is there is no news. According to the Associated Press (via The International Herald Tribune ), Ford Motor Co. will not make any announcement one way or the other on the sale of the two Premiere Auto ...    Read more

If you're the kind of person who sets off on the car buying adventure with a folder overflowing with reviews, statistics, and ratings (and we're pretty sure you are, after all, why else would you be on Automotive.com in the first place), then John McCormick of the ...    Read more

You don't have to reinvent the wheel in order to have today's cars employ green technologies. Many of the technologies identified as green exist today according to AutoblogGreen . Here's a list of the top ten green technologies that are easiest to implement. ...    Read more

Bring up the notion among certain circles we run around with that people can, and probably should do without cars and prepare to reap the whirlwind.Blasphemy might be too weak a word. Gearheads spontaneously begin chanting the lyrics to Rush's "Red Barchetta" as though it were a manifesto. But take ...    Read more

It appears that smoke coming from a diesel engine can cause heart attacks. In a report published in the Journal Genome Biology (via the Car Connection ), a group of UCLA scientists who studied diesel exhaust found some evidence that diesel exhaust could possibly cause heart disease. A spokesman ...    Read more

Detroit News columnist Daniel Howes recently wrote a column on Volkswagen's pending decision to move its North American headquarters out of Michigan, and governor Jennifer Granholm's attempt to keep them. It appears to be almost a done deal that VW is packin' up the U-Haul and moving Southeast. ...    Read more

It seems there's an inextricable link between the car and the American ethos of freedom, independence, and being able to go where we want, when we want, without anyone telling us when or how to go. Yet the automobile has proven to be a double-edged sword for many Americans. Yes, ...    Read more

We do indeed live in a mobile time. And with the introduction of all sorts of mobile gadgets it is possible for one to do business from his or her car. It is reported that 24 million people use their car as their workplace at least once a month. That's ...    Read more

It probably seems unusual that I would be picking a minivan as my "near-ideal" car. After all, haven't these insidious symbols of suburbia been banished to the outer realms of Dorkville by unanimous declaration of soccer-moms and Cub Cadet-riding dads? Not so fast. Okay, I'll admit most minivans aren't exactly ...    Read more

Pundits are now complaining that the new technology features that may appear on some luxury cars are not appearing on all luxury cars.Worse, these same pundits point out that many entry level vehicles, to attract the coveted, more technological younger buyer, have state-of-the-art features like auxiliary audio input jacks for ...    Read more