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We come not to bury the A8L, but to praise it. Next week the newest generation of Audi’s aluminum spaceframe panzer will greet the world in Miami, and we expect it to be a leap through a …

Whether hauling old water heaters or young hockey players, the Chevrolet Suburban has been a distinctly American form of personal transportation for three quarters of a century. To put that in perspective, when the first Suburban rolled off the assembly line the Hoover Dam has just been built and Larry …

The CEO of Tesla Motors, which has received a fat federal loan, flew to Washington, D.C., aboard a private jet at least 12 times in the past 14 months. Although it isn’t unusual for CEOs to jet around on corporate planes, Elon Musk did so not long after lawmakers berated …

Other than the Empire State Building, yellow taxis are the most iconic thing about New York City. But cabs, as we know them, are about to change.
About 90 percent of the city’s taxicabs are the venerable, if ugly, Ford Crown Victoria, though there are a smattering of Toyota Prius and …

Omigod omigod omigod. Oh. My. God. One of the very best cars ever is up for sale.
When it comes to collector cars, the Ferrari GTO is flat-out it. Enzo Ferrari’s crew made just 36 of these exceptionally awesome icons between 1962 and 1964. Of those, just two were re-bodied for …

EVERETT, Washington — Well into the first flight of Boeing’s new 747-8, co-pilot Tom Imrich brought up the fuel page on a display in the cockpit. Chief pilot Mark Feuerstein did a double take when he saw it. The biggest airliner Boeing has ever built left Paine Field carrying 130,000 …

It’s hard to believe, but this milquetoast Ford Ranger EV conversion inspired a tale of intrigue and redemption worthy of John Grisham.
It all started in Santa Monica, California, where lifelong resident Paul Pearson was building electric cars for fun at home. The hobby outgrew the house and pretty soon he …

The Obama Administration’s proposed 2011 budget has hit the streets on the heels of the big high-speed rail spending plan and it’s making lots of transit people very happy.
The bottom line is the federal Department of Transportation gets $79 billion, a $2 billion increase over last year. While most of …

Ford has said as many as one in four cars its sells by 2020 will be electrified. It took a big step toward that goal today when it unveiled an electric delivery van that will be available by the end of this year.
The Transit Connect Electric is the first …

The British love their traditions: the Queen, tea, quaint gardens and the like. One of their most visible traditions, the black London taxi, could be going green.
Britain’s Eco City Vehicles is rolling out an electric version of the Mercedes-Benz Vito taxi and will field-test the car in London later this …