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35 MPG Standard Will Kill the Muscle Car? Uh-huh. Sure

You just knew it would happen, and it has - someone in Detroit is whining that the new 35 mpg fuel economy standard set to take effect in 13 years will be the end of the muscle car. Tadge Juetcher, chief engineer for the 2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1, ...

From AUTOPIA BLOG, Wired,  27 Dec 2007
Related Topics: European Union,  General Motors,  Sarah Connor,  Steve Jobs

How Detroit Will Reach 35 Miles per Gallon

It's taken more than two decades of fighting, but the auto industry finally has a new fuel economy standard it can live with. The magic number is 35 mpg, and automakers have 13 years to get there. Now the question is: How? Meeting that benchmark will ...

From AUTOPIA BLOG, Wired,  20 Dec 2007
Related Topics: Ford Motor Company,  General Motors,  Chevrolet Malibu,  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

$100-per-Barrel Oil Will Fuel New Technologies

Hi Chuck, We don't really need new technology --we need new ideas and out of the box thinking -- and hence the hybrid adapter -- aka HYBRAD: Chuck, can you guys at autopia get together and fix the RSS feed? Your feed provider says the file is over teh 5 ...

From AUTOPIA BLOG, Wired,  2 Nov 2007
Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  George W. Bush,  OPEC,  Bill Clinton,  Council on Foreign Relations

Honda Readies Sinister Concept Bike for Tokyo

Amid the automotive weirdness that typifies the Tokyo Motor Show, there are to be found a few truly stirring examples of mechanical art. Honda's EVO6 concept is just such a machine. The bike uses a version of the 1832-cc horizontally opposed ...

From AUTOPIA BLOG, Wired,  20 Sep 2007

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