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Articles Written by: MATTHEW PHENIX
As cars become ever smarter than the people driving them, doing the things humans should be doing for themselves — checking blind spots, watching for lane departures, anticipating collisions — it seemed only a matter of time before one of them started ...
From MATTHEW PHENIX,
Wired,
24 Jun 2008
Porsche purists will lose their minds at the thought, but desperate times require desperate measures: The German sports car maker is developing its first-ever diesel-powered vehicle. With the arrival of the gasoline-electric Cayenne Hybrid delayed ...
From MATTHEW PHENIX,
Wired,
19 Jun 2008
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Turkish-born and Dutch-based, upstart car designer Ugur Sahin is making quite a name for himself as a reinterpreter of other company's designs. Last year, he "unveiled" his computer-rendered Spiga Concept, a slightly more organic-looking version of the ...
From MATTHEW PHENIX,
Wired,
4 Jun 2008
Is there anything the Ford Escape Hybrid can't do? Following its by-all-accounts successful foray into East Coast taxi-dom (there are currently some 845 Escape Hybrid taxicabs plying the streets of New York), the Claycomo, Missouri-built compact SUV is ...
From MATTHEW PHENIX,
Wired,
23 May 2008
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Among old-school gearheads, conventional wisdom is that gasoline is where the fun is, was and always will be (until the pumps run dry). Alternative-fuel automobiles -- hybrids, diesels, electrics and the like -- are dorky, cumbersome and slow. But a ...
From MATTHEW PHENIX,
Wired,
21 May 2008
Well in advance of an official debut at the Paris Motor Show in October, Ferrari dropped a trio of photos of the 2009 California on the Web. Strongly influenced by the V-12-engined 599 GTB Fiorano and the 612 Scaglietti, the aluminum-bodied California ...
From MATTHEW PHENIX,
Wired,
13 May 2008
One person's adversity is another's opportunity. Take a look at the influx of foreclosure tours — real estate agents carting busloads of bargain-hunters from one bank-repo'd home to another. Now, it seems spiking fuel costs are prompting talk of ...
From MATTHEW PHENIX,
Wired,
12 May 2008
According the the U.S. Government's Energy Information Administration, diesel fuel is running $4.15 a gallon today. At that price, filling a semi truck's two fuel tanks (usually 150 gallons apiece) can cost more than $1200. And considering that a ...
From MATTHEW PHENIX,
Wired,
8 May 2008
Automobile product-placement in feature films is nothing new, but lately, it's positively pervasive: Audi in Iron Man and Mercedes-Benz in Sex and the City and Lamborghini in The Dark Knight. The goal of such big-screen appearances, according to ...
From MATTHEW PHENIX,
Wired,
6 May 2008
A week spent behind the wheel of a $96,600 Land Rover Range Rover Supercharged was an opulent way to celebrate the brand's sixtieth birthday. It's a magnificent ride, no question, but its unconscionable thirst (12/18 mpg, city/highway; far less with a ...
From MATTHEW PHENIX,
Wired,
5 May 2008
