The road to energy independence is quickly filling up with with many and varied concepts. Apparently Korean budget car maker Hyundai-Kia intends to muscle into a plug-in hybrid niche. According to company R&D President Yang Woong-chu, Hyundai plans to bring its Blue-Will concept into production. “We’re going after Prius and the Volt with the plug-in,” [...]

Tesla Motors freshly infused with nearly a half billion in loan guarantees from Uncle Sam will now be expand its dealership base from the Golden State to the Big Apple. On July 14 the electric car maker will open its first dealership for a media preview in New York City.  The store will be in [...]

Marty Padgett over at our flagship site TuningTruck.com (TCC) recently provided a preview of Hyundai’s upcoming 2011 Equus luxury sedan. Wait a minute… a $60,000 to $80,000 Hyundai? Methinks a certain car company is getting a little too big for its britches. 2010 Hyundai Equus The car reportedly shares its 4.6-liter, 376-horsepower V-8 power plant [...]

The Automotive Task Force assigned by President Obama, has come under fire for its findings regarding electric vehicles and the impact they will have on the car market in the next few years. According to the task force, electric vehicles are too costly to be competitive with gasoline powered vehicles without huge incentives from the [...]

After a few years of financial windfalls, Porsche is suddenly in need of plenty of capital. The German automaker already received a 700 million euro ($978 million U.S.) bridge loan from Volkswagen in March to stay out of bankruptcy, and it is reportedly in talks with banks to secure 1.75 billion euros ($2.42 billion U.S.) [...]

Few car companies have been as gloriously ‘off the reservation’ crazy for as long as British sportscar maker TVR. And while the status of the dormant manufacturer may not be entirely clear, it has lost a key figure who helped make it the wild, wacky and wonderful marque that it is: former TVR owner Peter [...]

Handing over a $1.4 million electric car to a blog is interesting, especially when the company operates a “you break it, you buy it” policy. Can the 268 HP Protoscar Lampo live up to its promise of electrifying performance? Protoscar estimates the Lampo costs a million Euro. Larger production volumes would probably bring the price [...]

Yesterday we reveled in the frugal performance of the VW Jetta Sportwagen TDI‘s diesel engine, but bemoaned the awful DSG gearbox. Join us today as we examine the Jetta’s abilities in detail. Exterior Design: *** Utterly innocuous, but in a handsome way. The Jetta SportWagen‘s not going to offend anyone, but it’s not going to [...]