We were once told by an auto writer that “real car people” didn’t want green cars. They wanted noise, and roaring engines, and squealing tires. Well, the triumph of diesel-powered race cars at the famed 24 Heures du Mans shows you can have both. The French carmaker Peugeot placed first and second at Le Mans [...]

Normally the sight of a police car — for instance, a 2009 Dodge Charger — causes a flash of panic and an immediate lifting motion in your right foot. We hope your reaction to the following police cars will be different. Instigated by TuningTruck’s own Richard Read’s post on the futuristic E7 Police Interceptor — [...]

Volvo’s plan to bring a plug-in, hybrid-electric vehicle to Sweden by 2012 would make it the first automaker to combine a clean diesel and PHEV technology into one car. It says the platform, showed earlier this month in a concept version of a V70 wagon, will cost more than a conventional diesel or gasoline-powered car [...]

Last week the editorial team at High Gear Media convened in the Bay Area for some fun, some food, and some SEO training. Thanks to the 2009 Audi Q7 TDI, we traveled as a pack and only once (okay, twice) almost left one team member stuck in the third-row seat as we broke for Starbucks [...]

Volkswagen’s diesel-engined cars have deeply loyal fans. Veedub has been offering oil-burners in the US since 1979, and their 2009 Volkswagen Jetta TDI clean diesel has sold well. But for the coming year, most diesel fanboys’ eyes are on the 2010 Volkswagen Golf TDI. The Golf TDI returns the diesel to VW’s hatchback for the [...]

One of the big sticking points among U.S. motorists is not a lack of filling stations or general unfamiliarity with clean diesel–it is the high cost of the fuel itself. Recent forecasts indicate that the price of diesel at the pump may be stabilizing, after several years of volatility that had diesel upwards of $5.00 [...]

We like the idea of the 2009 Audi A3, a small, sporty five-door hatchback (Audi refers to it as a Sportback). It seems rather like the grownup big brother of the 2009 Volkswagen GTI, which which it shares some underpinnings. In the States, Audi has offered the A3 since 2006 with a 2.0-liter turbocharged four [...]

That Volkswagen BlueSport roadster concept from the Detroit auto show is looking less and less likely to make it into production. The original plan for the concept, as Drive magazine reports, was to offer both Volkswagen and Porsche flavors of the compact two-seater. VW’s concept version sported a clean diesel engine, which might have been [...]