Category Archives: Cars
Azerbaijan Hails London Taxis to Upgrade Its Unlicensed Fleet
In a brick complex here behind a Mini Cooper dealership and across from a McDonald’s, a small auto maker’s staff is working full tilt to satisfy a determined customer: the president of
Volvo C30 Polestar: The Spirit of Sweden Lives
Too bad about Saab, isn’t it? Back in the ’80s I was pulling night shifts at an answering service run by a Russian gangster
It’s Too Easy Being Green
By DAVID OWEN A favorite trick of people who consider themselves friends of the environment is reframing luxury consumption preferences as gifts to humanity. A new car, a solar-powered swimming-pool heater, a
Mazda3 Really Moves the Needle (Not the Gas One)
Climb inside my head a moment: The scene is a drive in the country in the new Mazda3 with something called “SkyActiv,” a suite of fuel-saving technologies with an apparent aversion to
Is Chevy’s Cruze Dulling the Spark of its Volt?
The Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid is about to get a relaunch from General Motors Co., after skidding halfway to Flop City over the past several months.
Don’t Look Now: A Car That Tweets
By MIKE RAMSEY Undaunted by fear of safety regulations, auto makers are piling new technologies into their vehicles: everything from 17-inch dashboard screens to services that check Facebook and buy movie tickets.
Porsche’s Magnificent First Stab at the New 911
Porsche’s approach to the 911 is “perfect, rinse, repeat”—which is to say, introduce a new edition of its famous sports car, and over the years of the product cycle squeeze more and
Fisker Karma: The World’s Most Interesting Car
This car might be your worst nightmare. A plug-in hybrid electric luxury sedan that costs more than $100,000, from a California company—Orange County, but still—which has borrowed $169 million from taxpayers as
