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TechnoFile's Most Intriguing Vehicles of 2011

By Jim Bray
TechnoFile.com

The years seem to get shorter the older I get, which means it's already time to take a year end look at the most interesting cars I drove in 2011. These aren't ...

Cayenne Adds Flavor to the Hybrid Market

By Jim Bray
TechnoFile.com

Has Porsche blinked? The maker of high quality sporting machines is introducing Hybrid versions of two of its vehicles, and is apparently taking orders for its 918 Spyder Hybrid supercar.

What's going on? Has Porsche gone politically ...

US car sales held up in September despite the weak economy, while the US Big Three producers continued to add market share at the expense of their Japanese rivals, new sales data showed Monday.

A burst of sales of heavier, relatively fuel-inefficient sports utility vehicles and pickup trucks, boosted by increased buyer incentives, helped General Motors, Ford and Chrysler raise ...

(Reuters) - Auto safety regulators have opened preliminary investigations into 2002 and 2003 model year Jeep Liberty vehicles over possible problems with airbag deployment.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on its website that it has received seven consumer complaints claiming the airbag on the Liberty SUV deployed without a crash. Five of the complaints reported injuries.

The investigation covers ...

DETROIT (Reuters) - Honda Motor Co Ltd is recalling almost 347,000 Pilot sport utility vehicles worldwide for a potential problem with the front seat belts.

The Japanese automaker said the recall, which affects vehicles built in Lincoln, Alabama for model years 2009 through 2011, was being performed because the driver or front passenger seat belts could become disconnected from the ...

Mercedes-Benz cars have posted a triple sales record of "best June, best quarter, and best first half of a year, the German manufacturer's parent company Daimler announced.

The group sold almost 131,000 Mercedes-Benz and Smart cars last month, an annualised gain of nearly 6.5 percent, and 610,500 vehicles in the first six months of the year ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The fuel efficiency of European cars advanced last year, with exhaust carbon emissions falling 3.7 percent, provisional European Union data showed on Wednesday.

The EU, home to 500 million people, has set a target for cutting average emissions from new cars to 130 grams of CO2 per kilometer by 2015.

Last year's improvements bring the average ...

Volvo, owned by China's Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, will invest $708 million to build a second plant in China, the world's biggest auto market, the environment ministry in Beijing said.

The auto maker, which was bought by Geely last year, will pour 4.58 billion yuan into the plant in northeastern Daqing, with operations scheduled to begin in ...

VW Touareg Diesel Rocks (and we take a second look at the new Ford Explorer)

By Jim Bray
TechnoFile.com

High gas prices may make you want to think about a hybrid as a way to save some fuel, but there's another way to do it: Go diesel ...

DETROIT (Reuters) - Nissan Motor Co Ltd recalled nearly 196,000 older-model Pathfinder and Infiniti QX4 SUVs due to the chance that road salt and water could collect to cause a loss of steering, U.S. safety regulators said.

Affected are 162,658 Pathfinders from model years 1996 to 2004 and 33,333 Infiniti QX4 SUVs from model years 1997 to ...