| HOME | CAR NEWS | CAR REVIEWS | RACING | AUTOSHOWS | SUBSCRIBE | MARKETPLACE |  Monday, December 27, 2010 |  | Drivers will see an indicator light when Ford's stop/start system is active. The automaker's European system... | | Ford will equip many of its U.S. cars and SUVs with stop/start technology, beginning in 2012, which automatically shuts down the engine when the vehicle comes to a stop, cutting down on fuel use and emissions. The technology, which Ford calls Auto Start-Stop, will be available with either manual or automatic transmissions. A Ford spokesman said that engineers are still developing the... |
|  | | ASSOCIATE EDITOR JONATHAN WONG: Cars like the Accord coupe are a rare breed in the market. Besides this and the Nissan Altima coupe, there are no other coupe offshoots of regular midsize sedans. Toyota even abandoned this segment when it chopped the Camry Solara from its lineup not so long...
|  | | Sigh. The federal bureaucracy served its own needs, not ours, when issuing a "fuel economy" rating on the all-electric Nissan Leaf, at 99 mpg-e. The little "e" stands for "equivalent." Next, it's the Chevrolet Volt's turn. No one at General Motors would ever have posed--as execs did a year ago--in...
|  | | Our love affair with the Nissan Cube cooled off toward the end of our year with it. During the first three months, we were smitten with the funky, asymmetrical box. The cargo room, decent steering and loud stereo made the Cube a good around-town cruiser and people mover. Airport trips, camping duty ...
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