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The Case for Diesel: Clean, Efficient, Fast Cars (Hybrids Beware!)

By ⋅ December 28, 2007 ⋅ One comment

Is 2008 the year of the diesel?  (probably more like 2009). Most Americans have a bad impression of diesel cars. We think of them as loud, hard to start and foul-smelling. We sneer at them for lacking the get-up-and-go of their gasoline-powered cousins. And we dislike them for their perceived environmental sins, chiefly the polluting [...]

Wow…no more muscles, because they cannout figure out 45 MPG?

By ⋅ December 26, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

(I should preface this by saying I’m a huge car/motorcycle guy. And even more so – a VW fanboy) Autoblog green posted an article called “Corvette’s chief engineer: CAFE will make muscle cars an “endangered species” talks of an end to muscle cars because of recent legislation from the US Government. GM, the parent company [...]

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Tom Altman