And it’s not even 2012 yet. The 2012 Green Car of the Year award didn’t go to an electric or diesel vehicle (as it has the past few years) but instead was taken by none other than the Honda Civic Natural Gas. The Civic beat out the Ford Focus Electric, Mitsubishi i, Toyota Prius V [...]

Since the official announcement that a diesel-powered Chevy Cruze was coming to the U.S. we have not heard a lot about it other than it won’t be available until 2013. Now we’re starting to hear some very exciting news from GM insiders who are saying that the Chevy Cruze diesel will get 50 MPG. Additionally, [...]

While there are still a ton of details we are waiting to see released on the 2012 Toyota Yaris, one thing we now know is the price. The 2012 Toyota Yaris will be on lots and ready to move by the end of this year and will have a starting price of $14,115 for the [...]

The fuel efficiency stats on the 2012 Ford Edge with EcoBoost engine are in and they are pretty decent. The EPA is done running the Edge through the paces and showed that the 2.0 liter four-cylinder engine will get drivers 21 MPG and 30 MPG for city and highway respectively. The difference between an Edge [...]

A couple from Melbourne, Australia, Helen and John Taylor, are getting ready to embark on an eco-cruising challenge that has plenty of people wondering how they plan to accomplish it. The hypermiling couple have set themselves a target of going 2,000 miles on a single tank of gas in a Chevy Eco Cruze. The Eco [...]

Automotive News recently deduced that a Ford Fiesta with a 1.0-liter, three-cylinder EcoBoost engine will be made available stateside in the future. This Fiesta EcoBoost engine will be the smallest in the whole Ford lineup. While specs on the engine haven’t been released yet, Ford’s VP of global powertrain engineering stated that the little EcoBoost [...]

The Fiat and Suzuki alliance just got tighter with a recent deal that will see Fiat produce 30,000 1.6-liter diesel engines per year for Suzuki. The fuel-efficient engines will be used to power the Suzuki SX4 which was co-developed by the two companies. Using the 1.6-liter Fiat engines will allow Suzuki to avoid the costs [...]

Chevrolet topped the list of compact cars sold in the U.S. for the month of May, a position the company hasn’t held for five years. The Chevy Cruze boasted 22,711 sales beating out the number two contender, Ford Focus, by 408 cars. The other relatively fuel-efficient compact cars on the list of the top five [...]

The good old days. When movies cost a nickel, Wii was something you shouted as you ran around outside and you had to walk to school everyday. This last part is apparently a lot more true than you might have expected A recent National Household Travel Survey showed that over the last forty years parents [...]

The next-generation Ford Explorer will add an EcoBoost turbocharged four-cylinder engine and six-speed automatic transmission as its standard powertrain. As a result, the 2011 Ford Explorer should turn in combined highway-city fuel economy above 20 MPG. Other factors boosting the fuel economy are twin independent variable camshaft timing, electric power-assisted steering, advanced battery management, fast [...]