UK Abandons National Road Pricing Plans
The Daily Telegraph reveals that the Labour govenment has ditched plans to introduce a "pay-as-you-go" pricing scheme for UK motorists. The move comes after…
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Tata Motors: Power To The People
Ford Model T. Volkswagen Type 1. Tata People's Car. Tata what? Next fall, Indian automaker Tata plans to introduce a $2,500 car to put India's masses on whee…
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Norway Considers Banning Petrol-Powered Cars
No seriously. The Kingdom of Norway may become the first nation on God's green Earth to ban all gasoline-only cars. Citing Brazil's success with bioethanol a…
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UK Road Safety Campaigners Get Wasted
The Evening Leader (Wrexham, Wales, UK) reports that a road safety-oriented theatrical production called "Wasted" has kids swearing off cars. After watching…
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GM Car Czar Lutz on Tour Down Under: Keepin' It Rear
According to The Age, GM Car Czar Bob Lutz is on a corporate walkabout Down Under, testing the Holden VZ ute (a.k.a. G8 El Camino) and the upcoming Canadian…
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EU to Curb Ped Deaths With BAS. Or Not.
The European Union (EU) wants to cut the number of pedestrian fatalities caused by cars in half by 2010; Auto Industry reports some 8k Eurozone pedestrians a…
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Honda Re-Thinks Japanese (Hybrids)
Back when Honda was looking to launch their hybrid Accord in the US, the marketing mavens noticed that the gas – electric version was the fastest arrow…
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Ford Plans To Thai One On
Last January, Ford canceled plans to invest as much as $1b in factories in Thailand. FoMoCo reckoned it couldn't make their money pay off given the currency…
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UK Highway Code in 100 Words
Safe Speed is one of our favorite monomaniacal websites, dedicated as it is to fighting the good fight against the UK's superabundance of speed cameras. Say…
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Chinese Bakkies Gain African Foothold
The South African term for a pickup truck is a "bakkie." Right. So. While the world waits and wonders about the potential impact of a flood of Chinese-made…
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BMW 3.0-Liter Twin Turbo Oil Burner Heading Stateside
American pistonheads, tree-huggers and pistonhead tree-huggers have been clamoring for Euro-diesels long before California passed regulations making them leg…
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Time To Buy That European Dream Car!
Thinking about buying that midlife crisis Boxster? Better get on with it. Citing the dollar's weakness against the euro, the Wall Street Journal predicts tha…
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How LO Can Citroen Go?
CARkeys reports that French automaker Citroen has taken the wraps off a “carbon drawing down” cash-back offer. Under the terms of “GO LO C…
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Brit Breaks Speeding Ticket Record
From the land of sleeping policemen and speed cameras, gizmag brings news that will touch the inner hoon in all of us. Londoner Tim Brady is now the new Brit…
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Indian Car Market Slumps as Higher Interest Rates Hit Home
India’s economy is growing fast. Too fast. To curb inflation, the country’s central bank has been busy raising interest rates. Bloomburg.com repo…
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Euro ToMoCo Cancels Land Cruiser, Raises Price of RAV-4. Whither Bugatti?
Auto Motor und Sport (via Just-auto ) reports that Toyota is withdrawing the Land Cruiser from their Eurozone dealerships after this model year. The move co…
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Indian Cars Get Radio ID Tags
Is there an ICLU (as opposed to the ACLU)? If so, they may want to have a word with the Indian government re: their plans to require automotive manufacturers…
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GM Signs $800m China Deal in the Midst of UAW Strike
On the same day that the United Auto Workers (UAW) decided to strike GM, the automaker has announced it's ramping-up its US to China exports by $800m. The Ec…
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Has UK Anti-Motorist Jihad Reached A Tipping Point?
Over the last two days, there's been a definite upswell in UK government policies and plans that seem specifically designed to make UK motorists as miserable…
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Nigerian Auto Industry On Endangered Species List
Nigeria's automotive industry is facing extinction. After the demise of Steyr and Volkswagen Nigeria Limited, about all that's left is the Peugeot Automobile…
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Porsche and VW Union Bosses Jostle for Power
The European Court has announced judgment day for its ruling on the so-called "VW law" thwarting Porsche's takeover plans: 9:30am, October 23. Meanwhile, uni…
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EU Considers Car Warning Labels, Banning Performance-Related Ads and Restricting New Cars to 101mph
The European Union may soon force automakers to include health/global warming warnings on their car advertisements, similar to the list of possible side effe…
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International Car Free Day a Damp Squib?
Who'd a thunk a car insurance company would have the stones to challenge the value of tomorrow's ever-so-PC International Car Free Day? And get this: the com…
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Ford Suitor Tata Tops Indian TV Advertising
The Detroit News reports that Ford has extended the bidding deadline for the sale of its Jaguar and Land Rover brands. The delay does not bode well for India…
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EU Celebrates Un-Car
Our friends across the pond are in the midst of celebrating (or not) “ European Mobility Week 2007.” This year’s theme: “Streets For…
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The Big Sleep for Sleeping Policemen?
According to a survey by NEWCARNET, 87 percent of British drivers want to see the demise of "sleeping policemen" (a.k.a. speed humps or speed bumps). Introdu…
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Iran and China Establish Axis of Automobiles
It looks like everyone wants a piece of the burgeoning Chinese auto market. The latest player: the Iran Khodro Industrial Group (IKCO). The Iranian conglomer…
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Muslim Women Taxi Drivers Hit the Streets of Senegal
Yesterday, we reported that Saudi Arabia's blanket ban on women drivers was rooted in clerical fatwas– rather than secular or Islamic law. As if to pro…
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Saudi Women Can't Drive 55– Or Any Other Speed
The Committee of Demanders of Women's Right to Drive Cars will petition King Abdullah this week to remove the blanket ban on women driving. Although the peti…
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India to German Automakers: Show Us the Money
At the "Frankfurt Motor Show India Day," Indian government and business representatives scolded Germany for their lackadaisical attitude towards the world's…
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China Gets One of America's Top TWATs
When TTAC revealed its Ten Worst Automobiles Today (TWAT) awards for 2006, the Jeep Compass "won" the second slot. "A pox on their house for building the Com…
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China To Import Gas by 2010. Maybe.
Pity the poor analysts over at Resource Investor. How do you measure current and projected oil importation and consumption in a country as enormous, secretiv…
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Zimbabwe Government to Motorists: Walk
Whatever you think about the evils of apartheid, the transition from Rhodesia to Robert Mugabeland has seen one of Africa's wealthiest, best-organized free m…
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UK Anti-Car Jihad Seeks the Nuclear Option
Regular readers of this site will know we've been monitoring the UK government's anti-car stance closely. But we didn't see this coming. After an article in…
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EU's Top Cop Quits Afghanistan Over Armored Car Snafu
The International Herald Tribune reports that the European Union's man in Afghanistan, former German commando Brigadier General Eichele, has given up trying…
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Coming Soon: The All-New Trabant!
First the New Beetle. Then the new MINI. Now the new Trabant. Yep, you read that right. Reuters reports that the plastic-bodied, smoke-spewing, two-stroke, t…
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Motorhead Mall Rat Mecca
Want a "full day of upper class experience onboard a Maybach 62S with a designated chauffeur" at your beck and call? Just be one of the first 62 walk-in cust…
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The UK's Anti-Car Crusade: Dispatches From the Front
This Sunday's Times carried a report from "The People's Republic of Richmond" describing the effects of the London Borough's anti-car jihad, which includes p…
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All New Daewoo Cimarron?
Even though GM Daewoo Auto & Technology (GMDAT) builds a variety of cars to sell around the world under a number of nameplates, they only sell four models on…
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Brits Winning the War Against the Car
Of course, that's not the way the left-leaning Guardian newspaper's spinning news that their country's populace relies on cars for 80 percent of their journe…
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