AutoWeek announced the results of online voting for the hottest, sexiest, most desirable cars, trucks and SUVs in the land. The winners are:
Best Exotic: Ford GT
A new category this year, the GT is a nod to the '60s racers that won LeMans, and Ford designed it to celebrate the ...

Isuzu Motors America, Inc., today announced the pricing for its all-new 2006 Isuzu Pickups. The entry- level i-280 Extended Cab 4x2 will start at a manufacturer's suggested retail price of only $16,989 -- over $1,000 less than a comparably equipped 2006 Chevy Colorado.
The ...

American Honda Motor Co., Inc., today announced the lease of its FCX, an advanced hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicle, to the world’s first individual customers, Jon and Sandy Spallino of Redondo Beach, California.  The Spallinos become the world’s first fuel cell family, having ...

An Australian research and development company has developed what it claims is a world first, commercially viable, non-petroleum-based, asphalt bitumen substitute for roads. It is made from the waste material derived in refining sugar cane, molasses.
GEO320 bitumen, as it is known ...

In a co-operation with Solvis, a Braunschweig-based company specialising in solar energy and heating, and in the presence of Hans-Heinrich Sander, the State of Lower Saxony’s minister of the environment, a solar filling station will today be officially launched into operation on ...

Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Jeffrey B. Miller today urged motorists to avoid drinking and driving during the Fourth of July holiday weekend.
"Alcohol is often part of picnics or parties during the summer holidays," Miller said. "Motorists need to keep in mind that ...

Mitsubishi Motors North America (MMNA) announced today its E-boost concept vehicle was awarded the 2005 Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) Gold Award in the category of Design Explorations. Presented for the last 25 years by the Industrial Design Society of America ...

The Ford Focus C-MAX Ghia has been named winner in the compact MPV category of the 2005 British Insurance Car Security Awards for the second year running.
Backed by Thatcham, the Department of Transport, UK Insurers and supported by the Home Office, vehicles were rated according ...

American Honda Motor Co., Inc., announced today a new voluntary program to provide important safety information to consumers. Monroney labels (window stickers) on all 2006 model year Honda and Acura cars and light-duty trucks will include a listing of government crash test ...

New vehicles powered by hybrid electric or clean diesel engines are expected to garner 11 percent of U.S. sales by 2012 -- up from 4.8 percent in 2005 -- according to a report by J.D. Power-LMC Automotive Forecasting Services.
The report shows that hybrids, which accounted for 0.5 ...

The Mercedes-Benz A-Class has returned the best result in its class with regard to the crash tests in accordance with the European NCAP standard (New Car Assessment Programme) and has been awarded five stars.
With this excellent result the patented sandwich-floor safety concept of ...

ZAP, pioneering the next generation of advanced transportation and energy technologies, announced today that its eBay auction for the first U.S.-compliant Smart Car available to the general public closed on Saturday evening on a winning bid of $35,350 placed by a businessman and ...

Analysis of crash data from a road demonstration program in Michigan found that low-cost intersection improvements had a significantly greater safety benefit for drivers 65 and older than for drivers 25 to 64, AAA announced today.
According AAA Michigan’s “Road Improvement ...

A new design that will enable a gasoline engine to be as fuel efficient as a diesel engine has just been awarded patent number 6,907,859 from the U.S. Patent Office, according to a spokesperson from National Fuelsaver Corporation.
The newly patented design shows how to manufacture ...

A new study available today from Kelley Blue Book Marketing Research reveals that a strong majority of American consumers do not see the purchase of an SUV as "patriotic." In the third installment of the company's annual New-Vehicle Buyer Attitude Study on SUVs, nearly 90 percent ...

Lincoln Mercury today announced the all-new 2006 Mercury Milan will feature a starting manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) of $18,995 when it goes on sale this fall. Milan models equipped with a V-6 engine and class-leading six- speed automatic transmission begin at $21 ...

Ford today announced that the all-new 2006 Fusion mid-size sedan -- the latest salvo in the company's plan to recapture car market share -- will undercut the competition with a starting price of $17,995. Fusion models equipped with a V-6 and class-leading 6-speed automatic ...

Honda Automobile (China) Co., Ltd. (CHAC), an export automobile production joint venture of Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Honda Motor (China) Investment Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Auto Group Co., Ltd. and Dongfeng Motor Group Co., Ltd. today began exports to Europe of the compact passenger ...

ZAP, pioneering the next generation of advanced transportation and energy technologies, announced today that actor and Smart Car fan Rutger Hauer has signed the car being auctioned by ZAP on eBay, the first U.S.-compliant Smart Car available to the general public, with proceeds ...

Model year 2005 Acura MDX, Ford Freestyle, and Jeep Grand Cherokee earned the top rating of 5-stars for all available seating positions in frontal and side crash tests announced the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in ...