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What's the world coming to when you can get your $1.45 million bulletproof SUV with gold trim, a ridiculously expensive Vertu cellphone and three bott...
New York Times | ANNE BARNARD | Posted 09.10.2009 | New York
A few of the Trucked Out Divas -- Strawberry, Carmel and Black Beauty -- were waiting in front of their clubhouse, a former strip club in Brownsville ...
usnews.com | Posted 04.20.2009 | Green
Corrected 4/13/09: The Chicago Reader article cited in this blog overstated the prevalence of two-stroke engines in scooters. Four-stroke engines, whi...
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 03.08.2009 | Green
It's nice when people trade in SUVs for hybrids, and nice when that trade-in gets some press, I suppose, but... "a chick car?" Pop star Miley Cyrus t...
Charles D. Ferguson | Posted 02.15.2009 | World
While feeling angry is justified in a crisis, the governments would be best advised not to get mad at Russia but to get more secure in energy supplies and smarter in energy usage.
New York Times | NICK BUNKLEY and BILL VLASIC | Posted 01.24.2009 | Business
Reeling from its financial problems and a collapsing S.U.V. market, General Motors on Tuesday closed its factories in this city and in Moraine, Ohio, ...
Steve Parker | Posted 01.23.2009 | Business
Congress took a perverse pleasure in giving Detroit's CEOs and the UAW president the third degree -- unnecessary theater while our country suffers this economic decline.
Mairi Beautyman | Posted 01.17.2009 | Green
All of these five cartoonists arguably give a negative jab to the green movement -- but does that makes them less green?
Plenty | Sushma Sumbramian | Posted 12.25.2008 | Green
After a revolt against plastic bags swept Europe a few years ago with a public response to a popular outcry not seen on the continent since 1848, bans...
Steve Parker | Posted 11.27.2008 | Business
The LA Auto Show is now officially the first big extravaganza on the national car calendar. It opens Friday, November 21st and runs through Sunday, November 30th at the LA Convention Center.
Lauren Cahn | Posted 09.26.2008 | Living
We moms find ourselves racing out of meetings, tearing off our tennis outfits, throwing down the great American novel we were writing. Mom is gone. In her place: The Chauffeur.
Clusterstock | Corey Lorinsky | Posted 09.13.2008 | Business
Now that gas is just a hair under $4 a gallon, US carmakers will go right back to making millions of SUVs, right? Not so says Ford (F), they've learne...
AP | ELAINE KURTENBACH | Posted 09.13.2008 | Green
SHANGHAI, China — China is raising its sales tax on big cars to as high as 40 percent, and drastically cutting taxes on small cars, in its lates...
Huffington Post, Wall Street Journal | Posted 09.07.2008 | Business
This is the year of cutting SUV production. If you don't believe it, ask Ford, where they're idling manufacturing plants because they can't sell the...
New York Times | Ron Lieber | Posted 08.12.2008 | Green
Your neighbors may turn up their noses, but keeping your gas-guzzling sport utility vehicle, or buying one coming off a lease, may be a smart move. T...
The Washington Post | Ariana Eunjung Cha | Posted 08.05.2008 | Green
SONGJIANG, China -- Nodding his head to the disco music blaring out of his car's nine speakers, Zhang Linsen swings the shiny, black Hummer H2 out of ...
AP | DEE-ANN DURBIN and TOM KRISHER | Posted 08.01.2008 | Business
DEARBORN, Mich. — Ford Motor Co. posted the worst quarterly performance in its history Thursday, losing $8.67 billion in the second quarter. Th...
New York Times | Bill Vlasic | Posted 07.29.2008 | Green
The Ford Motor Company, which devoted itself for nearly 20 years to putting millions of Americans into big pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles, i...
Sean-Paul Kelley | Posted 12.03.2008 | Green
One thing I have never understood about Americans is their love of cars, and I am from Texas. To me, a car is like a prison sentence.
Emily Erikson | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
The net result of a progressive tax structure in the US has been increased social mobility, which is a more important and durable part of American culture than, for example, owning driving long distances in SUVs.
AP | TOM KRISHER | Posted 06.25.2008 | Business
DETROIT — Sagging demand for large sport utility vehicles has forced Ford Motor Co. to close a Michigan factory for nine weeks starting June 23....
Boston Globe | Jenn Abelson | Posted 05.14.2008 | Business
After paying $75 to fill his black Dodge Ram pickup truck for the third time in a week, Douglas Chrystall couldn't take it anymore. Feeling pinched a...
CNN/Money | Allan Chernoff | Posted 04.02.2008 | Business
Buyer's remorse fills the New York International Auto Show at Manhattan's Jacob K. Javitz Convention Center this week. Owners of gas-hungry Sport Util...
AP | DEE-ANN DURBIN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
DETROIT — Automakers got hit where it hurts in February, with U.S. sales of their most profitable vehicles _ trucks, sport utilities and large s...
Eben Esterhuizen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Financial accounting is probably the most powerful weapon we have to tackle short-termism, the cause of our environmental problems.
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wired.com | Posted 11.13.2009 | Green