See Also:
Car Museums |
Directories - Newspapers
- AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety
- AAA Mid-Atlantic
- Abracat - Searchable database of classified ads of over 700 newspaper affiliates. You can search by zipcode or in indvidual newspapers.
- American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy - You can access their most recent Green Book online for a fee.
- Airstream - Their new BaseCamp model is an ultra-light multi-purpose tent-trailer hybrid. "This stylish trailer, designed to be both low cost and flexible, was the brainchild of NDA (Nissan Design America) aces Bryan Thompson and Steve Moneypenny, who envisioned a travel vehicle that was a springboard for outdoor adventures rather than a living room on wheels." Airstream expects the price "to remain under $20,000" (list price is actually $22,995.00). Airstream provides photos of the interior, floorplan, specification and pricing. See also Vintage Airstream Podcast, Episode 7, Basecamp, December 8, 2005. Colin Hyde and Rob Baker (50:54). Basecamp is discussed 13 minutes into the podcast. At the end of the podcast, there is an interview with Jini Keasling, Airstream's marketing designer for the BaseCamp trailer. Closest dealer to the Central New York area is DJ RV Center in Danville, Pennsylvania. In addition, see On the Road: Rounding Home Base by Dick Teresi, Forbes Life, April 24, 2006. "The plan, according to Tim Champ, Airstream’s director of marketing and brand development, was to maintain the iconic Airstream exterior design while modernizing the functional interior to appeal to the consumer who, design-wise, gravitates toward iPods, Mac laptops and Mini Coopers."
- Alfa Romeo
- Alternative Car and Transportation Expo (Alt Car Expo) - Held in Santa Monica on December 9-10, 2006. James Woolsey, former CIA chief , was a keynote speaker. Electrum Spyder, made by the Universal Electric Vehicle Corp, was unveiled. See entry for Universial Electric Vehicle Corp. below.
- Alternative Fuels Data Center - U. S. Department of Energy
- Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA)
- Antique Automobile Club of America Museum - Hershey, Pennsylvania
- Antique Automobile Club of America Library & Research Center - Provides access to online catalog.
- Arlen Ness Motorcycles - San Leandro, California
- Art of the Motorcycle - Guggenheim Museum, June 26 - September 20, 1998.
- Artcar Fest - San Francisco. "West Coast's Largest Gathering of Art Cars."
- Audi
- Australian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP)
- Auto Express - "From Britain's leading motoring magazine"
- Auto-By-Tel - Quotes to buy or lease
- AutoAdvisor - Buyer's service
- Auto Bild - German car news. Use Google to Translate into English
- Autocar
- Auto Channel
- AutoFacts - "Provides automotive databases and reports, forecasts, competitive analyses, strategic planning, market research, systems and management consulting. Regional coverage includes North America, South America, West Europe, East Europe, Asia-Pacific and Africa/Middle East."
- Automobile Magazine
- Automobiles - New York Times;
- Automotive Engineering International Magazine
- Automotive Lease Guide - Find resale ranking in their Residual Value Awards.
- Automotive Museums Out Where the Deer and the Antelope Play
- Michelle Krebs, New York Times, October 29, 2006. Also by Krebs:
Car Museums From the Heart of Dixie to the Texas Panhandle October 15, 2006;
Midwest Museums for Every Car Lover, September 17, 2006;
On the Auto Industry’s Home Turf, Museums With Broad Appeal [Ohio & Michigan], September 3, 2006;
New England in the Fall: A Perfect Time to Take in the Auto Museums, August 27, 2006; and
Driving Back in Time: Auto Exhibits in the Mid-Atlantic States, August 20, 2006.
- Automotive Research Center - "University-based U.S. Army Center of Excellence for advancing technology for high fidelity simulation of military and civilian ground vehicles."
- AutoNation
- AutoSite - New and used car information. Offers a calculator that compares the costs of buying versus leasing.
- AutoTrader - Used cars
- AutoWeb - Online car buying service
- AutoWeek Online
- Beaulieu - National Motor Museum and Palace House, family home of Lord
and Lady Montagu, at Beaulieu, situated in the heart of the New Forest in Southern England.
- Benson Ford Research Center - Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan. "Henry Ford's online catalog now includes all of the books, approximately 30% of the trade catalog collection and a growing number of manuscript and archival collections." [January 2007]
- Beyond the Basics - An Automotive Encyclopedia - Autosite
- BMW AG - International site. There's also BMW of North America.
- Road Testing BMW's Hydrogen 7 - By Bruce Gain, Wired, 13 November 2006
- X6 - SUV coupe crossover hybrid
- BMC Car Clubs
- Bodleian Library / Toyota City Imaging Project - Collection of motoring and transport images from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera; database can be searchable by keyword or by browsing through images categorized by type of transport, including Motor Cars.
- Bridge Auto Review - Mark Drouillard and Kevin Kelly
- Brightcove - "Brightcove is the market-leading Internet video partner for international news and entertainment businesses, including British Sky Broadcasting, CBS Corporation, Discovery Communications Inc., Dow Jones & Company, Inc., Fox Entertainment Group, MTV Networks, National Geographic, The New York Times Company, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Time, Inc., Time Life, Warner Music Group, and Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive." This is a rich resource for automotive news.
- Plug-In Partners: Plug-in Hybrids
- British Car Mailing Lists
- British Saloon Car Club of Canada - Lesser known British cars
- Bugatti
- Business Standard Motoring
- Business Week: Hybrids
- Cadillac
- California Cars Initiative for Plug-In Hybrids
- California Fuel Cell Partnership
- Calling All Cars
- Calloway Cars - "Powerfully engineered automobiles" by Ely Reeves Callaway III
- Canadian Driver
- Car & Driver - Site includes a Buyer's Guide, a Tech Glossary, and an archive of selected articles from August 1995 to current.
- Car Buying Tips - By Jeff Ostroff, who also has a page on How to Lease a New Car.
- Car Connection - Published and edited by Paul A. Eisenstein
- Car Finance - A subsidiary of NationsBank Corporation, you can apply for a car loan online
- Car Show News & Classic Auto Events
- Carfax - Vehicle history reports
- CarParts - Car and truck parts
- CarPrices - Prices on new and used vehicles
- The Cars - Brigham Young University exhibition on design and American automobiles. With links to other resources.
- Car of the Year - European Car of the Year (COTY) Awards. The winner for 2005 was the Toyota Prius. There is an archive of PreviousWinners.
- Car Talk - NPR's Ray and Tom Magliozzi. You can listen online (browse shows)
- Hybrids
- Cars.com - New & used car pricing, reviews and buying information
- Center for Augo Safety
- Chrysler - With information on the PTCruiser.
- Concours d'Elegance - Classic Car expositions. See Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, Concours d'Elegance of the Eastern United States, Meadow Brook Concours d'Elegance, Hillsborough Concours d'Elegance, Palo Alto Concours D'Elegance, Palos Verdes Concours d'Elegance, Concours d'Elegance at Cranbrook, Greenwich Concours d'Elegance, Hilton Head Island Concours d'Elegance
- Clean Car Campaign - See also Canada's Drive Clean
- CleanCars TV
- Climate Change and Energy Security: Perspectives from the
Automobile Industry - Hearing, House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, March 14, 2007. With Webcast.
- Commuter Cars - Maker of the Tango, a two-seater electric car
- Consumer Reports Online - Much of the site is available to subscribers only. You can subscribe for $2.95 per month or $24.00 for a full year (or $19 if you're a Consumer Reports magazine subscriber). There is aCars & Trucks section.
- Tires: Big Grippers, Consumer Reports, November, 2007, Vol. 72 Issue 11, p 58-61. Ratings of summer and all-season ultra-high-performance (UHP) tires. Top on the list was the Falken Ziex ZE-912.
- Tires: Seasoned Performer, Consumer Reports, November, 2006, Vol. 71 Issue 11, p 52-55.
- Tires: All-Season & Winter, Consumer Reports, November, 2005, Vol. 70 Issue 11, p 58-61.
- Consumers Car Club - Finds the best deals
- Court Roils Auto-Rules Debate: Vermont Wins Right To Limit Emissions; Nationwide Ripples - By Mike Spector and Jeffrey Ball, Wall Street Journal, September 13, 2007. "More broadly, the ruling is likely to increase pressure on Congress to toughen federal fuel-efficiency rules, known as the Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standards -- and to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions from sectors beyond autos."
- Cummins Engine Company - Manufacturers of the diesel engine for the Dodge Ram trucks.
- CycleBuy - "Offers current, accurate, dealer cost information for popular new motorcycles, ATVs, personal watercraft, and snowmobiles sold in the United States. By knowing what a dealer pays for a new machine, a smart buyer can often save hundreds or even thousands of dollars when buying a new bike, quad, or Jet Ski."
- DaimlerChrysler
- Davis Registry - "Worldwide clearinghouse for information regarding the three-wheeled Davis automobile."
- Detroit News Online - Their Auto section is a good resource for news stories on the auto industry.
- Digital Librarian: Car Museums - Antique car museums in the United States and Canada.
- Dodge Ram HEV (Hybrid Electric Vehicle)
- Dream Machines: A look inside the newest hi-tech cars - Time Digital
- Edsel & Eleanor Ford House - Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan
- Edmund's Automobile Buyer's Guides - Excellent starting point, site provides reviews and prices for new and used cars.
- Electric Vehicle Association of the Americas
- EPA 2006 Fuel Economy Guide: Fuel Economy Leaders: 2006 Model Year
- European New Car Assessment Programme
- EV World
- EV1 - Electric vehicle site from General Motors
- Family Car
- Farewell, Octane. Hello, Volt! - Rich Beattie, New York Times, September 2, 2005. Information on how to convert your car to an electric vehicle. Mentioned in the article: Electric Vehicles of America in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, Electric Auto Association and Electro Automotive in Felton, California.
- Fast Company: Cars
- 25 Ways to Jump-Start the Auto Business - Interviews by Fast Company Staff, Fast Company, April, 2009.
- Ferrari
- Ferrari North America
- Fiat
- Fisker Automotive - "Environmentally friendly, premium cars featuring plug-in hybrid technology." See:
- Fit for a Prince: The Fisker Karma Hybrid by Norihiko Shirouzu, Wall Street Journal, January 15, 2008. "The four-door sports sedan is a so-called plug-in hybrid and is capable of going 50 miles on electricity before a small gasoline engine kicks in to generate electricity to charge a lithium-ion battery pack on board....The Karma is both environmentally responsible and capable of going 125 miles an hour consistently. It can hit a speed of 60 miles an hour in 5.8 seconds — equivalent of the performance of a gasoline powered V8 sports sedan."
- Electric-Car Firms Get Star Investors - By Norihiko Shirouzu and Rebecca Buckman, Wall Street Journal, January 14, 2008.
- Forbes Lifestyles: Vehicles - See Pump Busters 2004 by Dan Lienert.
- Ford - In Ford Direct users can configure a new vehicle, apply for credit and find a local dealer for a price quote.
- Ford Fusion
- Prodigy - Hybrid electric family car able to achieve more than 70 miles per gallon fuel economy and the Ford Escape
- Formula Sun Grand Prix - Solar car race
- Fuel Cell Today - See also Ballard Power Systems
- Fuel Economy - Department of Energy/Environmental Protection Agency site compares the fuel economy of selected vehicles. You can search for high fuel economy vehicles by market segment, size class or manufacturer. The overall winner for the fifth straight year is the gasoline/electric hybrid Honda Insight.
- Gas Buddy - "Network of more than 173 gas price information web sites."
- General Motors - Trax, Beat, and Groove, three small concept cars, were introduced at the New York Auto Show in March 2007. They may be available in 2010.
- GM Volt
- Fuel cell technology
- Globe & Mail Auto - Toronto
- Green Car Congress - Mike Millikin
- Green Car Journal - Edited and published by Ron Cogan.
- Green Vehicle Guide - United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) guide to the cleanest and most fuel-efficient vehicles.
- Guide Auto - "Essais routiers autos, blog automobile et guide d’achat". Le Guide de L'Auto is an annual Quebec auto guide edited by Denis Duquet and Gabriel Gélinas.
- Harley-Davidson
- Hemmings Motor News - "Antique, classic, vintage and special interest auto marketplace comprised almost exclusively of advertising catering to car collectors and restorers"
- Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village - Dearborn, Michigan
- Honda
- Honda CR-V - Received top rating in Insurance Institute for Highway Safety crash tests.
- Acura
- Insight - Winner of the Sierra Club's Excellence in Engineering Award.
- Honda Civic GX NGV - Natural gas powered car
- Honda Fit - See Candidate for Best Car on Road: Honda Fit's $15,220 base price and stellar mileage make for an econobox to remember by Jeff Sabatini, Wall Street Journal, November 8-9, 2008. "But the crowning achievement is that the front-wheel-drive Fit is as fun to drive as it is functional, thanks to a sprightly 1.5-liter four-cylinder engine."
- Honda FCX - Zero-Emission Vehicle (ZEV)
- Horseless Carriage Club of America
- Hummer
- Hybrid Buyer's Guide 2005 - Dan Lienert, Forbes
- Hybrid Cars - See their Guide to Maximizing Mileage in Toyota Prius
- Hybrid Owners of America - "Organization created to organize and advocate for the interests of the more than half a million Americans who already own hybrid gas-electric cars and other highly fuel-efficient vehicles."
- Hydrogen vehicles (concept vehicles and prototypes) - Mercedes-Benz F600 Hygenius, GM Sequel, Mazda RX-8 Hydrogen RE, Suzuki Ionis, Honda FCX, Toyota Fine-X, Morgan Motor LIFECar, Ford Focus FCV.
- Hyundai
- Tucson
- Infiniti
- Insurance Institute for Highway Safety - Crash test results. See 2007 Top Safety Pick award winners and Status Report, Vol. 41, No. 9, November 21, 2006.
- Insurance News Network: Automotive Insurance - Provides
car safety information including crash test results from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
- IntelliChoice - New car information, used car prices, rebates & incentives.
- International Motor Racing Research Center at Watkins Glen
- International Human Powered Vehicle Association - With information on the Raven Project.
- International Motor Show - Frankfurt - Also known as the Frankfurt Motor Show, it is held bi-annually in September. (Internationale Automobil Ausstellung für Personenkraftwagen in Frankfurt am Main)
- Isuzu
- Jaguar
- J.D. Power and Associates - Automotive market researchers
- Jeep Unpaved
- Kelley Blue Book Used Car Bluebook Values & New Car Pricing - Provides dealer invoice and retail prices for car and options.
- Kia - See You’re Hired. Now Turn Humdrum Into Must-Have by Phil Patton, New York Times, October 24, 2007. "Competitive, inventive and analytic, Mr. Schreyer, 54, surprised the automotive world by moving to Kia as its chief design officer last fall, the equivalent of a big-time athlete opting for the expansion team."
- Sportage
- Lamborghini
- Lancia
- Land Rover
- LeaseSource - Provides information on auto leasing
- Lemon Car Page - T. Michael Flinn
- Lexus - See Lexus RX 400h Hybrid
- LookSmart's FindArticles - A search for Prius locates 566 articles including Hybrid driven: Toyota aims the 2004 Prius at a mass-market audience and gives us a glimpse of things to come by John Peter, Automotive Industries, Oct, 2003 and Mileage Matters - 2004 Toyota Prius by Tom Murphy, Ward's Auto World, Nov 1, 2003.
- Lotus
- Lynx Motors International - UK
- Maserati
- Mazda
- Mercedes-Benz - Germany. Also available in English. Their E320 Bluetec is the winner of the 2007 World Green Car Award, selected by over 40 automotive journalists as the cleanest diesel vehicle in the world.
- MG Car Enthusiasts Club
- Michelin
- Mini USA - Mini Cooper
- Mitsubishi Motors Corporation - Search for information about their i MiEV electric vehicle
- Mitsubishi Motors Corporation - Japan
- Mondial de l’Automobile - Official site of the Paris Motor Show, held biannually at the Paris Expo, Porte de Versailles
- Moto Guzzi - Italy
- Motorweek - "Television's original automotive magazine" created by John Davis.
- Motor Trend - Their Car of the Year Awards include the Chrysler 300
(2005) and the Toyota Prius (2004)
- MSN Auto - Microsoft's online car buying service offers product reviews, prices, and information on leasing options and rebates. A highlight of the site is the Surround Video Gallery which gives 360-degree rotating views of car interiors and exteriors. See also MSN Cars UK
- Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) - New York. You can search the Collection and Dadabase, the online catalog of the Museum of Modern Art Library, Archives and Study Centers. Among the
Past Exhibitions are Different Roads: Automobiles for the Next Century (1999), which "includes nine innovative automobiles designed to confront the growing social, economic, and environmental conditions facing the consumer and the automotive industry in the beginning of the twenty-first century" and AUTObodies: speed, sport, transport (2002).
- NADA Appraisal Guides - National Automobile Dealers Association used vehicle value and appraisal guides for cars, trucks, boats, recreational vehicles, motorcycles, ATVs, snowmobiles, motor homes, trailers, campers, and personal watercraft. Provides retail consumer values (selling prices), trade-in and loan values for subscribers only.
- NAPA Home Page - National Automotive Parts Association
- NASCAR Online
- National Safety Council - With a National Safety Council Training Agency Directory where you can search for Defensive Driving Courses and a Fact Sheet Library.
- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - Includes
recall and complaint databases.
SaferCar.gov has crash test and rollover ratings from 1990 to the present.
- National Transportation Library - U.S. Department of Transportation
- Governor Announces First Plug-In Hybrid Added to State Fleet - Press Release, December 20, 2006. "Governor George E. Pataki today showcased a new plug-in hybrid car that is being added to New York State’s vehicle fleet, another step toward reducing our dependence on imported energy and protecting our environment. Earlier this year, the Governor announced a $10 million program to convert the 574 hybrid vehicles in the State fleet to be plug-in hybrids, which can achieve significantly higher mileage with lower emissions of harmful pollutants."
- New York International Auto Show
- New York Times: Automobiles
- Behind the Wheel: 2010 Toyota Prius: Hybrid Superstar Shines Brighter - By Jerry Garrett, New York Times, March 26, 2009. "Consider, too, that the Prius is slightly larger than its predecessor, weighs 122 pounds more and has a bigger engine. So how can it get 5 more m.p.g. than the model it replaces? For one thing, the car’s fractionally greater girth is put to better aerodynamic use. Sharp creases on the corners streamline airflow over the body, as does a longer spoiler, flat underbody panels and an optimized roof arch. Moving the roof’s peak farther back also created more headroom in the rear seat. A bit more leg and shoulder room has also been carved out."
- Collectible Cars - New York Times, January 18, 2007.
- Nissan - 44% is owned by Renault.
- Altima
- Verfsa
- Nitto Tire
- North American International Auto Show
- North American Singer Owners' Club
- NPR
- A Billion Cars And Counting - Interview by Dave Davies with Daniel Sperling, January 15, 2009. [17:40]. Sperling is the author of Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability.
- 'Consumer Reports' Gives Hybrid Car Its Top Rating - Morning Edition, April 4, 2005.
- Conversion Kit Allows Hybrid to Go Gas Free - Talk of the Nation, April 22, 2005.
- Onstar - GM is equipping its vehicles with a subscription package of services designed to provide personal assistance while traveling. It provides emergency assistance, remote diagnostics, directions, information on restaurants and lodging. Other options include a wireless phone service, a 'virtual advisor' and e-mail.
- OZOcar - "Eco-luxury" car service in Manhattan started by Jordan Harris (creator of the Green Car to the Red Carpet concept)
and Roo Rogers. Fleet consists of hybrid vehicles (Priuses and Lexuses) equipped with an Apple iBook, high-speed Internet connection, and satellite radio. According to one web site (Electrifyingtimes) the "hourly rate within Manhattan is $45, which is also the fare from the city to La Guardia Airport. Manhattan to JFK or Newark is priced at $60."
- Panda - Fiat. Designed by Alessi.
- Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (PNGV) - "Partnership between the United States Government and the U.S. Council for Automotive Research (USCAR) which representsDaimlerChrysler, Ford and General Motors. The goal of PNGV is to develop technology that can be used to create environmentally friendly vehicles that can achieve up to triple the fuel efficiency of today's vehicles with very low emissions without sacrificing affordability, performance or safety."
- Peapod Mobility - Chrysler division headed by Peter Arnell has develeoped the $12,500 Peapod, a neighborhood electric vehicle (NEV) that can go 25 mph. See Wheels: Peapod Mobility Arrives on Earth Day by Phil Patton, New York Times, February 12, 2009.
- Penske Automotive Group - Their Smart USA division distributes the smart fortwo, and is now taking reservations for the 2008 model, expected to arrive in January 2008.
- Peugeot
- PlugInAmerica - "advocates the use of plug-in cars, trucks and SUVs powered by cleaner, cheaper, domestic electricity to reduce our nation's dependence on petroleum and improve the global environment."
- Popular Mechanics - Jim Dunne is the Detroit Editor.
- Popular Mechanics: Automotive News
- Popular Science Magazine
- Porsche
- Cayenne - Sport utility vehicle powered by hybrid technology is being developed by Porsche with Volkswagen AG and Audi AG,
- Behind the Wheel: 2010 Toyota Prius: Hybrid Superstar Shines Brighter - By Jerry Garrett, New York Times, March 26, 2009. "Consider, too, that the Prius is slightly larger than its predecessor, weighs 122 pounds more and has a bigger engine. So how can it get 5 more m.p.g. than the model it replaces? For one thing, the car’s fractionally greater girth is put to better aerodynamic use. Sharp creases on the corners streamline airflow over the body, as does a longer spoiler, flat underbody panels and an optimized roof arch. Moving the roof’s peak farther back also created more headroom in the rear seat. A bit more leg and shoulder room has also been carved out."
- Toyota Looks Ahead As Prius Hybrid Hits 10 - By Yuri Kageyama, Associated Press, 10/30/2007. "In an interview, [Takeshi] Uchiyamada recalled the exhaustion, the loneliness and the gambles as his team debunked Toyota's image as a safe and boring imitator of rivals' successes."
- PriusOnline
- Yahoo! Groups: Prius
- VFAQ Prius
- IRS Clean-Fuel Vehicle Deduction
- New York State Form IT-253: 2004, Alternative Fuels Credit, IT253
- RVs (Recreational Vehicles) - RV Search, Fleetwood, Monaco, Thor, Winnebago,
- Rear View Mirror: Automobile Images and American Identities - UCR California Museum of Photography exhibition has five online essays as well as photographs by Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Will Connell, Robert Flick, Herbert Quick, Ed Ruscha and Margaret Bourke-White.
- Renault
- Review of the Research Program of the Partnership for a
New Generation of Vehicles: Seventh Report (2001) - Full-text and searchable from the National Academy Press.
- Road and Track Magazine
- Road and Travel Magazine - "Comprehensive online magazine providing content and resources from which consumers can make informed and intelligent decisions regarding their automotive, travel and safety needs."
- Road Safety Information Index - This site from Transport Canada has a Vehicle Recalls section with a searchable database. Vehicles covered include cars, boat trailers, all terrain vehicles (atvs), motor homes, motorcycles, jet skis and snow mobiles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration also has a Recall Database and other information on Recalls.
- Robb Report Collection Goes Green As Special “Green Machines” Issue Spotlights The Future Of Alternative Fuels - April, 2007. "Robb Report Collection offers a compendium of fast, alternative fuel vehicles—from hybrid-powered sports and luxury cars that substantially reduce carbon output, to hydrogen concepts and powerful prototypes that promise to eliminate emissions altogether,” said Gregory Anderson, Senior Automotive Editor of Robb Report, adding that because no other consumer car magazine has devoted such detailed attention to the topic, “this issue serves as a green guide to the future of fuel, a trend that will likely be led by the upper end of the market.”
- Rocky Mountain Institute
- Recent Advanced Automotive News
- Transportation
- Transportation Links.
- Rolls-Royce Owners' Club
- Romance: Car trips in the nineteen-thirties took you to some unexpected places - By Roger Angell, New Yorker, May 26, 2003. "Driving, for all its drags and trouble, puts us together—I’m amazed that its immense advertising never quite gets this right—and on some trips delivers a complicated fresh sense of ourselves."
- Saab Cars USA
- Saab BioPower Hybrid Concept
- Saab 9-3 - Received top rating in Insurance Institute for Highway Safety crash tests.
- Saturn
- Saturn Aura - Voted the North American Car of the Year in 2007.
See Clean or Efficient? An Engine Goes for ‘Both of the Above’ by Lindsay Brooke, New York Times, August 19, 2007. “With minimal changes to the engine hardware, H.C.C.I. [homogenous charge compression ignition] gasoline engines should be able to produce diesel-like efficiencies while simultaneously lowering emissions.”
2007 Saturn Aura: Aura, a New Age of Saturn - By Peter Passell, New York Times, November 5, 2006. "The bosses at General Motors have given Saturn a midsize sedan with the looks, brawn and sticker price to compete with the latest entries from Asia."
- Scion
- SEMA Show
- Smart Cars - Made by DaimlerChrysler. To be sold in the U.S. starting early in 2008. See:
- Inspiring envy with the 'anti SUV' - NBC Nighly News: Our Planet, January 27, 2007.
- DaimlerChrysler to sell Smart car in US, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 28, 2006.
- Smart Car a Shred Move? Penske Takes a Flier on Distributing DaimlerChrysler's Tiny Vehicle - By John D. Stoll, Wall Street Journal, June 27, 2007.
- Penske Automotive Group - Their Smart USA division distributes the smart fortwo, and is now taking reservations for the 2008 model, expected to arrive in January 2008.
- Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) - Sponsors Collegiate Design Series including the Formula SAE and the Mini Baja.
- Society of Automotive Historians
- Speedtrap Exchange
- Sports Car Club of America
- Stationwagon.com - Steve Manning's site provides information about station wagons, new and old. Similar resources include Land Yacht Marina, National Woodie Club and Marina's Station Wagon.
- Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) System Search - Manufacturing is 2000-3999. The SIC for Cummins Inc., for example, is 3510. See also Search Edgar. NAICS, the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) has replaced the U.S. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system.
- Subaru
- Forester - See 2009 Subaru Forester: A Small Hauler Crosses the Line by Christopher Jensen, New York Times, July 13, 2008. "The model I tried had the huge and delightful “panoramic” sunroof. The windows are also large, providing wonderful all-around visibility, even when backing up. That gives the Forester such an open feeling that even claustrophobes should fine it calming."
- Impreza
- Legacy
- Tribeca
- TED Ideas worth spreading - See the TEDTalks podcasts for April 2007: "Great cars are Art" (free registration). "American designer Chris Bangle explains his philosophy that car design is an art form in its own right, with an engaging account of the BMW Group's Deep Blue project, intended to create the SUV of the future."
- Tesla Motors - Founded in 2003 in by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. "Our vision was a car that was energy efficient but also good looking and fun to drive." The company is located in San Carlos, California and plans to start selling its electric Tesla Roadster in 2007. See Tesla Motors Powers Up: Electric sports car startup gets $40M, Red Herring, June 19, 2006.
- Tires
- Tire Rack - "Stocks one of the largest selections of high quality wheels available anywhere."
- Avon Tyres
- Bridgestone
- Cooper Tires
- Dunlop
- Falkin
- Firestone
- Goodyear
- Hankook
- Kumho
- Michelin
- Nitto
- Pirelli
- Sumitomo Tires
- Toyo Tires
- Yokohama Tire
- Tokyo Motor Show - Chiba. Held every other year in the late Fall. Other shows are held in Frankfurt, Shanghai, New York and Geneva.
- Toyota
- Camry
- Highlander
- Prius
- RAV4
- Venza Crossover Sedan
- Yaris - Small, economy car
- Traffic
- Traffic Web Cams - Advanced Traveler Information System (ATIS) of the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT). See also Real-Time Traffic Cameras
- WNBC Live Traffic Reports - Metropolitan NY/NJ area
- National Traffic and Road Closure Information - Federal Highway Administration
- New York Traffic Information - Federal Highway Administration
- Traffic.com
- Travel Advisory News Network
- Yahoo Traffic
- Iteris - Real time traffic maps.
- Transportation Energy Data Book
- Union of Concerned Scientists Clean Vehicles Program
- Universal Electric Vehicle (UEV) Corp. - Creators of the Electrum Spyder "an exciting 2 passenger convertible all electric freeway flier that will be available in limited production. Powered by a 300 vdc system, the Spyder provides an effective range of up to 150 miles on a full charge using nickel zinc batteries, standard in all of our vehicles."
- USA Today: Cars
- U.S. Council for Automotive Research
- Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats - Marriott Library, University of Utah
- Vehicle Safety: Opportunities Exist to Enhance NHTSA's New Car Assessment Program - April 29, 2005 report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress (GAO-05-370). Available in full text.
- Visionary Vehicles
- Volkswagen
- Eos
- Jetta
- Polo BlueMotion - Volkswagen Polo BluMotion Named a Finalist for World Green Car of the Year
- Volvo - See also Volvo North America
- WDET Detroit Public Radio 101.9 FM
- Wall Street Journal - More and more stories are becoming available without a subscription. Use the Resource Center Search Page or Google to locate stories. Search for articles by John D. Stoll, Joseph B. White
- Wall Street Journal: Autos
- Wall Street Journal Auto Show Tracker
- New Vehicle Pricing Calculator - Edmunds.com
- Eyes on the Road Column - "Joseph B. White writes Eyes on the Road every Monday for the Online Journal. His column offers readers insight into the top consumer issues in the automotive industry, ranging from car pricing to safety to the latest gadgets." Some of White's recent columns include:
- Big Brains at Sandia National Lab Tackle the Future of Combustion (October 22, 2007) "Technologists at the Sandia Lab are researching the basic science of a variety of alternative approaches to the gasoline-fueled internal-combustion engines."
- Electric Car Maker Aims For the Top With Sports Car (October 15, 2007) - "Uses 6,831 lithium-ion batteries similar to those used in laptop computers, a patented electric-motor system, and a highly sophisticated package of controllers and software to deliver an exotically attractive car that zaps from standstill to 60 miles per hour in under four seconds and can travel up to 245 miles on a single charge."
- Fit for a Prince: The Fisker Karma Hybrid - By Norihiko Shirouzu, Wall Street Journal, January 15, 2008. "The four-door sports sedan is a so-called plug-in hybrid and is capable of going 50 miles on electricity before a small gasoline engine kicks in to generate electricity to charge a lithium-ion battery pack on board....The Karma is both environmentally responsible and capable of going 125 miles an hour consistently. It can hit a speed of 60 miles an hour in 5.8 seconds — equivalent of the performance of a gasoline powered V8 sports sedan."
- Race to Make Electric Cars Stalled by Battery Problems - By Norihiko Shirouzu, Wall Street Journal, January 11, 2008.
- Auto Channel Videos - Some highlights:
- The Darling of 'Cleantech' - Joe White interviews Tesla Motors co-founder Martin Eberhard (October 12, 2007)
- Fuel-Efficient Future - David Patton reports on new car models from the Frankfurt Auto Show, many of which are hybrids (September 12,2007)
- Making Your Own Hybrid - Joe White tests a Toyota Prius modified by a lithium-ion battery pack. (August 3, 2007)
- Walsh CarLines - Michael P. Walsh's newsletter on automobile emissions with access back issues from May 1999. Walsh is a 2005 MacArthur Fellow.
- Who Killed the Electric Car? - Documentary by Chris Paine about General Motors' EV1. Appearances by S. David Freeman, Chelsea Sexton, Mil Gibson, Ed Begley Jr, Tom Hanks, Phyllis Diller and Alexandra Paul. Alternate title: EV Confidential. See reviews at Rotten Tomatoes and
MRQE. "As Mr. Paine forcefully makes clear, the story of the electric car is greater than one zippy ride and the people who loved it. From the polar ice caps to Los Angeles, where many cars truly are to die for, it is a story as big as life, and just as urgent." (Manohla Dargis, New York Times, June 28, 2006.) See also Michael Wilmington's review in the Chicago Tribune.
- Z Car - Designed by Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid, the Z Car is a two-seater hydrogen-fuled hybrid commissioned by London art dealer Kenny Schachter.
- Wrightspeed - Founded by Ian Wright, the company "builds extreme performance electric supercars."
- Yahoo! - Automotive
- Zapworld - ZAP is a Santa Rosa, California, firm that markets alternative-fuel cars. (It's name stands for Zero Auto Pollution.) It sells Smart cars.
- Zenn Cars - "Zero emission, no noise."