Will higher-MPG vehicles starve highway funding?

Filed under: MPG, Legislation and Policy, USA

It happens every time there’s a proposal on the table for increased fuel efficiency. Someone runs the math, points out that high mileage vehicles use less gasoline, then warns that less gas means less gas taxes for maintaining roads. In this case, that someone is Ben Wear over at [...]

2012 Volkswagen Passat TDI rated 43 mpg highway, priced from $25,995*

Filed under: Diesel, Volkswagen

2012 Volkswagen Passat – Click above for high-res image gallery

Volkswagen has officially announced pricing for its 2012 Passat and it turns out that buyers will be able to snatch up the mid-size sedan for as low as $19,995 (excluding $770 in destination charges). At that price, you’ll land a 170-horsepower, 2.5-liter five-cylinder [...]

2012 Subaru Impreza to get estimated 36 mpg highway

Filed under: MPG, Subaru, New York Auto Show

2012 Subaru Impreza – Click above for high-res image

Subaru is set to officially reveal the 2012 Impreza at the New York Auto Show towards the end of April. Ahead of its debut, the automaker has released a single profile shot of the four-door version of the soon-to-be released [...]

The coolest wildlife highway overpasses you’ll see all day

Filed under: Etc., Government/Legal, Design/Style

Wildlife Crossing design competition finalists – Click above for high-res image gallery

The five designs for animal bridges you see here are finalists from over 100 entries for the ARC Wildlife Crossing Infrastructure Design competition sponsored by the Western Transportation Institute at Montana State. The competition is looking for “next generation” wildlife [...]

Finland hopes to build world’s first carbon-neutral green highway

Filed under: Biodiesel, EV/Plug-in, Green Daily

While it’s easy for us to suggest that the car-buying public should adopt cleaner, alternative-fuel vehicles, the fact that a supporting infrastructure for many of these new technologies does not yet exist makes widespread adoption uncertain. Finland hopes to change the infrastructure-free trend by building out a carbon-neutral green highway [...]

Rare Mercedes-Benz C111 prototype reportedly damaged in highway robbery attempt

Filed under: Concept Cars, Government/Legal, Mercedes-Benz, UK

1977 Mercedes-Benz C111-III – Click above for high-res image gallery

A rare 1970s-era Mercedes-Benz C111 show car has gone on display at the company’s museum at Brooklands, but it almost didn’t make it.
According to reports from across The Pond, the truck transporting the vintage concept car from Germany to the [...]

Officially Official: 2011 Ford Fiesta rated at 40 mpg highway

Filed under: MPG, Ford

2011 Ford Fiesta – Click above for high-res image gallery

The EPA has finished calculating the fuel economy of the 2011 Ford Fiesta and, as the automaker projected, its new baby has hit 40 miles per gallon. The official numbers from the Feds are 29 mpg in the city and 40 mpg on [...]