Connected Car for a connected age.

A car the comes with it's own app and iPad.

Smart Ad!

A very nice ad from Nissan Japan.

To promo the new Nissan all electric car "Leaf". How does a zero emission car drives like? It drives like a Chair.

A wonderful MV on electric car!

The Nissan Leaf Electric car in action!

How to kill a Clunker! Cash for Clunkers get 2 more billion.

US puts 2 Billion more into their CARS program "Cash for Clunkers" cars.gov

iQ Fonts!

iQ font - When driving becomes writing / Full making of from wireless on Vimeo.

Will the GM Chevrolet Volt become the new icon of American automobile?

GM re:invention?

Today the "New" GM outline its new plant to get better and mroe profitable. Also an interesting trail partner with eBay. Will it work and what will they learn for this? online time will tell. Good Luck General!

(GM will partner with eBay in California to allow consumers to bid on vehicles just as they would in a typical eBay auction. They could also choose a "Buy it Now" option in an experiment to make car shopping easier. Dealers would still distribute the cars.

"As a culture, General Motors needs to be prepared to experiment and adjust," he said.)

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Top 10 Green car from kbb.com

To mark the coming of Earth Day 2009 kbb.com has posted their top 10 green car for 2009 for the US market. The Prius once again make the final list with some expected chooses like Insight, Fit, and Jetta TDI. The new 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid also make the list with Escape Hybrid, Ford taken 2 spot from just 3 naming from an American manufacture. Japan auto company took 4 spots, Germany auto company took 3 spots (Mini Cooper is now a BMW own company). Japan and Europe has always been at the top of green auto development, but I don't think American is really behind too far with new auto company like Teslamotors.

Made from American-grown renewable animal fats!

What a great idea! American don't need more animal fat in their body and now the meat industry has a new market to send those unhealthy fat to, beside the FastFood industry. Link to news source

Cans the US auto design complete?

As the Geneva Auto Show about to start it reminded me that a lot of the european auto brand does belong to the same group in the US but it doesn't mean that they sell the same car model or share the same design language. In my opinion the european usually does a much better job in styling and packaging the same platform technology compare to the US. Take a look at the above example of the Euro version (Ampera) of the GM Chevy Volt, which will be sold in Europe under Opel and compare it with the US version below. The "Ampera" is just much more better looking and look much more like an advance automobile. Under those skin they are identical in technology design.

Look at this Ford example. The American Ford has been making small car for years using the underlaying design platform from Mazda (Part of Ford Group). Both US and Euro version share the same model name but look completely different. and I will rather spend my dollars on the Euro version on the right over the US version on the left.

The US auto company like Ford are starting to taking a hard look at those Euro model not just styling but also their efficiency technology which the European are much better with due to high gas price and cost of ownership. Below is the US version of the successful Ford Europe "Fiesta".

Rumor on the internet also suggested that American Ford might be building this lovable crossover name "Kuga" in the US also which are based on the European Ford Focus.

Open Source Car?

When everything in the hardware and software are going open source, can a complete automobile go open source too? At this year's Geneva Auto show the EDAG is testing the idea with their new "Light-Car - Open Source" concept.

Face Off!

The year beginning with a very interesting face off in the auto industry. Finally, Honda are back in the fight in the hybrid auto with the NEW Insight. From looks the Insight and the Prius looks similar, but Toyota has refocused the New Prius to be a bit more upscale. Toyota also has introduced a new Lexus HS 250h base on the same 3rd Gen Prius underlaying technology with a Lexus class fit and finish. Honda went to the complete opposite and believing that the general market will love the idea of a hybrid budget sedan. Who will win, I guess that will be the consumer, cause we will have a much more wide range of feed good and do good vehicle to choose from.