We’ve had the C-MAX for 6 months now and the big news is the huge improvement in miles per gallon. During the winter months the C-MAX averaged a somewhat disappointing 38 miles per gallon in-town. Now that the weather has warmed up the C-MAX is averaging an unbelievable 51 miles per gallon. Keep in mind […]
When I was young I never thought that “Green” and “Diesel” would ever go together. If you’re like me, when you think diesel you think smelly buses and trucks belching pollutants. When you think of diesel cars, you think noisy, slow and hard to start – in addition to smelly and polluting. Still, even […]
The good news is starting June 1st, 2013 Honda is dramatically lowering the lease price of the Fit EV. The bad news is you can only lease the Fit EV in a smattering of East and West Coast states: New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland, Rhode Island, Connecticut, California, and Oregon. Now the really bad […]
Problem – the Chevy Volt isn’t selling like it should. Solution – re-skin the Volt and call it a Cadillac. That’s what some people think General Motors is up to… take a Chevy Volt, give it a new skin and rebadge it as a Cadillac ELR. Thankfully it appears the ELR is more different from […]
Does cold weather effect mileage with the Volt? The answer is yes… and no. Cold weather weather definitely has an impact on mileage but user controlled climate control settings have even more effect. For the first month our Volt was using a surprising amount of gas, by surprising I mean 4-5 gallons, but my commute […]
Review: I’ve read a lot of negative review about the Ion, but I liked mine. Never had any problems with it, loved the plastic panels – no rust, no dents. Even the center mounted dash was great once I got used to it. I also liked the small steering wheel, it made it very easy […]
Review: Either the worst car I ever loved or the best car I ever hated. It was just that kind of vehicle, when it good it was very good – it could hold an unbelievable amount of stuff and was good in the winter. Also, decent gas mileage for a 4-wheel drive. On the other […]
The Nissan Leaf is finally showing signs of life. The Leaf’s sales total for the month of March 2013 was its best ever in the U.S. and led the sales numbers for the Chevy Volt for the first time – however, it should be noted that the Volt had a terrific January and still leads […]
Believe it or not, the station wagon is making a comeback. Of course none of the manufacturers call them station wagons, they call them Sportwagens (VW) or Sports Activity Vehicles (BMW) or Crossovers (GM), anything but station wagon. In the 60‘s and 70‘s virtually all auto manufacturers had a station wagon in their lineup. But […]
Does the world need another small electric car? Apparently GM thinks so as coming in late Summer of 2013 to a few states and Canada is the all new Chevy Spark EV. Based on the platform of the gas powered Spark released last year, the Spark EV is General Motors first true electric vehicle. The […]
