Max your gas mileage -- use a plug-in

With its quirky vintage cars and grease-stained floor, Pat's Garage looks like a typically hip San Francisco auto repair shop. Until you notice that the street outside is overweighted in Toyota......

Baseball, apple pie. . . and Mahindra?

Engineers from India design advanced jet engines, write some of the world's most sophisticated software, and run massive global computer networks. But can they make a pickup truck that will sell in......

Automotive graveyard, 2006

Everything ends. And 2006 brought with it the demise of a slew of auto models, cars, and trucks that won't be back on dealers' lots in 2007. This year's cast is broad, featuring everything from......

Hybrids: Are these cars of the future?

Between Al Gore's movie, an Inconvenient Truth, and the inconvenient truth that gas costs an average of $2.85 a gallon, average consumers are joining the ranks of a long list of celebrities,......