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REPORT: 9 of Top 10 clunkers being traded in are large trucks

The fickle nature of the American consumer is on obvious display in car dealerships across the country right now. With the government sponsoring a giant garage cleaning through the CARS ("cash for clunkers") program, people are taking old vehicles and turning them into new ones, with a fancy $4,500 check attached. Now that CARS has been active for a short while, early numbers are in: the trucks and SUVs that were so incredibly popular just a few years ago are being dumped by the thousands for smaller, more efficient vehicles. According ... Read more →

Suspicious eBay find of the Day: EVE Motors' all-electric SUV Sebastian Blanco

- With a VIN of 99999999999999999, it has to be good, right? That's the number that EVE Motors SUV gives for their electric vehicle that's currently for sale on eBay with a Buy It Now price of ...

Meet Veronica Moss, A.U.T.O. lobbyist [VIDEO] Domenick Yoney

"If you know yourself but not your enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat." In an effort to follow the advice of Art of War author, Sun Tzu, the good folks over at Streetfilms, ...

SUVs, not eco cars, given big ad presence online Sebastian Blanco

For all the talk, it turns out that automakers love to advertise SUVs more than hybrids or other fuel-efficient vehicles online. According to a new study by comScore, auto companies "delivered" ...

First Drive: Sailing in Stuttgart with Porsche's Cayenne S Hybrid Chris Paukert

While charging along at 85 mph with a particularly poker-faced Porsche engineer riding shotgun, traffic begins to cluster on the horizon. Not willing to risk our seven-figure prototype, I gently ...

Do you hate SUVs because they guzzle gas or do you hate the haters? 8 months ago on Autoblog Green

The days of the SUV carnivals are over. The motor press in the UK is engaged in a debate on the social acceptability of SUVs. Which? Car recently posted a story asking if it was time to ditch the 4x4 (the UK term for SUVs. The Association of British Drivers wasn't about to stand for that and ...

Phoenix Motorcars Maui deal could use up to 30 SUTs; Altairnano Lithium Titinate battery use not certain 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

Following yesterday's announcement that Phoenix Motorcars will work with the state of Hawaii to bring electric vehicles to Maui, we contacted Bryon Bliss, VP of sales and marketing for Phoenix, to get some more information. Bliss sent an email from Maui just after arriving and hosting another ...

Obama says filling up our SUVs isn't progress 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

"Then the prices go back down and suddenly we act like it's not important, and we start, you know filling up our SUVs again. And, as a consequence, we never make any progress." - Barack Obama President-elect Barack Obama was on 60 Minutes last night and talked to Steve Kroft about the ...

VIDEO: Suzuki discovers why SUVasaurus went extinct 12 months ago on Autoblog Green

As part of Suzuki's recent "Live Large. Drive Small" advertising campaign, the automaker has released a video called SUVasaurus. We've pasted it after the break and it's definitely worth a watch. The video is very well done and attempts to explain why the full-size SUV has gone the way of the ...

Study: Small SUVs will need to keep all their goodies 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

SUV sales are down - way down - when compared to the market boom from a few years back. It's the biggest of the breed that is suffering the most, with large, luxurious models selling in mere fractions of their peak, and trends indicate that buyers are willing to downsize a bit in order to save ...

Spy Shots: Phoenix Motorcars SUV 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click above image to enlarge Blogger extraordinaire Mickey Kaus recently spied the above SUV innocuously parked in Santa Monica and sent us the photos, wondering if we had any clue what it is. As luck would have it, we do. The truck is a SsangYong Actyon SUV, but it's also more than that. You see ...

Reader Question: How bad is my SUV? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

2008 Honda Element We get a lot of interesting emails in the AutoblogGreen inbox. Some of them provide good tips or lead us to stories of people doing amazing things. Some just make us laugh. And some just ask us a question we're just not able to help (no, I can't tell you how to order ethanol in ...

Europe's SUV market also downsizing 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

It's become common to hear how big trucks and SUVs are not selling well in the U.S. these days. But it's not just in the States where people are rethinking just how useful a road tank is. Automotive News Europe has a story (subs req'd) on the hit that big SUVs are taking on the continent. Unlike in ...

It's Friday: Let's worry about 2070's hydrogen supplies 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Currently, hydrogen is the most common element in the universe. But if Ford gets its way, we'll have to rethink our science texts in the coming decades. At least, according to The Onion we might. In yesterday's Onion Radio News piece, anchor Doyle Redland talked about the new Foresight, a ...

Trapped in a Ford Excursion! 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Across America, people are finding themselves trapped in their gargantuan Ford Excursions as well as other over-sized SUVs. When gas was under $2 a gallon they seemed like a good idea if you had absolutely no regard for the environment, had places to go and wanted to feel like the captain of a ...

Kelley Blue Book recommends maybe not selling your SUV right now 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Photo by Joguldi. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0. We all know that sales and values of large vehicles are slumping - just ask Nissan about their Titan pickup. But if you're driving an SUV today and really hate watching the pump rack up all those dollars each time you get gas, Kelley ...

GM considers the future of the full-size pickup truck 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

It's no secret that the pickup truck market is shrinking, with high gas prices as one obvious culprit. In fact, Toyota's ridiculously popular Camry midsize sedan is nipping at the heels of full-size truck stalwarts such as the Chevy Silverado and Ford F-Series. So far this year, General Motors has ...

VIDEO: Diesel vs Hybrid, the heavyweights take it to the streets 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

In another of the ongoing rounds between diesel versus hybrid we bring you two heavyweight contenders, the Chevy Tahoe hybrid, which we had in the AutoblogGreen garage, versus the Mercedes-Benz GL320 CDI. Actually, it's brought to you by the good folks at Edmunds who took it upon themselves to give ...

2007 Green Grand Prix photos to prepare us for next weekend's race 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

click to enlarge The fourth annual Green Grand Prix takes place next weekend in Watkins Glen in upstate New York. AutoblogGreen received a few photos taken at the 2007 Green Grand Prix that we'd like to share. Looks like some of our old friends were a the race last year, along with some vehicles ...

Please, don't take my truck, the website 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

We hear a lot about how the stricter emissions laws in California are sometimes used by other states. Over a dozen states have either taken some or all of the California laws or are contemplating doing so; and sometimes those discussions cause trouble. In Minnesota, truck, SUV and minivan ...

High gas prices causing scooter "grudge purchases" 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click on the image above for high-resolution shots of the Aprilia Scarabeo 200 There's a new term to add to your vehicular lexicon: the grudge purchase. This phenomenon usually occurs shortly after pumping gasoline into your SUV and the inevitable large outlay of cash which follows. Scooter shops ...

Chevy TV commercial uses paper SUV to convince children hybrid SUVs are green 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/autos/Chevy_tricks_kids_into_thinking_SUVs_are_greem_with_this_ad'; Chevy has two new TV ads for its Tahoe hybrid. First a little background. The Chevy Tahoe hybrid won Green Car Journal's Green Car of the Year award last year. A full-size SUV winning a green car ...

Detroit News: Geneva Motor Show just more green washing? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The Detroit News, the home town paper of the American automakers, has noticed that the Geneva Motor Show has a lot of green concepts but very few green cars coming to market soon. Large SUVs are still flooding the market, the Detroit News writes, as politicians and public only see green technology ...

Edmunds asks: How much car do you really need? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

How much car do you really need? In a posting comparing the GMC Yukon Denali with the GMC Acadia, Karl Brauer says, "The emphasis on 'really' comes from a phenomenon I think we're all aware of -- perceived versus actual vehicle needs." Brauer goes on to suggest making a self-examination of sorts to ...

Should solo Hummer drivers be allowed the HOV lane if they're carbon neutral? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

California bill SB 1374, if passed and signed into a law, would allow any car to join the HOV sticker program as long as that vehicle is carbon neutral. This would mean someone driving alone in a Hummer could legally be allowed into the HOV lane, if the Hummer's emissions were offset. Senator Jim ...

Zotye electric SUV: $20,000, highway speed, 100-mile range and just 60 DAYS AWAY! 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

I was watching a new report about Arkansas' first electric car dealership, Electric Transportation of Arkansas (you can see it for yourself below the fold). Electric car dealerships that sell low speed electric vehicles you can legally drive around most neighborhoods aren't anything new in the U.S. ...

Environmentalist group claims that SUVs are really bad 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Yes, we know that Ecologistas en Acción (EeA), a Spanish environmentalist group hasn't discovered the wheel, but has decided to publish a long report (40 pages in pdf format, in Spanish) in which they relate how bad wheels (in certain cases) are for the environment. The truth is that ...

Auto-News' list of low-CO2 SUVs in Germany 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Not long ago, we published a list of SUVs available in Germany with the highest mileage possible. But what about - at least on legal terms - how much CO2 a car produces? Never fear. Auto-News has a list of the "cleanest" SUVs on sale in Germany (and I'd say most of the EU), all of them producing ...

White House may increase CAFE for SUVs 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

In a December 6 White House press briefing, press secretary Dana Perino said the White House has a proposal for a new increase in the CAFE standard for light trucks and SUVs. The president has full control of the CAFE standard for light trucks (which includes SUVs but not passenger cars) and has ...

Video: Santa caught driving an SUV 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

A father and his kids caught Santa Claus on video driving an SUV and they uploaded the video to YouTube. Why is Santa driving an SUV? He is giving his reindeer a rest, of course, which one child repeats in a very funny way. Some of the commentators on YouTube have noticed that the vehicle is not an ...

Crossovers not providing the MPGs people want, so they're going back to SUVs 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Hm, this is an interesting little twist. BusinessWeek's David Welch has written an article about SUVs that might come across as slightly counter-intuitive. It seems that many used-vehicle buyers are once again in the market for large SUVs, even though gas prices and crude oil prices are steadily ...

5 SUVs that get less than 16 MPG, cost more than $100 to fill up 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

There is just something about spending $100 versus spending one penny less that makes you think twice. I might not feel so bad about owning a low mileage SUV if a single fill up did not cost too much even if I had to fill up a lot more often. Psychologically, the worst SUV may not be the SUV with ...

GM's hybrid SUV prices will be "corrected" upwards next week 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

We thought a week or so ago that GM's new hybrid SUVs would start around $45,000. That information came from a GM spokesman, who said the hybrid version would cost about the same price as the conventional 5.3L model with similar equipment. A price like that would have meant virtually no price ...

Is the Ford Escape hybrid really the "most fuel efficient SUV"? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

I just saw a video that included an ad that claims the 2008 Ford Escape hybrid was "the most fuel efficient SUV on Earth." Ford has said this for years and, for years, Ford was right. This is not quite so true for the 2008 model year, though. Technically, Ford is still the most fuel efficient in ...

Spy shots: 13-foot long Mini SUV! Has BMW gone mad? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

We noticed the Mini was getting a little bigger but we never expected this. Car Magazine has several spy photos of a Mini 4X4 SUV - well, a "lifestyle 4x4" SAV, which means sports activity vehicle, is what the marketing department is going with to hide the fact they are butchering the star brand of ...

Are hybrids less likely to roll over? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The video below the fold includes Stephen Heckeroth talking about his RAV4 EV on Green Wheels, a Zoom HD TV show. Stephen mentions that the RAV4 EV's 800-pound battery pack is under the floor, as low as you could want it, giving the still-popular electric vehicle a very low center of gravity. This ...

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