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[The Truth About Cars] Curbside Classic: 1972 Boattail Buick Riviera | The Truth About Cars: It evokes a number of GM designs during the golden era, and as much as anything about this car, it represents a swan song: by 1973, five mph bumpers ruined it forever, and that whole era of beautiful faces. This face is saying: take a good look, because you’ll never see anything quite like it again.

[KERETA INFO | MAJALAH KERETA MALAYSIA Car Automotive News Reviews Tips & Details] PROTON SAGA BEST PASSENGER CAR OF THE YEAR + EXORA AS A BEST DEBUT ...: The integration of technologies such as Smart Grids, Electric Vehicles, Cloud Computing, Social Networking and Wireless communication offers companies opportunities to participate in the development of Smart Cities and new lifestyle based services. This will be the key engine of growth for companies in the next decade.”

[Sistema Limbico] More links for the day | Sistema Limbico: Naval historian, Professor Eric Grove of Salford University, will give an evening history talk on board HMS Belfast, covering the subject of radar and the contribution that scientists made to its development. During WWII, naval warfare was transformed by the advent and increasing use of radar.  HMS Belfast was active during this period and provides an excellent backdrop to an evening exploring the dynamics and the extent of this transformation.  This talk will be illustrated with images and footage from the Imperial War Museum’s extensive collection. 

[Ads of the World] Smart: Giant shoehorn | Ads of the World: The display, parked in various high traffic downtown locations, also imparts the message: “Fits into tight places”, and prompts onlookers to visit “thesmart.ca.” The idea aims to demonstrate that just like your favorite pair of shoes, the smart fortwo can comfortably fit into any lifestyle. The smart fortwo is the most fuel-efficient two-seater in Canada, and it boasts a spacious interior, a 5-star crash safety rating and great agility to dart through traffic while avoiding potholes and other urban hazards.

[- Recent Changes] Electric cars abound! - Green Options Community: I think that the efficient use of fuels and non-renewable resources has finally found a way into the mind of the people and they see the advantages that come along with it and if you use your bike instead of your car you can also save the money for the cardio program at the gym.

[TheTyee.ca] The Tyee ”” Rise of the Communal Bike and Car: "When the general public and the municipal government sees how many people are on bikes they are more apt to make infrastructure changes to benefit the cyclists," says Tania Lo, associate publisher of the Vancouver-based bicycle magazine Momentum. "What no one anticipated was that even more cyclists started riding their bikes in the city because it was suddenly much more safe."

[Transportation Experts] How Should We Prioritize Highway Spending? - Transportation Experts: Given our fiscal and national security realities, the only rational strategy I can see is to prioritize maintenance of important road corridors and improvements that increase efficiency of traffic flow of the existing network (redesigned intersections, congestion mitigation etc.). New lane miles and other highway improvements that induce demand, increase fuel consumption, and defer investment in more cost and energy efficient forms of transportation are, at this point in time, inconsistent with a national strategy to reduce our dependence on oil and protect America's fiscal health.

[Comprehensive Article Niche Directory | Articles] Upcoming New Cars In India - Article Niche: March 2010: The Toyota Corolla Altis priced at Rs 13,00,000 will be fighting hard with other premium diesel sedans like the Jetta, Laura and Sonata Emberra. The Ford Fiesta hatchback is a great car priced at Rs 6,50,000.

[Transportation Experts] How Should We Prioritize Highway Spending? - Transportation Experts: By managing demand on the transportation system, the cost to maintain and keep the system in a good state of repair and performance is minimized in terms of monies and time. Further, the increased use of non-road transportation options has added social benefits including reduced environmental impact from single-occupancy driving and congestion-related idling, increased exercise regularity for users that opt adopt walking and biking into their travel regimen, and increased economies of scale in mass transit that can make reliable service more affordable.

[Motor Trend Blog] What Is a Midsize Car? | Car News Blog at Motor Trend: Even if British Petroleum's Mexican Gulf disaster and the capriciousness of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries push gasoline back up to $4.25 per gallon sometime soon, will American families give up their Camrys and Accords to squish themselves into subcompacts?

[Thinking Tech Blog RSS | SmartPlanet] What will the hydrogen economy do with all that water? - SmartPlanet: The Thinking Tech blog focuses on technologies such as virtualization, smart electric grids, enterprise 2.0, open source, data center management, green technology and the intersection between the innovation and application of these advancements.

[Motor Trend Blog] Chicken-Tax-Evader: A Weekend in the Ford Transit Connect | Car ...: It was nearly empty during most of my weekend and the ride quality from the unladen rear leaf springs was surprisingly supple. I so wish the thing offered a manual or automatic transmission with more than four speeds, because in town this power team tends to bog in one gear and then charge hard in the next gear down.

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum | Drumbeat: May 20, 2010: The Aspen Institute and National Geographic announce that registration is open to the public for the 2010 Aspen Environment Forum. From July 25-28, 2010, on the Institute's signature campus in Aspen, Colo., more than 400 high-level speakers and committed voices from a wide range of perspectives - business, government, academia, and non-governmental organizations - will explore how to work together to develop bridges to long-term, equitable sustainability across a variety of interconnected issues, including energy, environmental conservation, and climate change adaptation/management.

[Green Inc.] Of Smart Meters and Smart Consumers - Green Blog - NYTimes.com: Such stories appear to be fueling interest in smarter uses for smart meters. CPower is among a handful of companies racing to sign up commercial and institutional clients with services designed to cut their energy costs and earn cash .

[Techwoo Autos Blog] 2011 Hyundai Sonata Midsize Sports Sedan | Techwoo Autos Blog: The Sonata 2.0T, as the car is officially named, is powered by a new 2.0-liter Theta II twin-scroll turbocharged gasoline direct-injection (GDI) engine that produces 274 horsepower at 6,000 rpm and 269 lb-ft of torque from 1800-4500 rpm with regular fuel. The engine is linked to a six-speed automatic transmission with SHIFTRONIC manual control that drives the front wheels.

[Crave: The gadget blog] Airplane design could use 70 percent less fuel | Geek Gestalt ...: Read this blog post by Daniel Terdiman on Geek Gestalt. Newer supersonic designs might be somewhat quieter and more fuel efficient, but the fact remains that supersonic flight is always going to be far more expensive than subsonic flight, and people don't seem terribly interested in spending the money it would take to make it profitable just .

[Business Fleet] 2010 Audi A3 TDI Test Drive - Auto Focus - Business Fleet: According to the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE), the folks who put together the annual Greenest and Meanest Vehicles lists, diesel models (specifically the Volkswagen Jetta TDI and Jetta Sportwagen TDI, the A3 TDI's VW counterpart) miss their top 10 "greenest" list by a hair. 

[Motor Trend Blog] The Cost of More Auto Industry Regulation | Car News Blog at Motor ...: I've seen some third-party responses that misinterpret Ingrassia's column to mean that such regulation will affect only "Government" Motors and Chrysler, even though any new regulations Congress approves would affect Toyota, Ford, and the rest doing business here, too, just like the 35.5-mpg Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards.

[Go Green Toolshed] Go Green Toolshed » Blog Archive » 'Smart dust' aims to monitor ...: That data will soon be available to people who can use it to figure out where to park, said Tod Dykstra, .Smart dust researchers say their theory of monitoring the world ”” however it's realized ”” will benefit people and the environment.

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