Posts by Chris Haak
2009 Dodge Challenger R/T 6-Speed Review
By Chris Haak 10.07.2008 I've reviewed a lot of vehicles over the past few years, but the experience I had when driving the Dodge Challenger SRT8 this past summer was one of the...
Hybrid History, Part Two: After the 1920s
By Sam Boni 10.06.2008 Hybrid History Part One looked at HEVs from the 1890s to the 1920s. At that time, one of the automotive world's unsung pioneers, Sir Harry Ricardo, had...
Carbon Motors Plans Purpose-Built Police Car
By Chris Haak 10.04.2008 Carbon Motors, an Atlanta-based police car manufacturer, revealed a prototype of its purpose-built police car to several law enforcement agencies in the...
Hybrid History, Part One: The [Very] Early Years
By Sam Boni 10.02.2008 “Hybridization is the path to the future,” asserted Dave Hermance recently. He is the executive engineer for environmental engineering at the Toyota...
EU Panel Backs Tougher-Than-Expected CO2 Rules
By Dennis Haak 09.26.2008 Just as the tentative deal on the Wall Street bailout collapsed yesterday in the US, so did a tentative deal in Europe that had been agreed upon...
Delphi Creditors Approve Financing Deal, Company Might Emerge From Chapter 11...
By Chris Haak 09.26.2008 Bankrupt auto parts maker Delphi Corp., which has been in bankruptcy proceedings since 2005, and saw its last exit financing plan go up in flames a few...
A Train Runs Through It
By Sam Boni 09.25.2008 “Forget the Chattanooga choo-choo, Volkswagen has boarded the bullet train”, wrote Glenn Brooks in ‘Automotive World’ of July 2008. At that time,...
Gasoline Shortages Become Self-Fulfilling Prophesies
By Chris Haak 09.23.2008 Over the past few days, I've read of several gasoline shortages in southern US cities that have been the result of rumors of stations running out of...