Autoblog Podcast #177 – What’s up with The AB Podcast in iTunes?

Filed under: Podcasts, Etc., Technology, Acura, Audi, BMW, Toyota, Ferrari, Diesel

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Before we get to this week’s show, we wanted to explain what’s up with The Autoblog Podcast in iTunes. The short story is that TV Squad, one of our sister sites in the AOL [...]

Autoblog Podcast #172: YUGOMANIA!

Filed under: New York Auto Show, Podcasts, Cadillac, GM, Hyundai, Infiniti

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Sam and Dan kick off Episode #172 of the Autoblog Podcast with guest Jason Vuic, author of a historical treatise on the Yugo.
Alex Nunez joins us afterwards for news items. We cover sights [...]

Quick Spin: 2010 Volkswagen Polo TSI 1.2 could preview what’s to come

Filed under: Budget, Europe, Hatchback, Volkswagen, Quick Spin

2010 Volkswagen Polo TSI 1.2 – Click above for high-res image gallery

At last year’s Geneva Motor Show, we got our first in-person look at the all-new fifth-generation Volkswagen Polo, the brand’s popular B-segment model that slots in below the ever-expanding Golf and Jetta range. While subcompact vehicles like [...]

General Motors announces it will build electric motors in-house

Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing, GM, Electric

Over the past century, two of the primary ways that carmakers have been able to distinguish their products is styling and powertrains. While styling has often been outsourced to various design studios, typically only the smallest automakers outsource powertrains. As the industry heads into the era of increasing electrification, the whole [...]

F1 Update: Heidfeld signs as Mercedes GP test driver, Alguersuari confirmed at Toro Rosso

Filed under: Motorsports, Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Mercedes-Benz

The off season in Formula One is nothing if not a big game of musical chairs. Sometimes drivers end up pretty much exactly where they were before the season ended – as were the majority of cases in between 2008 and 2009 – but sometimes everything gets reshuffled. This year things [...]