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As General Motors continues to repurpose and shape-shift in order to remain competitive, how creative are they really getting? Presumably they’ll still be manufacturing cars, instead of shifting to bikes, trains or some other more sustainable and long-lasting solution. We imagine they’re also sticking to mostly gas-powered vehicles, instead of actually doing something new like [...]

We’ve been wearing a big smile since yesterday afternoon, when someone tipped us to the news that GM will either look to sell or discontinue their Hummer brand. Funnily enough, when we brainstormed some months ago possible positive outcomes of the New Depression, this was one of the events we predicted: the demise of pointlessly [...]

For only the second time in these soon-to-be-over aughts, America had two different presidents in one week, giving the Interweb twice the fodder for more-or-less political list-making. Parsing through our online colleagues’ output for our weekly catch-up listicle Weekly Wednesdays, we came across a sampling of the most obscure policy points, tangential pop cultural tie-ins, [...]

Though all the news and listicles of late has been about green transportation alternatives, high-speed trains and fuel-efficient cars, there remains something to be said for a big-budget collision between gas- or diesel-guzzling behemoths. No, we’re not talking about NASCAR, but about movie car crashes, whose alternations between realism, excess and stylizing often make for [...]

The Detroit Auto Show opened yesterday, offering a hint of what America’s auto industry might resemble in its very uncertain future. As The New York Times notes, Detroit’s Big 3 are finally facing the music and pushing a predominantly hybrid fleet this year. To our surprise, the Times piece questions whether consumers will be easily [...]

In yesterday’s New York Times opinion piece on the Detroit auto industry, Mitt Romney went above and beyond to alienate the voters he failed to win over during this year’s Republican primaries (read: “not suburban”, “not rich”). Tapping into his insider knowledge as a car company president’s son, Romney’s main argument for letting Detroit’s Big [...]