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Here's one that sort of satisfies the aircraft enthusiast in me. The 1932 Helicron Seems that back in the day, some in France believed that propeller power was the most efficient way to move a vehicle. Since everything old is new again, I'm kind of surprised that we haven't seen someone try to revive this concept, perhaps with a ducted fan design, or maybe a really sporty concept with some kind of jet turbine drive...

I just love items like this from the Associated Press... BEDFORD HILLS, N.Y. (AP) — A Global Positioning System can tell a driver a lot of things — but apparently not when a train is coming...

So you think you know your stuff about cars? There are car nut and then there are car nuts, and if you want to see some of CarSpace's masters of obscure auto information in action, you owe it to yourself to stop into the Mystery Car Pix discussion on the Automotive News & Views forum. What started as a simple challenge to see if enthusiasts could stump each other on the identification of obscure vehicles caught on and almost 14,000 posts later, the group continues to come up with photos and identifications of vehicles that you may have never heard of, but will certainly find interesting and eductaional as well...

Fourty-eight years ago today, President Eisenhower signed the executive order transferring Wernher von Braun and his team from the U.S. Army to the newly created NASA. While von Braun had nothing to do with introducing the Braun drip coffee maker in 1963, he did mastermind the U.S...

According to one famous comedian, somewhere in the world there is the worst doctor and someone is waiting to see him. And as Forbes.com pointed out recently, there are also the least efficient hybrids out there in showrooms. The story points out that "the average gas mileage of hybrid models available in the U.S...

The Federal Trade Commission Report on Spring/Summer 2006 Nationwide Gasoline Price Increases was released on August 30th. The report states, "...the 2006 price increases were caused by a confluence of factors reflecting the normal operation of the market and also tends to explain why we did not find evidence that those price increases were caused by activities that violate the antitrust laws." Big picture: there was no plot by the oil companies to take advantage of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The report also said that "...it found limited instances of "price gouging...

At the risk of putting the whammy on myself, I have a question for you... When was the last time you had a flat tire? I've had only two in the 35 years I've been behind the wheel, and the last time was 16 years ago...

As Michelle Krebs reported on AutoObserver Volkswagen of America announced yesterday that they are moving their corporate headquarters from Detroit to Herndon, VA in a move that will trim the ranks and likely provide an incentive (living in VA versus Detroit) for new talent to join VW. I'm not sure that this will solve some of VW's percieved problems like reliability or lack of concern for the customer. And if the recent series of postings in the Volkswagen New Beetle Convertible discussion is any indication, VW has a fairly steep hill to climb...

Well those crazy Canadian newspapers are at it again. :) An online survey of nearly 2,500 car enthusiasts voted the AMC Pacer as the most ill-conceived vehicle in automotive history. I don't know how many of you ever had any actual time in a Pacer, but I have...

I love to fly, in anything, to anywhere, anytime, day or night, good weather or bad, and I've never had a bad experience cruising through the clouds. The picture was taken at about 30,000 feet somewhere over Ohio, dodging thunderstorms, on my way out to our recent meeting at the Edmunds offices. With all that time to think, my mind will travel the alternate route, and I started thinking about cruise control...