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Here's my IS350 with the F-sport intake. The car has stock exhaust.

What draws your eye in this photo? Most of us zoom in on the bright and shiny and see the sun breaking through. It's just human nature...

"An AMC Hornet, you got to be kidding me!" Well, that sentiment is often said throughout "The Man with the Golden Gun," one of those movies that is so awful it orbits back to being good for sheer camp factor. The villain's henchman is Tattoo from "Fantasy Island," the title song is laughably bad. Austin Powers didn't spoof the Bond franchise this well...

Michael Phelps is burning up the pool at the Olympics and setting world records almost every time he hits the water. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Tuesday in a report posted on a government Web site that the nation's fleet of passenger cars and light trucks averaged an estimated 26.8 mpg through March, up from 26.6 mpg for the entire 2007 model year. That's up from a 25.7 mpg average in 2006, which also was a record...

                8/ 12/2008, 12:04 a.m. EDT,  By DEE-ANN DURBIN,  The Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — General Motors Corp. is releasing new, more fuel-efficient versions of its full-size pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles later this fall...

 AR Index     712.15  +58.43  (+8.94%)  Stocks of individual interest Toyota  92.34  +9.70 GM        10.76  +0.66 Ford      5.16     +0.35 Dow 11782.35    +498.20(+4.42%) I do like the way that light crude oil line continues to drop and drag along gas prices with it. The manufacturers seem to have lived through the reporting of second quarter results and are rebounding a bit. I thought I'd include a comparison chart on the "Alternate Route Three" and how their individual stock prices have fared since I created the index...

I'm sure you've seen the Russian crash test of a Chery Amulet, where the Chinese sedan crumbles apart as if constructed entirely out of fortune cookie. Ditto Chery's little QQ. That leads most to believe that Chinese cars are horrific in engineering quality and I won't argue. However, after watching Ted Koppel's documentary on the growing Chinese automotive industry, I noticed something: China has better Fords than we do. Judging by pictures on their Web site (my Chinese is a little rusty), they sell the Ford S-Max, the Ford Mondeo, and the European Focus sedan and hatchback...

When prices soared at the pump, you could be sure that the scammers wouldn't be far behind trying to make a quick buck. There's a lot of buzz about HHO kits. The idea is to use electricity from the car's alternator to electrolyze water into HHO, a mixture of pure hydrogen and oxygen...

As if I needed any more evidence, allow me to present my mileage figures on my return trip from vacation where I was forced to fill up with a 10% ethanol blend. On the trip down from State College, PA to Williamsburg, VA my mileage was 32.7 mpg using "unblended" fuel. That was a little lower than I normally get on the highway no doubt due to the full load of 4 adult sized passengers plus luggage, but still not too bad...