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Would You Favor A 55 MPH Speed Limit In Return For Lower Gas Prices?

Agent009 submitted on 7/7/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 9:28:40 AM

State officials have floated an idea tossed out a few years ago like bad 1970s bell-bottoms: reducing speed limits to conserve fuel. Now, in this age of unbearably high gas prices, could 55 be the new 70?Gov. Read More



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Oil Prices Skyrocket After DOE Report Indicates Oil Inventory Depletion

Agent009 submitted on 6/11/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 11:17:00 AM

Oil prices are skyrocketing today after a government report indicated that the nation's oil inventories fell more than expected last week. Currently prices are up $4. Read More



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Are High Gas Prices Actually Doing More Good Than Bad?

Agent009 submitted on 6/9/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 4:00:51 PM

Detroit's big auto makers are slashing jobs, closing factories and undertaking costly revamps of their product strategies to cope with $4 a gallon gas. What's the worst thing that could happen now? Gas could get cheap again, says the man who runs America's biggest auto retailer. Read More



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High Gas Prices: Are We Actually Sitting On A Gas Bubble?

Agent009 submitted on 5/15/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 1:34:54 PM

The recent trajectory of oil prices — a fairly steady increase followed by a much more vertical rise — has a familiar look to it. Remember those charts of tech stocks and housing prices? It's hard not to wonder: Are oil prices forming the next big “bubble?" Those who see a bubble forming say you need look no further than the recent run-up in the cost of a barrel of crude to the current level of about $124. Read More



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Should you Ditch your Gas Guzzler for a Smaller Car?

carchick submitted on 5/7/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 5:37:30 PM

Should people ditch their gas guzzlers for smaller cars? This article does the math, and you might be surprised! The math works out in favor of the smaller car over 5 years (but it's really close!)



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YESTERDAYS NEWS - 2009 Chevy Camaro

Agent00J submitted on 5/6/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 11:20:52 AM

With so much hype thrown around regarding the 2009 (or will it be a 2010?) Chevy Camaro, one has to wonder how much excitement will there be when (or if) the Camaro ever actually hits showroom floors. Let's face it, with so much development time already spent, and so many "leaked" spy photos that Bob Lutz himself ordered that no more camouflage be used on test vehicles, will the next Camaro be just another blip on the radar of well intentioned GM cars that were executed horribly?I am not a huge GM fan, but the initial photos and prototypes had me excited that perhaps there is a GM car in the future that I might consider, but - we are 3+ years into "development," everyone and their mother has seen this car in some way shape or form. Read More



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Have The Oil Companies Artificially Inflated Diesel Prices?

Agent001 submitted on 3/2/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 3:34:36 PM

Until you've spent time in place where the weather is absolutely freezing and then jump off a plane in LA and feel that WONDERFUL warmth, you can't truly appreciate the Southern California lifestyle. I was fortunate enough to be able to remind myself how blessed I am to be here after a fun week in Buffalo, Niagara on the Lake and Toronto testing the new Audi clean diesels. Read More



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Think Hands Free Phones Make Driving Safer? Think Again.

Agent001 submitted on 2/20/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 11:23:44 PM

Peter Martin, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the University of Utah Traffic Lab, says the new study shows "cell phones not only make driving dangerous, they cause delay, too. "In recent years, Strayer's research group has published studies showing that:Hands-free cell phones are no less dangerous while driving than hand-held cell phones because the conversation itself is the major distraction. Read More



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Do You Agree? GM's Bob Lutz Calls Global Warming "A Crock Of S***" While In Dallas

Agent009 submitted on 2/13/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 12:57:29 PM

Bob Lutz, General Motors’ vice chairman and chief car guru, says what really turns him on is “doing the unexpected”–acting “contrary to the conventional wisdom, forcing people to re-think their beliefs. ” Maybe that’s why Lutz, who made his name developing behemoths like the V-10 Dodge Viper, is so sold on the fuel-efficient new Chevrolet Volt, which will run on a lithium-ion battery and could go on sale by 2010. Read More



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GM may offer a Camaro hybrid, no more rear-wheel-drive projects

omarrana submitted on 2/4/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 11:15:12 AM

We’ve spoken of a Camaro Hybrid before, but at that time it was just a dream. Well word on the street now is that GM has been forced to make some changes to their Camaro onslaught in the wake of the new CAFE 35 regulations. Read More



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Is the 2008 Pontiac G8 a mistake for GM?

pushrod27 submitted on 2/2/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 7:29:35 AM

The release of the all-new 2008 Pontiac G8 is approaching. I just read an Edmunds article where they tested the car. Read More



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First Drive: 2008 Tesla Roadster

bankhead submitted on 1/23/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 12:38:21 PM

So how fast is the Tesla Roadster really? In a few seconds, we're gonna find out because framed by its porthole-size windshield is a deliciously straight stretch of Skyline Boulevard, a knockout snake of a road we've never heard of before in the coastal hills above San Carlos, California. San Carlos, in case you're not Google-Earthing at the moment, is the inviting, northwestern Silicon Valley 'burb where Tesla decided to settle its unpretentious research and development quarters about four years ago. Read More



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Corvette going green

rybo submitted on 1/21/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 7:16:32 PM

The war for ever-faster, more powerful cars may be drawing to a close. Fuel economy regulations and simple practicality are beginning to make the push for more horsepower unrealistic. Read More



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GM: New CAFE regulations could make supercars an ‘endangered species’

omarrana submitted on 12/20/2007 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 3:50:19 PM

It’s been a pretty crazy week in the automotive industry. Congress has passed the new energy bill, President Bush signed it into law yesterday and GM unveiled the most anticipated sports car of the year from Detroit. Read More



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The Extra Cost of Hybrid Cars

MidEngine submitted on 11/9/2007 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 3:24:50 PM

A Wall Street Journal and Edmunds analysis shows that with gas at $2. 79/gallon and driving 15,000 miles per year it could take 17 years to pay off the $3700 price premium of a Camry hybrid compared to a regular Camry. Read More



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