News App Builder ClearMechanic Wants To Be the “Open Table” for Car Repairs By Paul Lienert, Correspondent | Published May 15, 2012 Just the Facts: ClearMechanic is developing a pilot service that would enable customers to book repair and service appointments online. The company is a California-based developer of smartphone apps for car dealers and [...]

Fiat’s Argentinian advertising agency is taking a very oblique tack to get people to buy the new Palio. From what I can tell, the argument seems to be that there’s a man, see, in Argentina, and he has an attractive wife with normal-sized breasts. She decides to have a boob job, causing the man to [...]

Google’s Self-Driving Toyota Prius Enlarge Photo Like a scene straight from the movie I, Robot, self-driving cars are quickly becoming a reality. Google wants to see autonomous cars on the roadways, but doesn’t want to build the cars themselves. It’s been approaching automakers in an effort to find a company to build the cars with [...]

A Baltimore City Councilman wants to put advertisements on the city’s fleet of fire trucks in order to ease their massive debt. Self-aggrandizing alternative ad agency People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals (PETA) wants to help by buying the first round of ads. Of course, since it’s PETA, there’s a mostly undressed girl involved. [...]

2012 Toyota Prius V With gas prices hovering just under $4 a gallon and fuel-efficient cars selling as fast as Suzanne Collins novels, you’d think that demand for hybrids would be through the roof. And it is — just not among people who already own hybrids. A new study from Polk Automotive says that when shopping for a [...]

Since the greater Las Vegas area only has a copy of Paris, New York, Venice, and alien-occupied ancient Egypt, it’s still a good ways away from having a copy of all of Earth’s good stuff. Luckily, Bruton Smith, CEO of Speedway Motorsports, is working to fix that, starting with a copy of the Nürburgring. More »

Subaru’s FirstCarStory.com Enlarge Photo Thursdays are just Fridays in disguise. On Thursdays, we’re already thinking about the weekend ahead, about projects that we’ll start but never finish because of some basketball game or Dr. Who marathon. Work is the last thing on our minds. If you’re in the same boat, we recommend a quick trip [...]

This is it. The new third generation 2012 BMW M6. Armed with a big TwinPower Turbo V8 engine, the new M6 is here to deliver a 560 HP ass-whooping to the CTS-V and any other coupe with the balls to get in the ring with this Teutonic two-door. But, if you’re hoping for a manual [...]

Here it is — the new-for-2013 Ford Shelby GT500 convertible, revealed with one press shot ahead of its debut tomorrow at the Chicago Auto Show. More »

In a late bid for 2011′s award for Most Brazen Act of Chutzpah, a Denver cop who was kicked off the force for doing 143 mph in a 55 zone while intoxicated is appealing his dismissal on grounds that the penalty was too harsh. More »