Reports and Studies

Peak oil demand will be reached in 2035

The era of oil may be coming to an end, at least according to a report published by Shell that predicts there will be no more petroleum-fueled cars by 2070. The oil company came to the conclusion by examining oil use and regulation scenarios and p...

The Corvette and Silverado are this year's winners

Chevrolet took the honors this year in both with the new Corvette winning the North American Car of the Year and the Silverado winning the North American Truck/Utility of the Year. The winners were announced as part of the opening of the 2014 Nort...

The winner will be announced at the Geneva Motor Show in March

The Car of the Year organization that selects the European Car of the Year has selected its short list of seven nominees for car of the year 2014. The winner will not be announced until March at the Geneva Motor Show.  The list started wi...

General Motors has three of the six finalists

The 2014 North American Car and Truck/Utility of the Year Finalists have been announced whittling down the original lists of nominees to three vehicles in each category. General Motors dominates this year’s lists with two of the three Car of...

A German study suggests that they produce more particulates

The independent vehicle testing agency TÜV Nord in Germany has completed a curious study regarding modern direct injected petrol engines. It found that direct injected petrol engines emit about 1,000 times more particles than non-direct injec...

General Motors leads with the most nominations this year

The 24 nominees for the North American Car and Truck/Utility of the Year have been announced.  A jury of 50 auto journalists from North America takes a long list of all of the new or significantly refreshed cars released there and take th...

This year there are 13 auto brands in the top 100 list from 12 last year

Interbrand has released its annual list of the world's top 100 brands, and Toyota leads in the automotive sector yet again but is in tenth place overall.  There was a big shakeup in the top three global brands this year. Apple, Google...

The winner will not be announced until March

The European Car of the Year has released its nominees for 2014. It selected 30 cars from a provisional list of all of the new cars that would be on sale by the end of 2013. The cars had to be all new generations, not refreshed models To be no...

It scored 99 out of a possible 100 points

The Dow Jones Sustainability Index now lists Volkswagen as the world’s most sustainable auto company. Of the 31 automakers on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, Volkswagen ranked the highest after analyzing its corporate, economic, environm...

Foreign automakers are building more cars there then importing cars

Boston Consulting Group has released a study that predicts that Russia will be the largest auto market in Europe and the fifth largest in the world by 2020 with 4.4 million auto sales a year by then, up from 2.9 million annually as of 2012. The re...