Reports and Studies

Voted on over a 1,000 people online

The Toyota Auris Hybrid won out among 1,015 online voters at “The Green Car Website” in the UK to win the Green Car of the Year 2013 award. The Auris Hybrid beat out cars from Volkswagen, BMW, Ford and Vauxhall, and it took just ov...

It won the executive car and overall categories

Each year German automotive magazine Auto Zeitung polls its readers to decide on the best-designed cars of the year to select its Design Trophy. This year 24,200 Auto Zeitung readers and online voted on the best-designed cars i...

It also reports the 2012 was the best year in its history for sales

Ferrari had a fantastic year in 2012. It has just reported its financial information for 2012, and unit sales and revenue were higher than ever before. It has also been named the strongest brand in the world in an annual survey by BrandFinanc...

Rules not likely to be changed until 2016

A new report by the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, AEA Ricardo and IHS Global Insight that was commissioned by the European Commission indicates that automakers have found loopholes in the CO2 test to make thei...

Future is hybrids, smaller engines and turbos

In a survey of 200 automotive executives, just 16 of them (8%) said that they would invest in pure electric vehicles in the next five years. The survey was conducted by accounting firm KPMG. The respondents said that it will be six to 10 years bef...

The list has few luxury brands

Google has released its 2012 Zeitgeist list for the most searched terms of the year. The list separates search terms into a variety of categories and then lists the top searches. Unfortunately, Google will not say how many people actually sear...

Society Pays €373 billion a year for its cars

Udo Becker, lead author on a traffic study from the Technical University of Dresden says that each of the 234 million cars on the road in the EU costs society €1,600 a year or a total of €373 billion a year. These amounts are based on th...

The number of young people getting their license is also falling

Woman now outnumber men on American roads according to a study by the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute. It analyzed driver registrations between 1995 and 2010. The institute believes that this is not a blip, and ...

  A study recently published by American Automobile Association found that 14% of drivers between 16-24 admitted to falling asleep while driving at least once in the past year. In comparison, 10% of drivers of all ages said that they had ...

Two studies published in the past year in California have had contradictory conclusions about the cleanliness of diesel fumes. Both studies looked at secondary organic aerosols, which is a major contributor to smog A study published in October...