Will Cars Fly as Fast as the Metaphors?
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Old rhetoric dies hard for Alan R. Mulally, the chief executive at Ford Motor Company, who spent most of his career at jet maker Boeing.
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The Sequel, an experimental hydrogen-powered car, uses fuel-cell technology and is designed to drive as far, accelerate as quickly as cars with gasoline engines.
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Accelerating from 0 to 60, then slowing down for a stop light is no problem for an ordinary automobile. But if you were piloting a rocketship, it wouldn't be so easy. Most rocket engines are designed to burn full-on or full-off with no in-between. And that can be a problem--namely, how do you land this thing?
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Momentum vs. experience vs. opportunity. One will emerge as more significant today when one of three NASCAR drivers claims the 2004 Nextel Cup championship.
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The car of the future could be in your driveway in 2005. At least one company promises it will deliver, and advances in materials technology could contribute. By John Gartner.
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Wannabe Richard Hammonds click here It appears that jet-powered novely vehicles are bit like number 8 buses - you wait ages for one and loads come at once.â¦
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Peugot has posted the finalists in its annual concept car contest. See what the future may hold -- and vote on the designs you like the best.  In Autopia.
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The key to winning a NASCAR race is understanding the forces that impact the car  -  and how to cope with them. Here's a look at the physics of NASCAR's much vaunted Car of Tomorrow
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PARIS - Caught in a car that won't slow down: Sounds like a scene from the Sandra Bullock movie "Speed" or a video game, right? A motorist in France claims that is what happened to him Sunday when his cruise control got stuck at 120 miles per hour, forcing police to help clear a route for his crazy ride along a busy highway.    The daily Le Parisien quoted Hicham Dequiedt saying he was overtaking a truck when his Renault Vel Satis started to accelerate with a life of its own...
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The 2007 Hot Wheels lineup includes fun muscle cars and speed demons, but omitting practical and fuel-efficient vehicles sends the wrong message to kids. In Autopia.
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Faster than a speeding bullet, more  powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings at a  single bound -- look, up there in the sky, it&#039;s a bird, it&#039;s a  plane, it&#039;s ... Krrish?
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By Matt Nauman, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Dec. 10--Elon Musk wants to send humans to space. Here on Earth, though, he wants us to be able to drive very fast electric cars.   You might as well have fun before you leave the planet.
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Minivans and big SUVs are sometimes referred to as "living rooms on wheels." As entertainment technology improves, shrinks and becomes more portable, that expression is becoming more and more literal.
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Motorsport.com. Momentum is a funny thing in racing. It&#39;s not something that you can see or hear. It&#39;s not easy to put your finger on exactly when it starts.
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A top speed of 253.2 mph makes the Bugatti Veyron the fastest production car in the world. But times they are a-changin' as two rivals enter the scene boasting insane horsepower figures and ground-gripping aerodynamics.
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The upcoming video game Need for Speed Carbon will have more than just gleaming sports cars and streets to race on: Drivers also will be speeding past real-time advertisements for upcoming films, automobiles, and other products.
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By Matt Nauman, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jan. 30--When a new billboard in San Francisco scrolls the message "Motor On Vera!" it's a good bet that someone named Vera is driving her Mini Cooper at that moment.   Or that her car is nicknamed Vera.