About a week ago I found a great deal on a used 2006 Honda Civic Hybrid with low miles.  The icing on the cake was that it had one of those Yellow CARB Stickers. This was the ultimate kicker for me since I drive the 405 everyday and believe me it is absolute torture!  On the days that I carpool with my wife, the saved drive time is at least an hour each day.  Well the jig is up and the original carpool program is going to expire on January 1st, 2011.  Good thing I did not buy that Civic! Read the rest of this entry »

Buying a used car with the best gas mileage is easy these days.   There are many hybrids and compact cars that make the best used cars you can get.  Nine out of the ten cars are hybrids which goes to show that hybrid vehicles are here to stay. Missing from this list though are cars that run on battery power alone like the Tesla, cars that are powered by CNG or Compressed Natural Gas, and diesel powered cars like the Jetta which gets incredible gas mileage.  A variety of automobile catergories are seen here and there are after all only 10 spots.  Read on to see who tops the list? Read the rest of this entry »

My Prius gets 65 MPG!  Well big hairy deal.  Next years car will get 100 MPG….guaranteed!  The real news is the $10 Million purse the X PRIZE Foundation will give to the first company to produce a vehicle to break that golden 100 Mile Per Gallon barrier. This foundation is the same that recently paid…you guessed it….$10 million for the first suborbital space flight a few years back.  X PRIZE is dedicated to offering large amounts of money to make huge leaps for humanity.

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Toyota has announced that they estimate to sell around 25,000 new hybrid Lexus’ in the first year of sales in the U.S. Toyota has revealed their new hybrid car the Lexus HS250 Hybrid which is due for launch this summer in the U.S. The new Lexus HS250 is the first dedicated hybrid car that’s part of Lexus, Toyota’s luxury car make. However, this new Lexus isn’t their first dedicated hybrid car, Toyota released the Prius in 2000 which saw huge success in the U.S. car market, this was their first hybrid car. Read the rest of this entry »