The gas-price spike of 2008 followed by the economic disaster of 2009 has prompted baby boomers to re-evaluate their vehicle choices. “It was once thought that when baby boomers could put college tuition payments and other parenting expenses behind them, they would reward themselves with expensive luxury cars,” commented Edmunds.com Senior Analyst Michelle Krebs, who presented on the topic to the Seventh Annual What's Next Boomer Business Summit in Chicago today. “But that was before economic catastrophe struck. Now that their kids can't find jobs and their nest eggs have shrunk, they are re-thinking everything, including their vehicle choices.” Their vehicle choices fall into a trio of sweeping categories: efficiency, lifestyle and indulgence.

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Baby Boomers Shift Car Buying Choices

“What are you, blind?” It’s got to be one of the motorist’s most-used phrases, but it’s also clearly a rhetorical one. Of all the hardships that come with visual impairment, the inability to drive is surely one of the most  frustrating, especially in car-centric cultures like the US. Nearly a decade ago the National Federation

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Will Virginia Tech Make The Blind To Drive?

It seems political forces are pushing us towards EVs long before EVs are ready for prime time. “California has enormous power over the future of vehicles in this country,” and California regulators want to dump carbon, Tom Baloga, of BMW of North America told a packed audience at a session on EVs at an MIT

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Supercritical Fuel Injection Development Promises More Efficient Combustion

G.M. is working on a new windshield head-up display system that pieces together the road under low-visibility conditions.

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Can’t See the Road? G.M.’s Next-Gen Head-Up Display May Help

Two years ago we brought you a preview of GM’s latest innovation in heads-up display technology: a full-windshield, laser-based system that displays the path of the road ahead, even when it’s not visible due to fog, snow, heavy rain or other conditions. Today, GM unveiled the technology, and it says it’s not far from production. Improving…

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GM Unveils New Laser Heads-Up Display For Better Visibility

Volkswagen and Porsche will set up a research and development center in Qatar, reports Arabian Business. Yes, you did read right, Qatar. Qatar Holding has signed a memorandum of understanding with Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP), Volkswagen and Porsche. According to the MOU, research and development, testing and training facilities will be built

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VW And Porsche To Set Up Major Research Center In Qatar

Zoombak, maker of a portable GPS tracking device, now using cellphone signals to improve location rates.

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Using Cellphone Signals to Track Cars When GPS Cannot

Robert C. Stempel, General Motors' CEO in the early 1990s, is joining the board of directors of Genesis Fluid Solutions Holdings, a water purification company in Colorado Springs, Colo. Stempel was chosen for the company's board for not his automotive experience but his chairmanship of the Council of Great Lakes Industries. That experience provided him with valuable insight into the complex problems that plague America's largest bodies of water, said Genesis Chairman Michael Hodges in a statement.

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Jim Sikes’ Prius high-speed dash to fame or infamy is a media hype-fest, with wild swings in sentiment from Toyota bashing to Sikes trashing. The rush to judgment is innately human, and Sikes certainly makes an easy target. But in the process, very little effort has been made to analyze what actually happened, or what

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Jim Sikes: Reconstructing His Wild Prius Ride and Deconstructing The Myths