2009 Car News and Reviews Archive

12,083 Articles

Dec 31, 2009

Enough of the top ten lists, what's your 'Vehicle of the Decade'?

Dec 31, 2009

Report: Kansas to cease allowing motorists to have 'duplicate' personalized plates. Wait, wha?

Kansas is revamping the way it issues vanity plates, and it means a lot of residents are going to lose their 'duplicate' personalized plates. They're not really duplicates, though: Unlike most states, Kansas allows people in different counties to have the same alphanumeric combination, so while the tags might appear to be copies, they are registered in different counties and that technically makes them different plates.

Jonathon Ramsey

Dec 31, 2009

Ten green cars to remember from the last 100 years

Today is the very last day of the year. And guess what? This is the very last post you'll see on AutoblogGreen in 2009. Fret not, green car aficionados, there will be fresh new material to keep us all interested in 2010, but let's take a minute to look back. Not just on the last decade, but on the entire last century.

Jeremy Korzeniewski

Dec 31, 2009

Lock Those Doors: New Year's Day the worst holiday for stolen cars?

Maybe it's the mass inebriation that makes it easier, but New Year's Eve is apparently hottest holiday for car theft. If the whole world is already sleeping it off, there's no way anybody is going to pay heed to your stupid alarm, perhaps.

Dan Roth

Dec 31, 2009

Zetsche reportedly says Daimler to pick new compact car partner by mid-2010

Despite rumors of Daimler and Renault collaborating on a four-door Smart model, no official tie-up between the two companies has been announced. That could change next year when Daimler will reportedly decide who its small-car partner will be. Daimler is getting even more heavily into the development of small cars, both with its Smart brand and the Jonathon Ramsey

Dec 31, 2009

Report: Spyker would preserve Saab product plans, could sell own supercars in select dealers

Chris Paukert

Dec 31, 2009

GM exec confirms Cadillac XTS, GMC Granite, Chevrolet Aveo RS for Detroit via Twitter

Chris Shunk

Dec 31, 2009

AB Asks: What are your New Year's automotive resolutions for 2010?

About this time every year, news outlets like ours wax nostalgic over the past year, compiling the highlights, lowlights, bloopers, and everything in between that happened in the last 365 days. Notes are compared, calendars dates are circled, lists are conjured. Understandably, other than leaving you with 100 of our greatest automotive photographs this year, we'd largely prefer to forget this year in automot

Chris Paukert

Dec 31, 2009

Russia to get lithium battery production courtesy of Thunder Sky

Looking to fill a gap in its energy technology profile, Russia is to get its first lithium ion battery production facility with a little help from China's Thunder Sky Energy Group Ltd. The Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies (RUSNANO), an entity formed to advance projects with "high commercial potential or social benefit," has teamed up with the prolific battery maker to build a plant in Domenick Yoney

Dec 31, 2009