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High commodities prices and the unflattering value gap between the Euro and U.S. Dollar are forcing a lot of European automakers to bump their prices here in the States. We told you a few weeks ago that BMW was planning on raising the sticker price on many of its products, and now we're starting to ......

Click image for photo galleryImagine a Hyundai Elantra minus the swoopy body line and with a more assertive, Opel-ish beak, and you have the Changfeng Qi Ling CP1A that'll be unveiled this weekend at the Beijing Motor Show. According to thetycho.com, the CP1A designation is simply a code name, and t......

Who would have thought that Pixar would turn out to be a prophet of the automotive industry? In creating its talking automobiles for the computer-animated film Cars, the Disney-associated studio might have done just that, as a group of engineering students in England have demonstrated.The team at Ca......

You've heard this point before, but despite the price of gas being at record levels, adjusted for inflation, it's still not the most expensive we've ever paid for dead-dino juice in the U.S. The Auto Prophet, one of the original auto-related bloggers that's still keepin' it real, found this informat......

Spurred by high fuel prices, New Jersey governor Jon Corzine has introduced a plan to decrease fuel prices that would bring back the 55 MPH speed limit. OK, so it's only a proposal, and it's only one state, but pundits suggest that something like this could spread like wildfire in today's current ti......

This is what we call an insiders blog. We wondered how good The Auto Prophet would be to the automotive realm when he came on the scene not too long ago. Today he says he's heard (yes it's a rumor) that the new Lincoln Zephyr will get a larger 3.5 L Duratec engine. This powertrain will follow the re......

The Auto Prophet took a trip to the SAE Congress in Detroit yesterday. He reports back on Bob Lutz's comments and a lot of the going ons of engineering stuff. "We are actually training our engineers to be managers, while the rest of the world trains them to be doers." OK Lutz than do something about......

One type of blog has sorely been missing from the world of auto related blogging, an industry insider blog like Scoble for Microsoft. Now, we car enthusiasts have our own Scoble. The Auto Prophet is anonymous which would be cool if he didn't have this disclaimer in his first post: "I will not, as a ......