![Electric Sliding: Chris Harris Hoons the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Electric Drive [Video]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/video_still_055.jpg)
A few weeks ago we brought you a video from the Drive channel in which Chris Harris wrung out the new Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Series during its press launch event at France’s Circuit Paul...
Tag Archives: Electric Cars
The Tesla Roadster was a milestone car for many reasons. First, it proved that the term “electric sports car” didn’t have to be an oxymoron. Second, it proved that there was a market (albeit a...
![Clairvoyant Cabs: Tesla Model S Takes on the Citroën DS [Video]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/video_still_046.jpg)
When it comes to groundbreaking, hyper-innovative cars, they’re usually high-dollar, low-practicality curiosities. Rarely do you see automakers make radical departures from design and engineering orthodoxy on mainstream models like family sedans. Pushing the envelope too...
A traditional post-Thanksgiving rite here in Southern California (along with shopping on Black Friday, all the while hoping you aren’t trampled, stabbed, shot etc.) is the Los Angeles Auto Show. Granted, it’s not a very...
Ah, Paris in the autumn. The temperatures are dropping, the leaves are turning to varying shades and saturations of crimson and, if the year ends in an even number, the automotive world is converging upon...
From 1963 to 1969, Ford embarked on a marketing initiative called “Total Performance.” This campaign was built around not only Ford’s involvement in pretty much every major racing series on this dihydrogen monoxide-rich orb (NASCAR,...
![Eco Cars – Why All the Confusion? [UK Edition]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/image-63118_0-335x256.jpg)
Last year, Britain made ecological history by electing its first Green MP. However, this environmental friendliness is yet to transfer to the motoring world. Since the emergence of eco cars, there has been much ambiguity...
![Cadillac Converj Plug-in Hybrid Headed for Production as the ELR [w/ Video]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/cadillac-elr-1_653_0-335x256.jpg)
It wasn’t that long ago that luxury used to be all about conspicuous consumption, particularly in the automotive realm. It was a never-ending race of who could construct the biggest body, the brawniest engine, and...
Up until very recently, electric cars had a reputation of being slow, unexciting transportation appliances (This despite the fact the fastest car in the world from 1898 to 1904 was a French electric car, the...
Behaving like a caveman coming upon an iPad for the first time, my initial experience with the 2011 Lexus GS450h was as much disorienting as it was awe-inspiring. As I pushed the Start button, watching...