The Formula One 2010 grid is going to look a little different next year when you watch the fastest vehicles and their daring drivers take to the race track. There will be four new teams joining the Formula One fold in 2010. One will be an old friend who returns after a prolonged absence from a Formula One track, while the other three will be new entrees to the Formula One world.
Manor Grand Prix will begin the 2010 Formula One season with hopes of success on the Formula One grid, next to Team US and Campos Meta, who will also …read more

Formula One will be welcoming four new teams into the fold for the 2010 Formula One season and Lotus aims to be the best of the new teams that will be competing for the glory and fans of Formula One next year. Lotus technical director Mike Gascoyne made this clear as he announced on Tuesday, Lotus’s intention to return to the grid and once again take its place beside the best in Formula One. Lotus has been absent from the Formula One grid since the 1994 Formula One season but this new partnership with the Malaysian Government and business entrepreneurs …read more

I posted recently about the G-Wiz having undergone tweaking to make it a safer car. A reader called me to task for reporting one-side of the story and I promised I would look into it.

[Note: The facts in this post are currently under review. Look for future posts to decide if the testing done was on the up and up, or if this was a smokescreen used to draw popularity away from electric cars. See comments for more info.]
There’s a misconception about hybrid and electric cars being less safe than gasoline-powered vehicles that has a surprising hand in keeping sales down. Unfortunately, sometimes an example comes forward that fits a stereotype … and it hurts.
The G-Wiz, manufactured by India-based, Reva Electric Car Company, failed Europe’s [automobile] safety standards miserably, and got enough …read more