Metro Networks, the traffic data people, announced Tuesday their Top 10 list of the Worst Holiday Traffic Tie-ups. Plan your trip accordingly! Here they are: New York City - Throgs Neck Bridge and Whitestone Bridge Los Angeles - I-5 northbound through Van Nuys and Castaic, and southbound through Orange County Chicago - Borman Expressway and the Tri-State Tollway (Bonus! The Tollway is under construction!) Philadelphia - I-476 heading to the Pocono

This is the most extraordinary thing I've see in a long while. It's a meticulously crafted model of a V8 engine. Made of paper. And it runs! The model is powered by a small electric motor at around 3-4 rpm. It was developed by Montreal artist Yee, who creates remarkable things from paper. More after the jump.

News that GM will show a Camaro concept at the upcoming Detroit show isn't, well, news; however, if indeed it's riding on a stretched Kappa chassis, that would indeed qualify as a bit of a surprise. When Bob Lutz recently hinted that a growth spurt wasn't in the platform's future, that naturally led many (or at least myself) to assume that any future GM ponycar would ride on a derivative of the it's-off-no-it's-on-again Zeta platform (which itself is more a set of components and geometry,

Long-time DaimlerChrysler anchor shareholder Deutsche Bank sold more than a third of its shares Tuesday, cutting its stake in the automaker to less than 5 percent. The $1.26 billion transaction leaves the Emirate of Kuwait as DaimlerChrysler's largest shareholder, with 7.2 percent. The bank's departure leaves DaimlerChrysler as one of the few major carmakers without a dominant investor, which could make it a takeover target. Hedge funds currently hold between 10 and 15 percent o

Job cuts at the automakers grab the headlines, but one might say that the real impact around the midwest has been felt by those who work at suppliers. The ruthless cost-cutting that's being pushed down the supply chain usually ends up focusing attention on labor costs (direct and indirect), even for those products where a high labor content isn't an inherent feature of the part. The solution tends to be the same across the industry; instead of focusing on reducing labor costs through prod

Little information other than what we can glean from the pictures, but what we can see shows that the new Santa Fe is a huge improvement over the current version. Hyundai's Santa Fe-dedicated website is here (warning - lots of Flash). Autoblog reader Source1 reports that a Hyundai dealer told him that we can expect two engines, a 3.3-liter putting out 240-250 hp, and a 3.8-liter with 275-285 hp. Much more after the jump!

announced yesterday that it will again provide U.S. racing fans with December 3 live coverage of the Race of Champions - Nation's Cup. The 18th annual event is the traditional end-of-season showdown for 19 selected racing and rally drivers, competing head-to-head on parallel tracks inside the Stade de France in Paris. Centrix Financial, sponsor of Team USA, selected NASCAR's Jeff Gordon and X-Games champ (and rally driver) Travis Pastrana to re