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What Americans want, according to Fiat design boss Ramaciotti

American cars are big; European cars are small. And it's always been that way. But that old distinction may be diminishing, says Fiat Group design boss Lorenzo Ramaciotti.

Chevrolet Volt uses parts made from oil-collecting booms

General Motors is transforming about 100 miles of boom material used to soak up oil in the Gulf of Mexico into auto parts for the Chevrolet Volt. The oil-soaked plastic material collected off the Alabama and Louisiana coasts will keep more than 100,000 pounds of waste from the nation's landfills. The project is expected to make enough plastic to supply the first-year production of Volts with plastic parts for under the hood.

Driverless cars approved in Nevada

O, dun-and-rust-colored Nevada, ye land of permissibility and phenomenal real-estate collapse. O land whose capital is named for wayfaring adventurer Kit Carson, whose Las Vegas stands as a shining beacon of unfortunate Americana. And lo, your roads, brim-packed with autonomous vehicles.