Don't Get Too Amorous While Listening to This Automotive Podcast While Driving

The end of year awards season kicked off with Motor Trend's Car of the Year: It's the 2014 Cadillac CTS.



How much do those awards boost sales? It's hard to say, but October auto sales remained strong in the U.S. and that demand pushed up transaction prices as well.

The SEMA show in Las Vegas is a place where you can see cars that won't ever get sold, at least not for road use.

The outrageous designs probably inspired J Mays in his younger days. The famous designer is now retiring from Ford.

Many of his designs ended up in car rental fleets. Hopefully, they are in the better rental car companies.

Highway deaths are on the decline again, with the number of traffic fatalities falling for the first six months of 2013.

There are lots of things that you can do behind the wheel, but should you? And why would you want to? One of those things is wear your Google Glass while driving, which might get you a ticket.

You Can't Afford Not to Lease This All-Electric Automotive Podcast

We rolled out the car sales jingle this month and for good reason. It was a record breaker for auto sales with big jumps for most companies and a battle among mid-size sedans.

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Low interest rates may have had a role in the sales surge, but they were probably offset by lower incentives and higher transaction prices.

This is the first month that we spend time breaking down sales of plug-in electrics, and Tesla is leading the charge. Their plan to roll-out lease deals may help the electric-car maker hold on to its lead in the market.

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But it may have more competition soon with Detroit Electric, a brand that hasn't been around for more than 75 years, introducing a new electric vehicle that is very similar to how Telsa started.

Perhaps adding them to rental fleets, as GM and other car companies are doing, could juice awareness and sales.

Finally, please pay attention to the fact that daydreaming and being lost in thought while behind the wheel may be a more likely cause of accidents than talking on your cellphone.

This Automotive Podcast Wishes It Took Home Even a Used Lamborghini From the Geneva Auto Show

The Geneva auto show is turning in to one of the more interesting shows and not surprisingly for one of the wealthiest countries in the world, the place where many very high end luxury cars are introduced. We look at four in particular from Ferrari, Lamborghini, Rolls-Royce and Bentley that we expect to make an impression on the market. Plus a cool Kia that caught our fancy and some significant vehicles for the rest of us.

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One vehicle that is even more radical is this one that can be printed using the latest 3-D printers. We might need to start printing money if the market for used cars continues to be as tight as it is right now.

Since most of us can't buy a fancy new car, we're looking at renting them -- even a Porsche -- to get a brief taste of luxury.

Car or scooter or both? Toyota's i-Road

But don't crash one, because in many towns that will cost you even more because new taxes are being levied to cover the cost of emergency services. Perhaps these five new technologies will make it easier to avoid those crash taxes.

It looks like most new cars will have Internet access in about five years, and that is raising privacy concerns because it will make it easier to access the data that cars are already connecting.

Finally, a new social network for cars and their owners seems like a solution to a rare problem and we think probably won't catch on.

Swipe, Dial, Tap or Yell at This Automotive Podcast

Saab isn't dead yet. Well, we're not sure yet. But someone does appear interested in buying the guts of the Swedish car maker, yet again.

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Speaking of questionable, car rental companies aren't eager to make the commitment to fix all recalls on their fleets with great urgency.

Now, Apple is getting into the vehicular infotainment business by partnering with auto makers to offer a Siri button in cars and trucks. But will the fact that it will only work with Apple products limit it's appeal? Or annoy non-Apple users?

See more in this clever mirror.

Dial, voice, touch-screen, joystick, knob, touch-pad? Which one works better to control the infotainment system? The jury is still out.

Will iOS 6 kill some of the best driver and car-related apps? Possibly.

Vision is crucial to drivers. An ingenious new mirror shows vastly more than your traditional design.

The World Health Organization is warning that diesel fumes could be cancer causing to people who stand in the middle of highways collecting tolls or work in a mine. We are not shocked.

Finally, Formula One is coming back to the U.S. next year, and one driver got in some early laps this week at the track in New Jersey.

Rest Assured, This Podcast Won't Save Your Life, But It Will Be Entertaining

Obama has called for the government to start buying only alternative-fuel vehicles starting in 2015 as part of an effort to reduct overseas oil imports by a third by 2025. We agree that this is a good idea. What do you think?

Speed cameras stink, even in Australia.

Hyundai make a big splash two years ago by offering to take back cars from buyers who lose their jobs. That was at the beginning of the Korean car company's recent surge. With the economy rebounding, Hyundai has decided to end the offer, and only 350 people took advantage of the offer.

Telsa wants its day in court with Top Gear. The electric-car maker is suing the U.K. car show for showing the company's Roadster car running out of electricity and slowing to a halt in a race.

Another legal snarl is happening in South Carolina where a greedy town has set up speed cameras on I-95 and is mailing drivers tickets.

GM's OnStar and Chevrolet made a splash by touting Facebook integration in the new Cruze, but a NYTimes reviewer said the system isn't ready to be liked because of text-to-speech limitations.

Men may like GPS systems, but they don't trust them according to a U.K. study.

You may not want to trust rental-car companies. NHTSA is investigating whether they are keeping up with vehicle recalls.

Finally, a truck driver ruined his safe-driving record but saved his own life in a crash recently.

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