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Ford's tiny gas-sipper has the footprint of a laptop computer. The new 1.0-litre EcoBoost three-cylinder is turbocharged and patterned on the same technology used in much bigger vehicles, including Ford's F-150 pickup truck.

Jane Hickinbotham has decorated nearly every inch of her Geo Metro in a collage of Happy Meal toys, cartoon characters, mirrors, jewels, artificial grass, beads and other trinkets - all glued with silicone - and dubbed it Esmerelda Carllage.

I've driven a fair number of electrics over the last couple decades, beginning with General Motors' bullet-shaped 1991 Impact concept car and continuing through a progression of Geo Storm-based mules, prototype and production EV1s with both lead-acid and later range-doubling Ni-MH battery packs.

"The rig I won in was supposedly crushed into a cube and made into a coffee table by a guy named Howard Deathrage.

This guest post from Joel Berry is part of the "reader stories" feature at Get Rich Slowly.

According to a Missouri local news station , a high school senior converted his 1994 Geo Metro into an electric car by pulling out the gas engine and replacing it with an electric forklift engine he bought on eBay for around $200. Gibson spent $3,000 total in his electric car but said that if he were to do it again, he could do it for $2000. Add to ... (more)

Perhaps the only thing stranger than dropping a small block Chevy in an relatively unloved mini-SUV is the fact that more than one person has done it.

But one Northwest Missouri high school senior found a way to get nearly 200 miles per gallon in his transportation.

General Motors initially wanted to buy one-third of Isuzu Motors Ltd , which would give it the right to veto board decisions, but has scaled back how much of the Japanese company it might try to buy, according to a new Reuters report .

General Motors and Isuzu were partners for decades before parting ways in 2006. Even now, you can find the final hangover of an alliance that gave us vehicles like the Geo Storm and Chevrolet LUV in the GMC Canyon and Chevrolet Colorado smallish pickups.