Who says we at The Thin Green Line don't have a little grease under our fingernails?

Everyone? O.K., you're right. We can barely check our own tire pressure without help.

But that's OK. Living and writing in a car town and trying to convince car folks, who judge a vehicle by things like horsepower and torque, that they should also be worried about emissions is no easy task.

Not that we're complaining.....OK, maybe we are a little bit.

Anyway, in attempt to convince car folks that green can be cool, we present this link, to a slideshow on the New York Times web site, from which we have shamelessly and boldly copied the above photo. No, it's real and it's green baby. Go check it out.

But also, because we cannot completely deny our inner geek, we also present the below photo which, we confess, we think is cool too. It was dubbed "the itty bitty city car."

Come on. You have to admit, it's kind of cute, like the car equivalent of a kitten, but a kitten you can drive!