The 2012 Ford Focus, complete with recycled blue jeans, is expected to receive a 40-mpg highway rating.

FORBES: Ford Focus Uses Recycled Jeans

It was a rainy morning in Silicon Valley, and Thiel, in a windbreaker and jeans, was at the wheel of his dark-blue Mercedes SL500, trying to find an address in an industrial park between Highway 101 and the bay.

NEWYORKER: No Death, No Taxes