We briefly reported last week that a Chrysler dealer in Detroit has agreed to start selling small pickup trucks made by India”s Mahindra & Mahindra. Chrysler’s move to cut 789 dealers from its dealership network has provided the Indian automaker and truck manufacturer to enter the U.S. market fairly quickly. Another retailer in Detroit, Tibor Gyarmati of [...]
Following their first amusing trailer for Season 13, the Top Gear kids crew is bag again. This time baby Clarkson, Hammond and May are hanging out in a school playground when The Stig (aka Michael Schumacher) passes by is a toy car. “Don’t say much – does he?” Click through for the video.
Slowing down or even stopping passerbys in their tracks is nothing new to Brad Pitt. Using Pitt’s popularity to their advantage, the Russian traffic police is now using cutouts of the Hollywood’s stars face to slow down drivers in the most dangerous intersection in the city of Omsk. Traffic accidents in Russia are amongst the [...]
GM has unveiled a new tagline in its new round of commercials for the 2010 Buick LaCrosse. “Take a look at me now” says Buick in the 30-second Buick spot to “tease” the new LaCrosse sedan. Do you agree? Let us know what you think in the comments section below and check out the video [...]
After bringing us a 600-hp SA-600 based on the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS, Artisan Performance has teamed up with Reed Speed to offer a high-performance, modified 2010 Ford Mustang GT. With a pair of GTK350 turbochargers, the V8 Mustang GT puts out an estimated 700-hp to the wheels. The tuning team will also offer upgraded brakes [...]
Following the U.S. House, the U.S. Senate passed a scaled-back $1 billion Cash for Clunkers bill and has sent it to President Barack Obama for his signature. According to Automotive News, the 91-5 vote took place after 5 p.m., after Republicans attempted to strip the auto proposal from a $106 billion war bill aimed to [...]
Vodaphone has launched their new Taxi Grand Prix fantasy racing campaign. Users can log on to the Taxi Grand Prix website, pick their team of taxi drivers and must have them finish the race before anyone else to win. The distance traveled by each taxi driver in real life is added to the player’s total points [...]
When you think about the Toyota Venza, Honda’s upcoming CUV model makes a lot more sense. The 2010 Honda CrossTour was recently spotted by a man on vacation in the Smokies. Detroit News is now confirming that the car 2010 CrossTour will enter production in September at Honda’s East Liberty factory in Ohio. The model [...]
We’re just a couple of days away from Top Gear season 13 and while us U.S. folks will have to wait a while to catch the episodes legally or illegally – Season 13 seems to have a lot of exciting stuff in store for fans. Besides stunts pulled by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James [...]
Audi continues to tease us with images of the 2010 Audi A5 Sportback prior to its 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show debut. The German automaker has now released a video of Wolfgang Egger, it’s head of design, sketching out the A5 Sportback. We’re pretty excited to see how the real thing will look in September – [...]
