About 350 Saturn dealers will be receiving a letter this week offering them a chance to continue under the brand’s new owner, Penske Automotive Group. Owner Roger Penske signed an agreement to purchase Saturn from GM by the end of the third-quarter of 2009. “This doesn’t require them to sign an agreement,” spokesman Steve Janisse [...]
Volkswagen of America announced today that the 2009 Volkswagen CC received the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s Top Safety Pick award for 2009. To qualify for Top Safety Pick, a vehicle must earn the highest rating of good in the Institute’s front, side, and rear tests and be equipped with electronic stability control, which is standard [...]
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has granted a request to put a hold on the sale of Chrysler LLC to Fiat SpA. Ginsburg acted at just before the 4 p.m. EDT deadline from a U.S. appeals court in New York was due to expire. That order would have allowed Chrysler to proceed with [...]
It’s finally that time of the day where we get to throw you some random findings across the internet. Lewis Hamilton portrait painted with Mobile 1 oil: David Macaluso, an oil painter from the U.S., used the oil that drove Hamilton to his 2008 championship title to paint a portrait of the famous F1 race [...]
The Barack Obama administration and the former George Bush administration are in a battle of words over who is responsible for the collapse of Chrysler and General Motors. According to the Obama economic advisor Austin Goolsbee, who spoke on Fox News last night, the Obama administration turned down a pitch last November from Bush’s administration to publicly join forces [...]
According to 1Addicts forum member SCOTT26, BMW has some big plans for the next-generation BMW 1-series. The backbone of the whole plan is a new modular chassis that will spin-off a bunch of variants including a hybrid, SUV, a GranTurismo model (much like the 5-Series GT) and more. “BMW will spearhead the first premium line up [...]
Most of the media is focused on Apple’s WWDC announcements today and believe it or not, there is some automotive related headlines going down at Apple’s big show today. TomTom announced today that it is teaming up with Apple to produce a car kit and an official navigation application for the iPhone. The TomTom solution [...]
Last month, Bloomberg reported that Fuji Heavy Industries, producer of Subaru vehicles, will be introducing gasoline-hybrid models by 2012. Well, it seems like Subaru is going to go a little further than that. Subaru has announced that it will sell its Stella plug-in hybrid electric-car starting July. Subaru said that it will sell a total of [...]
Volkswagen announced today that its 2010 Golf GTD is officially on sale in the German market. The fourth model in the 2009 Golf lineup is the highest-performance production Golf with a diesel engine today. Power comes from a 170-hp TDI engine that gives it the ability to go from 0 to 62 mph in 8.1 seconds with [...]
General Motors said today that it will stop building medium-duty trucks at its Flint Assembly plant by July 31. GEM CEO Fritz Henderson said that the automaker was unable to find a buyer for the operation. It had been searching for a buyer for the last four years. The Flint factory employs some 2,100 people, [...]
