When it comes to German performance, engineering and quality Porsche is one automaker that will never disappoint – so it’s no surprise that Porsche held the No.1 spot on J.D. Power and Associates Initial Quality Study for three consecutive years until Lexus took the title in 2009. Porsche has something else to be proud of [...]
A little while back Japan’s Best Car Magazine reported that Honda is working on an AWD (Honda’s Super Handling All-Wheel-Drive system) successor to the S2000 that will be powered by a powerful 4-cylinder engine mated to a hybrid system similar to the one found on the Honda Insight. In its latest report, Best Car says [...]
MR Car Design from Erftstadt, a town in Cologne in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis, Land of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, has come out with a tuning packing for the new 2010 Volkswagen Golf GTI that tickles our fancy (British style). Their performance package consists of a MRCD software that costs €949 ($1,339 USD) and increases output from 211-hp to 260-hp. [...]
Jaguar said today that it will cut 300 jobs at its Halewood plant in the north of England as it stops production of the X-Type sedan due sluggish demand in the auto industry. The X-Type, of which Jaguar has sold more than 350,000 units of in 8-years, had originally been scheduled to see production until mid-2010. [...]
One of the most outstanding attractions at the Goodwood Festival of Speed is the Sunday Times Supercar Runs. This year, former British race-car drive Derek Bell took the Bentley Continental Supersports around the track. Just to point out how good Bell is, the man is a 5 time winner of Le Mans and also raced in Formula One [...]
A Kia dealership has donated a Soul to the Sussex Police of southern England. Known as the Kia Soul Shaker, the car will be used by Horsham South’s community police team to patrol the streets in a fuel-efficient manner. The Soul Shaker is colored in a vanilla-cream color and is fitted with 18-inch alloy wheels, privacy glass [...]
We already know that the much-loved Pontiac G8 may be rebadged as a Chevrolet Caprice. We actually found some additional details while digging through our notes from the live chat with Bob Lutz that we participated in earlier this week. When asked if he would elaborate on potential plans to keep the Pontiac G8 and rebadge [...]
A new study conducted by California-based sales consultancy firm, Pied Piper, found that Mercedes-Benz and Lexus rank the highest when it comes to measuring how well U.S. car shoppers were treated in dealer showrooms, whether they bought a new car or not. Mercedes-Benz and Lexus tied for first place, followed by Jaguar, Saturn and Land [...]
GM announced today that it plans on investing about $1 billion in Brazil through 2012 to develop a new family of models for South America. The bulk of the $1 billion will be invested in the company’s Gravatai factory in Rio Grande do Sul, which it will expand to increase production capacity. The investment is [...]
Mike Kimberley, CEO of Group Lotus, announced today that he will be stepping down from his role due to an ongoing back problem. 71-year old Kimberley has been suffering from sever back pain for a number of months and underwent surgery in late 2008, which was partially successful. His doctor has now advised him to retire [...]
