Honda confirmed today that it will begin selling its CR-Z “sporty hybrid” in Japan in February 2010 and the Fit Hybrid before the end of next year. That will expand the second-largest Japanese automakers hybrid lineup, which currently consists of the Insight and the Civic hybrid. Separately, Honda also confirmed that it is working on [...]
General Motors Company CEO Fritz Henderson has been very vocal about his dislike for rebadging. He has repeatedly denied that the now dead Pontiac G8 would not be rebadged or imported as a Cadillac, Buick or Chevrolet. However, ‘unretired’ Bob Lutz is back and he’s telling the media that the G8 will live on. In [...]
As General Motors and Ford move their full-sized sedans to global platforms, a modest downsizing of their vehicles is likely to occur. Ford, which recently launched the redesigned 2010 Taurus, is already planning on moving the next-generation model to a smaller platform at the end of the current model’s cycle. Sources say that FoMoCo is [...]
Not a very exciting week in terms of photos this week; however we did get a look at the new 2010 Jaguar XJ, with brand spankin’ new images of the Aston Martin DBS Volante. You can also check out images from our review of the 2010 Ford Mustang GT. Click through for the list of [...]
One thing that angers most car buyers are the additional features that automakers add in the mid-life-cycle update of a vehicle that they end up missing out on. So while you Tesla Roadster owners are driving around thinking you’re so special for helping out the environment, Tesla Motors is about to burst your bubble. According [...]
Porsche and Nissan have been going at each other for a while now claiming to have beaten each other at Nurburgring Nordschleife lap times. In the latest development, the Nissan GT-R recently lapped Green Hell in 7:26.7. Nonetheless, that’s still a bit slower than the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1′s 7:26.4. General Motors is also the proud [...]
What you’re looking at could be the first official photo of the upcoming Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Gullwing. Courtesy of German magazine AutoBild, this image is being touted as our first official look at the most extreme Benz ever built. Even if this photo is a computer rendering, we’re guessing that the final version shouldn’t be [...]
Toyota said this Friday that it may have to close its New United Motor Manufacturing (NUMMI) facility in California since General Motors has canceled its 50/50 partnership with the Japanese automaker. General Motors, which exited bankruptcy on Friday, left its NUMMI stake with other bad assets on their way to liquidations. “We are carefully evaluating [...]
According to a report by Motor Trend, Kia’s next-generation Amanti sedan will switch over from its front-wheel-drive platform to parent company Hyundai’s Genesis rear-wheel-drive platform. Besides embarrassing Ford, GM and Chrysler who have canceled their rear-wheel-drive sedan dreams in recent years, the Amanti rear-wheel-drive will come to the market as an affordable sedan with a [...]
Hyundai, which became the first automaker to honor the new Cars Allowance Rebate System (CARS) with a sale of a Hyundai Elantra Touring, announced today that the “Cash for Clunkers” program has accounted for seven percent of Hyundai’s sales in its first week. Hyundai said that 32 percent of the trade-in models were Ford vehicles [...]
