Yesterday, we saw the official unveiling of the 2011 BMW X1, which will be coming here to the United States in early 2011. The U.S. is expected to get only the gasoline variant, known as the X1 xDrive28i. Power comes from a 3.0 straight-six gasoline engine making 258-hp and 228 lb-ft of torque. 0 to 62 mph [...]
Last month, we heard reports that Nissan is working on a special-edition yellow Nurburgring edition 370Z. Turns out that Nissan 370Z Yellow has nothing to do with the Nurburgring and everything to do with the European GT4 series. Along with an Ultimate Yellow paint job, the 370Z gets design cues inspired by the European GT4 [...]
Chrysler Group LLC and Fiat SpA’s CEO Sergio Marchionne recently said that the new partnership between the two companies will bring back the Alfa Romeo brand to North America to compete against luxury European cars. The new CEO is hard at work at his Chrysler Group LLC office, sharing details on his vision to use [...]
McLaren Chairman Ron Dennis recently announced plans for a new facility that will build a “range of high-performance, high-technology sports cars.” The McLaren Production Center (MPC), will be capable of building 20 McLaren sports cars per day while creating 800 new jobs. McLaren said that the MPC will release its first “high performance and highly [...]
As you already know by now, we took delivery of the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS yesterday. We’ve been out test-driving and having fun in it and it is now time to provide you with some updates along with some random findings we’ve come across on the Internet. 2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS: Unfortunately, the 2010 Camaro [...]
Hyundai announced today that it is “leading the way” on the government’s Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS), otherwise known as ‘Cash for Clunkers.’ It said that a Virginia dealership was the first to trade-in an eligible clunker for a new Hyundai, where a customer replaced her 15 mile-per-gallon 1995 Ford Explorer with a 26 mile-per-gallon Hyundai [...]
GM’s partnership with Segway to create the Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility (PUMA) came in at number 1 on Fortune’s list of the ‘Dumbest Moments in Business 2009.’ “It became clear this spring that General Motors was going to have to get smaller to survive, but this was ridiculous,” says Fortune. “A week after President Obama [...]
Currently, in accordance with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 108, a vehicle’s rear-turn signal can be either amber or red. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is wondering what the public thinks about a new proposed regulation that would mandate a vehicle’s rear turn signal to an amber-only standard. NHTSA says that amber turn signals have proven [...]
A company source told Reuters that Porsche is considering cutting production around the Christmas holidays at its main Zuffenhausen plant where it builds the 911 Carrera is built. “We have to think about this if car sales continue to develop like this and do not recover again,” the source said. The source mentioned that during the [...]
It’s smaller than the Ford Fiesta and it’s based on the Toyota iQ – sounds something like Aston Martin would never build right? Nonetheless, it is a reality and Aston Martin says that it won’t be making any mechanical changes to the base iQ model, which Toyota will provide the supercar automaker’s Gaydon facility. The [...]
