The 248-hp Tesla Roadster is an already expensive vehicle with pricing starting at $101,500. However, it allows you to go from 0 to 60 in 3.9 seconds, is 100 percent electric and allows you to travel 244 miles before you need to plug it in. What’s better than a Tesla Roadster? A Tesla Roadster Sport. [...]
It seems like automakers are getting used to the idea of using Facebook to slowly tease products before their official debut date. Honda has just dropped the first teaser for its upcoming Honda Accord Crosstour, scheduled to debut September 1. The 2010 Honda Accord Crosstour Facebook fan page has 2,336 fans at the moment that [...]
In the Web 2.0 era, anybody with the slightest bit of business acumen can make money on eBay. There is an exception however; Fritz Henderson. During the first nine days of GM’s foray into the world of eBay sales, 16,228 cars had been listed on the site, with 45 selling on the site. “I’ve sold [...]
While Cash-For-Clunkers has been wildly successful at driving traffic to auto-dealer’s showrooms across the country, the increase in ‘business’ has yet to be realized by many, if not most dealers around the country. According to approximately two-thirds of respondents to an Automotive News survey, payment has been received for fewer than 3 percent of total [...]
We’re not fans of low-res images – at all – so you can probably understand how disappointed we were when Noble released its new M600 yesterday with a bunch of 583px x 437px images. To satisfy our needs and your desktop wallpaper needs, Noble has finally released high-res images of the Noble M600, which will [...]
BMW has released its first commercial for the upcoming 2011 BMW X1 called “Joy is the new BMW X1.” Refresher: The BMW X1 will hit markets next year and will be available with three engine choices. Kicking of the lineup is the xDrive20d, which is powered by a 177-hp diesel engine. Second is the xDrive23d, which [...]
Electric-car fans, or more so Tesla Motors fans, can now rejoice. The electric-car maker’s former CEO Martin Eberhard has voluntarily requested that his lawsuit against the company and its new CEO, Elon Musk, be dropped. Eberhard requested that the suit be dropped on Aug. 7, according to his lawyer Yosef Peretz. Peretz declined to comment on [...]
When the 2010 Mazdaspeed3 made its debut earlier this year in Geneva, we were pretty disappointed to see the same 260-hp 2.3L DISI Turbo 4-cylinder engine powering the “hot-hatch.” However, our depression came to rest when we learned that Mazda was working on a Mazdaspeed3 “Evolution,” a faster and more powerful version. To our disappointment, [...]
Remember Motor Trend’s Best-Handling Car multipage feature? Well, the publication announced today that from here on out, the feature will now be known as Motor Trend’s Best Driver’s Car. “Motor Trend is not looking for the quickest car over the quarter mile, the car that pulls the highest lateral g through a turn, or even [...]
In an effort to increase fuel-economy across its lineup by 30 percent by 2015, Mazda will introduce more fuel-efficient powertrains by 2011. The Japanese automaker is working on developing a range of 4-cylinder and rotary engines that are expected to increase fuel-economy of its vehicles, reports Automotive News. Seita Kanai, head of Mazda’s r&d, said [...]
