As we told you earlier this morning, we’re test-driving the new 2009 Solstice Coupe GXP this whole week. We’ve already received a bunch of questions via Twitter on the site. So here are some of the answers. Pat: How hard is it take the roof on and off…. GM says that one person can do it alone? Have [...]
Last month, we were officially told that the Pontiac G8 will not survive as a Chevrolet Caprice. “I”d mentioned it, and said we were studying it, giving it a serious look, because a car like the G8 was just too good to waste,” said Lutz. “That”s all still true. But I have to say that, [...]
According to company sources, family owners of coachbuilder Pininfarina have hired Italy’s Banca Leonardo to sell their majority stake in the company. Pincar, the Pininfarina family company, will sell its 50.7 percent stake in the company as a part of a debt agreement made with banks at the end of 2008. “It is a commitment Pincar made with [...]
We had our first look at the Kia cee’d last month. Kia has now dropped additional images of its new cee’d prior to its 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show debut next month. The car is scheduled to go on sale in the UK in Oct. with a new ECO-dynamics model. For the first time, the cee’d [...]
According to Japanese newspaper Yomiuri, Toyota Motor Corp plans to raise its global output target by 3 percent to 6.5 million units for the fiscal year ending March 2010. The paper said that Toyota’s inventory adjustment efforts have ran their course and sales are picking up due to various government incentives for new car shoppers. [...]
General Motors President and CEO Fritz Henderson has a public webcast planned for tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. EDT. However, before that (earlier today) GM held a little low-key event with its PR team, some of the public and some social media leaders. According to some chatter around Twitter, GM showed the group a new Cadillac [...]
Just two days ago we saw the first spy shots of the upcoming BMW concept that is scheduled to make its debut at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show next month. However, the shots showed the BMW concept wearing a silver car cover so we hardly got to see anything at all. Thank to Jon Sibal, [...]
Chrysler’s Dodge Viper business, which is now fully owned by Fiat, will continue on with its 2009 model year lineup and is expected to switch over to the 2010 model year in January. According to sources, Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne has big plans for the Viper brand and thinks it could potentially be to Dodge [...]
Volvo has confirmed that it is working on an all electric-version of the C30 hatchback, which will make its debut at the Innovation for Life event held shortly after the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show next month. “The all-electric C30 is a car we have talked about previously and formed the basis of the Recharge concept [...]
Last month, General Motors Company shut the doors on its Boxwood plant in Delaware. The plant was responsible for building GM”s Kappa-platform roadster, the Pontiac Solstice, Saturn Sky and this… the 2009 Pontiac Solstice Coupe. We just picked up our press car, a 2009 Solstice Coupe GXP on Friday. Why? Well, think of this as a farewell [...]
