Porsche has just released some new videos and images of the 2010 Porsche 911 Turbo. By now you’re probably already prepared to click through and watch the videos so we’re going to wrap this one up here with a quick refresher. Refresher: Power comes from a 3.8L flat-six boxer turbocharged engine making 500-hp with a maximum torque [...]
During his first major address to the U.S. audience, Toyota’s new president and CEO Akio Toyoda confirmed that the company will be offering an affordable, fun-to-drive sports car for the American market within a few years. Of course, most of us know that he’s talking about the Toyobaru – internally known as the 086A. What we missed [...]
A Longview, Texas based tuner is working on a turbocharged version of the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro V6 and has dreams of beating the Nissan GT-R around the Nurburgring Nordschliefe. Instead of going the V8 route, East Texas Muscle Cars is building one-off turbocharged V6 Camaro to prove the program’s capabilities. With the help of a forged crank, [...]
GM and eBay announced today that they will be launching a new program tomorrow that will allow new car shoppers to “Click and Buy” new cars, crossovers, pickups from over 225 California Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick, GMC and Pontiac dealers. Consumers will be able to ask questions, negotiate prices, and arrange financing on a new 2008, [...]
There has been a huge amount of government funding given out recently, primarily in the form of grants, for automakers to explore battery technology. Toyota Motor Corp. however, sought none of it because they have no plans on moving that work out of Japan at this time. Toyota said that it does support the government’s [...]
According to Larry Dominique, vice president of product planning for Nissan North America Inc., Nissan plans to price the new LEAF electric-car to compete with $25,000 to $33,000 mass-market cars in the United States. Dominique said that does not include any government incentives offered to buyers, reports Automotive News. “Competitive pricing is going to allow mass-market appeal, which is [...]
Tesla Motors has announced that it turned profitable for the first time in July, shipping a record 109 vehicles during the month. The company said that it attained overall corporate profitability with approximately $1 million of earnings on revenue of $20 million. Tesla said that profitability arose primarily from improved gross margin on the Roadster 2, [...]
Just last week we told you about Bob Lutz’s aggressive goals to overhaul GM’s advertising, which will include using the Internet to develop viral ad campaigns. Well, here is GM’s first viral ad campaign that is taking the Web by storm. An image of the number 230, with an image of an electric plug outlet as [...]
Closing off our first full week of August 2009, it’s time for the “Week in Photos” post. This week check out photos of the new 2010 Nissan LEAF EV, Elite Aston Martin LMV/R, Mazda MX-5 Superlight Concept, Gemballa Mirage GT Gold Edition, 2010 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Estate, 2010 Porsche 911 Turbo and Devon GTX. Click through for [...]
The 2010 Chevrolet Camaro, which outsold the 2010 Ford Mustang this past June and July by over 2,000 units, has fared worse than the Mustang in NHTSA crash test rating. Though the crash test rating is not generally a major selling point of cars in the pony segment, any advantage helps, right? The Camaro received [...]
