General Motors Company is planning to see U.S. auto sales grow by 2 million next year. The company’s Vice President Brent Dewar said GM is projecting U.S. sales of 10.5 million vehicles for 2009 and 12.5 million in 2010 as consumer confidence begins to show improvement. He said that while the government’s Cash for Clunkers [...]
German tuner 9ff, creators of the 9ff GT9 and the 9ff GT9-R, are reportedly taking orders on a convertible version of latter. Power will come from the same 4.0L flat-6 used in the 9ff GT9-R that has two massive turbos to produce 1,120-hp with a peak torque of 774 lb-ft. The coupe sibling is known [...]
Following the teaser video we saw two nights ago, the first official teaser image of BMW’s Vision EfficientDynamics Concept has hit the Internet. BMW is remaining very tight-lipped about the concept that is scheduled to debut next month at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show. All we know so far is that the concept will host [...]
Chrysler Group LLC said yesterday that it is now confident enough about its business to accept product defect claims that arise on vehicles built before its sale process was completed on June 10, 2009. The Auburn Hills automaker said that it will take on product liability claims on vehicles built by the old Chrysler Chrysler Group [...]
has been a while since we’ve heard anything on the sale of Hummer. Sources today are saying that China’s Tengzhong may finalize a deal with General Motors as early as next week to acquire the U.S. automaker’s Hummer brand. A source familiar with the deal said that Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery has been in detailed negotiations [...]
United Auto Workers President, Ron Gettelfinger, is questioning Toyota Motor Corp’s final decision to close it New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. facility just after benefiting from the government’s cash-for-clunkers program. The plant was originally jointly operated by GM and Toyota before GM pulled out earlier this year. “It’s unfortunate the company chose to close a [...]
Mahindra & Mahindra is gearing up for the U.S. launch of its diesel pickup; however, we’ve always wondered how these compact diesel trucks would live up to the high-exceptions of American pickup buyers. Luckily, Mike Levine of PickupTrucks.com decided to get behind one of these small diesel pickups from India to give us the low-down on how [...]
It’s that time of the day where we take a little break and you enjoy some of the random things we’ve found around the internet. Bikini car-wash for hybrids only: Angry Green Girl, a sustainable lifestyle promoter, and her hot bikini model friends hosted a free hybrids-only car wash in LA to celebrate the launch of [...]
Don’t worry, we hate when automakers release a billion teasers of their new vehicle before the actual debut date. However, these Honda Accord Crosstour teasers will only last another 3 days. Honda will officially take the wraps off of its Toyota Venza competitor on September 1st. Sales will begin in fall 2009. Spy Shots: Honda [...]
By now most of you have probably seen the Mini Coupe Concept that will debut next month in Frankfurt. So what’s really going on with this concept and what is Mini thinking? In its press release Mini says that the Coupe Concept provides an “unusually attractive vision of how the model family may well develop [...]
