Honestly, we’ve lost count of how many Nissan GT-R accidents we’ve posted about but another one is joining our collection today. Details are sketchy, but an owner of a silver Nissan GT-R crashed into an ATM after climbing four steps. The accident happened in Vancouver, Canada. If you have any details – share them with [...]
General Motors Company’s head of U.S. sales, Mark LaNeve, will be resigning his position as of Oct. 15. “Mark’s going to join another company to pursue an interest outside the auto industry,” GM CEO Fritz Henderson said during a conference call earlier today. LaNeve, 50, was appointed vice president of vehicle sales, service and marketing [...]
Lotus’ new CEO, Dany Bahar, said that he plans to build on the Hethel firm’s strong heritage to bring back the success it once had in the 1970s. “Lotus was mentioned in the same sentence as Ferrari, Lamborghini and Maserati in the 1970s-1990s,” he recently told reporters. “Then, it got closed into a corner. We [...]
The Ferrari 458 Italia is on sale in the Europe later this year with prices starting at €162,900 ($239,242 USD). While we wait for Ferrari to reveal the official pricing for the U.S. market, we can kill some time by playing with the newly launched Ferrari 458 Italia Configurator. Head over to the Ferrari 458 [...]
UK based publication AutoCar reports that McLaren Automotive’s permission application for its MP4-12C assembly plant included plans that showed a shopfloor area given over to a “˜Webasto RHT Sub Assembly.’ What the heck does that mean? Webasto is known for its subsidiary OASys (Open Air Systems), which is responsible for producing convertible tops and roof modules. [...]
Toyota released a short press release today saying that Lexus is scheduled to show a two-seat performance car at the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show later this month. Yes, we kind of knew that already and the two-seat supercar is none other than the Lexus LF-A. Yesterday, Toyota dropped a bunch of details on its new FT-86 [...]
Californians, traditionally known for not embracing vehicles out of Motown, have unexpectedly taken a liking to the redesigned 2010 Ford Taurus, says freep.com. Launched two months ago, the Taurus ‘s second-best selling market for September was California, coming in behind metro Detroit. “That”s a significant change for us,” Amy Marentic, Ford’s marketing manager for large [...]
The U.S. trade panel plans to investigate an allegation that Toyota Motor Crop has infringed patented technology to make its hybrid vehicles. The U.S. International Trade Commission said that Paice LLC, based in Florida, has asked it to order Toyota to stop using the infringing technology to produce its hybrids and to bar imports on [...]
Dealers cut from the networks of Chrysler and GM have been championing for reinstatement for sometime now, as the Treasury was compelled to get involved with an audit some weeks ago. Chrysler, after two meetings, seems to be at a stalemate with their dealers, while GM on the other hand, has struck a common chord [...]
With the death of Pontiac and now Saturn, GM’s rear-wheel-drive based Kappa-platform has been left to die – until now. According to our friends at Jalopnik, DeLorean Motor Company is planning on using the Kappa-platform for its upcoming car. “JZD always said that the best memories of his automotive career were at Pontiac, and that [...]
