According to PPG Industries, charcoal and other gray shades are considered silver. With that in mind, the silver color has become the most popular vehicle color in the world for the ninth consecutive year. PPG said that in North America, silver and charcoal saw a strong increase of 25 percent in 2009. White came in second [...]
After outselling the Ford Mustang for the third-consecutive month last month, the new 2010 Chevrolet Camaro has done it again in September with a total of 7,961 units sold. FoMoCo sold a total of 4,917 units of the Ford Mustang. In fact, the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro made it in to the Top 20 vehicles list [...]
Toyota’s President Akio Toyoda said that the No.1 Japanese automaker is “grasping for salvation” as it struggles to return profit. Toyota was targeting annual sales of 10 million vehicles and now expects sales of 7.3 million this year, down from 8.97 million in 2008. Toyoda said that Toyota is on the brink of “capitulation to irrelevance [...]
Chrysler Group LLC has agreed to temporarily stop giving out new dealer franchises in areas vacated by rejected dealerships. Negotiators in the talks between the automakers and dealer groups said that Chrysler made the statement Wednesday in the first private negotiation with dealers and lawmakers. The Auburn Hills automaker said its halt will last for the [...]
Besides feeling like they’re saving the world, some people purchase a hybrid vehicle for extra privileges – especially in California. The state lets hybrid owners enjoy the highway carpool lanes even when they’re traveling solo. However, as the saying goes, nothing lasts forever. 85,000 hybrid owners in California will see their special sticker, which let’s [...]
Looking to find the last place you parked your car? There’s app for that. Don’t want to walk to your car and want it to drive right up to you? There will probably be an app for that someday too. But for now, if you’re looking to honk your horn and lock and unlock your [...]
Do we really have to introduce this? I mean you guys probably already hit the jump and are already watching the video… so let’s just move forward with a little refresher. Refresher: Power comes from a 6.0L V12 engine making 470-hp and a peak torque of 443 lb-ft. Mated to a Touchtronic 2 6-speed gearbox [...]
One would be hard-pressed to argue that the cash-for-clunkers was wildly successful at bringing consumers into showrooms this summer. The hype, however, has ended and September has seen sales rates below that of June, before the program began. September’s sales rate came in at 9.51 million units, compared to 9.55 million in June. Ken Czubay, [...]
Land Rover’s seven-seat Freelander, which was due out next year, has been postponed because the company claims, as one source told AutoCar, “we have other priorities,”. The automaker will instead focus its energies on developing the LRX, expected to launch in 2012 and sell around 70,000 units. Land Rover confirmed production of the LRX 2 [...]
The 2009 Volkswagen Golf just came out and Volkswagen is already working on the next-generation model. How do we know? Well, because Volkswagen’s promotional video for the L1 Concept has a clay model of the next-generation Golf in the background. German magazine Auto Motor und Sport discovered the clay model in a very long promo [...]
