Something new is cooking up at Maranello and it is being hailed “as the ultimate, most advanced road car Ferrari has ever made.” Internally known as the Ferrari F70, the model is aimed directly at leaving the Lamborghini Reventon and the Bugatti Veyron in the dust. Sources say that the F70 will be quicker, smaller, [...]
GM announced today that the North American production of the new 2011 Buick Regal sedan will take place at the company’s Oshawa Car Assembly plant. Production will kick off in Q1 of 2011. “The new Regal gives Buick a modern performance sedan and its production here in Oshawa is terrific news for our employees, the [...]
Earlier this month, Chrysler Group LLC’s CEO Sergio Marchionne unveiled what he has planned for the American automaker under its alliance with Fiat SpA. At the time, Dodge president and CEO Ralph Gilles confirmed that Chrysler will produce only 500 more units of the Dodge Viper and that a new sports car will replace the [...]
Along with the new 2010 Cadillac SLS, Shanghai GM unveiled the new 2011 Buick Excelle XT 5-door coupe-like sedan at the Guangzhou Auto Show. Of course, to us this is just a rebadged version of the Opel Astra that will go on sale across China in 2010. Buyers of the 2011 Buick Excelle will have [...]
General Motors and the National Federation of the Blind are cooperating are teaming up to identify a safe level of sound to alert pedestrians without sight that a silent-running electric or hybrid vehicle is present. “We are confident electric vehicles can produce a safe and acceptable level of sound to alert blind pedestrians to their [...]
General Motors Company said today that it has returned $140 million to the U.S. Treasury Department for a program that was created in April to help auto suppliers get paid. The program, which once had $5 billion to aid parts suppliers, has continued to shrink. GM was originally allocated $3.5 billion while Chrysler was given [...]
Nissan has launched its new “A to Z Year-End Sales Event,” which includes year-end offers on everything from the Nissan Altima to the Nissan 370Z. Nissan will be offering a $199 a month lease for 39 months on the 2010 Nissan Altima and exclusive Thanksgiving weekend cash back offers of $1,000 on 2009 Maximas and [...]
Yesterday, Dodge casually broke the track production car lap record at Laguna SECA. We reported a time of 1:33.944 yesterday but the official time (completed by Chris Winkler, an SRT vehicle dynamics engineer) was actually 1:33.915 as recorded by Motech in-vehicle data recorder. Chrysler has now released the official video of the lap to show you [...]
Toyota said yesterday that it has received about 14,000 orders for its new SAI hybrid that will go on sale in Japan on Dec. 7. The amount is roughly five times the monthly sales target of 3,000 units that Toyota set for the hybrid sedan. The Toyota SAI, priced at 3,380,000 yen ($37,270 USD) for the entry [...]
If you’re going to be traveling this Thanksgiving Day, you expect gasoline prices to be much higher than last year with little hope of relief into the rest of the holiday season. According to AAA, the national average for a gallon of regular gas was $2.64 on Monday – that’s slightly less than a month [...]
