Audi decided not to show its new 2011 Audi A8 sedan at the 2009 LA Auto Show since it felt the car deserved more attention then it would get at a slew of debuts in Los Angeles. Instead it held a nice debut party in Miami to show off its new large luxury sedan. We [...]
Just a few days after not attending the 2009 LA Auto Show and after releasing pricing for its new sedan for the Euro market, Aston Martin has thrown us U.S. folks a bone by announcing North American pricing for the 2010 Aston Martin Rapide. Aston said that prices of the 2010 Rapide will start at [...]
Speaking to AutoCar at the 2009 LA Auto Show, Volkswagen’s head of R&D Ulrich Hackenberg, said that he expects a final decision to be made on the BlueSport Concept within the next few months. “It”s a personal favourite car of mine,” Hackenberg said , “and I would expect a final commitment to its future to be made [...]
You’ve seen all the press photos and some live photos (from our coverage of the 2009 LA Auto Show) of the 2011 Cadillac CTS Coupe. What you haven’t seen is the new 2011 CTS Coupe in action. We’ve just posted a video on egmCarTech Videos of the coupe showing us how it looks when it’s [...]
After years and years of working on developing vehicle platforms with its Japanese affiliate Mazda, FoMoCo plans to go on alone for future models. “For a lot of designing and engineering, we”re going to be focused on Ford,” Mark Fields, Ford”s president for the Americas, told Bloomberg at the 2009 LA Auto Show. “Our efforts [...]
The curtains on our live coverage of the 2009 LA Auto Show closed on Thursday. We decided to put together a little list of the most significant debuts that were revealed in Los Angeles and some you should definitely plan on checking out if you’ll be heading down to the show this week. Thanks for [...]
Mercedes-Benz announced today that it is building the last examples of the SLR Stirling Moss as it prepares to end the era of the SLR supercars from Mercedes-Benz and McLaren. The two started in 2004 to continue the story of the legendary SLR racing sports cars of the 1950s. Five variants later – two coupes, [...]
Fisker Automotive has been going through a lot of changing since it was founded in August 2007 by Henrik Fisker. At the 2009 LA Auto Show, Fisker outlined those changes during a press conference and one point that stood out the most is that the deliveries of company’s Karma plug-in hybrid sedan have been delayed. [...]
GM has announced that it is ready to take action on a comprehensive plan that resolves concerns raised by dealers regarding GM’s dealer network restructuring activities. “GM will begin to implement this plan in mid-January provided that legislation related to GM”s dealer restructuring does not move forward,” the company said in a statement. “GM”s plan [...]
The Nissan Qashqai, which has been on sale in Europe since March 2007, has been totally redesigned for the 2010 model year. The new redesigned model won’t hit dealerships until spring 2010, but Nissan says that it expects its 500,000th delivery to take place later this month. New for 2010, the Qashqai gets a redesigned [...]
