According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, General Motors is offering huge incentives to dealers to speed up the sales of leftover Saturn and Pontiac vehicles on their lots. The move will essentially help GM report stronger December sales. In a letter to dealers, GM said that it will give $7,000 for every new [...]
Despite the fact that Detroit automakers are moving their focus towards compact, fuel-efficient cars, and away from full-size pickups, the segment still makes up more than 20 percent of sales by the Big 3 and could play a big role in helping Detroit recover in 2010. According to data from Autodata Corp, through the first [...]
Starting in 2010, Ford will become the first automaker to offer HD Radio with iTunes Tagging capability. The feature will allow Ford owners to tag a song they hear on their HD Radio receiver and download it later onto their iPhone or iPod. iTunes Tagging is currently available on a couple of aftermarket HD Radio [...]
Jay Leno recently got behind the much-anticipated 2011 Chevrolet Volt extended range electric vehicle and has now posted a video of his take on the upcoming vehicle that has everyone at GM so excited. The best thing about Leno’s 13 minute video is that he asks Andrew Farah, Chief Engineer on the vehicle, almost every [...]
While we were plowing through the recent snowfall in New Jersey with a 2010 Audi S4, MINI E electric Cooper drivers were feeling the wrath of going green in the winter. Dr. Lyle Dennis of GM-Volt, who is leasing a MINI E for one year said: On a recent trip at a temperature of 23 [...]
Mazda and other automakers are hoping for a revamp of EPA rules that are keeping them from introducing the fuel-saving stop-start technology in vehicles. According to Robert Davis, Mazda’s product-development executive in North America, testing regulations prevent automakers from bringing fuel-saving technologies, like the stop-start feature, to the U.S. market. Stop-start, which has become widely [...]
Even though the economy has battered the pickup segment for the past two years, the past 10 years is considered the Decade of the Pickup Truck, at least according to PickupTrucks.com. The publication teamed up with AutoPacific to compile a list of the Top 10 Significant Pickup Trucks of the Decade from all of the [...]
As General Motors gets ready to sell or wind down Saab, the automaker is rumored to be planning on saving the 9-5 sedan as a rebadged Buick. According to a report by Dagens, GM is seeing positive opportunities to closing Saab including selling Beijing Automotive Industry Holdings Co. Ltd (BAIC) of certain Saab 9-3, current [...]
Earlier in the morning (12:01 a.m. to be exact) Ford released all the details and images of the 2011 Ford Mustang GT that will make its debut at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show next month. We now have a video of the 2011 Mustang GT showing off its new 5.0L V8. Refresher: The 2011 Ford [...]
The Honda Beat was a rear mid-engined two-seat roadster kei car that the Japanese automaker produced from May 1991 to February 1996. The design of the compact roadster originated from Pininfarina, who then sold the plan to Honda. Honda produced a total number of 33,600 units of the Beat. According to Best Car, Honda is now [...]
