Toyota Motor Corp said that it expects its global auto sales to increase 6 percent in 2010 as the industry recovers from one of its worst ever downturns. The Japanese automaker hopes to maintain its lead over Volkswagen AG and General Motors Company as the world’s biggest automaker. Toyota forecasts group-wide sales to rise to [...]
During its visit to the 2010 Washington Auto Show, General Motors announced that it will be the first major U.S. automaker to design and build electric-motors for future hybrid and electric-vehicles. GM said that its first in-house built electric-motors are scheduled to debut in 2013 in the next-generation, rear-wheel-drive Two-mode Hybrid technology. “In the future, [...]
670 horsepower and a top speed of 211 mph. Those figures may mean a lot to many people but there are few places in the world where you would be able to enjoy a combination of both – and it seems like Lamborghini finally understands that. According to AutoWeek, the company will move away from [...]
So you’re in the market for a new supercar and your budget is around $1.2 million dollars – well, you’re in luck. A dealer in the Netherlands has this light blue Bugatti Veyron (looks like the Bugatti Veyron Bleu Centenaire) up for sale with a matching Mercedes Atego car transporter for a total of €895,000 [...]
According to sources familiar with the matter, FoMoCo will add 1,200 jobs to its Chicago plant for the production of the next-generation Ford Explorer. An official announcement is expected early tomorrow morning. The move will bring Explorer production from Louisville, Ky., to the underutilized Chicago plant. It will bring back a second shift to the plant [...]
As a guy, I never celebrated a sweet 16 birthday since they were only celebrated by girls; however, if I knew a sweet 16 was supposed to land me a sweet set of wheels, I would’ve had the girliest birthday party ever. For his 16th birthday, P. Diddy gave his son Justin Dior Combs a [...]
While Conan O’Brien is busy wasting NBC’s money on a Bugatti Veyron dressed as a mouse, Jay Leno is spending his time wisely test-driving the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport for Jay Leno’s Garage. Check out the video after the jump. Refresher: Power for the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport comes from a W16 1,001-hp [...]
According to Larry Dominique, Nissan North America’s vice president of product planning, Infiniti is once again considering an entry-level front-wheel-drive vehicle, or a family of models. The Infiniti G and M will be exempt from the strategy. “The core of the brand is very important to us, this kind of performance sedan,” Dominique said. “Can [...]
In Oct. 2009, it was reported that a version of the 2010 Volkswagen Golf R will make it to the stateside badged as the GTI-R. We’re still waiting for Volkswagen to confirm something and while we wait, the German automaker has released a bunch of new images for us to drool over. Hit the jump [...]
As confirmed by Spyker earlier this morning, GM CEO Edward Whitacre confirmed during a press conference that there has been no deal on the sale of Saab. “As of today we have not changed our direction of winding down the operations (of Saab),” Whitacre said. “Obviously there have been advanced talks with Spyker Cars to [...]
