Even though the Volvo C30 BEV was introduced on American soil at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show, it will not be offered in the United States… at least for now. When Volvo kicked-off development of the C30 BEV, it decided that the batteries would not have to be capable of quick charging in three hours [...]
Tata Motors announced today that former General Motors executive Carl-Peter Forster will become the group CEO. Forster, 55, will be responsible for the company’s global operations including the company’s Jaguar/Land Rover unit. Forster recently left GM as the company’s Europe President and Opel/Vauxhall chairman after not seeing eye-to-eye with the automaker’s decision not to sell Opel [...]
Fiat SpA’s new Compact vehicle architecture, which will debut on the new Alfa Romeo Giulietta hatchback, is scheduled to underpin 700,000 Chrysler group vehicles a year in the United States and 300,000 in Europe by 2014. Fiat and Chrysler are currently working on a widened version of the architecture, known as Compact Wide, which will [...]
The 2011 Toyota RAV4 will make its world debut at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show next month and the first image of the SUV was released earlier today. As you can see from the image, the 2011 RAV4 will get a more sophisticated front-end design along with a more refined interior. Thanks to its range of [...]
Times have certainly been rough for Toyota amidst all the recent recalls and baggage that goes therewith, but Hyundai is soaring high. With seven new models on the way, the Hyundai family has plenty to celebrate. Dealerships can”t seem to keep enough Tucsons in stock, and people are literally buying the new Sonata as they [...]
Chrysler Group LLC dealers recently left the first large meeting with the company’s new management team encouraged by the executives’ commitment to reviving the struggling Auburn Hills automaker. Nonetheless, many are still concerned about surviving the lack of new products coming from the company. During the meeting, held at the National Automobile Dealers Association annual [...]
Toyota Motor Co. is planning on a heavy incentive program and a new warranty campaign to combat consumer concerns about the company’s recall crisis. “It won’t be a fire sale like people thought GM and Chrysler had when they were in trouble,” Don Esmond, senior vice president of automotive operations at Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. [...]
In order to think younger, General Motors is looking to hire engineers in their 20s and 30s, which are largely absent from the company’s North American and European operation, according to Karl-Friedrich Stracke. The company is missing the perspective of younger engineers on how people in their 20s and 30s use computers, both in vehicles [...]
FoMoCo announced in Dec. 2009 that it had more than 1,000 reservations for the 2010 Ford Fiesta six days after launching a new Web site that allows consumers to build, price and reserve the compact hatchback. Last week, FoMCo confirmed that it now has 6,000 reservations, with half of them from non-Ford customers and more [...]
Big SUVs aren’t only popular in the United States – in areas like the Middle East, large SUVs are somewhat of a status symbol. Hoping to appeal to the large SUV shoppers, Nissan made sure that its new Patrol flagship SUV competes strongly against the popular Toyota Land Cruiser. “We paid special attention to the [...]
