FoMoCo has announced the official specs on its 2011 Ford Super Duty pickup and will start marketing the truck as the “most capable, fuel-efficient” heavy-duty on the market staring in April. “Our Super Duty customers do some of America”s toughest jobs,” said Mark Fields, Ford president of The Americas. “Every day they”re out there working [...]
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has said that Toyota has become a bit “˜safety-deaf”, and that Akio Toyoda”s visit to the U.S. has become a game changer. LaHood had mentioned what he perceived to be a lack of communication inside Toyota”s organization as the chief reason these concerns weren”t immediately addressed. He mentioned doubts that the [...]
So you think that the 2010 BMW Alpina B7 is a pretty exciting high-performance 7-Series – wait until you see what G-Power has in the works. Meet the G-Power 760i Storm, a 715-hp 7-Series built on a made-to-order basis for new buyers. Using the 6.0L V12 bi-turbo “TwinPower” from BMW, G-Power asked ASA to create [...]
The House Oversight Committee accused the NHTSA under Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood of being a “˜lap dog” to the automakers; an accusation which LaHood vehemently denied. “On my watch we have been a lapdog for nobody,” LaHood said. “We’ve been a lapdog for the people who drive cars and want to safely. That’s who we [...]
According to a report by AutoCar, AMG will develop its own version of a new entry-level Mercedes-Benz coupe, previewed by the F800 Style concept that will debut at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show. Sources say that the car will be an entry-level model that will compete with the likes of the Volkswagen Golf R and [...]
Akio Toyoda stood in front of Congress today and delivered a seemingly sincere apology for accidents connected to Toyota”s recent recalls. Reading in English, Toyoda delivered a prepared statement in front of the House Oversight Committee, one of three congressional panels investigating the matter. “We never run away from our problems or pretend we don’t [...]
Jim Press, the first American member of ToMoCo”s board of directors, said Today that Akio Toyoda was the right executive to save his family”s company from “˜financially oriented pirates.” “The root cause of their problems is that the company was hijacked, some years ago, by anti-family, financially oriented pirates,” Press said. Press went on to [...]
Abarth announced today that it will unveil the new Abarth Punto Evo and the Abarth 500C at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show next month, the two latest performance models based on the popular Fiat models. The Abarth 500C is the first convertible to be launched by the new Abarth. Power comes from a 1.4L 4-cylinder [...]
General Motors just announced that Chinese company Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machines Co., Ltd. (Tengzhong) was unable to complete the acquisition of Hummer. The Detroit automaker said that it will begin the orderly wind-down of the Hummer operations. “One year ago, General Motors announced that we were going to divest HUMMER, as part of focusing [...]
Lotus Engineering announced today that it will unveil the Lotus Evora 414E Hybrid Concept a the 2010 Geneva Motor Show. The concept shows high-performance technology mated to a plug-in hybrid drive system and new technologies for enhanced driver involvement. Power for the Lotus Evora 414E Hybrid Concept comes from a high-performance drivetrain system consisting of [...]
