Eighteen Vehicle Design Course Masters students from Royal College of Arts in London teamed up with Bentley to create a series of concepts known as ”˜Bentleys of the Future.’ The group worked closely with Bentley”s leading designers, including Head of Exterior Design Raul Pires who played a key role designing the company”s new Mulsanne flagship. “Working with Bentley [...]
As is Toyota”s PR people aren”t going to have a hard enough time ahead of them as it is, Consumer Reports has temporarily pulled the plug on its highly prized “˜recommended” status for the eight Toyota vehicles included in the recent wave of recalls. “Although incidents of sudden acceleration are rare, we are taking this [...]
After Spyker announced last week that it will take Saab off GM’s hands, many industry analysts, even Fiat’s CEO Sergio Marchionne, expressed skepticism about the bid. Hoping to prove skeptics wrong, Spyker today released a massive press release further detailing its acquisition of Saab. Here are some interesting highlights from Spyker’s press release: Saab will [...]
We almost jumped out of our seats last month when BMW announced that the 2011 BMW Alpina B7 sedan will be coming to the United States this spring. However, today we felt no need to jump out of our seats when BMW announced that pricing for the 2011 BMW Alpina B7 will start at $122,875 [...]
Toyota has announced that the recently announced halt in production will be limited to this week only, as originally scheduled. “We will begin production again next week,” Jim Lentz, president of Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., noting that production will re-commence February 8. The stoppage was announced last week as Toyota outlined plans to suspend delivery [...]
Despite its being included in the recent Toyota recalls, GM says that the Pontiac Vibe is safe to drive. The 2009-2010 Vibes were included in the recall by virtue of their being the sister vehicle to the Toyota Matrix and having been produced at GM and Toyota”s former joint venture plant in Fremont, California. GM [...]
We’re eagerly looking forward to seeing the 2011 Ford Mustang V6 enter the egmCarTech garage later this year for a week-long test-drive – and that’s mainly because like Motor Trend, we were very disappointed by the 210-hp 2010 Ford Mustang V6. For 2011, things have changed dramatically. Ford replaced the 210-hp V6 with a new [...]
When Honda launched the 2010 Insight Hybrid last year, it expected to sell well over 200,000 units. However, the Japanese automaker now expects to miss that sales target after the Insight has been shunned in favor of the 2010 Toyota Prius by U.S. drivers. Selling 200,000 Insights worldwide in the first year “looks tough,” Executive [...]
Hoping to gauge some more interest in Europe, Infiniti announced today that it will offer the European market a limited-edition Infiniti FX37S and the FX50S. The Infiniti FX Limited Edition will be limited to just 100 units across Western Europe with 18 allocated for the UK. All individually numbered units will feature Black Obsidian “˜Scratch [...]
Chrysler has been pretty quiet on the 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee, which will debut at the 2010 Chicago Auto Show later this month. Nonetheless, you can always count on enthusiast sites like JeepGarage.org to leak details ahead of the official launch. The site claims today that they have the 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee ordering guide [...]
