Last week, we asked you which of the new cop cars you would like to be chased in – of course many of you answered the Carbon Motors E7 Police Car, which enters production early 2012. Well, it seems like there may be just one more reason that Carbon’s E7 might be strong seller when its comes [...]
The Fiat 500 will be available in the North American market with a 1.4L Multiair engine in the fourth quarter of 2010. A 1.4L Multiair turbo is expected to arrive in the fourth-quarter of 2011. Chrysler Group LLC announced today that it will offer the U.S. a pure electric version of the Fiat 500 in [...]
For more than a year now, we’ve been hearing rumors of a baby Porsche Cayenne – well, we may finally be able to lay those rumors to rest. According to AutoCar the Porsche Cayenne will be the smallest SUV built by the company because it fears a smaller model could steal sales away from the [...]
Come 2012, BMW will start rolling out its next-generation 3-Series lineup, known internally as the F30. The new 3-Series lineup will be built on BMW’s new MSB architecture, meaning it will share its strut and front-end layout with the next-generation 1-Series rather than the current double wishbone layout. According to Automobile Magazine, there will be [...]
A little less than a year ago, the 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid attempted to travel 1,000 miles on a single tank of gas and ended up going a total of 1,445.7 miles on a trip from Mount Vernon, Va. to Washington, D.C. Well, Ford is at it again but this time, instead of going 1,000 [...]
Since the first images of the McLaren MP4-12C were released last September, 1,600 people have signed official expressions of interest in buying the new supercar. However, McLaren will only be building 1,000 units when the MP4-12C goes into production in 2011 and that means about 600 (as of right now) will have to wait patiently. [...]
Ford is getting ready to compete with high-performance compact fuel-sippers like the Volkswagen GTI, Mini Cooper S, MazdaSpeed3 and the Civic Si on a global scale. FoMoCo’s new Global Performance Vehicles department is bringing together Ford’s finest high-performance engineers from Europe and the U.S. to work on faster versions of the new 2012 Focus and [...]
Unhappy Toyota shareholders are heading to court with lawsuits claiming that the company executives deliberately misled investors and its customers about the seriousness and depth of accelerator problems in over 8.1 million of its vehicles. About three proposed class-action lawsuits have been filed by investors say that the company gave false assurances that the unintended [...]
Along with its ambitions to take on the supercar market, McLaren officially launched the MP4-12C earlier this week. However, McLaren has yet to provide official performance figures and the curb-weight of the MP4-12C – all McLaren told us so far is that the car can go from 0-60 mph in the low 3-second range with [...]
GM is in favor of legislation from Rep. Gene Green, D-Texas, that would mandate event data recording devices in vehicles, and additional ‘reasonable’ legislation. Though not currently required by law, the devices are standard for certain automakers, including Toyota. Not all Toyota devices record pre- and post-crash data, but by the end of 2010 all [...]
