Subaru and Toyota’s new rear-wheel-drive sports car, based on the Toyota FT-86 Concept, is ready to make its debut later next year. It was reported in Dec. 2009 that Subaru, which is well known for being an all-wheel-drive brand, is worried that a rear-wheel-drive sports car may drive away loyal customers. Well, it seems like [...]
It’s not a surprise that all comedians are taking a shot at Toyota to get a couple of laughs as the company goes through massive recalls. Earlier this week on the Late Show with David Letterman, Toyota’s CEO Akio Toyoda (of course it wasn’t really him) showed up to set the record straight with Toyota [...]
A member of the Camaro5 forum yesterday spotted a Chevrolet Camaro Convertible driving around Madison Heights in Michigan with its top down. He writes: Well I was driving this evening and saw this (in Madison Heights, MI at 12 Mile and I-75) convertible mule driving the opposite way I was. So I quickly turned around [...]
Ford Motor Co., a police vehicle market leader for 15 years, today unveiled their new Police Interceptor, which they say will be offered without interruption when the current Crown Victoria Police Interceptor ends production in Sept. 2011. “Police nationwide asked for a new kind of weapon in the battle for public safety, and Ford is [...]
General Motors Vice President Bob Lutz, who is scheduled to retire from his position on May 1, recently said GM will keep making big trucks and SUVs because U.S. buyers demand them, but a major portion of them will be gasoline-electric hybrids. He also said that the Detroit automaker will pay back its bailout loan [...]
Don Esmond, senior vice president of automotive operations for Toyota Motor Sales, said that he was “mystified” at James Sikes’ Toyota Prius’ gas pedal becoming stuck and causing the car to speed out of control on a San Diego freeway. Toyota officials and Federal investigators are taking a serious look into the incident and Toyota [...]
As mentioned yesterday, FoMoCo will unveil its replacement for the Crown Victoria Police Interceptor to a bunch of cops in Las Vegas later today – well, here are the first pictures of the Taurus based Police Interceptor you might end up seeing in your rear-view mirror in 2012. The Crown Victoria will end production in [...]
Nissan USA’s vice president of design, Bruce Campbell (exciting name), is set to retire as the company’s top U.S. designer at the end of this month. Campbell is well known for his San Diego design studio turning out the design for the 370Z, morphing the somewhat dull 350Z into a true pocket rocket. He has [...]
When the Lexus IS originally made its debut in Europe, it was offered with an estate (station wagon) variant called SportCross. However, Lexus eventually dropped the estate version but now admits that the policy has hurt sales of the model in Europe where it faces competition from the 3-Series Touring and A4 Avant. To fix [...]
A Wisconsin judge has ordered Mercedes-Benz USA to pay $482,000 in damages and legal fees to a customer who was sold a defected Mercedes-Benz E-Class and not given his refund on time. In 2005, Marco Marquez, a 37-year-old businessman from Waukesha, purchased a brand new Mercedes-Benz E 320 for a total of $56,000. Almost immediately [...]
