During fall of 2009, Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn was pondering requests to team up with two separate brands – Daimler’s Smart and General Motors’ Saturn. While, we already know who Ghosn picked to team up with, he says that it was never an “either/or” situation. He said that working with Smart made sense and “Saturn [...]
It was reported about a month ago that Mercedes-Benz is working on a shooting brake version of its new CLS – well, here it is, in concept form at least. The Stuttgart automaker today took the wraps off of its new Shooting Brake Concept, which will make its debut at the 2010 Beijing Motor Show [...]
Hennessey Performance Engineering has already blessed us with the VelociRaptor 500, a 501-hp Ford F-150 SVT Raptor based on Ford’s 5.4L V8. The tuning arm is now working on the 6.2L Boss V8 powered F-150 SVT Raptor that recently hit dealers. Before Hennessey gets to work, it decided to put the new 6.2L V8 F-150 [...]
Following the hot new promotional video of the 2011 Honda CR-Z hybrid, the Japanese automaker’s European department has released a bunch of new high-res shots of the hatch in action. Hit the jump to check out the updated high-res image gallery. Click here for more news on the Honda CR-Z. Refresher: The 2011 Honda CR-Z [...]
Hyundai and Kia both plan on offering stop-start technology as a fuel-saving feature on many of their North American vehicles within two years. “Start-stop will be a key part of our development activity in the next two product cycles,” in 2012 and 2016, said Timothy White, Hyundai-Kia’s senior powertrain manager. He said he expects the [...]
Before General Motors CEO Edward Whitacre heads over to Washington on Wednesday, he will stop by the company’s Fairfax, Kansas plant to announce that the automaker will soon pay off $5.8 billion in loans from the U.S. and Canadian governments, well ahead of a June deadline. People familiar with the plans said that Whitacre is [...]
Honda confirmed today that it will discontinue production of the 4-door Civic Type R at the end of August, 2010. “A purist’s sports car featuring precisely tuned vehicle dynamics, the Civic Type R creates a unity between car and driver for exceptional driving pleasure,” Honda said in a statement. “The first-generation model launched in 1997 [...]
Engineers from General Motors” Dept. 180 are back once again and this week they are telling us how they put the 2010 Chevrolet Equinox through a parade of punishments including harsh weather, terrain and durability tests. Check out the latest Dept. 180 video after the jump. Click here for our review of the 2010 Chevrolet [...]
Subaru says that it plans to increase production capacity at its Indiana plant by 40 percent this year to meet high demand for the Outback and Legacy. The move comes as owner Fuji Heavy Industries targets U.S. sales of 230,000 vehicles for 2010. Subaru’s Lafayette, Indiana plant currently has the capacity for 100,000 vehicles annually, [...]
Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A Inc., announced today that it will conduct a voluntary safety recall on approximately 9,400 2010 Lexus GX 460 luxury SUVs to update software in the vehicle”s Vehicle Stability Control (VSC) system. Toyota said that no other Toyota, Lexus, or Scion vehicles are involved in this recall. The VSC system helps control [...]
