It’s probably not the car you expect to tout a Nurburgring-Nordschleife circuit lap time but the Mini E today completed a lap of the “Green Hell” in 09:51.45. Known as the Mini E Race, a modified version of the electric-Cooper ran the famous German circuit and hit a top speed of 187 km/h (116 mph). [...]
General Motors announced today that it is doubling the size of the largest automotive battery lab in the United States to expedite the development of electric-vehicles for consumers. The Detroit automaker will invest $8 million to improve on-site testing of all current and new batteries, module and pack technologies by expanding the GM Technical Center [...]
The unibody Honda Ridgeline is likely to be killed off after the 2011 model year. Introduced in 2005, the Ridgeline shares the same chassis components as that Acura MDX SUV and was one of the few unibody pickups ever made available for sale in the United States. “There will be a model-year 2011 Honda Ridgeline [...]
Bentley, which was amongst the world’s most popular luxury brands three years ago, is finally feeling the bottom of the recession as customers hold off on spending on luxury items and superluxury vehicles. Nonetheless, Bentley is remaining optimistic and says it expects sales to improve to about 5,000 units this year – even though that’s [...]
The folks at Motor Trend did the first comparison between the new 2011 Ford Mustang GT powered by a 5.0L V8 against competitors including the Chevrolet Camaro SS and the Dodge Challenger SRT8. Of course, we’re huge fans of the Camaro SS but we have yet to drive the new Mustang GT so we really [...]
Audi announced today that no other luxury automaker sells as many vehicles with all-wheel drive throughout the world as it does. In 2009 alone, Audi built 316,824 cars with quattro drive, which means around a third of all the cars leaving the factory in 2009 were equipped with the all-wheel-drive technology. Top seller among the [...]
Ever since its debut in 2004, the BMW 1-Series has accounted for one million units sold, BMW announced today. The 1 millionth model was a three-door BMW 118d built at BMW Plant Leipzig. It was delivered to its owner by Frank-Peter Arndt, Member of the Board of BMW AG for Production, and Stanislaw Tillich, the [...]
When General Motors came out of a government-scripted Chapter 11 bankruptcy it had decided to go from eight brands to four and many raised an eyebrow for one of those brands being the elderly buyers’ dream car – Buick. Well, Buick has gone through a rebirth in the United States and has successfully drawn in [...]
Last month we were told that Infiniti is working on its own version of the Nissan Leaf that will stay true to the brand”s promise of “Inspired Performance” – and well, that had us hoping that it would look less like a Nissan Leaf and sportier and more luxurious like an Infiniti. Well, U.S. officials [...]
FoMoCo is kicking off this week of April 12th with the announcement that it will add three more EcoBoost engines by the end of 2010 and that by 2014, it plans to have 20 percent of Ford’s global vehicle nameplates with fuel-saving stop/start system. The Dearborn automaker said that by 2013 Ford expects to be [...]
