A new Mercedes-Benz commercial for the 2010 E-Class sedan pokes some fun at Volkswagen AG and its Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Ferdinand Piech. The commercial shows a look-a-like of Piech playing the role of grim reaper saying “Sorry” to the driver as he puts him in harm’s way. The driver then stops the car [...]
It’s the last Monday in May and that means it’s Memorial Day. Of course, most of you started your long weekend on Friday taking your long drives (or flights) to wherever it is that you went to. So since most you are on our wonderful U.S. highways this weekend, we were wondering how far you [...]
A prototype of the upcoming 2012 BMW M5 has been recently making its lap of the Nurburgring, undergoing some high-speed testing. We have a short video of the car driving outside the Nurburgring and hitting up the Nordschleife. We’re guessing BMW is making sure that the new M5 can beat the Cadillac CTS-V sedan around [...]
Honda’s top advertising executive says that the nastiness that has come out of political advertising is threatening to infect the world of car advertising. “It doesn’t build brands. It tears down others,” Steven Center, American Honda Motor Co.’s vice president of advertising and public relations, said at an Automotive News Marketing Seminar. “Anyone can beat [...]
Making big headlines last week, it was reported that FoMoCo executives are putting together a proposal to kill Mercury that will be presented to directors in July. New reports suggest that Ford has been trying to kill the 71-year-old brand slowly for a while now by starving it of product. Sources say that when a [...]
The Maybach Exelero is probably one of the hottest uber-luxury coupes we’ve ever laid eyes on – however, the only problem is that Daimler only made one of them for Fulda Tyres, which used the car as test bed for a generation of wide tires. If you want one and have about $670,000 just laying [...]
According to court documents filed as a part of Tesla Motors’ CEO Elon Musk’s divorce trial, the electric-car company co-founder’s bank account has run dry and he is currently living off his friends’ money. “About four months ago, I ran out of cash,” Musk wrote in a court filing with the Superior Court of LA. [...]
Currently, you can only purchase the 2011 Buick Regal as a sedan with the option of two powertrain choices including a 2.4L 4-cylinder making 182-hp and a 2.4 turbocharged 4-cylinder making 220-hp. It will probably make you jealous to learn that the Regal’s European sibling, the Opel Insignia is offered in no less than three [...]
We’ve seen the Hennessey Venom GT driving around in Britain near Silverstone and today we get to see the base 725-hp go through some chassis dyno testing. According to Hennessey’s results, the base Venom GT will make 633-hp rear-wheel-horsepower and 641 lb-ft of rear-wheel-torque. We can’t wait to see the 1,000-hp and the 1,200-hp twin-turbo [...]
Proton, an automaker based out of Malaysia, is getting set to announce a possible tie-up with Volkswagen in the next two weeks, according to people familiar with the plan. A company official has been quoted as saying they didn”t want to jump the gun, and that the fruits of the talks with VW will be [...]
