Two years ago, GM had attempted to transport a hydrogen fuel pump from Pennsylvania to California. Unfortunately, the semi carrying the pricey piece of equipment crashed, rendering the $850,000 fuel station useless. GM has brought suit against the company hired to transport the piece of machinery, CHAT of Michigan Inc., to the tune of $850,000 [...]
As should be expected by anyone following automotive news, Toyota has been named as a defendant in more than 320 state and federal level law suits as a result of its recent recall troubles. Thus far, 228 suits have been filed in federal court, and 99 in various state courts. The first of the law [...]
The upcoming Aston Martin One-77 was caught driving around the streets of London during what looks like a photo shoot. Of course the car looks and sounds brilliant. We’re not sure how many of the 77 units of the One-77 Aston has sold but it was recently reported that some rich guy in the Middle [...]
The U.S. auto industry sales were up 20 percent in sales led by FoMoCo, Chrysler, Hyundai, Toyota and Nissan. Overall sales rose to 982,302 from 819,692 a year earlier. The seasonally adjusted annual sales rate was 11.5 million, the second strongest of the year behind March’s 11.7 million, reports Automotive News Ford, Lincoln and Mercury [...]
According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, General Motors is set to launch a new advertising campaign for Chevrolet with a new slogan – “Excellence for All.” For its trucks and SUVs GM is still undecided on what the slogan will be but is leaning towards something like “Most dependable, longest lasting,” General [...]
Volkswagen announced today that it will launch the Golf blue-e-motion and the technically closely-related Jetta blue-e-motion following the Up blue-e-motion (which will hit markets in 2013). The German automaker said that it wants to use its bestselling models like the Golf to take electric vehicles out of their niche model status and to become the [...]
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said that General Motors has issued a recall for 40,028 Chevrolet Corvette models from the 2005 and 2006 model years. The recall consists of Corvettes built between March 2004 and January 2006 that have a tilt and telescoping steering column. The recall is being performed to fix an issue that [...]
General Motors announced today that within the next couple of months, the Detroit automaker will no longer be selling vehicles from the brands it is eliminating. Executives said that there are about 2,000 Hummer, Pontiac and Saturn vehicles left in its inventory. During the month of April, GM sold 52 Pontiacs, 373 Saturns and 481 [...]
Audi announced today that it is moving towards its goal of posting higher sales and earnings this year after the Volkswagen owned automaker’s first quarter profits rose by a third. Audi’s operating profits were up 32 percent to 478 million euros ($632 million USD) in the first quarter and sales increased 23 percent to 8.3 [...]
Germany, the home of some of the best sports cars in the world, is hoping to get one million electric-vehicles on the road within the next decade. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and top executives of the country’s main automakers and energy companies are meeting in Berlin to launch a new initiative to develop electric vehicles. [...]
