The Mini Moke is back… well, almost. Mini bosses are currently looking at whether or not to put the buggy-inspired Beachcomber concept into production. Mini says that the new Countryman based crossover concept was a huge hit at the 2010 Detroit Motor Show in January. “We will come back to this to see if there [...]
The 2011 Chevrolet Volt hasn’t even hit dealerships yet and General Motors’ engineers are already looking for ways to cut costs on the second-generation model. The battery-pack of the current model costs roughly $10,000 and GM is doing all it can to get that down by 50 percent by the time the next Volt is [...]
In a move designed to expand technology in a time of rising demand for alternative fuel vehicles, India”s Mahindra & Mahindra has agreed to buy a controlling stake in Reva Electric Car Co. Though Mahindra declined to give an overall value for the acquisition in a statement before the Bombay Stock Exchange on Wednesday, the [...]
General Motors is currently hard at work at the next-generation of its large full-size SUV lineup that includes the Cadillac Escalade. The next-generation giant SUVs will arrive sometime in 2013. However, the Lambda platform based Caddy SUV we’ve been hearing about for sometime now is still a go. Karl Stracke, GM’s vice president of global [...]
Though this blogger is particularly fond of Audi, any person with even the slightest fascination in cars would agree that Audi reigns supreme when it comes to interior design and quality, and GM”s VP of Global Engineering, Karl Stracke, agrees. Though Stracke feels confident in the progress that GM has made with regard to interiors, [...]
Carbon Motors will put its E7 Police Car into production in 2012 and the brave men and women of the law enforcement, City Mayors, Managers and Council Members, the State Controllers and even the Federal Government are starting to recognize the benefits of this diesel police interceptor that will carry a BMW diesel engine. “Carbon [...]
Despite the fact that other manufacturers are running away from the segment, GM has plans to work on a new compact pickup reminiscent of the Chevy S-10. The Chevy Colorado and GMC Canyon have been fast losing sales, and last year the closure of the Louisiana plant that produces the two trucks was announced by [...]
Honda Motor Co. is starting an initiative to have brake override systems installed on all Honda and Acura models by the end of 2011. This preemptive move may soon be mandatory; Congress is currently weighing mandatory brake override systems as a result of its investigation into Toyota. “We are committed to applying Brake Priority Logic [...]
BMW announced that its most fuel-efficient and greenest 3-Series ever completed a record-breaking journey from the UK to Munich and back on one tank of gas. Fueled up and ready to go at the Channel Tunnel, the new 2010 BMW 320d EfficientDynamics sedan made it to Munich and back – a total of 1,013 miles [...]
Yes – when we grow up we want a garage just like Jay Leno’s. Leno recently had the chance to get behind the 2011 Ford Mustang GT and seemed really impressed by the new GT (as he should be). Hit the jump for the video. Refresher: The 2011 Ford Mustang GT is powered by a [...]
