Car accessories retailer Halfords carried out a study to show how harmful bugs and germs lurk in the car and ride alongside the driver and passenger. The study found that drivers eating behind the wheel could put themselves at a risk of food poisoning, skin infection and vomiting. Scientists involved in the study took testing [...]
Last week we heard that former General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner, who was fired by President Barack Obama last year, currently sits on the Washington Post board. We learn today that his once crosstown rival, former Chrysler CEO Bob Nardelli, has been named non-executive chairman of NewPage Corp., a company that makes coated paper products. [...]
AMLS founder Don Panoz has reveled the limited production Panoz Abruzzi “Spirit of Le Mans,” a road car that is dedicated the famous Le Mans race. “This is culmination of equal parts time, effort and dreams,” said Panoz, founder of the Panoz Motor Sports Group. “The Panoz brand always has prided itself on hand-building and [...]
Aston Martin is getting ready to launch six new models over the next six years. The models will include a replacement to the DB9 / DBS, Vantage, Rapide as well as new models including the Lagonda and Cygnet. The Aston Martin DB9 replacement will include a redesigned exterior, fresh interior and an updated V12 engine. [...]
BBC’s Top Gear is everything and more that any auto enthusiast would expect from a car show and Hyundai seems to agree. In its latest TV ad spots for the new ix35 (known to us Americans as the Tucson), Hyundai has put together a Top Gear spoof to cater to the UK market. We’d go [...]
Saudi Arabia, the region of the world whose oil reserves help fuel the world, has developed its first car. The vehicle, known as the Gazal 1, is an SUV developed by students at King Saud University and is named after a desert deer found in the country. The Gazal 1 is the result of at [...]
One steadfast indicator of economic recovery remains pickup trucks. In good times, busy contractors require them to carry more tools around, and weekend haulers tend to use the trucks for miscellaneous hauling. And lately sales have been picking up (no pun intended); the segment sold 19% more than one year ago, with full-size pickups, the [...]
After 15 months in his post, auto communities” recovery czar Ed Montgomery is stepping down. He was named dean of the school of public policy at Georgetown University last week. “Over the last year, Ed has crisscrossed the country in a tireless effort to cut through red tape and speed the economic recovery for those [...]
GM CEO Ed Whitacre is calling on Cadillac to treat its customers better. At a meeting in Chicago, GM managers told 300 salespeople about a Texas salesman who had dissuaded a friend of Whitacre”s from buying a Caddy. When the individual took out a CTS-V for a test drive, it ran put of gas. The [...]
Tesla Motors today set the terms for its much-anticipated IPO. The electric-vehicle maker hopes raise as much as $178 million by selling 11.1 million shares priced between $14 and $16 per share, according to a regulatory filing. Tesla originally filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in January to raise as much as $100 million. [...]
