During his trip to Holland, Michigan for the groundbreaking ceremony for a battery plant being built there by a U.S. unit of South Korea’s LG Chem, President Barack Obama got his first exposure and seat time with the 2011 Chevrolet Volt. Click here for more news on the Chevrolet Volt. Compact Power, a subsidiary of [...]
FoMoCo’s CEO Alan Mulally, who has avoided making management changes ever since taking leadership at the Dearborn automaker in 2006, announced yesterday that he will be changing the roles of a few members of his management team. The most important change makes Jim Farley, currently Ford group vice president of global marketing, the head of [...]
Many a Mustang afficianado has wondered what would happen if the two iconic men of the art-Jack Roush and Carroll Shelby- were to work together on one Mustang, taking the best of all their experience and talent. Well, wayward thoughts have now been realized, in the name of fundraising for the Experimental Aircraft Association. The [...]
BMW has released information to its dealers about the 2011 M3, including this interesting nugget: technology to completely shut down the engine when at rest (otherwise known as start/stop technology) will come standard on the M3. While the fuel saving technology makes sense on a more mainstream car, M3 drivers are generally not looking at [...]
Are you sick of the 2011 Ford Explorer teasers? Good – so are we. Don’t worry though, we won’t have to wait much longer since FoMoCo will be launching the 2011 Explorer in NYC on July 26 and we’ll be there to bring you live images and all the info. Click here for more news [...]
The next generation of Ford’s SYNC, along with MyFord Touch driver connect technology, will launch later this year on the new 2011 Ford Edge. Ford announced today that it has teamed up with voice technology pioneers Nuance Communications to offer more than 10,000 first-level commands, up from only 100 in the first-generation Sync. “Ford is [...]
According to the J.D. Power and Associates 2010 Automotive Performance Execution and Layout Study (APEAL), domestic automakers, collectively, have surpassed import brands for the first time since 1997. In 2009, import brands outpaced domestic brands by five points. This year, however, U.S. domestic brands averages 787 on a 1,000-point scale, 13 points higher than the [...]
Ford said today that expectations for the 2011 Ford Shelby GT500 has exceeded its expectations with more than 3,300 initial dealer and retail orders received to date. Ford will be limiting sales of the 2011 Ford Shelby GT500 to just 5,500 units to ensure exclusivity. “We are pleased with the pace of retail orders for [...]
The 2011 BMW X3 finally made its debut yesterday after months of spy shots. Sales of the new X3 will start by the end of 2010. The United States will get two model variants including the 240-hp 2011 BMW X3 xDrive28i and the 300-hp 2011 BMW X3 xDrive35i. Prices and other details will be announced closer [...]
While we’ve already see the Range Rover Evoque, Land Rover insists on throwing on some funky camouflage as the new coupe SUV enters the final-phase of testing. Hundreds of Evoque prototypes have been dispatched around the world to go through the toughest climates and conditions – however, only 10 of these were given some funky [...]
