Toyota plans on starting six new offices in North America that will be responsible for gathering information about vehicle issues. The move comes as the Japanese automaker does all it can to recover its damaged image from huge recalls that started late last year. Four of the six offices will be opened in the United [...]
What’s in store for the season premiere of season three of MTV’s “Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory?” Drifting king Vaughn Gittin Jr. will join Dyrdek in creating the world’s first “Skateboard Car.” Based on the 2011 Ford Mustang GT, Dyrdek and Gittin Jr. added a grind plate at the bottom vehicle so it can take on [...]
In April, General Motors and NASA announced that they will launch their humanoid robot Robonaut 2, or R2, to space later this year. Well, the days are getting closer and GM and NASA said yesterday that engineers are working hard to prepare the R2 for its planned fall mission to the International Space Station aboard the [...]
Over the weekend, Bugatti unveiled another limited edition Veyron. Known as the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport, the new model broke a new landspeed world record for production cars hitting a top speed of 267.81 mph. Apparently, the guys at Top Gear were involved in the whole situation. How? Here’s what they tell us so [...]
In the latest wars between the medium-duty pickup segment, FoMoCo announced that it will add a class-exclusive 6.8L V10 engine and a heavy-duty 6-speed TorqShift automatic transmission to its 2012 F-Series medium-duty chassis cab. The 6.8L V10 is capable of producing a total of 362-hp and 457 lb-ft of torque. “No other manufacturer offers this [...]
General Motors announced today that it has reached an agreement to sell its Nexteer global steering and halfshat operations to Pacific Century Motors. The sale will include 22 manufacturing facilities, six engineering facilities and 14 customer support centers located in North and South America, Europe and Asia. “The sale of Nexteer to PCM supports our [...]
Currently, statistics show that 12.8 percent of the 41.74 million cars registered in Germany are Opels and the brand has a 7.4 percent market share of Germany’s 1.18 million new-car sales after the first 5 months of 2010. Well, Opel/Vauxhall and GM Europe President Nick Reilly isn’t happy with those figures. Reilly says that Opel [...]
The product development guys over at Alfa Romeo are planned to launch a pair of crossovers that will compete with the likes of the Audi Q5 and the upcoming Audi Q3. It is reported that the Audi Q3 rival will most likely be based on the platform of the new Giulietta. The underpinnings of the [...]
FoMoCo has announced the EPA fuel-economy rating for the 2011 Lincoln MKX, which gives the premium crossover the best-in-class horsepower, torque and the best fuel economy of any luxury crossover vehicle on the market. The 2011 Lincoln MKX, which is powered by a 305-hp 3.7L V6, averages 19/26 mpg (city/highway) with a combined fuel-economy of [...]
GM is set to close the year with 4,500 dealers in its network; approximately 500 fewer than previously announced. Prior to bankruptcy, the network was 6,150 dealers strong. President of GM North America Mark Reuss announced the new figure today before a group of bankers and analysts at GM”s Warren Technical Center. “We are strategically [...]
