General Motors today reported its biggest quarterly profit in six years. The announcement comes a day ahead of an expected IPO filing that will allow the U.S. government to get rid of most of its 60.1 percent stake in the Detroit automaker. GM reported a second-quarter revenue of $33.2 billion and net income attributable to [...]
What are one of the perks of having your business card read “Aston Martin Design Director?” Well when you decide to go racing in the Aston Martin GT4 Challenge of Great Britain, you can customize your very own Vantage GT4 to compete in. Head of design for Aston Martin, Marek Reichman, will show up in [...]
General Motors announce today that OnStar subscribers requested more than 2 million routs in July, a record of direction-seeking OnStar blue button pushes. The OnStar team said that subscribers often sought “the nearest Wal-Mart.” Nearly 40,000 navigation requests were made to Wal-Mart in the United States and Canada. “Whether we route our subscribers to their [...]
General Motors Company plans to release information on its second quarter results on Thursday, August 12. Many analysts are going to closely watch the results as GM’s CEO Edward Whitacre has been pretty vocal about his desire to file an initial public offering as soon as possible. According to sources that spoke with CNBC, the [...]
Ford has been pushing their new, environmentally friendly Eco-Boost engines, and this talk has been substantiated with the implementation of the engine into many different lines- including one of Ford”s most distinguished model lines, the F-150. The 2011 F-150 will have 4 new engines, all coupled to a new, more fuel efficient 6-speed automatic transmission. [...]
Tuning companies often put out sports packages for moderately fast cars; even sports cars like the Porsche 911 Turbo can see design teams try to upgrade the package. Truly rare, however, is the package for a full-on supercar to receive an extensive tuning and design pack. One such pack has come from Sport Wheels, a [...]
With the release of any new Porsche, tuning companies come out of the woodwork to put their own unique spin on cars that, coming out of the Porsche factory, already possess style and speed. The Cayenne”s V6 by speedART has been bumped to 444 hp, putting out 420 lb-ft of torque and dropping the Cayenne”s [...]
Nissan today announced pricing on the all-new 2011 Nissan Juke, which will go on sale nationwide this October 2010. Prices start at $18,960 for the base Nissan Juke S CVT FWD. “We believe JUKE”s unique combination of motorsports-inspired exterior and interior design and unexpected levels of technology ““ along with a starting MSRP under $19,000 [...]
When you think of Suzuki, you hardly think of of high-performance, 200 mph or the Bonneville salt flats. Well, all those things will join forces on Aug. 14 as Suzuki prepares to take a modified version of its Kizashi sedan to Wendover, Utah in hopes of hitting a top speed of more than 200 mph. [...]
Shortly after the BMW Concept Gran Coupe made its debut at the 2010 Beijing Motor Show (in fact it was the same day that the car was unveiled), reports of a production model took over the automotive web space. However at that time we hadn’t heard anything ‘official’ from BMW or a BMW executive – [...]
