FoMoCo vehicles like being the best-in-class for a lot of things – but one things they are most proud of is being the best-in-class for fuel-economy. The Dearborn automaker announced today that its 302-hp 3.7L V6 2011 Ford F-150 will average a best-in-class 23 mpg highway, pending final EPA certification. It will deliver 16 mpg [...]
A little less than a month ago, Warren Buffett was pretty vocal about his company, Berkshire Hathaway’s, investment in Chinese automaker BYD Co. Sadly, BYD was recently fined and ordered to surrender seven factories due to a dispute over land use in central China. The Chinese automaker received a fine of 2.95 million yuan ($442,000 [...]
As a part of the owning experience, 2011 Chevrolet Volt owners will get their own website that will allow them remote access to their vehicle and control various functions on their extended-range electric-vehicle (or a plug-in hybrid depending on how you want to look at it). Click here for more news on the Chevrolet Volt. [...]
At the 2010 LA Auto Show next month, Toyota will debut an electric-drive RAV4 that will feature batteries, motors and other parts from Tesla Motors. The Japanese automaker will pay its new partner Tesla around $60 million to develop the parts. In a regulatory filing yesterday, Tesla said that the terms of the deal were [...]
Buick is becoming more and more innovative by the day – yes, that’s probably something you thought we’d never say. Recently, Buick teamed up with the Istanbul native Mine (Mee-NAY) Tasc, a team of engineers that created an innovative road scanner that makes a micro-detailed 3D digital representation of some of the toughest real-world road [...]
General Motors Chairman Edward Whitacre said today that the company’s stock will be priced from $20 to $25 per share. Whitacre made the statement at an event in San Antonio, Texas, and said that the initial public offering would take place sometime in November. “It’s going to be somewhere in the $20 range, $20, $25, [...]
Earlier in July, Managing Director of BMW M GmbH, Dr Kay Segler, revealed some initial details on the new BMW 1-Series M Coupe, the latest addition to the M family. Earlier this month, the international press had the chance to get behind the 1-Series M Coupe prototype where Albert Biermann, Head of Development at BMW M [...]
What you’re looking at here is an alleged photo leak of the 2012 BMW 6-Series Convertible. Apparently the picture was taken during a photo shoot of the vehicle – but something about the picture doesn’t have us convinced. Either way, we’ll let you be the judge. Let us know if you think this is a [...]
Recent spy shots of the Aston Martin One-77 circling the Nurburgring show some interesting shots… and by interesting shots – we don’t mean of the car hitting up the famous Nordschleife track. Apparently spies caught the words “Dirty Shirley” on the back of the One-77 prototype while it was undergoing high-speed testing. While we have [...]
It’s been a little more than a year that we’ve been hearing about a BMW X4, a baby version of the successful X6 ‘sports activity coupe.’ Latest reports suggest that BMW is set to green light the X4 and that design of the model is on its way to be finalized. The BMW X4, which [...]
