While full production ramp up of the Fisker Karma won’t begin until the first quarter 2011, the company today launched an online configurator for its first vehicle. Head over to Fisker’s site play around and configure a Karma of your own. Click here for more news on the Fisker Karma. Refresher: Power comes from Fisker”s [...]
The 2011 Volkswagen Touareg is one good looking crossover that will be available as a hybrid in the United States later this year. For those lucky Germans, Volkswagen announced that the new 2011 Touareg is now available as a luxurious Volkswagen Exclusive model. Click here for more news on the Volkswagen Touareg. The 2011 Volkswagen [...]
The four-door-coupe luxury sports sedan market is growing every year. The market currently consists the Mercedes-Benz CLS, Porsche Panamera, Aston Martin Rapide and the Audi A7 Sportback. Bentley will now join the segment with its own four-door-coupe, a model that is expected to fit below the Continental and Mulsanne in the brand’s vehicle lineup. Speaking [...]
All of you Gran Turismo fans are about to be really angry. Sony’s PlatStation Blog confirmed today that Gran Turismo 5 will not be available this November 2nd. However, Sony promises that the game’s release will be coming this holiday season. “We sincerely apologize to GT fans for the delay, however, creator Kazunori Yamauchi and the team at Polyphony [...]
BMW announced today that the 2011 BMW X3 will be available for purchase by the end of the year and will carry a base price of $37,625 (current model starts at $38,850). Comparatively, rivals from Mercedes-Benz (GLK) and Audi (Q5) start at $35,500 and $35,200 respectively. The base 2011 BMW X3 xDrive28i is powered by [...]
Previously, the Environmental Protection Agency (better known as the EPA) allowed a maximum of 10 percent of blending higher concentrations of ethanol into gasoline for newer vehicles. Well, today the EPA said that it will increase that percentage to 15 percent for the corn-based fuel at the pump. “Thorough testing has now shown that E15 [...]
According to ad-monitoring company Nielsen Co., General Motors nearly doubled its advertising spending in the first half of 2010, leading a rebounding auto industry marketing. The study by Nielsen said that in the first half of 2010, the auto industry spend $3.5 billion on advertising, up 27 percent from the same period in 2009. While [...]
While Ford’s SYNC and GM’s OnStar try to figure out ways to let driver’s update their Facebook and Twitter statuses, Chrysler Group LLC and a company called Qualcomm Inc. teamed up last year to bring live mobile TV to consumers through a new Mopar option called FLO TV. Well, before FLO TV even catches on [...]
General Motors CEO Dan Akerson today had an introductory private meeting with U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. A spokesman for GM and the Treasury said that today’s meeting in New York City was just a “meet and greet.” “This is the first time their schedules matched,” GM spokesman Greg Martin said. A Treasury spokesman said [...]
In the past couple of weeks, we heard a lot about the Porsche Cajun, a baby crossover SUV based on the Audi Q5. Also in the works for some time now is a baby Boxster entry-level roadster. According to Porsche’s new CEO Matthias Mueller, the company has put a hold on the development of both [...]
