FoMoCo announced today that the 2011 Ford Explorer V6 model has received an EPA-certified fuel-economy raying of 17/25 mpg (city/highway), a 25 percent improvement over the previous V6 model. “The new Explorer V6 with twin independent variable camshaft timing (Ti-VCT) delivers a keen balance between power and fuel economy,” said Jim Holland, chief nameplate engineer. [...]
No there aren’t any cars in this video but if there is any movie every car enthusiasts can connect on it has to be the Transformers 3. Michael Bay has just dropped a teaser trailer for Transformers Dark of the Moon, the third installment in the series, which hits theaters on July 1, 2011. Excited? [...]
Following yesterday’s small report, Volkswagen confirmed today that it will bring the Golf R to the United States in 2012. In a short press release, Volkswagen said: The European Golf R is simply the most powerful Volkswagen sports performance vehicle ever built. The car delivers the ultimate Volkswagen driving experience with dynamic handling, refined road [...]
Kia has asked most of its United States dealers to inspect and fix a potential faulty accelerator pedal on the 2011 Kia Optima Sedan. Kia said that Optima’s produced between Oct. 16 and Nov. 24 could have sticky or unresponsive gas pedals due to a glitch with the spring designed to push the pedal back [...]
Brains, beauty, talent and taste – Beyonce has got it all, making Jay-Z one of the luckiest men in the world. His wife recently cashed out over $2.5 million on buying him a Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport for his 41st birthday. Beyonce ordered the car a year ago since Bugatti puts a lot of attention [...]
This is definitely “The Year of the Boss”. Along with the return of the Mustang Boss 302R to track at Daytona, the addition of the 2012 Boss 302 road-going production Mustang and now Ford Racing has announced the read-to-race Mustang Boss 302S. Joining the Mustang FR500S and the FR500CJ (Cobra Jet), the new Mustang Boss [...]
Well that was quick. Just yesterday we heard reports that FoMoCo will show a concept version of the next-generation Escape and Kuga at the 2011 Detroit Motor Show and today the Dearborn automaker confirmed that it will indeed “signal its future direction for the next-generation Escape through a concept vehicle debuting at the North American [...]
Before we get started… we’d like to point out that the Ford Fusion is actually a subcompact minivan in Europe – to us it’s just a very well made sedan. According to sources that spoke with Automotive News Europe, Ford of Europe plans on showing a concept version of a small minivan that will replace [...]
We’ve been hearing for some time that General Motors plans on dropping the ‘Aveo’ name from its Chevrolet lineup – however, the Detroit automaker never confirmed on what it plans on calling the next subcompact model from Chevy. It is now reported by GM Inside News that the next-generation Aveo will carry the ‘Sonic’ nameplate. [...]
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced that Kia is recalling certain 2011 Kia Sorento crossovers that were built between Sept. 14, 2010 trough Oct. 4, 2010. NHTSA says that some of the break calipers may not have been properly machined. “As a result, brake fluid will leak, followed by illumination of the malfunction indicator light [...]
