Suzuki doesn’t have a huge advertising budge to take on a Super Bowl spot, but the automaker is releasing this new ad campaign in Super Bowl cities where it has a strong dealer base and a fighting chance. The ad, which features the Suzuki Kizashi being chased by mean snow men, is being shown Suzuki’s [...]
With all the buzz surrounding the Fiat 500, you may think that the subcompact is the focus of the brand’s return to the United States. Well, according to original plans, the Fiat 500 was supposed to be a ‘buzz’ vehicle to draw traffic to Chrysler dealerships, but was later seen as a potential to relaunch [...]
Dodge and Mopar have joined forces to bring owners of Dodge vehicles a free, new smartphone app that allows them to connect to their vehicles. The new Mopar app provides vehicles owners with vehicle vehicle operation, maintenance and warranty information, product feature video demonstrations, connections with fellow owners via the company’s brands on social media sites [...]
According to Philipp Schiemer, Mercedes-Benz’s vice-president for project management, the company is aiming to sell 8 diesel models in the United States by 2014. Currently, Mercedes-Benz sells diesel variants of the E-Class, M-Class, GL-Class and the R-Class. The Mercedes-Benz S350 BlueTec, which debuted at the 2011 Detroit Auto Show, will arrive in showrooms later this [...]
We’re going to be frank, not many of us here at egmCarTech were impressed with the new 2012 Ferrari FF when it comes to its hatchback/shooting brake styling. However, Ferrari has dropped another image showing the new FF at a different angle that could start to change our mind. We expect a bunch of high-res [...]
Whether you like it or not Super Bowl XLV will be between the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers. Besides the bunch of car commercials us auto enthusiasts will get excited over during the big game, Chevrolet announced today that the Most Valuable Player of the game will receive a 2011 Chevrolet Camaro Convertible. “The [...]
Ford workers at the Dearborn Truck Plant have been temporary laid-off for a one week period due to a parts shortage. The shortage has affected availability of parts for the 3.7 liter V-6 and the new 3.5 liter EcoBoost V-6, both of which originate in Ford’s engine plant in Cleveland, and are used in the [...]
The folks at Chevrolet are beginning to look out for their customers in a way that other automakers probably don’t. Chevrolet has given a new Malibu to a man whose old one was crushed when a tractor-trailer crashed into it trapping him in the car. Mark Keinath of Millington, Michigan was driving his 2004 Chevrolet [...]
Usually for many automakers the letter ‘S’ stands for Sport and that is no different for Aston Martin and its new V8 Vantage S. The Aston Martin V8 Vantage S is ‘beefed’ up by a host of features that take the standard Vantage to the next level. Power from the 4.7L V8 has been re-engineered [...]
Remember the Volkswagen L1 Concept – well, today the German automaker has release the second iteration of the concept called the XL1. What’s the main goal of the XL1? To get closer to Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Piech’s vision of “bringing to the market a production car that was practical for everyday use with a fuel [...]
