After increasing the number of dealerships with Saturday hours, Chrysler Group LLC plans to push more of its franchises to offer maintenance and service on Sundays in order to better compete against service stations. Pietro Gorlier, head of Mopar, the service division of Chrysler, wants to see 80% of US Chrysler dealers with Saturday hours [...]
President & CEO of Ram, Chrysler’s truck brand, Fred Diaz, has said that the company will not be producing any hybrids past its current government-funded program. “Truckers don’t want to buy hybrids.” Despite the lack of mass production to the consumer market, Diaz has said that Ram expected to take away a greater command of [...]
While going through its bankruptcy restructuring, General Motors ended up killing a lot of models that it soon brought back to life. Two of those models happened to be the Chevrolet Colorado and the GMC Canyon pickups. Both models are scheduled to end production at GM’s Shreveport, La., by June 2012, however, that’s not the [...]
Celebrating the 25h anniversary of the Ypsilon, Fiat Group will be unveiling the 2012 Lancia Ypsilon at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show next month. The 2012 Lancia Ypsilon 5-door hatch supermini measures 3.84 meters longs and is based on the Fiat 500 platform. However, the 2012 Ypsilon gets 300 mm longer to extend cargo and [...]
Lancia will come to the 2011 Geneva Motor Show with 6 new models (5-shown here). Four of the six models will be rebadged versions of Chrysler vehicles including the Chrysler 300, 200, 200 Convertible and the Town & Country. What’s are the Chrysler vehicles going to be called in Europe: Chrysler 300: Lancia Thema. Chrysler [...]
Two young blokes working in conjunction with Nokia Asia decided to take a BMW 1-series and turn it into one of the largest remote control cars ever. The two men took a Nokia C7 Symbian powered smartphone as the controller, and programmed it to drive all of the electronics on the 1-Series. The entire system software [...]
Most of the United States has been getting bombarded by the ‘snowpocalypse.’ Dodge decided to capitalize on the recent adverse weather and created this amusing commercial showing how Dodge AWD vehicles can handle heavy snow. Click here for more news on Dodge vehicles. Hit the jump for the commercial.
G-Power loved working with BMWs, as we’ve just seen their newest efforts with the E92 M3 GTS. But they don’t stop! Their first rendition of the M5 resulted in the M5 Hurricane RS back in 2008, which topped out at a whopping 228.4 mph with 750 bhp, making it the “fastest sedan in the world.” [...]
We’re still high off of the release of the 2012 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, which recently made its debut at the 2011 Chicago Auto Show. Well, here is some additional good news for Camaro fans – Chevrolet will introduce a limited-edition Camaro approximately every six months in an effort to generate some buzz for the model. [...]
At the 2011 Geneva Motor Show next month, Porsche has confirmed that it will unveil a parallel full hybrid model to compliment the new Porsche Cayenne S Hybrid. The new parallel full hybrid model is expected to be the hybrid version of the Panamera. Porsche has been talking about the Panamera Hybrid ever since the [...]
