General Motors today released a teaser of the next-generation Chevrolet Colorado… well, at least the concept version that will be unveiled at the 32nd Bangkok International Motor Show on March 25. “The show truck previews the next-generation Colorado midsize pickup truck, which will build on Chevrolet’s strong truck DNA and award-winning heritage,” GM said in [...]
Italian design house Bertone may have spend a lot of time on the new Jaguar B99 Concept that it recently unveiled at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show, but Jaguar doesn’t seem so interested. The Jaguar B99 Concept wasn’t commissioned by Jaguar – meaning it was just Bertone’s take on how it envisioned the new entry-level [...]
Deliveries of the Hyundai Sonata Hybrid have been delayed to at least until late March because the company is changing the car’s device that emits an artificial engine noise at low speeds. Hyundai originally planned on having the Sonata Hybrid available in January, but on a small number of vehicles are in dealer stock, according [...]
So who would buy an awkwardly shaped all-wheel-drive Ferrari? A lot of people apparently. The 2012 Ferrari FF (Ferrari Four) has be sold out with the first year of production. Ferrari has plans to build 800 units of the FF annually, said Ferrari Chairman Luca Cordero di Montezemolo. Click here for more news on the [...]
Last month, BMW confirmed that its new sub-brand for sustainable mobility solutions will be called ‘BMW i.’ The BMW i brand will start offering the BMW i3 (previously known as Megacity) in 2013, followed shortly by the BMW i8 (previously known as BMW Vision EfficientDynamics). According to Ian Robertson, BMW global sales and market boss, [...]
According to a person familiar with Toyota’s plan, the Prius minivans due later this year will be the first standard hybrids from the company to be equipped with a lithium-ion battery. However, the lightweight lithium-ion battery pack will only appear on the Japanese version of the model. The U.S. version, known as the Toyota Prius [...]
Consumer Reports has released its annual all-American Top Picks for 2011, which consists of well, all-American vehicles. To meet the qualifications for being named a Top Pick by Consumer Reports a car must: The vehicle must rank near the top of its category in our ratings. It must have average or better reliability, according to [...]
Now that the hype of the Tata Nano is starting to die off, Indian automaker Tata Motors has decided to offer the European market its own, sexier version of the pint-size compact. The Tata Pixel Concept made its debut at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show last week and hints at a future subcompact for the [...]
According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, Americans are driving a lot more than before. In the latest ‘Traffic Volume Trends’ by the Department of Transportation, it is estimated that Americans drove a total of 2.9 trillion miles in 2010. That’s a 0.7 percent increase or an increase of 20.5 billion more miles than 2009. [...]
Bored on this Saturday afternoon? If you’re a car enthusiast, well, you’re in luck. Lamborghini has just launched the online configurator for the 2012 Lamborghini Aventador on its official Aventador site. The site features a bunch of information about the new Lamborghini and should take up a good hour of your day before you leave [...]
