Today, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, General Services Administrator Martha Johnson, and White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Nancy Sutley announced a major step in moving the Federal fleet further towards advanced vehicles and decreased petroleum consumption. The United States government will end up adding 101 Chevrolet Volts to its fleet along with 10 [...]
We’ve all had our fair share of weird sales people at car dealerships. Larry Roesch, of a Chicago-area Volkswagen dealer, takes weird up a notch by demonstrating how tough a Volkswagen really is. In a 30 second video, Roesch slams the doors of a Volkswagen GTI, stands up on the door to show how solid [...]
Earlier this afternoon, Chrysler announced that it has repaid its outstanding $7.6 billion U.S. and Canadian government loans. President Barack Obama has released his statement regarding Chrysler’s repayment and here is what he said: Chrysler’s repayment of its outstanding loans to the U.S. Treasury and American taxpayers marks a significant milestone for the turnaround of Chrysler and [...]
Last week at the Michelin Challenge Bibendum in Berlin, Porsche showed off two Boxster E prototypes where it apparently attracted many prospective customers. Is this to say that Porsche will be producing the Boxster E? Not entirely – the company hasn’t confirmed anything yet, but with all the ‘interest’ being generated in the car, we [...]
In 2008, Volkswagen announced that it will build a plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, months before the U.S. economy crashed. However, Volkswagen was smart enough to continue the project and will now be taking advantage of the recovery and the increase in U.S. auto demand. The German automaker today, along with U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray [...]
Besides Cadillac, there is not one American performance luxury brand (really there are only two, so it’s not that big of a deal) that could be proud to stand head-to-head with the likes of BMW, Audi or Infiniti. Lincoln, which obviously has a lot of work to do, could be considering a model that could [...]
More than six years ahead of schedule, Chrysler Group LLC today repaid its outstanding $7.6 billion U.S. and Canadian government loans following the completion of a new refinancing deal it struck last week (click here for more on that). The $7.6 billion payment includes original U.S. and Canadian government loans totaling $6.7 billion, in addition to $1.8 [...]
Having an app for your new vehicle is almost becoming standard practice for the automotive industry. Mercedes-Benz is hoping on that bandwagon with a new Apple iPad app for the 2012 Mercedes-Benz CLS. The app will be the first of a series of MY ’12 product apps and is available through the Apple App Store [...]
When you want to take on some of the industry’s best sports car, you have to make sure that whatever you’re building is developed with the help of someone very respectable in the industry. With that in mind, Infiniti has reportedly tapped Lotus to help it produce a new two-seater that will compete with the [...]
Toyota yesterday received the recommendations provided in a report from its independent North American Quality Advisory Panel, led by former Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater. The advisory panel, which was appointed by Toyota itself after the millions of recalls its faced since 2009, said that Toyota is too insular and doesn’t do a good job of [...]
