According to A.T. Kearney consulting firm, U.S. auto sales are likely to recover to pre-recession levels by 2013, thanks to high demand from consumers that are ready to replace aging cars and pickups. A.T. Kearney said that sales will rise this year to 13.2 million cars and light trucks from 11.6 million last year. The firm [...]
While Ray LaHood works hard to cut back on technology inside vehicles distracting drivers, Volkswagen has opened a large Electronics Research Laboratory in San Francisco. With a $20 million annual budget, the Volkswagen lab will work with driver assistance human-machine interaction, multimedia and connected vehicles. Burkhard Huhnke, the lab’s executive director, said that lab will employ [...]
Last week during one of our ‘Let’s Talk Numbers’ segment we took one of the most popular segments in the automotive industry – the compact segment – and put the 2012 Honda Civic, 2011 Hyundai Elantra and the 2011 Chevrolet Cruze in a head-on numbers battle. What about the new 2012 Ford Focus? Did we just [...]
The 2012 Fiat 500 is a strong seller for Chrysler Group LLC and Fiat SpA here in the United States. When it comes to the battle of fuel economy champs, the Fiat 500 is outselling the buzz-stealer Chevrolet Volt nearly two to one in April. Fiat USA has just released a new video showing the [...]
Recently, Toyota Prius sales surpassed the 1 millionth mark in the United States, and there wasn’t much celebration around the milestone besides a press release. Well, Toyota is now making an attempt to celebrate passing the 1 millionth mark here in the U.S. with a new campaign called ‘Prius Goes Platinum.’ Click here for more [...]
Now for some boring industry news that won’t really make a difference to you unless your analyst, live in China or invest heavily in Ford. The automaker has announced that it’s teaming with its Chinese partners to build the company’s first transmission plant in China to support an “aggressive growth plan in the world’s largest [...]
Earlier this week, Ferrari handed over the keys to the one-off Ferrari Superamerica 45 to Peter Kalikow, who visited the factory to take delivery of his special one-off mode. The Ferrari Superamerica 45, which was designed and engineered in-house, and was commissioned by Mr. Kalikow to celebrate 45 years since he first became a Ferrari [...]
Audi is gaining momentum – there is no doubt about that. However, the automaker is now rubbing it in the faces of its competitors with a new TV ad spot called “Car Carrier”. The commercial shows the extraordinary lengths people will go in order to get into an Audi with a voice in the ad [...]
Earlier this week, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood took a tour of the construction site where Nissan is building a plant to manufacture advanced lithium-ion batteries. The Smyrna, Tennessee plant, which will be the largest in the country capable of manufacturing lithium-ion batteries for automotive applications, will produce the battery packs for the Nissan [...]
We here at egmCarTech love concept designed by bunch of students for their school project. Yesterday, we say the 2030 Mercedes-Benz Aria Concept was designed by student Slavche Tanevski at the Munich University of Applied Sciences. Today, we’d like to introduce you to the new new Maserati GT Garbin. Developed by three students (Jaime Cervantes, [...]
