While many analysts keep wondering when Chinese automakers will come the U.S., American automakers keep getting bullish on their goals for selling vehicles in the world’s largest automotive markets. According to Mike Manley, who heads Chrysler’s Jeep brand and international operations, Chrysler Group LLC expects to sell 40,000 vehicles in China this year, up from [...]
Kazunori Yamauchi, the maker of Gran Turismo for PlayStation, has quietly returned to real-world racing. Yamauchi was recently spotted at the 4-hour ADAC Reinoldus-Langstrekenrennen Nurburgring VLN race in a Nissan GT-R. As you can tell from the picture above, the GT-R used by Yamauchi is inspired from the GT500 ‘Stealth’ GT-R from Gran Turismo 5. [...]
Chevrolet has been hard at work to make sure that they remain an industry leader in fuel efficient and green automobiles in order to compete with the Toyota standard. As a result, they just recently revealed their Beat Electric Vehicle in New Delhi, India and chose the growing Asian country as the market to test [...]
BBC has just released two addition trailers for Top Gear Season 17, which will hit your television set on June 26. The first trailer shows James May driving the Aston Martin Virage along with the Mini Cooper Countryman JCW off-roader. The second shows us how bored The Stig has been since season 16 ended. Hit [...]
FoMoCo’s ranking in the J.D. Power and Associates 2011 U.S. Initial Quality Study fell only a year after the Dearborn automaker topped all mass-market brands brands as problems with new technology (*cough* MyFord Touch *cough*) hurt the company. Toyota on the other hand saw its quality ranking rise after last year’s drop to the lowest [...]
Closer to the models’ 15th birthday, Porsche announced today that production of the Porsche Boxster and its sister model, the Cayman, has exceeded 300,000 units. “Together with its timeless attractiveness, this two-seater, mid-engine car from the Dr. Ing. h.c. H. Porsche AG, Stuttgart has what it takes to make yet another sports car icon,” Porsche [...]
Audi launched production of the new Audi A1 nearly one year ago and the German automaker announced today that it has built the 100,000th model. To mark the occasion, King Albert II of Belgium visited the site in the Forest district of Brussels. “We are very honored that the King of Belgium has taken such a [...]
Earlier this month, the 2012 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 hit up the Nurburgring Nordschleife and returned an impressive lap time of 7:19.63. That put the 2012 Corvette ZR1 ahead of the 2012 Nissan GT-R and right below the Porsche 911 GT2 RS on the board. With things already hot at the Nurburgring for Corvette engineers, they [...]
It’s unfortunate that in this day and age, us drivers are always on edge keeping a big eye on the ever so fluctuating gas prices. So it should be no surprise that average consumers these days are highly favored and considered “extremely important.” A new study conducted by Maritz Research in conjunction with Ford’s 2011 [...]
Saab announced today that it will be unable to pages to employees as it has not obtained the necessary short-term funding. “Swedish Automobile and Saab Automobile are in discussions with various parties to obtain short-term funding, including via the sale and lease-back of the real estate of Saab that was announced previously, and with their [...]
