The Quandt family, who are heirs to a fortune that includes a stake in BMW, have accepted their involvement of their forefather’s with Hitler’s National Socialists. The report was made by Die Zeit in an interview with family members to discuss their past ties to Nazis. During the interview, Gabriele Quandt said her grandfather Guenther [...]
We’ve been hearing about Porsche doing a Supra successor for years now. Most recently, it as reported earlier this month that a replacement for the Toyota Supra will show up in concept form at the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show. Toyota has yet to confirm anything but reports suggest that the model should hit showrooms sometime [...]
Skoda today released its own version of the new Volkswagen Up! Known as the Skoda Citigo, the new model will be launched in the Czech market in late 2011. It will later be available in the UK and rest of Europe starting summer 2012. “The Citigo is one of the pillars of our growth strategy. It [...]
Ford of Europe has introduced a new Fiesta special-edition model known as the Ford Fiesta Metal. Only 1,000 units of the Ford Fiesta Metal Special Edition will be produced, each featuring exterior styling upgrades, a Piano Black painted center stack bezel, air vent rings and interior door handles, ebony leather sports seats and 17-inch black alloy [...]
Carbon ceramic brakes have been around for a while with Porsche being one of the first to employ them on their cars. However, because of their high commanding prices, carbon ceramic brakes were always left to the very top-end applications such as supercars or hypercars. Now though, word is that BMW is working on some [...]
GM was in the right to have reversed an agreement to sell its Opel unit in 2009, said GM CEO Dan Akerson. Why? Well, GM is now profitable in all of its regional units. Speaking at Bloomberg’s Dealmakers Summit in New York today, Akerson said that GM’s global presence was one of the selling points [...]
According to a stats from UK-based Kantar Media Precis, the new 2012 Porsche 911 sparked the most interest from social media users during the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show. Whether it was Tweest, Facebook-Likes or blog posts, the new Porsche 911 seemed to grab the attention of the social media geeks. The car to take the [...]
General Motors said that it will idle its Fort Wayne, Indiana plant for one week in November to adjust to market demand for its full-sized pickups. The plant, which builds the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra, will halt output during the week of Nov. 7, according to GM spokesman Chris Lee said. The Detroit automaker [...]
“With full-size payload and towing, the Nissan Frontier is the mid-size truck that acts like a full size, giving the driver the feeling they can tackle any obstacle,” says the description to a new Nissan commercial that shows the Frontier helping an airplane land after it loses its landing gear. Of course at the bottom [...]
OnStart today announced that it is reversing its Terms and Conditions policy changes and will not keep a data connection to customers’ car after the OnStar service is canceled. OnStar said that it has sent e-mails to customers telling them that effective Dec. 1, their service would change so that data from a customer vehicle [...]
