Shawn Weimer, 39, is being summoned to court for the outrageous crime of having his nine-year-old daughter be his designated driver after having too many drinks. Weimer is being brought up on charges for two counts of child abuse and being a repeat offender. He is facing 15 years in prison if he is convicted. [...]
Porsche yesterday broke ground at its production plant in Leipzig, Germany for a $648.9 million expansion. The company is preparing to produce the ‘Cajun’ SUV/Crossover in in late 2013. Wolfgang Porsche, the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Porsche Automotive, and Matthias Muller, Chairman of the Board of Management, were joined by guests from government [...]
Daimler AG has reportedly fired Ernst Lieb, the head of Mercedes-Benz USA. His termination takes effect immediately and was given without reason. Lieb had been the head of Mercedes-Benz USA for five years. Until further notice, Lieb will be succeeded by Herbert Werner, the Mercedes-Benz USA CFO and vice president for finance and IT. Prior [...]
The Toyota Prii family will be growing later this year with the Toyota Prius V and the Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid. Following those two models the Prii family will be joined by the compact Toyota Prius C, due in spring 2012. But thanks to the way the Internet works a leaked brochure of the Toyota [...]
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has named the 2012 Fiat 500 a Top Safety Pick for 2011. The new Fiat 500 joins eight Chrysler Group models that are Top Safety Picks by the IIHS for 2011. The IIHS recognizes vehicles that demonstrate “good” performance in front, side, rollover and rear crash test evaluations performed [...]
Given a sub $20,000 price tag and a propensity to sip fuel rather than swill it, one might think that an attractive and aggressively marketed midsize car would far outsell a smaller, $35,000 car with a range of just 100 miles, but it hasn’t. Interestingly, the Nissan Leaf outsold the Suzuki Kizashi by 1754 units [...]
Moving Forward is still Toyota’s slogan, but many folks added “even when you don’t want it too” out loud or in their heads in the context of the Camry and Prius; yesterday Toyota introduced a new slogan and campaign for their new Camry: “It’s Ready, Are You?” The campaign capitalizes on technology found in the [...]
After going under the auction block at a recent Barrett-Jackson event and hitting up the Nurburgring with a lap time of 7:41.27, the new Chevrolet Camaro is being put under a series of extreme testing by GM engineers. Click here for more details the Chevrolet Camaro ZL1. One of the tests includes the Camaro ZL1 making [...]
Chrysler Group LLC announced today that it is investing $165 million to add a new one million square-foot body shop at its Sterling Heights (Mich.) Assembly Plant. The announcement comes after the company’s 2010 confirmation of investing $850 million on a new paint shop for the plant. The brings Chrysler’s total investment at Sterling Heights [...]
DeLorean Motor Company (DMC) means different things to different people: the ‘80s, Northern Ireland, drug trafficking, and of course, Flux Capacitors. The thing is though, many and most think of DeLorean as dead and perhaps, timeless-but for the most part, still dead. DMC seems to have risen from the ashes and in some ways gone [...]
