Hyundai is hard at work to keep up with the competition. And as a result, the South Korean brand has just unveiled its important new Eon city car for the Indian market. Known as the Eon, the model serves as Hyundai’s smallest model and was designed specifically for India, where it has its sites set [...]
Nissan has been one of the few manufacturers who have been offering continuously variable transmissions or CVTs for quite some time now. And because of their prominent use of the latter, Nissan has just unveiled a new CVT called the XTRONIC CVT, for applications on cars displacing as little as 2.0L to as high as [...]
Honda has been under the spotlight for quite some time now with a lot of rumors circulating about its replacement to the famous halo car, the NSX (you can read all of the here). And to make things a bit better or worse, word is that Honda’s R&D boss Mibe Toshihiro has confirmed that an [...]
So get this. The new 2013 Chevrolet TrailBlazer, which was teased just two days ago and was one of the highlights on many automotive news desks across the world, will not be coming to the US. And if my research serves me right, that would make it the first ever SUV from Chevrolet not offered [...]
President Barack Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak both paid a visit to General Motors’ Orion Township assembly plant last Friday in order to promote a free trade agreement. The plan is said to potentially stimulate exports of US made products to South Korea, Colombia and Panama. The plan calls for cutting South Korea’s [...]
Jaguar is expected to ‘sportify’ its lineup over the next couple of years with a bunch of new additions including a new sports car based on the new C-X16 Concept that was shown at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show in September. Jaguar officials say that work is also under way on a new compact sedan but [...]
A clothing company by the name of Original Penguin has released a new advertising campaign for for its new jacket. Why should you or even us at egmCarTech care? Well, the commercial features a video of a Buick Regal jump roping. We’re not kidding. While this may seem like a fraudulent stunt, Original Penguin has [...]
Lotus is releasing a new version of the Evora inspired by the Lotus-Renault Formula One race car to create a bigger buzz for the brand’s name in the racing world. The attractive new model is called the Lotus Evora S GP Edition. On the outside, the car is coated in black paint, with gold paint [...]
To increase driver accessibility, Nissan North America, Inc. has reduced the cost for its home charging system for the Nissan Leaf. The AeroVironment developed system can be bought at Nissan dealers, and comes installed, with a price tag of $1,818. Nissan didn’t cut quality with costs, however, and says that the station is the same [...]
Pininfarina, the company responsible for designing the majority of Ferrari’s since the 50′s, has made the decision to halt production, shifting its focus to engineering and design. A spokesman for the company said “Unfortunately we are having to stop our production activities, given the way the car market is.” Back in March, Pininfarina said its [...]
