To celebrate the 50th anniversary of its P1800, Volvo’s design director Christopher Benjamin drew up sketches what he things a modern day version of the car might look like. For those unfamiliar with the P1800, you’re probably not as big of a car enthusiast you thought. The Volvo P1800 was a very attractive 2+2 coupe [...]
Americans traveled 46 billion more miles in 2010 then they did in 2009, but according a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study, fatalities still remained on their 5 year decline. In 2009, it was reported that it had been 60 years since the number of fatalities had as low as they were, and 2010 saw [...]
The 2013 Subaru WRX will drop displacement and up its mpg rating for the 2013 model year, according to one of the brand’s spokespersons. When the WRX originally hit American soil it came powered by a 2.0-liter flat-four, which was later replaced with a 2.5-liter that produced 265hp. Subaru has decided that for 2013 the [...]
Enthusiasts can certainly appreciate the UK based Skunkworks engineers stuffing a 3.8-liter GT-R engine under the hood of the Juke, but the Nissan executives at the company’s headquarters in Japan seem a bit unhappy about not being the first to know. It seems that Nissan of Europe’s team picked up their air guns and welders [...]
Honda says that it finally has a diesel engine that should worry its European competitors. Setting the Volkswagen Group diesel engine as a benchmark, Honda says that it has built a new 120-hp 1.6 liter diesel engine that can produce a strong 221 lb-ft while emitting a CO2 level of less than 100 grams per [...]
There used to be a time when when you spoke of top luxury brands Lexus would also come up – well, not in this article. Audi is set to pass Mercedes-Benz brand for the first time in full-year global sales and finish 2011 as the world’s second best-selling luxury brand behind BMW. With just December [...]
Honda seems to be jealous of Nissan’s success with the Qashqai crossover in Europe and is now considering adding a rival to the vehicle to its European portfolio, CEO Takanobu Ito says. “We are very envious that the Qashqai from Nissan is selling very well so we are thinking about doing something like that,” Ito [...]
House Republicans have sent a letter over to General Motors CEO Dan Akerson asking him for a ‘detailed narrative’ on how the automaker learned about a fire risk involving the Chevrolet Volt’s lithium-ion battery. They have also asked why GM didn’t let the public know of the issue sooner. The House’s Committee on Oversight and [...]
As Subaru suggested at the LA Auto Show, there is room in this world for a even quicker version of the sub-3,000 lb rear-wheel-drive Subaru/Toyota sportscar and Toyota has announced that it plans on making even quicker versions of the GT 86. Toyota’s chief engineer, Tetsuo Tada suggested some supercharging may happen, which makes sense [...]
Fiat’s spicy commercial ‘Seduction’ made its debut alongside the Fiat 500 Abarth at the 2011 LA Auto Show. Since then, the video has gathered more than 2 million views on YouTube and is now receiving the pop-up video treatment from VH1. A pop-up version of the commercial will be featured on VH1.com’s ‘Pop-Up Video’ site [...]
