We’ve previously heard reports that Audi has plans to offer a competitor to the BMW X6. Walter de’ Silva, design boss at Audi has now confirmed that Audi has officially signed off on plans for the X6 competitor but declined to say when the car will hit dealerships. In an interview with Automotive News Europe, de’ [...]
Ohio-based AMP Holding announced today that the company will unveil an all-electric SUV at the 2012 Detroit Auto Show next month. The company, which is currently known for converting a Mercedes-Benz ML350 into an electric-vehicle, says that the new SUV is based on a ‘vehicle with an All-American image’ AMP said that the new model [...]
Jaguar is in the holiday spirit and has released a teaser shot of its upcoming Jaguar XF Sportbrake on Twitter. So does this Jaguar XF Sportbrake photo tell us anything? Not really. All we really see is Santa loading up the Jaguar XF station wagon with gifts offering a quick glimpse of the inside of [...]
Gasoline direct injection (GDI) has been with us for close to a century, but it’s taken a while for car companies especially to get it right: the Swedes invented it in 1925, the Germans used it in aircraft during the war and Ford messed around with it in the 70s, but it did not become [...]
As the world watches the Volkswagen shift its focus to mainstream/beige Corolla and Camry fighters, Akio Toyoda, the company’s chief officer asked Tokuo Fukuichi to head Toyota’s design group. Fukuichi has been responsible for vehicles such as the ‘89 Previa MPV and has returned to make some changes, for example, he suggests that he wants [...]
When most car nuts or moviegoers hear “’Aston-Martin DB5′, they think of James Bond and though the 280 bhp supercar from the sixties typically goes for $160K-$400K, by adding the name “George Harrison” to the owner list, the price has just shot well over half a million. Given the car’s condition and other factors, the [...]
Here is some quick, important but boring industry news for you. The Board of Directors of Ford Motor Company today declared a quarterly dividend of 5 cents per share. “We have made tremendous progress in reducing debt and generating consistent positive earnings and cash flow,” said Bill Ford, executive chairman, Ford Motor Company. “The board [...]
The 2013 Chevrolet Malibu will be going on sale (starting with the Malibu Eco) here in the United States in the first quarter of 2012. But before the Malibu makes its introduction in your local dealers engineers for the all new sedan have rolled past 1 million miles of on-road development testing – accumulated in [...]
Continuing our series of posts with our exclusive interview with BMW M-Division’s product manager for North America, Matt Russell, he talks about the 1-Series again. Previously, Russell praised the success of the 1-Series M-Coupe and seeing as how we at egmCarTech loved it too when we first drove it, I asked Russell if we could [...]
Nissan of Europe has announced a new ‘go-harder’ version of the new 2012 GT-R (known has 2013 GT-R to us), which offers a little extra boost for those that want some edge on the race track. Known as the Nissan GT-R Track Pack, the version goes harder on the track yet remains fully road legal. [...]
