Saturn’s onslaught of new products continues with the new 2008 Saturn Vue. With the addition of this vehicle, only the lowly Ion carries the torch for old-school Saturn-think (at least, until the Astra arrives.) Like the Aura and Sky, the Vue shares its platform and looks with an Opel; in this case it’s the Antara […]
Down Under at the Bubbles ‘n’ Babes car wash in Brisbane Australia, you can get a car wash from a naked woman and a lap dance, but it’ll cost you a cool $82. If that’s too much money for you, you can get the nude wash minus the up-close-and-personal element for $45. The establishment is […]
Autocar says BMW seriously considered taking Volvo off of Ford’s hands earlier this year, going so far as to request financial data about the company, which is surprising on several levels.
First, does this mean Volvo is for sale? Bill Ford has said nothing in Ford’s Premium Auto Group is sacred, but Volvo seems to be […]
The May Popular Science looks at the future of cars. There are pictures of futuristic cars and a writer’s account of driving a Smart car. The Popular Science folks also weighed in on what fuel sources other than gas will power cars in the future.
Alternative power Estimated market share in 2027
Batteries …30%
Diesel …20%
Ethanol …6%
Biodiesel …4%
Natural […]
Doing something about global warming and the rapid depletion of the world’s non-renewable energy resources has recently become an important topic on some governments’ agendas, and hopefully not only because elections
are coming.
The first concrete measures have been to introduce extra taxes for purchasing or importing a car of which designers couldn’t care less about the […]
A new Volkswagen Golf V is stored with other new cars awaiting owners at the Autostadt in Wolfsburg, Germany.
fter showing off their BlueTec-equipped diesel six-cylinder engine at the Detroit Auto Show, BMW indicated that they would be installing oil-burners in their US offerings in 2008. Yesterday, prior to the opening of the Geneva Motor Show BMW CEO Dr. Norbert Reithofer reaffirmed that diesels would be available in US-market BMWs beginning with the X5 […]
If you’re looking for the ultimate vacation and have the cash to spend, look no further than Red Travel. The stuff-that-dreams-are-made-of tour operator based in Turin specializes in putting together vacation packages that put you behind the wheel of a Ferrari to drive along the Italian countryside, with a variety of options to suit your […]
This is the UK’s new Vauxhall VXR8, which also happens to be Australia’s HSV Clubsport R8 (ignore that “based-on” nonsense….this is as straight a rebadge as you’ll ever see). Both are the spawn of the Holden VE Commodore as presented after the speed freaks at HSV have had their way with it.
In this case, “having […]
Microsoft, looking to get the message out about it’s Zune doohickey, has turned a Toyota FJ Cruiser into an urban assault vehicle. The test run occured in a New York City neighborhood in the wee hours of a Sunday morning with the FJ Cruiser blaring out music at such a volume that it could be […]
Rumors of a high-po track version of the capable Pagani Zonda have materialized as true today in the form of official looking pics and info on the Swedish website Sportbilen.se. No translating utility we could find was able to decipher the site’s cryptic native language, but we’ve picked out what we can and combined with […]
When the fruity people at Del Monte closed their Pinson Valley distribution center in Alabama, they were left with 300k square-feet worth of warehouse space and a lot of unsold canned pears. Being in the market for a manufacturing center, Isuzu decided to pick up the facility with the intention of investing several million bucks […]
Wishing you a very Happy New Year & may you have a prosperous one!!
Apparently moving ahead of Ford isn’t going to be good enough for Toyota. With their latest global projection of 9.42-million vehicles planned for 2007, it’s looking more likely they might catch General Motors to become the world’s No. 1 auto maker. For 2008, they will be teaming with the Klingons to challenge for interstellar domination. […]
Japan’s 2007 Tokyo Auto Salon is approaching, and that means that manufacturers are in overdrive preparing a bevy of new production and concept vehicles, all of which are in keeping with the tunerrific flavor of the Salon. Mazda is the first to announce its seventeen-strong car lineup (details on each one in the PR after […]
Although rollovers only make up three percent of crashes in the US, they account for over a quarter of all traffic fatalities. General Motors is in the process of investing over $10 million to study the effects of rollover crashes and while doing so, has made a pledge to outfit all their vehicles with rollover-enabled […]