Porsche 918 Spyder reportedly to fetch half a million euros apiece
July 13, 2010 by admin
Filed under Concept Cars
Filed under: Concept Cars, Convertible, Coupe, Hybrid, Performance, Plants/Manufacturing, Porsche
Porsche 918 Spyder Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery
Say what you will about Porsche, its diversification into four-door sedans and SUVs at the cost of its racing program, and its plot to take over the world. Push come to shove, the German automaker isn’t [...]
Rare Mercedes-Benz C111 prototype reportedly damaged in highway robbery attempt
June 16, 2010 by admin
Filed under Concept Cars
Filed under: Concept Cars, Government/Legal, Mercedes-Benz, UK
1977 Mercedes-Benz C111-III – Click above for high-res image gallery
A rare 1970s-era Mercedes-Benz C111 show car has gone on display at the company’s museum at Brooklands, but it almost didn’t make it.
According to reports from across The Pond, the truck transporting the vintage concept car from Germany to the [...]
NHTSA reportedly investigating C5 Corvette over leaky fuel tanks
Filed under: Recalls, Safety, Chevrolet, GM
We don’t need to tell you why a leaky fuel tank can be a big hazard. Something about flammable liquid seeping out from underneath a car raises a huge red flag, and now the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating 33,000 2004 model year Chevrolet Corvettes over this very [...]
VW reportedly set to buy Italdesign Giugiaro
May 20, 2010 by admin
Filed under Design and Style
Filed under: Volkswagen, Earnings/Financials, Design/Style
1974 Volkswagen Scirocco designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro
The last several years have not been kind to the great Italian design houses like Pininfarina, Bertone and Italdesign. The first two have run into financial brick walls after getting over extended and required bailouts. Thankfully, Italdesign, founded by Giorgetto Giugiaro in 1968, may have [...]
Records reportedly suggest Toyota delayed U.S. Venza recall by six weeks
Filed under: Budget, Recalls, Crossover, Toyota, Canada
2009 Toyota Venza – Click above for high-res image gallery
Toyota just can’t seem to get out from under its recall woes. According to an article in the Los Angeles Times, the feds are once again taking a close look at the Japanese manufacturer, this time for failing to recall [...]
Toyota reportedly testing all of its SUV’s stability control systems
Filed under: SUV, Recalls, Safety, Lexus, Toyota, Luxury
2010 Lexus GX460 – Click above for high-res image gallery
Further proof that Toyota is taking Consumer Reports’ recent test and subsequent Do Not Buy rating of its Lexus GX 460 sport utility vehicle seriously is a report from AutoWeek that the Japanese giant is testing all of the [...]
Lexus, Infiniti reportedly not interested in taking on BMW’s 5 Series Gran Turismo
April 10, 2010 by admin
Filed under Design and Style
Filed under: Wagon, Crossover, Hatchback, Acura, BMW, Infiniti, Lexus, Design/Style, Luxury
BMW 535i Gran Turismo – Click above for high-res image gallery
Depending on who you ask, BMW is either at the forefront of an exciting new automotive genre with the 5 Series Gran Turismo, or is inventing market segments with no real purpose other than to [...]
Zagato reportedly to unveil new Alfa Romeo TZ3 Corsa concept at Villa d’Este
April 9, 2010 by admin
Filed under Concept Cars
Filed under: Concept Cars, Misc. Auto Shows, Alfa Romeo
Particularly astute (and Alfa-fanatical) readers may have noticed something missing from the Geneva Motor Show last month. With Alfa Romeo celebrating its centenary this year, the stoic Italian brand was reported to be commissioning three of Italy’s finest design studios to produce concept cars for the brand. [...]
Toyota reportedly knew about unintended acceleration issues caused by electronics in 2002
Filed under: Sedan, Recalls, Safety, Technology, Toyota
Throughout all of the recent Toyota recall talk, the automaker has stated on numerous occasions that it has never found any sort of electronic defect that would cause unintended acceleration. Instead, Toyota insists that only floor mats and sticky accelerator pedals were to blame for the problems that owners [...]
What could have been: DeLorean had reportedly been planning hydraulic hybrid
March 21, 2010 by admin
Filed under Green Auto
Filed under: Hybrid, Green Daily, Lightweight
The name John DeLorean is synonymous with the automotive industry. From his days at General Motors, where he turned Pontiac into the automaker’s de facto performance division with the creation of the GTO, and, therefore, the muscle car genre in general, to his days running his eponymous car company that [...]
