News for 6 August 2010
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This is the second generation of Scion’s style-heavy coupe. It sold 310,000 of the first gen, 40 percent of Scion’s 800,000 sales total so far. So this is an important car for the …
According to the latest reports, it appears that Saab wants to enter the World Rally Championship with its upcoming 9-2 supermini.
The debut is rumored to take place in 2012 and the new car is expected …
The Spark Woody Wagon art car was created in the UK for Chevrolet using a three-quarter vinyl body wrap provided by Pyramid Visuals of Weybridge, whose speciality is normally in vans and shop …
There’s a prediction that in three to five years, annual US sales of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids could increase to as high as 100,000 units.
Christina Lampe-Onnerud, founder and CEO of battery maker Boston-Power Inc., …
INTERACTIVE EDITOR DALE JEWETT: The Lexus IS-F is a sleeper. There are some subtle cues on the outside–the 19-inch wheels that fill the wells, the stacked exhaust tips at the corners of the rear bumper …
The ground-breaking drive system of the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG E-Cell boasts some outstanding features: powerful traction is provided by four synchronous electric motors with a combined peak output of 392 kW and a …
Scion vice president Jack Hollis is a former Stanford and AAA baseball player who, but for an injury, coulda been a contender, coulda played in the show.
He’s not one to boast–he didn’t tell us of …
There must be something about the Cadillac Escalade that makes it the most preferred vehicle to steal in the US. The Highway Loss Data Institute reported earlier this week that the Escalade remains to be …
The Tesla Roadster 2.5 features improvements in design and technology, including a new front fascia, rear diffuser, improved seat comfort, sound dampening and an optional large touch screen navigation system with back-up camera. …
At the CAR Management Briefing Seminar, CEO Ed Whitacre divulged that General Motors Co.’s US dealers are in the middle of the largest dealership facilities makeover in the company’s history.
He indicated that 300 dealerships were …
BMW sales in China are expected to increase by over 30% this year mainly due to the robust economic growth in this country, according to Christoph Stark, president & CEO, BMW Group Region China.
BMW China’s …
MANAGING EDITOR BOB GRITZINGER: Having spent the previous day in a well-equipped, $80,000 V8-powered E550 Cabriolet, I had my doubts whether the S550 would offer enough of upgrade to notice–even at $113,000. I was wrong: …
