Better, Stronger Aluminum for Cars Coming from Alcoa to Change the Industry
9 Dec 2014, 11:02 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Outlandishly designed concept vehicles can’t go into production like that because of safety reasons, regulations and also manufacturing challenges. At least the last problem will slowly be dim...
EV and Plug-In Hybrid Production Grew Tenfold in China in November
9 Dec 2014, 11:01 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / China’s problem with smog and air pollution in general needs to be fixed as soon as possible. The government is making all sorts of efforts to deal with the issues and it seems like results ar...
Opel Bochum Plant Closes Down
8 Dec 2014, 18:27 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / General Motors’ European division comprises of two iconic brands - Opel and Vauxhall. In recent years, both of them struggled to sell vehicles for pretty obvious reasons - while competitors go...
Maserati Manufactures 50,000th Vehicle at the Giovanni Agnelli Plant
7 Dec 2014, 08:03 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Located in Grugliasco, Italy, the Giovanni Agnelli plant is extremely important for a once troubled Maserati. Until recently, the iconic manufacturer was struggling to sell its vehicles, but nowaday...
Cadillac to Introduce 9 All-New Models in China Over the Next 5 Years
7 Dec 2014, 08:03 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / According to November sales figures in the United States, Cadillac moved a lot less vehicles than any other brand in the General Motors portfolio. You might say that’s normal because Caddies a...
Mercedes GLE Coupe Shows How Much Mercedes-Benz Has Changed
4 Dec 2014, 15:46 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / If you have any friends working for Mercedes-Benz, you should try to help them with the holidays tasks and not just for now, but for the next few years or so. They’re going to need all the ass...
Ford is Second Best in the November 2014 Sales Tug-Of-War
2 Dec 2014, 16:19 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / We previously reported that General Motors is the king of November sales in the United States, but now’s time to cover the second best US manufacturer in terms of sales. As it happens, Ford Mo...
GM Leads November 2014 Sales Face-Off
2 Dec 2014, 15:31 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / General Motors announces that Christmas came early for them. As it happens, GM is enjoying its best November US sales since 2007. To boot, November represented the best ever sales month for the Chev...
55-Tone Crane Splits House in Two in New Zealand Freak Accident
28 Nov 2014, 15:37 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / A 55-ton crane was lifting a boat off a trailer parked beside a house in Auckland, New Zealand, today when the weight proved to be too big and it collapsed, falling through a neighbor’s house....
Toyota Vehicle-Infrastructure System Available in 2015
27 Nov 2014, 10:10 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Driving a car appears to be a very complicated thing these days with so much traffic and pedestrians roaming around. Reason why cars are getting more complex and will handle more of the driver&rsquo...
New Alfa Romeo Compact Executive Sedan to Arrive Next Year, Won’t Be Called Giulia
25 Nov 2014, 16:24 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / From 2005 to 2011, the Alfa Romeo plant in Pomigliano d’Arco assembled the elegant 159. Intended as a BMW 3 Series rival, this Latin compact sedan never cut the mustard on the handling front, ...
Shipworms To Reveal Secrets of Making Biofuel
25 Nov 2014, 13:42 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Shipworms are quite odd sea living creatures to start with. First of all, they’re not actually worms, but mollusks and they feed on wood, hence their name coming from eating their way through ...
2014 Has Been a Crazy Year for Spyshots, Here Are the Hottest Moments
19 Nov 2014, 16:41 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / We still have 42 days to go until we have to open the champagne into 2015, but we can already conclude that 2014 has been an effervescent year for spyshots. For instance, the Nurburgring alone has p...
First Android Auto Quick Tour by Consumer Reports
19 Nov 2014, 10:14 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The auto industry is orienting towards simplifying infotainment systems and how to do this better than with the help of major operating systems manufacturers like Microsoft, Apple and Google. The ta...
Biggest Truck On Earth Has Electric All-Wheel Drive: BELAZ 75710
18 Nov 2014, 17:35 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / You might think that electric cars are for girls, like it happened back in the day they were invented and females preferred them because of simplicity and less things to break. But you’d be wr...
Advanced Lead-Carbon Batteries to Spawn a New Generation of 48V Super Hybrid Vehicles
18 Nov 2014, 17:04 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / In case eco-friendly motoring isn’t your cup of tea, the segment is focused these days on extending the range of hybrid or electric vehicles. To earn those valuable extra kilometers, you need ...
Ferrari & Fiat-Chrysler Saga Update, Maserati and Alfa Romeo SUVs to Launch in 2015
16 Nov 2014, 03:50 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / In case you haven't heard already, a part of Ferrari will be listed next year on the most important stock exchanges from the United States and Europe. FCA previously announced that 10 percent o...
Unlimited Mileage Warranty Is a Sweet Deal from Mazda Canada
14 Nov 2014, 17:01 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / We all know that Japanese automakers really like to differentiate their way of doing cars from the rest of the world through one thing - reliability. But Mazda Canada is now pushing the reliability ...
Whiskey Waste Used to Make Biofuel
14 Nov 2014, 13:08 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / When it comes to biofuels, most people think of ethanol obtained from crops or biodiesel made out of fat and other natural oils. But using only crops to create biofuel won’t cut it and we shou...
Toyota Could Lose $100K On Every FCV
14 Nov 2014, 11:10 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The move towards using hydrogen fuel cell cars will be tough, very though. That’s mostly because there is no such infrastructure to sustain these vehicles, but also because the technology is s...