Bentley Reports Strong Half-Year Sales Performance
9 Jul 2014, 16:32 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / We test-driven quite a few Bentleys since we're in the biz and the truth is that few other cars offer that balance of handcrafted luxury, aristocratic loftiness, racing pedigree and relentless ...
Maserati Ends First Half of 2014 With Record Sales
9 Jul 2014, 16:04 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / A few years ago, Maserati was in a big slump due to bad management, worsening reliability and a model lineup that failed to deliver what customers wanted. However, recent years saw the Italian marqu...
2014 U.S. Recall Tally Up to 37.5 Million Vehicles After Six Months
9 Jul 2014, 13:24 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Data available on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's website shows that the population of recalled vehicles in the United States has reached 37.5 million. That's almost 7...
Delphi CEO to Join Mary Barra on Capitol Hill's Hot Seat
9 Jul 2014, 12:27 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / You might have heard of Delphi Automotive PLC before on the news. It's the automotive parts manufacturing company headquartered in the United Kingdom that became involved in an ongoing lawsuit ...
Volkswagen Half-Year Sales Boosted by Increasing Demand in China
8 Jul 2014, 18:04 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The Wolfsburg passenger vehicle manufacturer tells that 3.07 million cars bearing VW badges have been delivered worldwide from January to June 2014, representing an increase of 3.8 percent over the ...
More Rage to Come - UberX Ride Fair is Lower than NY Taxi’s Now
8 Jul 2014, 15:22 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Europe’s taxi drivers went on strike last month with the Uber app stealing their jobs by allowing people to pull up their smartphones, go online and find a nearby driver to give them a ride fo...
EU Limits Production of Biofuels Made From Food Crops
8 Jul 2014, 13:32 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Just as with the electric vehicles that can’t be considered that much of a planet saving solution, biodiesel made from food crops won’t cut it either. And the EU Energy Council just agre...
Caterham’s Insane Superlight R500 Goes Out of Production
8 Jul 2014, 12:34 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Nowadays, a hot hatch with 263 hp is a machine capable of delivering a pretty spicy range of feelings and emotions. Imagine the same muscle motivating a Caterham that weighs a little over 500 kg (1,...
Germany to Tax Foreigners for Driving on Autobahn
8 Jul 2014, 11:57 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / While paying for a few laps on the Nurburgring was never an issue, it seems that Germany is working to introduce taxation on its other great automotive pilgrimage site, the Autobahn. All for foreign...
France Ruling Out EVs from “Green” Car Class, Says the Term is Misleading
8 Jul 2014, 09:39 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The world has gone crazy with green cars now, be them average mild hybrids or fully electric ones, which makes the topic here. Everyone considers that getting an EV will automatically transform them...
Rolls-Royce Announces Best Ever Half-Year Sales
8 Jul 2014, 08:19 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / With global sales up by 33 percent and continued strong demand for the Phantom, Ghost and Wraith, British luxury powerhouse Rolls-Royce posts record half-year sales with significant growth across al...
Ford China Posts 35 Percent Sales Increase in the First Half of 2014
7 Jul 2014, 18:13 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / This just in from a far place in Eastern Asia – the Blue Oval's Chinese arm moved 549,256 new vehicles these past six months, a 35 percent increase over the same period last year. In June...
All-New Ford Mondeo to Share CD4 Platform with Lincoln MKX
7 Jul 2014, 09:19 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / A recent report reveals that the next-generation Ford Mondeo will be underpinned by a reworked version of the CD4 platform, which is 10 percent stronger than the outgoing model's EUCD platform ...
SRT Viper Production Restarts
6 Jul 2014, 16:38 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / A few months ago, Chrysler announced that the SRT Viper will halt production for two months due to very poor demand, having moved only 91 units in the first two months of 2014. However, the manufact...
Skoda Fabia Leads UK Skoda Sales
6 Jul 2014, 10:04 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / In what has been the Czech manufacturer's best ever half-year sales period in the United Kingdom, the Fabia supermini has moved more units than the rest of the Skoda lineup. From January to Jun...
UK New Car Sales Up 10 Percent In the First Half of 2014
4 Jul 2014, 16:31 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Compared to the same period last year, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders hints that the United Kingdom's new car market has grown by more than 10 percent. Get this - the biggest ga...
Mercedes-Benz Straight Six to Make A Comeback On E-Class, SL-Class, C-Class
4 Jul 2014, 15:34 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The heavily anticipated twin-turbo straight six engines from Mercedes-Benz have been a recurring subject in the automotive rumor mill since late last year, but further details have emerged about the...
Tesla Aims to Become Leading Employer of US Veterans
4 Jul 2014, 14:22 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The Palo Alto-based manufacturer is on a bit of a roll these days. After Tesla patents went open source and the Model X pure-electric drive crossover has been confirmed to be ready in early 2015, th...
Cars to Feature Air Gestures Soon. Isn’t that a Bit of Overkill?
4 Jul 2014, 13:36 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Although this seems to be more safely to use than pushing buttons or touching a screen while driving, science really wants to make everything awkward. As talking to yourself in the car (i.e. voice c...
Automotive Grade Linux Set to Take On Apple CarPlay & Android Auto
4 Jul 2014, 08:37 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / After Apple revealed the quirky CarPlay in-vehicle infotainment interface and Google responded with Android Auto, the newly unveiled Automotive Grade Link is ready to deliver open source solutions f...