Ford plans to tell Congress it is retooling itself to build small fuel-efficient cars, and will cut CEO Mulally's pay. The moves are part of its bid to win support for a federal bailout of the Big Three.
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Nissan has just dropped the deets on the 2010 super duper edition of their beastly GT-R. The V-spec model, which is to be released just eight days into 2009, is expected to take back the throne as the King of the Nurburgring.
What you're looking at above is not a computer generated drawing, it is a full scale wireframe representation of a Lamborghini Countach created by installation artist Benedict Radcliff. The car is the latest in a series of wire cars Radcliff has completed. It's likely the most ambitious, painstakingly crafted from 10 mm steel tube welded together.
Forget the corporate jets. When the Big Three automakers come back to Washington for hearings later this week on the proposed auto bailout, Ford CEO Alan Mulally will be making the more than eight-hour trip from Detroit to the Capitol by car, the company said today. The company won’t say yet, however, what kind of car Mulally will take.
If you live in the United States, you may have missed the announcement made last Thursday, that the world’s fastest all-electric superbike has been unveiled. Making its first appearance at the 2008 NEC Bike Show in the UK , the TTX01 isn’t commercially available yet.
Now that everyone is familiar with the glorious art of automotive FAIL, it's time to introduce FAIL's kissing cousin to the automotive world: The "You're doing it wrong" internet meme. Let the good times roll.
A complete breakdown of what this beautiful car is actually like to drive and how it stacks up against the competition.
Gas prices are up. The economy is down. For some, neither matters--all they want is to be able to drive faster than anyone else on the road, whatever the cost. And the cars that can deliver that promise are built solely for speed. They're not the kinds of cars that are particularly good for anything else, such as dropping off the kids at school...
Carbon Motors E7: The front seat was made to resemble a “helicopter-style cockpit” and the hoseable backseat is made for "a very big boy." The 300 horsepower machine also runs on biofuel.
After the big three Detroit auto makers essentially had their rear-ends handed to them in a bag by Washington politicians last week, they have been scrambling to find ways to get the money they feel they need to stay alive — and their proposed solutions are making Tesla cringe.
In a conference on the future of electric transportation, the German government has detailed a major plan to put one million electric and plug-in hybrid cars on the country’s roads within the next 11 years.
An exhibition celebrating the philosophy underpinning Japanese car design has opened at the Science Museum in London.It includes everything from futuristic concept cars to designs tailored to the peculiar needs of the Japanese internal market, with the country’s crowded cities.
Already a lot of fun to drive and fuel-efficient, the popular MINI Cooper will soon gain even more favor with environmentally conscious drivers via the electric-powered MINI E that premiered at the 2008 Los Angeles Auto Show.
The 335d is the first clean diesel legal in all 50 states to come from BMW. It cracks off a zero-to-60 sprint in six seconds dead, thanks to a 3.0-liter, sequentially turbocharged inline-6 that produces 265 horsepower. It also develops 425 lb-ft of torque -- at 1750 rpm!
Researchers are reporting they have developed a new material made from three-dimensional, highly porous nano-silicon that could give future lithium ion batteries a ten times higher capacity than they currently have.
A turkey is a special kind of car which, though no lemon, is out-of-date the second it rolls off the lot. Like the bird that gives it its name, it is an inferior creature that lacks an appeal to any superior automotive taste. Here is our list of the ten greatest automotive turkeys, something to give thanks for — especially if you don't own one.