Month: June 2013
2014 Mazda3 Packs In The Zoom-Zoom
Mazda took advantage of a slow early summer news cycle to unveil the next generation of its popular Mazda3 compact….
Infiniti Q50 Is Priced Lower Than The Departing Model
Infiniti’s new naming convention is rolling in with the 2014 Infiniti Q50 replacing the 2013 Infiniti G37. The new model…
The Big Ascent: 2013 Nissan Juke NISMO
There is nothing ordinary about the Nissan Juke NISMO. Take one part SUV and another part rally car and what…
Expanding Buick by Revisiting Opel
The Buick brand is 110-years-old. Does Riviera have a future in Buick? Until GM killed off Saturn, Opel was the…
Honda Accord Hybrid Aims for 49 MPG Rating
Honda is about to have its second go around with the Honda Accord Hybrid, but this time it has aimed…
Reviewed: 2013 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid Limited
Hyundai has successfully made the transition from a substandard purveyor of rehashed automotive products to a world-class car manufacturer. Yes,…
GM Scores Big in Latest J.D. Power Initial Quality Study
The results of the J.D. Power 2013 Initial Quality StudySM (IQS) are in and the General Motors Company has received…
Nearly 40 Years and 30 Million Volkswagen Golfs Later
Four Decades of the Volkswagen Golf The first Volkswagen Golf was introduced in early 1974, a replacement model for the…
Cadillac CTS Pricing: Going Up
The General Motors Company has been repetitively telling us that the third generation Cadillac CTS would cost more as the…
Ford’s Risky Reductive Lincoln Approach
The Ford brand is sailing smoothly, bolstered by hot-selling and exciting products ranging from its burly F-Series pickup truck line…
Going Blue With the 2014 Subaru Forester 2.0XT Premium
Fourth-generation Subaru Forester debuts. Subaru has the midas touch as everything it makes seems to turn to gold. This Japanese…
Apollo Tyres to Acquire Cooper Tires
Please note that Cooper Tire canceled the acquisition in Dec. 2013. Cooper Tire & Rubber Company, based in Findlay, Ohio,…
On Sale Now: Chevrolet Volt
Electric vehicles are a tough sale as high prices keep customers away. The Chevrolet Volt is a plug-in hybrid electric…
Polk, Owner of Carfax, Acquired by IHS
Business information service IHS announced this week that it has agreed to acquire R.L. Polk & Co., an automotive analytics…
Are Driverless Cars Really That Far-Fetched?
In 1939, American theatrical designer Normal Bel Geddes put together his vision of the future at the New York World’s…
Now Introducing the 2014 Toyota Corolla
The 2014 Toyota Corolla has been introduced, the latest iteration of the world’s best-selling model. The five-passenger front-wheel drive Corolla…
Fighting Back: Chrysler v. NHTSA
Forget the rest of the automotive news you have been hearing this week. Chrysler’s rejection of the NHTSA’s request to…
Ford Announces EcoBoost Marketing Initiative
EcoBoost is Ford’s proprietary engine line, gasoline-turbo direct fuel-injected motors that are big on power, small on footprint and efficient…
2014 Chevrolet Impala: Decidedly Unboring
The latest iteration on the Chevrolet Impala theme. What were GM designers thinking when they crafted the 2014 Chevrolet Impala?…
Quick Work: 2014 Chevrolet Malibu
The current generation Chevrolet Malibu made its debut early in the 2013 model year, but was immediately panned for its…