Month: November 2014
Poor Minivan Crash Test Results for Three Models
IIHS assigns poor ratings to Nissan, Chrysler and Dodge models. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) recently put four…
NHTSA Tells Takata to Order a National Recall
Airbag supplier Takata, a Japanese company, has been ordered by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to expand its…
Gasoline Fuel Choices for Today’s Cars
Buy a new car, especially one that requires gasoline, and you may soon find that the grade of gasoline you…
Delivered: 2015 Jeep Cherokee Limited 4×4
Sometimes the second time around is simply better. For instance, when you revisit what had been previously experienced the chances…

Mitsubishi Shows Radical Concept, Insists That They’ll Stay in the US
Smallest Japanese manufacturer makes plans for the future. This just in: Mitsubishi says that it plans to stay in the…
Fiat 500X Marks the Spot
Third Fiat model arrives stateside next year. The Fiat brand is slowly taking hold in the US with two 500…
Jaguar F-TYPE: AWD and a Manual Transmission
Jag sports car receives important enhancements. If you want to be taken seriously as a high-performance sports car there are…
Volvo Intends to Stay, Thrive in the US
At the 2014 Los Angeles Auto Show. Routinely, automotive journalists and analysts look at the industry’s smaller players and posit…
Juked: 2016 Mazda CX-3
Finally, the Nissan Juke has some competition. Nissan Juke alternative: 2016 Mazda CX-3 The compact utility vehicle segment will soon…
Toyota Mirai: Fuel Cell Future Realized
Toyota turns a new chapter in green driving. The 2016 Toyota Mirai is making its global debut at the Los…
Honda Debuts FCV Concept Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle
Honda’s newest green car will debut in 2016. Honda’s next generation fuel cell electric vehicle. Just as Toyota revealed its…
Track Star: Cadillac ATS-V.R Race Car
Cadillac Racing releases its latest model. Last week, in advance of the upcoming Los Angeles Auto Show, General Motors released…
Audi A6, A7 Revealed Ahead of the Los Angeles Auto Show
First look at two refreshed Audi models. There once was a time that car manufacturers would keep new product tightly…
The Highly Unlikely Acura Minivan
No boxy people mover for Acura. An Acura minivan? Really?! It seems that prior to any major auto show —…
Auto Trends: Kia GT4 Stinger
Korea’s No. 2 car manufacturer asserts itself. That Kia lives in Hyundai’s shadow is understood. Kia is the other part…
Mitsubishi Draws Closer to the Renault-Nissan Alliance
Lancer replacement likely coming from the alliance. Mitsubishi is discontinuing its Lancer as well as its heralded Lancer Evolution models,…
How to Scrap Your Rustbucket
Updated April 19, 2017. Remember the Cash for Clunkers program? Officially known as the Car Allowance Rebate System or CARS,…
5 Reasons Why Volkswagen Fiat Chrysler Makes Sense
Imagining Fiat Chrysler as part of the Volkswagen Collective. Speculation about a possible blockbuster Volkswagen Fiat Chrysler merger has come…
The Second Chance Chevrolet Volt
Slow selling models rarely are given a second chance. When an automotive manufacturer has a dud on its hands, it…
Auto Trends: Cadillac XT5 (SRX)
You heard that Cadillac’s naming convention is set to change again, right? Well, it will and the first model to…
Rocking October 2014 Auto Sales Lift Industry
October 2014 sales remain in positive territory. The US auto industry continues to record strong sales even as the overall…
Not US Bound: Ram 700 Pickup Truck
Diminutive truck enhances Ram’s Mexican product line. Considering that car manufacturers may push for product unity across different markets, the…
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