Miscellaneous

Preview days for the 2012 New York Auto Show have ended on a bittersweet note for the attending journalists and reporters. Professor Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, who penned the famed Porsche 911, passed away on Thursday, April 05, 2012. Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, or F.A. Porsche, was born on December 11, 1935, and ...    Read more

On the latest episode of Head to Head, our colleague Jason Cammisa of sister publication Automobile Magazine gets behind the wheel of both the 2012 Volkswagen Golf R and 2012 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution MR. Both vehicles are put to the test on both roads and the racetrack alike as Cammisa ...    Read more

There is no arguing how technology has impacted how we drive. Many once standard driving skills, like which direction to swerve during a spin out or even parallel parking, have been either simplified or no longer necessary due to the advent of car sensors and safety technologies. Now it looks ...    Read more

You know you're in the presence of tough company when your CEO says 26,771 midsize cars sold last month alone just wasn't good enough. But Honda's Tetsuo Iwamura isn't used to his company's 2012 Honda Accord playing third behind the Toyota Camry and Nissan Altima in the family sedan arena. "We are not ...    Read more

While other automakers from all over the world were turning in record sales figures for the month of March, Europe's biggest automotive nameplates were no different. In astonishing fashion, Audi, BMW, Volkswagen, and Mercedes-Benz all turned in record-setting sales figures for March and the first quarter of 2012. Audi rode ...    Read more

If you don't know who William T. Sherman was, he was a general of the Union Army during the Civil War who helped coin the term "Total War," pillaging every Confederate city in his path until he reached Georgia. It's a somewhat appropriate analogy, as Kia shares its largest North ...    Read more

The days of buying a brand-new vehicle with a down payment of a week's worth of pay have gone by the wayside with such things like Tab soda, shell necklaces, and Shrinky Dinks. That's been accepted fact of life for a while now but just how high will the price ...    Read more

Land Rover has been selling SUVs here in the states for 25 years and is throwing a bash at the 2012 New York Auto Show to celebrate. The luxury SUV maker, in a reversal of the usual gift-giving, is giving back to its fans with the debut of two limited ...    Read more

March madness definitely swept domestic automakers General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler as Americans entered the dealerships with cash—or at least good credit—in hand and a willingness to buy, well, American. Brands with the newest products such as Chevrolet and GMC got a lot of attention. But revitalized models like the  ...    Read more

Buick has experienced somewhat of a renaissance over the past few years thanks in large part to a crop of fresh vehicles like the full-size crossover Buick Enclave, which debuted in 2007. The 2013 Buick Enclave has been refreshed as the Detroit-based automaker continues to carry that momentum forward. With ...    Read more

Sometimes you read something and you simply don't believe it. But then you're told there's video, but then again these days everything can be manipulated. The 2012 Mazda2 is a stout little runabout, light on its feet but also light on the stuff that makes it go. It's fun to ...    Read more

General Motors announced today that it will be halting production of the Chevrolet Volt for three weeks in July. The plug-in hybrid hatchback has already seen its production stalled once this year as it's currently on hold until April 23. The latest production delay isn't entirely unexpected though, as many ...    Read more

Did you know that, between 1968 through 1985, no Chevrolet Impala actually had the badge displayed on the car's exterior? Instead, the word "Impala" was displayed in various scripts depending on the model. Also, the original Impala emblem, when it made its debut in 1958, did not have the now ...    Read more

In the third installment of teaser photos for the 2013 Ram 1500, Chrysler's truck branch has released this image shown above. This photo is one of five teaser images that will be released by Ram leading up to the latest 1500's debut at the 2012 New York International Auto Show ...    Read more

With the 2013 Ford Fusion sedan, the automaker is introducing automatic start-stop, a feature it says can save consumers as much as $1,100 over the course of five years. Best yet, unlike most fuel-miser options, the feature will cost just $295 when it makes it to production. Auto start-stop takes the ...    Read more

What do you get when you take a 2013 Ford Taurus SHO engineer, put NASCAR driver Carl Edwards behind the wheel of the Taurus, and then lay down some laps at curvy closed course? What if you do it for each of the nine engineers present? You get laughter. Continuous ...    Read more

Toyota announced last month details on its all-new "Excess Wear & Tear Protection" plan for its leased Toyota and Lexus vehicles. The program covers normal vehicle wear and tear like cigarette burns on seats and even cracked windshields, issues normally paid by the lessee. Toyota has launched another customer-oriented ...    Read more

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation on both the 2011 Chevrolet Cruze compact sedan and the 2010 Jeep Wrangler SUV. Both investigations involve vehicle fires. The NHTSA reports it has received two complaints on the Chevy Cruze igniting on fire and eight reports on the Jeep Wrangler. ...    Read more

It can be argued that last weekend was one of the best weekends for television all year. After four unpredictable weeks of men's college basketball, this weekend was a culmination of the 68 best teams in the nation when only four of them remain. With the mystery of who's going ...    Read more

Testifying before a House subcommitte, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's David Strickland said seatbelts should remain out of school buses. But wait, seatbelts make cars safer, right? Not necessarily so, says Strickland. For cars, trucks, and motorcoaches, Strickland told the House Subcommitte on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade that seatbelts for every ...    Read more

In the 1970s, it was said the U.K. automakers that has joined together as government-owned British Leyland produced some of the worst cars ever to leave an assembly line. A running joke was that autoworkers would stand in picket lines more often than they would stand in assembly ...    Read more

General Motors has activated a new app to hopefully get Millennials, or so-called "Generation C", to buy cars or at least look up from their smartphones. The GogoLink app provides gps/navigation capacity through Chevrolet's MyLink infotainment system. First available on the upcoming 2013 Chevrolet Spark subcompact and also the 2012 Chevy ...    Read more

Airport fleet buyers, church van drivers, and Octomom, rejoice! With the introduction of the 2012 Nissan NV Passenger Van, the Japanese automaker has made a new, credible option for you to tote your cohorts en masse. And now it has a price, starting at the low, low price of just ...    Read more

OK, we'll give you a minute to reaffirm all the stereotypes about teenagers behind the wheel. Gabby teen girls, gossiping with gusto? Certainly. Teen drivers who are a menace to society? Of course. Teenagers get distracted easily, according to a study conducted by the American Automobile Association, and cell phones ...    Read more

Website CarInsurance.com mulled many a $15,000 car (or less, supposedly), attempting to come up with the perfect list of 20 cars to buy teens. It waded through cars that were considered pretty darn reliable, ranked as Top Safety Picks by the Insurance Institute of  Highway Safety, and cost the least ...    Read more