Car Manufacturer News

General Motors has not one, but two files open on its vehicles by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, always an uncomfortable position for any automaker. The first involves the Chevrolet Malibu midsized sedan. According to the NHTSA and GM, certain model year 2013 Chevy Malibu models have a software issue ...    Read more

The auto industry has been facing the perfect storm since the beginning of the new millennium; 2009 especially proved to be a low point as General Motors and Chrysler declared bankruptcy. Subsequent events like Toyota's "sudden acceleration" recalls and the Japanese earthquake in early 2011 literally shook auto companies into ...    Read more

After a tumultuous six years in Dearborn Michigan, Ford received news from Moody's Investors Services this afternoon that its credit level has been bumped up from junk to investment grade. This effectively closes one of the roughest chapters in the Blue Oval's history but there are still a few more ...    Read more

Less than a decade ago, if you told someone you just bought a KIA vehicle, you may have gotten a funny look and even heard some snickering when you walked away. Now, KIA is one of the fastest growing automakers in the world and hasn't shown any signs of slowing ...    Read more

Apple's Siri voice command took consumer electronics to new heights with its natural voice recognition system. Automakers were suddenly sent scrambling to update their infotainment systems, which looked hopelessly antiquated with their so-called "gateway commands" (e.g., "Radio on") and stilted command tree (e.g. "Play disc two, track three."). Nuance Mobile has ...    Read more

One of Land Rover's most popular models is going to be joined by two new limited editions for the 2013 lineup.  Upon its introduction stateside back in 2006, the Range Rover Sport became an instant hit with stay-at-home-moms and professional athletes alike. The Range Rover Sport was so appealing at ...    Read more

Italians have a reputation for building alluring, hopelessly pretty, fragile roadsters—witness the Alfa Romeo Duetto from The Graduate , for starters. Now, however, Alfa Romeo's overlords at Fiat are aiming to partner up with Mazda to take "fragile" out of the equation with a new generation of barchettas. The next ...    Read more

You must live under a rock if you didn't see Michael Bay's 2007 "Transformers" movie, a box-office mega-smash that generated over $709 million world-wide while in theaters. The non-nerd version recap goes as the Autobots (the good guys) come to earth looking for the AllSpark (an energy source) in an ...    Read more

Volvo is currently rolling out three car safety technologies--City Safety, Pedestrian Airbag, and Pedestrian Detection--as part of its goal that "By 2020, nobody shall be seriously injured or killed in a new Volvo". We've covered City Safety, which can be found in the Volvo XC60, and ...    Read more

Leave it to Mercedes-Benz to do both charity work and ferry service in style. The Palme d'Or, or Golden Palm, is the highest honor bestowed at the Cannes International Film Festival at Cannes, France. To celebrate the 65th anniversary of the award, Mercedes-Benz will be shuttling the various dignitaries, movie stars, ...    Read more

With BMW introducing the 2013 6 Series Gran Coupe this week to the press, the automaker let a little more information slip about the future of its entire lineup regarding engine options. The 2013 BMW Gran Coupe is slated to have two engine options available in the U.S.—a 315-horsepower, turbocharged 3.0-liter ...    Read more

With bloated prices at the pumps, it should come as little surprise that Americans say fuel economy is the number one factor when considering the purchase of a new car. Still, it’s surprising. In a recent Consumer Reports survey, Americans chose fuel economy over quality, value, safety, and performance. And ...    Read more

Subaru's heavyweight, the WRX STI, is still recovering from having its thunder stolen thanks to the recent addition of the BRZ. In today's installment of Video of the Day, sister publication Motor Trend takes the 2012 Subaru WRX STI out for a spin in the latest episode of Ignition to ...    Read more

The future of autonomous vehicles may have just gotten a step closer to reality, as the California Senate passed legislation that covers safety and performance standards relating to the cars. The legislation was authored by Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Pacoima), and was passed unanimously 37-0. The bill will now make its ...    Read more

This week, Toyota marks a lofty goal: 4 million of its hybrids are plying the roads of our fair planet. That range includes the Prius, the Prius v and c, the Camry Hybrid, Lexus GS450h, the Lexus RX, the Kluger Hybrid (we get it as the Highlander, which is a far ...    Read more

The headline up there is the sort that blogs just love to scream. But hyperbole aside, if Delphi's experiments with new engine technology could come to fruition, our cars could see 50 percent greater fuel economy than today, without alternative fuels or batteries. What is Delphi working on? The automotive supplier ...    Read more

The next generation of the popular BMW M3 sports coupe isn't expected to launch until late next year at the earliest, but we're already getting some key details that help give us an idea of what the new M3 might look like. According to a recent report, BMW has already ...    Read more

Car development takes a long time. Product planners and developers will start on the next-generation vehicle just as the paint is drying on job-one of the current generation. Of course, more and more of that is done behind the scenes on computers, but there comes a time to build a ...    Read more

This week marks the arrival of the first Ford Focus Electric cars to dealerships across the country, but Ford doesn't want anyone to know. Except the salesmen, of course. The first batch of 350 Focus Electrics will arrive at 67 dealerships across California, New Jersey and New York. Each dealership gets six ...    Read more

It's been anything but a smooth ride for Anaheim California-based Fisker Automotive, manufacturer of luxury plug-in electric vehicles. Since its inception in 2007, Fisker has battled delays, rescheduled launches, and a horde of questions about the company's financial stability. In the latest round of bad news for Fisker, the National ...    Read more

It's a time some call the "100 Deadliest Days." From May to September, about 100 days between Memorial and Labor Day, are when teenage drivers start dying behind the wheel of a car—at the rate of 10 teens a day, according to some statistics. That's an average of 3,800 teenagers ...    Read more

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has bestowed a Top Safety Pick award onto the 2013 Acura RDX and the 2012 BMW 3 Series, respectively. Both the RDX and 3 Series earned a score of Good -- the highest rating available through the IIHS and its testing procedures -- in ...    Read more

Remember the Life Ball Mini Cooper S Roadster we showed you a little while back? Well, the charity auction's over, and the winning bid is in: €54,000. In America's Monopoly money fun bills, that's equivalent to $68,998. Well, at ...    Read more

General Motors has released some pretty impressive numbers lately on its Chevrolet Volt hybrid electric vehicle. According to the Chevrolet website and OnStar, Volt owners have driven the equivalent of 40 million gallons of fuel if the Volt had been a conventional gasoline-powered vehicle, which translates roughly to over 16,000 trips ...    Read more

In a page taken from Tony Stark's management handbook, Toyota president Akio Toyoda was candid when asked what vehicles he liked from the competition. Speaking to a group at his inauguration as Chairman of the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, the grandson of Toyota's founder Kiichiro Toyoda called out his favorite ...    Read more