Car Manufacturer News

Ah, the power of German engineering. Volkswagen of America has built its 250,000th Passat family sedan after a two-year run in Tennessee. Re-engineered and reintroduced two years ago, the Volkswagen Passat quickly picked up steam in the segment with a cheaper price, more space, and better accommodations for an American audience ...    Read more

Mary Barra, General Motors senior vice president, Global Product Development, announced that GM will donate the first production 2014 Cadillac CTS Vsport with performance driving school package to the SAE Foundation. Barra was honored this week with the Society of Automotive Engineering Foundation's 2013 Industry Leadership Award, making her the ...    Read more

If you have a large family, usually you have to pony up some serious cash to transport everyone from point A to point B. Many  vehicles featuring a third row of seats start with high price and go even higher, and for many, they don't make the type of money ...    Read more

Talk about a world changer. As you're aware, we're more of a consumer operation, so when available, the cars we choose to drive and review tend to be the budget, economy, or bread and butter offerings. Sometimes, though, we don't really have a choice--we get what's available in the media ...    Read more

Have you ever owned a vehicle that you loved so much you wished you could build your house around it? Meet Holger Schubert, the architect who did just that. Schubert is the proud owner of a Ferrari 512i BB, one of only 929 units ever produced by the Prancing Horse, ...    Read more

Kia Motors is having a busy year, reloading with seven all-new or refreshed vehicles this year, not the least of which is the 2014 Kia Soul that we first saw at the New York Auto Show. If you believe ...    Read more

Although the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has not yet posted this recall to their website, the recall of select 2013 Cadillac SRX models has been posted on the Transport Canada website and Cadillac dealers have been notified. The vehicles involved in the recall are equipped with 18-inch wheels with ...    Read more

Even though the Mercedes-Benz lineup has received a lot of criticism--from overwrought styling on some models to somehow being too luxurious on others--our colleagues at Automobile Magazine say the new C-Class due in March 2014 promises to get a lot of things right. It will be sleek and sporty, roomier ...    Read more

If there's one sedan out there that has just the right amount of style, performance, and sex appeal, it's the Maserati Quattroporte. So what happens if that sex appeal finds the touchdown line and helps spawn a family? What do you do from there? If you're former president ...    Read more

Ford Motor Company will be accelerating the introduction of new products for Australian customers, transforming its business operations to improve sales, service, and create a more efficient and profitable business structure. The plan opens up the possibility of importing more U.S. built models, such as the Mustang, Explorer, and others. The ...    Read more

The all-electric subcompact segment is suddenly heating up. We recently got behind the wheel of the 2013 Fiat 500e and now, the 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV is joining in on the fun. Chevy has given its pint-sized EV a starting price of 27,495, ...    Read more

This year, Ford looks to add 200,000 vehicles worth of capacity to its 9 to 5 work shifts, as well as produce an additional 40,000 units by keeping select plants open an extra week during the company’s traditional two-week summer shutdown schedule. The plants that will be producing the extra 200,000 ...    Read more

Remember a few months back when Mitsubishi unveiled its G4 Concept at the Shanghai Motor Show? Well now, we have the production version of that and it comes in the form of the Mirage sedan. The Mitsubishi Mirage sedan, or Attrage as it's known as in Thailand, will ...    Read more

Volkswagen didn't quite spell it out this bluntly, but a copy of a recent dealership memorandum sums it up similarly: North Americans who drive diesel-powered cars are stupid. The memorandum, obtained by Automotive News, describes VW's upcoming service action to retrofit almost 210,000 diesel-engine cars in ...    Read more

Tesla Motors announced today that is has repaid the entire loan it received from the Department of Energy back in 2010. Oh, and we should probably mention it did so nine years ahead of schedule. That $451.8 million Tesla was on the hook for also includes all interest accrued in ...    Read more

Fisker Automotive, the upmarket plug-in hybrid automaker that hasn't made a new vehicle since July of last year, was considered dead and buried after filing for bankruptcy and laying off the majority of its staff earlier this year. It was widely believed after all this that Fisker would go quietly ...    Read more

It's pretty safe to assume that this slab-sided thing caught by the friendly people at our sister publication Motor Trend is undoubtedly a Toyota. It was seen this morning on the Interstate 405 just miles from Toyota's Torrance headquarters; neighbor Honda typically uses California plates for its cars out our way. ...    Read more

It's getting warm outside. Students are getting out of school for the year. On top of all of that, Memorial Day is less than a week away, and you're bound to be hitting the highway for a getaway. Unless you're renting a car, chances are you'll need to make sure your ...    Read more

If this were a battle of which sports car had more syllables in its name, the 2014 Nissan GT-R Track Pack would be at a dead heat with the 2014 Audi R8 V10 Plus, as both have inordinately long names. Try ensuring your valet can make sense of them. Fortunately, this ...    Read more

The announcement earlier this year that BMW and Toyota would be teaming up to produce a sports car took many by surprise. Toyota needs help building its performance portfolio, but what does BMW get out of this partnership? Taking a closer look at the BMW-Toyota lineup that began in 2011, the ...    Read more

If you were at the top of the executive food chain back when the now-defunct Saab was still making vehicles, then your week didn't get off on the right foot. Former Saab CEO Jan-Aake Jonsson, Chief Financial Officer Karl-Gustav Lindstroem, and former general counsel Kristina Geers were all arrested in ...    Read more

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has launched an eight-part series that takes viewers inside the Institute's Vehicle Research Center in Ruckersville, Virginia. The Institute goes behind the scenes to show how crash test dummies work, and how the IIHS engineers crash and evaluate the safety of every new ...    Read more

Remember Land Rover's plans to introduce a new Defender in the next few years? Unfortunately for fans of the iconic nameplate, this has been put on hold, along with the opening of Land Rover's latest engine plant in India. The original plan was to offer a lightweight Defender model but ...    Read more

The Honda Aircraft Company, a division of Honda Motors, announced new achievements and milestones during the development of the HondaJet during the 2013 European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE). The program has flown through 3,300 test points for stability, control, performance, landing gear, flight controls, and more. Michimasa Fujino, president ...    Read more

Thanks to the partnership between McLaren and Honda for Formula 1 and the success of McLaren's road car division, there are rumors that the next McLaren road car set to be slotted below the 12C to fight the Porsche 911 will be powered by a Honda-developed engine. This speculation isn't that ...    Read more