Automotive News

Among enthusiasts, the BMW 1-Series is a highly anticipated vehicle with its unique, hatch-back looks and, hopefully, inexpensive pricing (for a BMW, that is).Well, the former can be dashed for the moment. While the 1-Series is coming to the U.S., reports are coming that BMW will be getting ...    Read more

Profit can be measured in several ways. One is how much was made per unit of product sold while the second method is how much total was made. Among automakers, tt should come to no one's surprise that Porsche is the most profitable automaker. How profitable? We bet you didn't ...    Read more

According to The Auto Channel, Toyota Motor Corp. is looking to dramatically increase sales of its hybrids in 2007.Toyota, which is currently the world’s second largest automaker and may surpass GM for the number one spot this year, has allied itself with Isuzu and Subaru (through owner Fuji Heavy Industry) ...    Read more

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Oldsmobile Cutlass was the best selling car in America. But by the start of a new millennium, the Oldsmobile Cutlass had that image of being "old and stuffy". General Motors tried to save its decline when, in the 1980s, it boldly announced ...    Read more

There’s been plenty of positive and negative press lately on the electric vehicle. (Sorry about the word play.) On the latter, there’s been much blame from automakers active sabotage to government regulation to oil company greed. Toyota, though, points a finger towards the consumer as a contributor to the EV’s ...    Read more

Volkswagen has undergone some recent changes as its leadership stabilizes after dealing with last year’s scandals. Two major upheavals include Martin Winterkornassuming the chairship(replacing Bernd Pischetsrieder) and the demise of the highly anticipated Passat coupe.The concept was originally scheduled to debut next month at the Geneva Auto Show with a ...    Read more

… but you’d never know it. Still, trends indicate that more fuel-efficient cars will be the mainstay in the future.Look at your neighborhood shopping center’s parking lot. What do you see? Lots of Land Rovers? Hordes of Hummers? Scads of Suburbans? Perhaps you don’t see many of those particular models, ...    Read more

Mitsuoka Motors is a Japanese automaker which specializes in developing cars styled from Britain circa the Fifties. Actually, “automaker” may be too strong a word. Like Fisker Coachbuild, Mitsuoka is like a custom shop, rebuilding cars from automakers such as Nissan into its own unique image.It’s ...    Read more

General Motor Corp. notified owners of its Chevy brand’s Cobalts to bring their compact carsin to the dealership. Vehicles affected are 2005-2006 model year Cobalts lacking the optional roof-mounted, side impact air bags. Dealers will install an energy-absorbing plastic in those cars.The issue was discovered during testing. No injuries have ...    Read more

"Efficiency" is the operative word when manufacturers want to control costs. Look what Henry Ford was able to accomplish when he invented the assembly line.He made many auto partscommon and interchangeability while standardizing the manufacturing process. It's still the case today and that's why Honda and Toyota is beating the ...    Read more