by Brenda Priddy | Jan 20, 2009
What in the past was identified as the next CLK, are actually all-new coupe and convertible versions new E-Class. We have the best pics yet of this two door and these prototypes have almost no disguise at all! These new models will be replacing the smaller CLK models,...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jan 20, 2009
Toyota Motor Corp. announced a series of executive changes that will remove the company’s incumbent president from the Japanese automaker’s key executive post and replace him with a member of the company’s founding family. Akio Toyoda, now Toyota executive vice...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jan 20, 2009
A few years back, the movie, “Sliding Doors,” posed the question of how a seemingly small event could transform someone’s life – for actress Gwyneth Paltrow, it was a matter of just missing her rush hour train home. For Chrysler, it could have been the 11th-hour...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jan 19, 2009
When former President Bill Clinton was running for the White House, he often reminded himself that, “It’s the economy, stupid,” a message that helped him overcome the first President Bush’s bid for re-election, by appealing to an electorate facing a sharp recession....
by Henny Hemmes | Jan 19, 2009
Over the past year, we’ve seen the theme of fuel efficiency becoming more and more important to the auto shows in Europe. Detroit took this theme to a much more defined mode. ‘Electrifying’, ‘An electric future’, ‘GM plans could charge up the state’, were the major...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jan 19, 2009
Almost on a daily basis, someone from Chrysler’s management team repeats, mantra-like, that the desperately-troubled automaker is not for sale. While it does appear that stalled talks between parent Cerberus Capital Management and General Motors aren’t going...
by Marty Bernstein | Jan 19, 2009
Major inauguration coverage, huh… what’s that? Once upon a time it was pages of reporting and photographs in every U.S hamlet, village, town and city daily or weekly newspapers the day after the event. Unfortunately the demise of newspapers has been steady and now in...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jan 16, 2009
I’ll be heading off to the North American International Auto Show’s annual Charity Preview, in a few hours. The annual event, known to insiders as “Prom Night,” has, in years past, drawn as many as 17,000 folks, despite a ticket price of more than $400. This time,...
by Detroit Bureau | Jan 16, 2009
Okay, so odds are, if you’re on this website, you know the difference between a Bentley and a Rolls-Royce. You can probably figure out which one’s a Mini and which is the Escalade. But, as I found out, myself, a little while ago, you just might not have as high an...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jan 16, 2009
The surge in electric car news unleashed at the North American International Auto Show is continuing as New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg revealed that BMW Group will loan a fleet of 10 experimental, all-electric Minis electric cars to the city. The Mini Es...
