by Paul A. Eisenstein | Feb 28, 2011
Infiniti will be teaming up with last year’s dominant force on the Formula One circuit, the world champion Red Bull Racing team. While its Japanese rivals have found the F1 racing circuit too rich for their taste, the Nissan luxury brand is betting the world’s most...
by Marty Bernstein | Feb 28, 2011
Fashionistas, devotees and logo lovers of style, elegance and panache can now rejoice: the most famous fashion logo in the world, Gucci’s double G, is now an official part of Italian automotive heritage, history and haute couture. Ciao e benvenuto to the ‘500 by...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Feb 28, 2011
China will play a key role in the planned doubling of global sales for Volvo Cars, the maker’s top executives revealed, as they outlined an ambitious plan to invest at least $10 billion in the company’s future. That strategy will require a hefty investment by its new...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Feb 28, 2011
If Ford was hoping to make a splash with its newest microvan, the 2012 B-Max, it couldn’t have lucked into a better time to pull off the covers. With the Mideast in turmoil and the Libyan crisis, in particular, pushing oil prices back up towards record levels, small...
by Bryan Laviolette | Feb 28, 2011
For the first time in my career, I’m commuting by freeway and it’s not pretty. Every day, I travel a 30-mile section of freeway, some of it six lanes, but mostly four, meaning there are three or two lanes going each way. So what have I learned during all this driving?...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Feb 28, 2011
Toyota officials have often suggested that they’d like to make their Hybrid Synergy Drive system available as an option on just about every product in their line-up. They underscored that commitment at last month’s Detroit Auto Show, and even more battery news will...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Feb 28, 2011
American waistlines aren’t the only things getting bigger and bigger by the year. Perhaps fittingly, our automobiles have steadily grown in size, so many models that once fit comfortably into the compact category are now classified midsize – or even larger. That’s...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Feb 28, 2011
It may have been frigid cold in much of the country, but things were only heating up inside the nation’s new car showrooms, this month. Despite blizzards that led to a slow start, car sales for February will wind up well into the plus column, according to a...
by Marty Bernstein | Feb 25, 2011
The most popular man in Hollywood Sunday night is not the usual source of material for TMZ, Entertainment Tonight or similar shows. It’s a male named Oscar. Actually, that’s his nickname. What few people know is that his real name is The Academy Award of Merit. The...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Feb 25, 2011
Daimler’s Smart brand is clearly plugging into battery power. The maker’s new ED – short for Electric Drive – has just gone on sale here in the U.S. And at the Geneva Motor Show, next week, Smart will offer a hint of where it might plan to take the technology going...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Feb 25, 2011
You break it, you bought it. That’s what Motors Insurance Corp. is telling the FBI after learning that an agent apparently wrecked a Ferrari F50 that was supposed to have been stored in a government impound lot. The story starts out in September 2003, when the...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Feb 25, 2011
After last November’s successful initial public offering of General Motors stock there were signs the White House might wait to sell off the remaining government-owned shares hoping to maximize the Treasury’s return. But a senior Obama Administration official says the...
