by Joseph Szczesny | Aug 22, 2011
Ford Motor Co. and Toyota Motor Corp. are joining forces in a 50-50 partnership aimed at developing the next generation of hybrid technologies specifically to bolster the fuel efficiency of pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles. The new partnership, a clear...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Aug 22, 2011
Parked on the lawn, the motor of his 1934 Avian Voisin C-25 Aerodyne idling, Peter Mullin had no idea what to expect. The next couple minutes might bring the biggest surprise of his life or the biggest disappointment. There was no question he’d delivered a...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Aug 22, 2011
It’s hard to escape your past – or so Derek Bell discovered as he wandered through the paddock at the Laguna Seca race track. Everywhere he turned he discovered another car that he had driven, at one point or another, during his long and illustrious career. That...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Aug 22, 2011
Bentley, the classic British luxury carmaker, wants to add a sport-utility vehicle to its line-up, a move it predicts could yield a 50% increase in demand over its all-time sales record, the maker’s chief executive told TheDetroitBureau.com. The new model could come...
by Joseph Szczesny | Aug 22, 2011
Nobody doubts the iconic status of the Jeep Wrangler. It is, after all an “All-American” classic, with a distinctive bloodline that reaches back 70 years to the legendary Jeeps of World War II. For 2012, however, the Wrangler gets better, much better, as...
by Detroit Bureau | Aug 21, 2011
Even a drenching thunderstorm couldn’t dampen the spirits of the cruisers and gawkers who turned out for this year’s Woodward Dream Cruise. By various estimates, at least a million people lined the main north-south route through Metro Detroit to gaze on as more than...
by Tim Healey | Aug 20, 2011
There is such a thing as car-geek heaven, and it’s in southeast Michigan. One can only imagine the conversation between a ghostly hot-rodder and the poor kid working the counter at the Coney dog stand. Ghost: “Is this heaven?” Kid: “No, it’s Oakland County.” OK, OK,...
by Joseph Szczesny | Aug 19, 2011
You wouldn’t think that they’d run out of space along Woodward Avenue. But Ford Motor Co., General Motors and Chrysler Group are busy scraping together space for this year’s Woodward Dream Cruise, Detroit’s home grown version of Mardi Gras, which...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Aug 19, 2011
It’s become a cliché: the “barn find,” a rare car re-discovered after years hidden away in some old garage or barn. But like many a cliché, there’s a bit of truth, as the folks at the Ford House are only too glad to talk about. The mansion-come museum, along Lake St....
by Detroit Bureau | Aug 19, 2011
It’s going to be a busy weekend for car fans! The annual Woodward Dream Cruise is expected to bring out more than 1 million muscle car mavens as 10s of thousands of ‘Cudas, Goats and ‘Stangs – along with the odd Ferrari and Triumph —...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Aug 19, 2011
With the upcoming launch of its 7-passenger JX crossover, Infiniti hopes to make up for lost time. The upscale arm of Nissan Motor Co. has long been an also-ran in the luxury market but has been gaining significant traction, in recent years, as it expands its...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Aug 19, 2011
It’s been a tough year for Lexus, Toyota’s luxury brand slipping behind BMW in the U.S. sales sweepstakes. Part of the problem has been the aftermath of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that crippled the Japanese auto industry, but industry observers also warn...
