by Paul A. Eisenstein | Aug 28, 2013
Today’s new cars are routinely loaded with an array of advanced technologies, so it wasn’t a complete surprise to see the small ports cut into the front fenders and rear door panels of the little Nissan Leaf, nor the camera mounted behind the rearview mirror. But...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Aug 28, 2013
It’s long billed itself as the “zoom-zoom” car company, but it’s not the performance of products like the little Mazda roadster or the new Mazda6 sedan that has the Japanese maker crowing this week. Expected by some industry observers to face...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Aug 27, 2013
Nissan will put a fully autonomous vehicle into production by 2020, the automaker announced Tuesday during a California event designed to show off its latest products and technologies. Hands-off driving has become the Holy Grail of the auto industry, a concept that...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Aug 27, 2013
There’s an inside joke behind the name of Rob Dickinson’s new venture, Singer Vehicle Design – but that said, the customized classic Porsches he’s producing are nothing to laugh at. The irony is that the British entrepreneur set out to earn a degree as an automotive...
by Joseph Szczesny | Aug 27, 2013
By almost any measure, the Toyota Corolla is one of the most significant vehicles built over the past half century. That’s certainly true if you’re going by sales, the compact sedan lagging only the bigger Toyota Camry on the passenger car charts. That said, the...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Aug 27, 2013
To paraphrase the old Doublemint Gum tagline, the new Infiniti Q30 Concept is three, three, three cars in one. Set to make its official world premiere at the Frankfurt Motor Show next month, the prototype is, as Infiniti’s release puts it, “not a coupe, not a hatch...
by Joseph Szczesny | Aug 27, 2013
Toyota is contemplating the option of adding a five-door hatchback version of the all-new 2014 Toyota Corolla in an effort to attract more of the younger buyers the Japanese giant has been struggling to win over. While the ideas has been discussed inside the company...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Aug 26, 2013
Volvo has been making plenty of promises for the future, the Swedish maker hinting at a variety of new products and a major transformation of its powertrain line-up to start rolling out over the next few years. We’re likely to get a good look at what it has in mind...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Aug 26, 2013
With expanded operations in the U.S., and new plants in both Brazil and Mexico on tap, Nissan is projecting a big jump in production capacity in the Americas. While the maker is targeting significant sales growth in North, South and Central America, increased exports...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Aug 26, 2013
When little battery sports car start-up Detroit Electric promised to have its SP:01 in production by August of this year, more than a few skeptics thought it was too good to be true. They were right. The maker has yet to lock down a manufacturing site for the...
by Joseph Szczesny | Aug 26, 2013
For a while now, Nissan Motor Co. has been more or less defined by the huge bet on electric vehicles placed by Chief Executive Officer Carlos Ghosn. Nissan executives insist their electric vehicle initiative is doing fine but the company is actively pursuing bigger...
by Joseph Szczesny | Aug 26, 2013
Labor trouble continues to hobble production at both Kia and Hyundai, according to new reports from South Korea. Both Kia and its South Korean partner, Hyundai, are seeing their market share reduced this year because of vehicle shortages that have been attributed, at...
