by Michael Strong | Jan 30, 2015
McLaren’s run the gamut in the last 12 months going from a company near its demise to now a company introducing new products. The maker dropped a hint that it’s bringing another new vehicle to the Geneva Auto Show, just a week after it announced it teased it’s...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jan 30, 2015
Legend has it that the ancient Vikings attempted to mislead potential invaders by naming an inhospitable spit of Arctic turf Greenland. Discovering its frozen wastes, the logic seemingly went, they’d steer clear of the even more dismally named Iceland. Visitors to the...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jan 30, 2015
Honda earnings took a sharp tumble during the most recent quarter, hammered by a variety of problems including the maker’s airbag recalls, as well as sluggish sales in its home Japanese market. The maker announced the 15% decrease in net income a day after it said it...
by Michael Strong | Jan 30, 2015
The Mercedes-AMG product setting hearts aflutter may not be the new AMG GT S, but it’s marine twin that will make its debut in Miami in two weeks. Courtesy of a partnership with Cigarette Racing Team, many of Mercedes’ AMG beasts have equally powerful marine cousins....
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jan 30, 2015
Anywhere you wander in Cuba you might feel like you’re caught in a time warp, if for no other reason than the steady stream of half century-old Chevrolets and Fords that dominate the communist country’s roads. They’re the automotive equivalent of “zombies,” suggests...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jan 30, 2015
Despite the fact that China’s economic growth has slowed, General Motors and Ford Motor Co. continue pushing ahead with plans to expand their production footprint there. Mark Fields, Ford’s chief executive officer, told analysts this week thatFord expects...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jan 29, 2015
It’s often said that Millennials have a very different view of the automobile – and a new study suggests they are gaining the purchasing power to reshape the auto industry into their own image. Americans born between 1980 and the late 1990s are expected to account for...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jan 29, 2015
Ford Motor Co. will continue to face major challenges in the first half of 2015, but the company’s executives expect better results for the full year after a disappointing 2014. The company’s results fell in line with earlier guidance, but the net income of $3.2...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jan 29, 2015
Ford Motor Co.’s profits cratered during the fourth quarter as moved through the changeover of the company’s popular full-size pickup truck, dropping from 75 cents per share in the same period in 2013 to a single penny per share in the final three months...
by Michael Strong | Jan 29, 2015
We’ve all played the game…if money was not object which supercar would you buy? Of course, no one can simply pick just one crazy fast car, so yo In the case of British multi-millionaire Paul Bailey, it was a real-life game involving the purchase of McLaren P1, the...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jan 29, 2015
(This story has been updated to include the list of the nine safest vehicles, and additional comments by IIHS.) The highway death toll has been plunging rapidly in recent years, and safety experts are crediting a number of factors, including improved roadways and a...
by Michael Strong | Jan 29, 2015
Despite the pleas of two U.S. Senators, General Motors will not extend its deadline – for a second time – for victims of the maker’s ignition-switch vehicles to file for compensation benefits. Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.) in a letter...
