GM Slashes Price of Chevy Spark EV

GM Slashes Price of Chevy Spark EV

General Motors is slashing the price of its slow-selling Chevrolet Spark battery-electric vehicle in a bid to boost demand. It’s the latest in a string of price cuts by automakers struggling to build interest in plug-based vehicles, and the announcement comes just...
Is Fiat Chrysler Looking for a Merger Partner?

Is Fiat Chrysler Looking for a Merger Partner?

Senior officials at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles are sending out signals that they’d like to find another partner, barely a year after the trans-Atlantic alliance was officially completed. Such a deal could be come together – if a willing partner can be found – before...
Mini Gives Drivers a Head-Up with New Glasses

Mini Gives Drivers a Head-Up with New Glasses

Head-up displays have been in cars for more than two decades now giving drivers a simple way to see necessary information. The technology, which was borrowed from fighter jets, is supposed to make driving safer. The technology isn’t widely used because it just hasn’t...
FCA Expects New 500X to Grow Brand’s Sales

FCA Expects New 500X to Grow Brand’s Sales

After four years, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has taken its share of lumps for the halting performance of the Fiat brand in the U.S. where it still hasn’t won the hearts and minds of the American consumers. Nevertheless, the Fiat brand has established a beachhead in...
Ford Patents 11-Speed Automatic

Ford Patents 11-Speed Automatic

You can never be too thin, too rich…or have too many gears, it seems. Even as it moves ahead on a joint venture developing a 10-speed automatic transmission, Ford has been granted a patent for a new design that would use 11 gears. That might come as a shock to older...
Will Strong Dollar Scuttle Record US Auto Exports?

Will Strong Dollar Scuttle Record US Auto Exports?

These days, it’s hard to call carmakers like Mercedes-Benz, Honda or Toyota “imports.” The vast majority of the vehicles they sell here are now produced in North America – and a fair share of the products rolling off those lines will wind up in markets abroad. Demand...
Shell Eco-Marathon Winner Get 3,400 Miles to the Gallon

Shell Eco-Marathon Winner Get 3,400 Miles to the Gallon

The future became the present in Detroit last weekend when more than 100 futuristic looking cars from took to the city streets trying to thousands of miles on just one gallon of gasoline in the annual Shell Eco-Marathon Americas 2015. The event attracts entrants from...
Automakers Put Their Cars on a Diet

Automakers Put Their Cars on a Diet

With the launch of its 2016 CT6 sedan, Cadillac says it is setting out to “reinvent” itself, but some of the steps the maker has taken in the development of the new model will likely trigger changes across the industry.The new Cadillac CT6 is the same size as a big...
Over Half of All Cars to Feature Stop-Start by 2024

Over Half of All Cars to Feature Stop-Start by 2024

When the new 2016 Chevrolet Malibu rolls into showrooms later this year it will offer a variety of powertrain options including a base 1.5-liter turbo package that will feature standard Stop-Start, making it the latest in a growing list of models equipped with the...