by Bryan Laviolette | Aug 30, 2010
Looking to establish 165 Fiat showrooms in the U.S. by the end of the year, Chrysler hosted select Chrysler Group dealers interested in selling the Italian cars at a meeting Monday. Fiat, which controls Chrysler after the U.S. automaker’s 2009 bankruptcy, wants to...
by Bryan Laviolette | Aug 30, 2010
Ford is recalling 575,000 minivans from model years 1998-2003 to fix rear axle shafts that can weaken because of corrosion, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The voluntary recall affects 463,000 Windstar minivans in the U.S. with the...
by Bryan Laviolette | Aug 27, 2010
Electric vehicles are coming, so first responders need to learn about them so they don’t get hurt and can quickly remove occupants from one after an accident. With that in mind the National Fire Protection Association announced a joint effort with General Motors to...
by Bryan Laviolette | Aug 26, 2010
It’s becoming a wireless world, so why not the vehicle assembly line as well. Ford says it is the first automaker to use Wi-Fi to send software to vehicles along an assembly line. The automaker is sending infotainment software to Wi-Fi-enabled MYFord Touch-equipped...
by Bryan Laviolette | Aug 25, 2010
The freeway would have been fine for the return trip from the NASCAR race at Michigan International Speedway, but why take the easy route when there’s a great twisty dirt road to take instead? Dirt is where Mitsubishi’s legendary Lancer Evolution MR was developed,...
by Bryan Laviolette | Aug 24, 2010
Ford is partnering up with Portland General Electric to prepare the Portland area and the rest of the Pacific Northwest for the arrival of electric vehicles. Ford plans to roll out two electric vehicles during the next two years, as well as a plug-in hybrid vehicle....
by Bryan Laviolette | Aug 23, 2010
Vice President Joe Biden says he’s a Corvette guy. Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown tells a story about his daughters picking the color of the Ford Thunderbird he bought. Are we in a Chrysler plant? Biden visited the Jeep plant in Toledo, giving the expected stump speech about...
by Bryan Laviolette | Aug 23, 2010
Just looking at the skin of the refreshed 2011 Ford Edge hardly scratches the surface of what’s new here. Within the year, there will be three engine choices instead of just one. Two will have more power and all will have better fuel economy. On top of that is MyFord...
by Bryan Laviolette | Aug 20, 2010
Prices for used cars are up about 10% overall, fueled in large part by a dramatic 30% increase in prices for some used sport utility vehicles, particularly large ones, according to a study released Friday. “Consumers are generally paying considerably more for used...
by Bryan Laviolette | Aug 20, 2010
Since emerging from bankruptcy, last year, General Motors has struggled to pick up its normally torpid pace, and no one seems to be more willing to move on Silicon Valley time more than the maker’s new marketing czar, Joel Ewanick. Since arriving in Detroit,...
by Bryan Laviolette | Aug 19, 2010
It’s going to be a fun year for automotive journalists and anyone who loves cars. Here is a list of four cars we’re looking forward to driving this year. Some of the cars on this list are there because they are true game changers, an over-used term, but one that...
by Bryan Laviolette | Aug 19, 2010
Looks like Jeep has lifted the interior from a regular vehicle – read that to mean something that doesn’t have the capability of a mountain goat – and put in a Wrangler. Long known as the king of off-road vehicles, recent Jeeps have typically had interiors that looked...
