by Bryan Laviolette | Aug 19, 2010
It’s users look like they were picked to be some weird bug in the school play. But the antennae on the strange glasses actually allow the user of IC.IDO’s virtual reality program called Virtual Decision Platform to see the vehicle’s system in 3D. During a...
by Bryan Laviolette | Aug 18, 2010
Consumers want more fuel-efficient vehicles and one way to help is to make vehicles lighter. With that in mind, this year’s Los Angeles Auto Show Design Challenge asks design studios to envision the 1,000 pound, 2+2 vehicle that is both comfortable and secure,...
by Bryan Laviolette | Aug 17, 2010
The power used to drive any vehicle eventually finds its way to the wheels, so maybe it makes sense to put the motors there. That’s the thinking of Protean Electric, a new company that has developed electric motors that are installed in a vehicle’s wheels. The U.S....
by Bryan Laviolette | Aug 16, 2010
Chrysler has posted a short montage of images showing details of the new Dodge Durango, while also confirming that it will carry the Durango name. Click here to watch the 28-second video is posted Chrysler has already indicated that it was working on a Durango...
by Bryan Laviolette | Aug 13, 2010
General Motors will likely delay the filing of its much-anticipated Initial Public Offering until early next week, according to numerous un-sourced media reports. Several media outlets reported that the IPO filing, which had been expected Friday so it would follow...
by Bryan Laviolette | Aug 13, 2010
The original BMW X3 came as a shock to many fans of the brand for its excessively stiff ride as well as an interior that didn’t live up to the automaker’s usual standards, although it wasn’t noted much by media at the time. So, the goals for the second generation of...
by Bryan Laviolette | Aug 12, 2010
The late Colin Chapman, the revered race car and sports car designer, is often credited with the quote “To add speed, add lightness.” If he were alive today, he’d likely put more emphasis on that maxim than ever as a central tenet in the push for better fuel...
by Bryan Laviolette | Aug 11, 2010
The little four-seater proves reasonably adept as we pull away from the Grand Traverse Resort. It’s not registered for U.S. roads, so we have to stick to the sprawling complex’s service roads, but they’re long and quick enough to give us a sense of what to expect...
by Bryan Laviolette | Aug 10, 2010
Conventional wisdom in the auto industry says that economy of scale is the only way automakers will survive in the future. Then again, there’s never been anything conventional about Saab, at least not when it was a successful independent automaker. Saab’s best cars...
by Bryan Laviolette | Aug 6, 2010
The United Auto Workers Union is welcome to try to organize Toyota’s U.S. assembly and component plants, a senior corporate executive said – if the UAW can convince those workers there’d be a benefit to the deal. Steve St. Angelo, Toyota’s North American chief quality...
by Bryan Laviolette | Aug 6, 2010
For most of his presentation, Steve St. Angelo stood stoicly behind the podium, stiffly reading the teleprompter with the expected explanation for Toyota’s difficult year, rarely making eye contact with the audience. Then, the chief quality officer and executive vice...
by Bryan Laviolette | Aug 5, 2010
General Motors is working on its initial public offering, but the only timeframe Chairman and President Ed Whitacre would offer for the IPO, during an appearance Thursday, was “as soon as possible,” in his latest non-news statement. “It’s number one on our...
