by Jim McCraw | Oct 21, 2010
Anyone familiar with Bibendum, the friendly, if overweight, mascot for Michelin, the French tire giant, knows he’s made of an assortment of the maker’s tires. But have you ever wondered what are on his feet? Michelin is revising its line of footwear, with four new...
by Jim McCraw | Oct 18, 2010
Mention the word, “pickup,” and a lumbering, gas-guzzling behemoth might come to mind. But with the launch of its 2011 F-150, Ford is out to change that image. From a sheet metal standpoint, not much changes, but there are some significant new features and, most...
by Jim McCraw | Sep 23, 2010
The Ford F-150 pickup truck, segment sales leader for 33 consecutive years, will go into 2011 with an array of new front-end designs, a total of four brand-new engines, the industry’s first across-the-board use of a 6-speed automatic transmission, and more electronic...
by Jim McCraw | Sep 14, 2010
Now that Lincoln has been permanently severed from the Ford-clone Mercury brand, the division will have to claw its way upward a step at a time into the realm of real luxury cars, and for 2011, there are a couple of significant steps, notably including the new MKX...
by Jim McCraw | Sep 8, 2010
For 2011, the popular MKZ sedan, formerly known as the Lincoln Zephyr, gets a complete cosmetic makeover that makes it look like all the other Lincolns, with that toothy split-wing grille, but more importantly, it is Lincoln’s first-ever hybrid passenger car, and the...
by Jim McCraw | Aug 18, 2010
Celebrating its diamond jubilee during the car-crazy weekend wrapped around the annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, in central California, Jaguar Cars introduced not one but two special editions, the XJ Supersport sedan and the XKR175 coupe, both powered by the...
by Jim McCraw | Aug 17, 2010
Hot on the heels of the new Mustang GT comes the 2012 version of the Mustang Boss 302, carrying on a Ford tradition that started in 1969 with the introduction of the original Boss 302 (302 is the number of cubic inches in the Boss 302’s 5.0-liter V-8 engine). The new...
by Jim McCraw | Jul 22, 2010
Let’s face it, Porsches have always looked good in ticket-me-red. But with the launch of the German maker’s first gas-electric model, the 2011 Cayenne Hybrid, Porsche could look better in green. The Porsche Cayenne, the venerable German company’s first SUV, generated...
by Jim McCraw | Jul 15, 2010
What’s in a name, Shakespeare once asked? And so did we when we heard GMC would be spreading the “Denali” nameplate around in 2011. We’ve just had a brief drive in the brawny, sexy new 2011 GMC Sierra Denali HD, which marks the first use of the exclusive Denali name...
by Jim McCraw | Jul 14, 2010
Ford today announced complete pricing for its improved and upgraded 2011 Ford Edge. For openers, the pricing of the base SE and SEL models is down $200 versus current 2010 pricing. The SE front-wheel-drive version will start at $27,995. The SEL FWD
version will start...
by Jim McCraw | Jul 6, 2010
Elaine Bannon has a secret she’d rather not keep. Bannon is a glamorous 48-year-old mechanical engineer and MBA whose job it is to produce winners for Ford Motor Company, including the Ford Edge, Ford Flex, Lincoln MKX and Lincoln MKT – in fact, all of Ford’s...
by Jim McCraw | Jun 21, 2010
Cadillac’s burgeoning family of CTS-branded vehicles, the original four-door sedan, the high-performance CTS-V sedan, and the slick CTS sport wagon, now includes a radically edgy coupe. It’s been a long wait. Caddy’s last true coupe, the Eldorado, went out of...
