J.D. Power and Associates has just released its 2010 Vehicle Dependability Study (VDS)… and Porsche, Lincoln and Buick have climbed on the podium (Buick, Jaguar and Lexus occupied the top spots in last year’s 2009 Vehicle Dependability Study). The German automaker demonstrated a significant jump in quality (up ten spots) with Ford’s brand hot on [...]
Jerome “Jerry” York, the former CFO of Chrysler and General Motors, died today at a hospital in Pontiac, Michigan after succumbing to a brain aneurysm he suffered late Tuesday evening.
York enjoyed stints at the Big Three during the 1960s and later helped Chrysler pull its way out of its financial crisis and government bailout in [...]
BMW M Bike – Click above for high-res image
There aren’t a lot of automakers also making motorcycles. Honda, Suzuki, Peugeot, BMW… along with Triumph once upon a time and Yamaha dabbling in the automotive consultancy business. That just about covers it. But there are plenty churning out branded bicycles, and Bimmer’s M division is the [...]
If you thought it took a long time to get to the top of the list and take delivery on a newly-assembled Ferrari supercar, that’s nothing compared to the time that has gone in to building the brand’s first theme park. Ferrari World Abu Dhabi has been under construction for two years now, and is [...]
Homemade flying hovercraft – Click above to watch video after the jump
Rudy Heeman, an inventor in New Zealand, has created a flying hovercraft. We’ll admit right now that it has little nothing to do with cars, but it is ridiculously cool. Heeman wants to make and sell them for only $13,000. Maybe it’s time for [...]
Director Eduardo Mesejo Maestre leads a tour at the Deposito del Automovil in Havana
Recognizing that car guys (and gals) are car guys no matter where in the world they live, the folks running this weekend’s Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance have decided to use a bit of “Car-Guy Diplomacy” to reach out to that bigger island [...]
We know some habitually bad drivers, and we’re guessing you do too. Problem is, there isn’t much we can do to keep them off the road until their license is taken away. Thanks to a new show on Travel Channel, we at least have an opportunity to humiliate them, or perhaps more.
The new program, called [...]
Fiat heir Lapo Elkann makes the Lakers’ game-winning move – Click above to watch video after the jump
Lapo Elkann is the grandson of Fiat founder Gianni Agnelli and is said to be heir to several Fiat thrones. While courtside at the Staples Center in Los Angeles watching the Lakers play the Toronto Raptors, Yahoo Sports [...]
Ji Yong-Ho Shark 6 – Click above for high-res image gallery
Art and cars is always a tricky subject. We saw what happened when BMW selected art world mega star Jeff Koons to design their next art car. Long story short, confusion, blinking eyes and a whole lot of chin scratching. However, we think in the [...]
Groan. Remember the $350,000 Rolls-Royce Phantom parked in front of a Walmart? Apparently it’s not an isolated case. That’s right, according to a new survey by TeleNav, most Americans use their navigation systems to find the Arkansas-based mega-store full of cheap stuff that Sam built. The great burning irony, of course, is that most cars [...]
AMG Driving Academy at Lime Rock – Click above for high-res image gallery
What do you do after hitting success with a trial product? Bring it back and make it bigger, of course. That’s just what Mercedes-Benz has done with its AMG Driving Academy, a program that our own Editor Paukert attended the course last fall [...]
Roadside flashers – Click above to watch the video after the break
Ever wonder what would happen if Robbie the Robot had an addled tryst with a photo-radar box? Neither have we. Some possibly addled Europeans, though, have inadvertently created that union’s possible love child with their own nocturnal hijinks.
Mocking the roadside photo radar ‘Gatso’ units, [...]
Corvettes don’t float – Click above to watch video after the jump
If there are two indisputable truths in life, they are that a man is not a camel and a Corvette is not a boat. The gentleman above needs to retrieve the C4 Corvette in the shed behind him. The problem is the pool of [...]
Cadillac XTS Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery
There’s no way to misunderstand Cadillac spokesman Nick Twork on this: “The Cadillac brand is best communicated as Cadillac without GM.” For proof of his intent all you’ll need to do is swing by a Cadillac showroom where soon you’ll be unable to find any trace [...]
Which one would you choose? The Chip Foose John Deere 4020 or a John Deere 620 orchard model? Vote after the jump!
Chip Foose’s John Deere 4020 is pretty kickass, but the reality is this: You needn’t enlist the services of a famous pro rodder to get a slick-lookin’ John Deere tractor. Take, for instance, the [...]
