2010 Honda Element with Dog Friendly Package – Click above for high-res image gallery
How does an automaker take a model that’s been largely unchanged since inception and give it a little juice seven years into its life cycle? If you’re Honda, you go to the dogs. Literally. After unveiling it as a “concept” at the [...]
Saturn Outlook – Click above for high-res image gallery
Even though both the Saturn and Hummer brands are being phased out, General Motors has reportedly revived production of both the Outlook crossover and H3 SUV to meet consumer demands.
Last month, GM assembled 1,037 Outlooks at its Lansing, Michigan facility, which is where the crossover’s Lamda platform [...]
2011 Volkswagen Touareg – Click above for high-res image gallery
The outgoing Volkswagen Touareg range has always lived on the wrong side of the tracks in America. It was a big, expensive Volkswagen. Notice that we can’t just say it was a big, expensive vehicle, because those adjectives are almost as much the norm as anything [...]
2011 Volkswagen Touareg – Click above for high-res image gallery
The outgoing Volkswagen Touareg range has always lived on the wrong side of the tracks in America. It was a big, expensive Volkswagen. Notice that we can’t just say it was a big, expensive vehicle, because those adjectives are almost as much the norm as anything [...]
StreetFire checks out the Icon FJ 4×4 – Click above to view the video after the jump
The vintage FJ Landcruiser tuners at Icon turn out highly detailed 4×4s with custom-designed suspensions comprised of top-shelf parts, powdercoated exteriors and German military convertible tops. We’ve sampled the firm’s wares before and those details turn Icon vehicles into [...]
2011 Dacia Duster – click above to watch the video after the jump
By and large, the Geneva Motor Show isn’t like U.S. auto shows in that grandiose press conferences just don’t exist like they do here. Or, at least, like they used to here. Most vehicles just show up on the show floor and we [...]
Hummer H3T – Click above for high-res image gallery
Unless a buyer for Hummer materializes in the next few months, General Motors will continue to wind-down its environmental group dart board. The slow death of Hummer has actually been in process since before The General announced that the sale of the brand to China’s Sichuan Tengzhong [...]
Mahindra Pik-Up – Click above for high-res image gallery
Tired of waiting around for an official launch date for the hotly anticipated (in certain circles, at least) compact diesel pickup truck from Indian automaker Mahindra? Good news, then. According to a report from Automotive News, the largest utility vehicle maker in India and its U.S. distributor, [...]
2011 BMW X5 M Sports package – Click above for high-res image gallery
Initially, BMW revealed that for the 2011 X5 would be getting two new turbocharged engines, as well as some very minor visual tweaks to both the front and rear fascias. Now, however, the Bavarians have dished out the details about the X5’s new [...]
2011 Porsche Cayenne – Click above for high-res image gallery
Less than 24 hours after leaked shots of the 2011 Porsche Cayenne made their way onto the internet, we now have the official images and details about the third generation of Porsche’s love-it-or-hate-it sport-ute. Visually, the new Cayenne gets some obvious Panamera-inspired touches up front (i.e., [...]
According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, General Motors is taking a second look at two previous offers for Hummer after the deal to sell the ailing sports utility brand finally succumbed to a slow death yesterday.
The WSJ doesn’t divulge which companies are in the offing to purchase Hummer, only saying that GM [...]
2010 Range Rover Sport Supercharged – Click above for high-res image gallery
Despite enduring a string of financial hardships, Land Rover still enjoys one of the clearest and most robust brand identities in the automotive kingdom. The English automaker has held the same core values since the company’s first off-roader was created by Maurice Wilks in [...]
Although it has been evident for some time that General Motors’ sale of its Hummer brand to Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machines Co., Ltd., we didn’t expect for word to come down today that the negotiations are dead and the brand will be wound down. Unfortunately, judging by a press release just issued by GM, [...]
2011 Porsche Cayenne leaked scans – Click above for high-res image gallery
The 2011 Porsche Cayenne won’t officially debut until next week at the Geneva Motor Show, but it appears that leaked images of the production-ready SUV have already made their way onto the Internet.
The folks at Le mag de l’Auto have gotten their hands on [...]
It looks like General Motors’ deal to sell its Hummer brand to China’s Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery is on shaky ground. According to Reuters, the likelihood that the Chinese government will give its approval to Tengzhong has been waning in recent weeks, leading the would-be purchasers to consider making the acquisition using an offshore [...]
