Celebrating the art of the magazine cover – Click above for high-res image gallery
In the high-stakes game of magazine publishing, there’s one critical component that can either make or break an entire issue. What are we talking about? The cover. Get it right and an editor-in-chief can move an extra few thousand copies to [...]
2010 Honda Accord Crosstour – Click above for high-res image gallery
The Honda Accord Crosstour has been less than critically acclaimed here in the U.S., but it’s far too early to tell if the bulky hatchback will resonate with customers. While it may be too early to declare the Crosstour’s success or failure here in [...]
2012 Ford Police Interceptor – Click above for high-res image gallery
Later today, Ford will officially unveil its new Police Interceptor at a private fleet sales event in Las Vegas, but the first images of the new vehicle were posted this morning on the company’s website. As has been rumored for some time, [...]
Nissan 370Z Roadster by Bruce Campbell – click above for high-res image gallery
When we first met Nissan’s vice president-design for North America Bruce Campbell, we were amused by his name. Hey, we’ve seen Evil Dead II at least fifty times. But after a few minutes of conversation with Nissan’s highest-ranking U.S. designer, we were deeply [...]
Autoblog attends Hotchkis track day – Click above for high-res image gallery
Suspension tuner John Hotchkis, principle of Hotchkis Sport Suspension and apparently at peace with the fact that we broke his precious E-Max, invited yours truly out to the Streets of Willow to pound some more hard fought miles into the amazing yellow 1971 Dodge [...]
We have no proof that General Motors is getting payback on the three dealers who founded the Committee to Restore Dealer Rights (CRDR), Tammy Darvish, Jack Fitzgerald and Alan Spitzer. But we do know that retribution is a game often played by all sides, and that Darvish, Fitzgerald and Spitzer definitely believe GM has taken [...]
It’s going to cost up to $2 billion for Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. to take ownership of Volvo, but according to a new report out of BusinessWeek, that lofty figure is just the cost of entry. Volvo union members and the board have apparently told the Chinese automaker that it will need at least [...]
One of the most interesting sidebars that came out of Toyota’s recent recall woes and the subsequent Congressional hearings on the subject was the Japanese automaker’s relationship with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Actually, the interesting part of the relationship with the regulatory body had more to do with the fact that Toyota hired [...]
2012 Ford Police Interceptor – Click above for image gallery
The Ford Crown Victoria has been the chariot of choice (well necessity really) for police officers and cabbies all over America since the demise of its numero uno competitor, the Chevrolet Caprice, back in the mid-’90s. The Crown Vic and its ancestors have been around with [...]
The Red Bull F1 team prepares for the Bahrain GP – Click above to watch video after the jump
The Formula One season begins this weekend at what is expected to be a scorchingly hot circuit in Bahrain.
As we’ve been discussing for months, this has the potential to be one of the best seasons in [...]
Some of you will remember that from 2001 to 2005, Lexus sold a wagon variant of the IS, dubbed SportCross. Unfortunately, relatively dismal sales numbers didn’t really make a business case for keeping that car alive, and Lexus canned it when the second-generation IS debuted in 2006. However, all hope of seeing a SportCross redux [...]
2010 FIA GT1 World Championship Preview – Click above for high-res image gallery
There are quite a few changes coming for the FIA GT this year. For starters, the GT1 series will become a true world championship, as the FIA has announced an expansion that includes races on four different continents. Unfortunately, the Canadian race has [...]
2012 Chevrolet Malibu renderings by Ted Krygier – Click above for high-res image gallery
Yesterday, we brought you the official patent drawings of the next-generation Chevrolet Malibu – the Epsilon II-based sedan that will more than likely debut later in 2011 as a 2012 model. Less than 24 hours later, one of our dedicated readers, [...]
“The panel is deeply concerned that Treasury has not required GMAC to lay out a clear path to viability or a strategy for fully repaying taxpayers.” This, according to a Congressional Oversight Panel that was created as a watchdog for the U.S. Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds. The fix? Potentially breaking GMAC up [...]
2011 Honda CR-Z – Click above for high-res image gallery
The new Honda CR-Z has only been on sale in Japan for two weeks, and already the automaker has received over 7,000 orders for the small hybrid. This represents about 60 percent of the 12,000 units that Honda anticipated to sell domestically in the hatch’s first [...]
