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Cadillac Gets Green Light For Rear-Drive Flagship Above XTS
Those nostalgic for bench seats and pavement-crushing suspension can now rejoice: Cadillac will build a flagship worthy of the Standard Of The World. GM had been toying with the idea for months, but now it’s official: Cadillac is finally approved to develop a sedan based on a new rear-drive platform, known internally as the Omega….
Toyota “Window To The World” Concept Will Blow Your Mind [Video]
Toyota is introducing a new way for kids to be distracted on road trips. And this time, instead of viewing a screen, they will look out the window—and actually interact with it. Called “Window To The World,” aspiring toddler creatives can draw on the car window as a canvas, building off what they see outside…
Call Your Porsche a Farm Vehicle and Save Big on Insurance Costs
Those sneaky, sneaky bastards. Owners of super-expensive cars list them on insurance as farm vehicles, gaining a discount on their premiums as high as 20%. According to a survey of 80,000 vehicles, owners of Porsche 911s, Mercedes SL550s, and BMW Z4s label their cars alongside John Deeres and Caterpillars for use exclusively on a farm,…
Top Gear Spoiler: McLaren MP4-12C Posts Second Fastest Lap Time [Video]
Rule, Britannia, rule the waves! Britons never will be slaves! The boys of Top Gear recorded an impressive laptime around their famous test track with the McLaren MP4-12C, and if you haven’t seen the episode yet, you might want to skip ahead. The homegrown MP4-12C beat out foreign contenders such as the Ferrari 458 Italia,…
Ford Raptor Suffers Frame Bending Issues
The mighty Ford Raptor is indestructible, right? Sadly, it only looks that way: owners are reporting a drastic frame bending problem that threatens to destroy their trucks—and in one case, Ford refuses to honor its warranty. One owner on the Ford Raptor forums is reporting that a Ford engineer is citing his truck as voiding…
Australian V8 Supercars Signs 5 Year Contract with Austin’s Circuit Of The Americas
The long-awaited rumors are true: Australia’s breathlessly-exciting V8 Supercars series is coming to America. But that’s not, the series has signed a five-year deal with Texas’s Circuit of The Americas, signaling a serious investment in the U.S. market. Beginning in 2013, Americans in Austin, Texas and watching on the Speed Channel can get a glimpse…
Fleet of Stolen Camaros Recovered Via OnStar
One of OnStar’s advertising points is the reassurance that if your car gets stolen, it can not only track where it ends up, but also deactivate it instantly. Turns out, it’s not just a load of advertising malarky. Four Chevrolet Camaro coupes were stolen from a dealership in St. Louis, Missouri, in the early hours…
Message To Carmakers: Pull Ads From News Of The World, Donate To Charity Instead
The News Of The World scandal rages on, with pressure mounting from Parliament, investigators, and the general public. Now an anonymous executive suggests that car companies who had planned to advertise in the tabloid should donate the money to charity instead. “If we had advertising booked with the News of the World the advert would…
Aston Martin V12 Zagato To Start At $525,000
Aston Martin’s mighty, magnificent V12 Zagato comes with a $525,000 price tag—a bargain, if there ever was one. After all, you’d have to pay three times as much for the even mightier Aston Martin One-77, and even more for the time machine you’d need to use to go back to 2010 and get on the…
The Future Is Here: Terrafugia Flying Car Approved By NHTSA
Welcome to the future our forefathers were dreaming about: the flying car is finally here! Well, you still need a runway, but we’re getting close to catching up with the Jetsons! That’s right—the only flying car you can buy today has just been approved for terrestrial driving by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The…
Mitsubishi, Vauxhall Pull Advertising From News Of The World
Following in Ford’s footsteps, Mitsubishi and Vauxhall have also pulled their ads from News Of The World, in response to the tabloid’s phone hacking scandal. Mitsubishi is going further, in fact: the money it would have otherwise spent on ads is going to British charity Childline, a counseling service for abused children. The two automotive companies…
Ford Capri May Make A Comeback In Europe
Europe’s answer to the Mustang is back—the legendary Capri might see its name on a future Ford coupe. For many mustachioed Europeans, the Capri was the cult car of the 1970s comes hair shirts, bell bottoms, and the cast of Life On Mars (albeit a Cortina): the new Capri will resemble the Iosis Max concept…
Bob Lutz Once Considered Running For Governor Of Michigan
Bob Lutz briefly considered a flirtation with a Michigan gubernatorial run back in 2010, he told the Detroit Free Press. And then he found out how much it cost. Maximum Bob would have run as a Republican, under the platform of revitalizing the state’s sagging economy. But once he realized how much money is thrown at such…
Kia To Introduce RWD V8 Coupe Concepts In Frankfurt And Detroit
The Kia Mustang might be a reality later this year, when Kia shows off a pair of rear-wheel-drive coupe concepts in Frankfurt and Detroit. Taking the sports and muscle car fight to their respective home turfs, Kia will gauge public interest in buying a V8-powered sports car with a Korean nameplate – first at the…
Ford Pulls Advertising From British Tabloid Over Voicemail Scandal
England’s News of the World has come under fire for allegedly tapping into the voicemail of a missing 13-year old girl’s cell phone, disrupting her police investigation. And Ford has been quick to react—it has pulled all of its advertising from the British tabloid. The newspaper is facing multiple lawsuits and a police investigation of…
Car Theft Fail: Mitsubishi Thief Leaves Driver’s License In Showroom
A man in Sydney, Australia nearly got away with a stolen Mitsubishi Lancer—if he hadn’t left his driver’s license behind. D’oh! Snidely Whiplash here had his license photocopied by the sales manager prior to driving the 2007 Lancer with a salesman. On the road, the salesman pulled over to allow the man to take the…
Mitsubishi Plans Electric Versions Of Three Vehicles
Contrary to public belief, Mitsubishi still sells cars in America. And the company is hard at work on hybrid technology: they are planning to sell three electric versions of their vehicles: the i-MiEV, the Outlander, and the Outlander Sport. The kidney-shaped i-MiEV is already available in America, and is fully electric-powered. But the other two vehicles…
Ford Warns Against Modifying 2011 Mustangs
Where would the Ford Mustang be without its legions of aftermarket supporters? There’d be no Shelby, for starters. And there would be a shortage of Fox-bodies doing burnouts with straight pipes in the K-Mart parking lot. But Ford’s latest technical service bulletin aims to put a damper on all this modifying—at least for warranty purposes….
Official: BMW Plans Front-Wheel-Drive Platform
Say it ain’t so, Bavaria! The Motoren Werke is finally abandoning their RWD-only stance, and will introduce a FWD compact BMW by 2015. BMW has famously prided itself on its rearward motivation, but in an effort to give consumers “greater choice,” they are experimenting with all sorts of vehicles and propulsion systems: electric cars, hybrids,…
Audi Q3 To Get RS Five-Cylinder Engine, Stealth Badging
Audi is still debating on whether or not to give us the Q3 crossover, which they secretly know would sell in droves to the purse-dog-carrying set. And to tantalize us even more, they’ve gone ahead and built some with the 2.5-liter turbocharged 5-cylinder that propels the TT-RS and RS3. Like Germany’s answer to the GMC…
Land Rover Evoque Begins Production
After teasing the Evoque for years on the auto show circuit, Land Rover finally begins production in its plant in Halewood. Because the 4th of July is just another weekday in the British Empire, Land Rover employees were busy setting up the production line at the factory near Liverpool. The very first example will go…
Arizona Most Expensive State For Car Repairs: Where Does Your State Rank?
If you want to break down in any state, turns out Arizona’s the worst—and Washington D.C. is the best to do so. Better keep pushing your beater to New Mexico. In a survey that analyzed the cost of repairs for a “check engine” light, Arizona residents paid $421.49 in 2010, while Washington DC residents only…
Lexus CX300h Planned as Down-Sized RX Luxury Crossover
Toyota has plans to introduce six new hybrids to their lineup by 2012. One of them is likely a smaller luxury SUV for Lexus, with the company’s tried-and-tested hybrid drivetrain. The SUV would be dubbed the CX300h, in Lexus naming nomenclature, and would bank off the success of the larger RX. It would probably share a…
Chrysler Offers Out-of-Work Reality Show Winner His Job Back
Despite his success on the reality show “America’s Next Great Restaurant,” finalist Jamawn Woods has seen three of his restaurants close within two months of opening. But there’s still some good news in store for him, from his former employers at Chrysler. Woods, from Detroit, was a forklift operator at one of Chrysler’s assembly plants in…
