In-car mobile phone blo...
Filed under: Accessories Dialing and driving is both illegal and rather stupid. Making a quick call involves taking your eyes off the road and fiddling with your phone – not a good idea if you’re, say, doing 70mph on a rainy M11. Scosche, an American company, has released a...
Video: Aston Martin wan...
Filed under: Comment When you think Aston Martin you think of James Bond (not James Martin) cruising to the Riviera with a stunning, intelligent female Russian spy in the passenger seat looking longingly at him, as a tramp would a plate of chips. But Aston doesn’t want you to think...First "General Lee...
At next weekend’s Barrett Jackson Scottsdale auction the first 1969 Dodge Charger ever used in “The Dukes of Hazzard” will cross the block with No Reserve. The car was used and destroyed filming a jump off a dirt ramp that was featured in the opening of all 145 episodes...
GM Prez: 2013 Chevrolet...
The upcoming Chevy Colorado pickup truck will directly target the Toyota Tacoma, says GM North America president Mark Reuss. “Tacoma is the volume leader. We know that there’s a buyer for a really good Chevrolet lifestyle sport truck that’s quite different than the...
Video: Off-Roader of th...
Filed under: Latest News Fancy an off-roader but don’t want to be associated with the Chelsea Tractor set? This could be just the thing to set you apart. Take 200ft of steel tubing, 43-inch tyres, a massive General Motors crate engine and trick Fox coil-over suspension, and what...
Study: U.S. diesel auto...
Filed under: Car Buying , Hybrid , Technology , Diesel A plethora of new diesel offerings is driving sales, according to a new report from the Diesel Technology Forum. Sales of diesels rose 27.4 percent in 2011, according to numbers from HybridCars.com and market researchers Baum and...
GM to Replace 2.4-liter...
General Motors will upgrade one of its workhorse four-cylinder engines. The news comes straight from GM’s North American president Mark Reuss at this year’s Detroit auto show . The 2.4-liter four—which currently does duty in the Chevy Equinox, Buick’s Verano and...
Christmas with: Audi A6...
Filed under: Road Tests Christmas holidays in the life of a motoring journalist is a time where if you are lucky enough, a manufacturer will loan you a nice set of wheels for use during the holidays. This year, Audi kindly offered me a car and because I was doing some serious mileage to...2013 Cadillac ATS: 2012...
After brief opening remarks from General Motors CEO Dan Akerson, head of design Ed Welburn, and President of GM North America Mark Reuss at the College for Creative Studies, America’s biggest automaker dropped the sheets off the Cadillac of compacts — the 2013 ATS ahead of...