January 2012 Sales: Wha...
January is usually a slump month for all kinds of retail businesses, and automobile sales in January 2012 reflected the usual post-Christmas malaise. Mainstream news outlets were offering two narratives: Overall sales were up compared to January of 2011, and the Big Three are scoring big...
Autoblog Podcast #264...
Filed under: Detroit Auto Show , Podcasts , Buick , Hyundai , Mini The North American International Auto Show episode Episode #264 of the Autoblog Podcast is here with Chris, Dan, Chris Paukert, and the prodigal Alex Nunez. The Detroit Auto Show just wrapped up, and we saw plenty there...
Official: Audi releases...
Filed under: Wagon , Europe , Audi , Luxury Good things, they say, come in threes. If that’s the case, for fans of rugged-looking Audi wagons, this must be a good week indeed. Not only did Audi unveil the Q3 Vail concept in Detroit (while confirming the arrival of the production Q3...
CES: Hands on with Merc...
Filed under: CES , Technology , Mercedes-Benz , Luxury , Infotainment Following Dr. Z’s keynote here at CES , Mercedes-Benz showed off the latest iteration of its telematics and infotainment system, mBrace2 . The system simply expands and enhances what M-B’s system has been...
Official: Mopar to go f...
Filed under: Aftermarket , Budget , Sedan , Etc. , Dodge Chrysler is serving up an impressive smattering of Mopar accessories for the 2013 Dodge Dart , including a host of performance parts. All told, buyers will be able to chose from a total of 150 accessories that range from an...
BMW Confirms Stick Opti...
In what’s being called (by us) the biggest victory for America since the 1980 Olympics hockey team and Baywatch , BMW announced today that it will offer a six-speed manual transmission for the 2013 M5, expected to hit U.S. dealerships in late summer. The manual will be available from...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...
Report: Fiat to debut n...
Filed under: Geneva Motor Show , Crossover , Fiat While European buyers took to the Fiat 500 like a proverbial fish to water, American buyers have not, by and large, followed suit with quite the same vigor . But the next product in the pipeline from the Italian automaker could stand to...
GM President Mark Reuss...
The term “parts-bin special” refers to a new car built from the parts of other existing cars. It’s typically a pejorative. What, we wondered, would a car-guy auto executive, with all his company’s resources at his disposal, do to rehabilitate this notion? So we asked Mark Reuss,...