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Race a Hyundai from your Iphone on a Billboard Above Times Square

Race a Hyundai from your Iphone on a Billboard Above Times Square

Hyundai has released an Iphone app advertising the Veloster that allows players to connect to the Hyundai wireless access point and play the game on a billboard in Manhattan's Times Square. When playing at Times Square, players' score...
02.01.2012 | 6132 views | 6 comments
US Ford Sales Best in Over a Decade

US Ford Sales Best in Over a Decade

Ford has quite a year in 2011. The blue oval sold more than 2 million vehicles in the US for the first time since 1997. It also means that Ford is the best selling automaker in the US, and it is the first time that any automaker in the US has topp...
02.01.2012 | 631 views | 1 comments
Dark start for the 2012 Dakar

Dark start for the 2012 Dakar

It wasn’t the best of starts for the 2012 edition of the Dakar, which for the fourth year in succession is being run in South America as the Rally got yet againmarked by the death of a driver. During the first leg which linked Mar del Pl...
02.01.2012 | 1012 views | 1 comments
Chrysler's New Flagship: the 300 Luxury Series Sedan

Chrysler's New Flagship: the 300 Luxury Series Sedan

  Chrysler has a new flagship sedan in its lineup. The 300 Luxury Series sedan has high quality leather, an eight-speed transmission and either Chrysler's 3.6 liter Pentastar V6 or 5.7 liter Hemi V8. Chrysler claims that the 300 Luxur...
29.12.2011 | 1299 views | 5 comments
Ferrari Boss di Montezemolo Looks Back on 20 Years with Company

Ferrari Boss di Montezemolo Looks Back on 20 Years with Company

In an interview over lunch with US automotive magazine Motortrend, Ferrari CEO Luca di Montezemolo looked back on his tenure at Ferrari and agreed that the Ferrari 348 was one of the worst cars the company ever made.  Di Montezemolo rejoi...
29.12.2011 | 1805 views | 1 comments
Volkswagen Plans to Clean Up Its Manufacturing by 25% by 2018

Volkswagen Plans to Clean Up Its Manufacturing by 25% by 2018

  Making green cars is one thing, but building green cars is just as difficult. Manufactures are moving to reduce waste and recycle energy when producing vehicles. Volkswagen plans to reduce the environmental impact of all of its factorie...
29.12.2011 | 2489 views | 1 comments
Alfa Romeo 4C to Go on Sale in 2013 for $45,000

Alfa Romeo 4C to Go on Sale in 2013 for $45,000

It is hard to call the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione a success. Just 500 were made each of the coupe and Spyder versions, but next year Alfa Romeo will release the 4C. Alfa plans for the car to spearhead its return to the US for prices starting at $4...
29.12.2011 | 1912 views | 2 comments
Struggling Lotus May be Sold by Proton

Struggling Lotus May be Sold by Proton

  Despite having just shown some success by prepping a WRC car and building an Indycar engine, things are not looking great at Lotus. Its Malayasian state-owned, parent company Proton is unhappy with Lotuses lack of a profit. In fact the ...
29.12.2011 | 1206 views | 1 comments
Subaru Displaying Next-Gen STI and 3 Racing Debuts at Tokyo Auto Salon

Subaru Displaying Next-Gen STI and 3 Racing Debuts at Tokyo Auto Salon

The Tokyo Auto Show has come and past in December, but now Subaru is prepping for the Tokyo Auto Salon where Japan's top automotive tuners come to display their wares. It has some major announcements planned for the show including the announce...
28.12.2011 | 1246 views | 0 comments
Lotus Exige R-GT to Contest Tarmac Rounds of WRC

Lotus Exige R-GT to Contest Tarmac Rounds of WRC

Lotus had quite a good day on December 22 due to the first shakedown test of its new Exige R-GT rally car and the first start-up of its Indycar engine.  Lotus will campaign the Exige R-GT at tarmac rounds of the WRC, the first of which wi...
28.12.2011 | 2288 views | 2 comments

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