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Cadillac to Expand Line-up with Small and Large Sedans

Cadillac to Expand Line-up with Small and Large Sedans

Cadillac has been fighting its image as a car for pimps and octogenarians for the last decade with the avante garde  styling of the CTS and SRX. It has finally decided to take that design direction deeper into its model line-up. Cadillac announc...
04.08.2011 | 1060 views | 0 comments
Lexus to Reveal New GS at Pebble Beach

Lexus to Reveal New GS at Pebble Beach

Not every new car is getting revealed next month in Frankfurt. Lexus has decided to unveil its new GS 350 sedan at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance on August 18.  Lexus says that the new GS will have completely new styling and feature the b...
04.08.2011 | 6942 views | 0 comments
Kinectic Sculpture Creates Cityscape with 1,200 Hot Wheels Cars

Kinectic Sculpture Creates Cityscape with 1,200 Hot Wheels Cars

As a kid, nearly every little boy plays with miniature cars, be they Matchbox, Hot Wheels, Corgi or Tomica. Artist Chris Burden has created a kinectic sculpture using over 1,200 Matchbox cars The sculpture, titiled Metropolis II,  is meant to e...
04.08.2011 | 17714 views | 0 comments
European brands lag behind their Far Eastern counterparts in reliability stakes

European brands lag behind their Far Eastern counterparts in reliability stakes

New figures released by warranty specialist Warranty Direct show European brands are most likely to have problems. The figures are based on cars aged between 3 and 8 years old with a sample size of 50,000 live policies.  The glimmer of good news...
03.08.2011 | 956 views | 0 comments
Porsche 911 GT3 Cup racer improves endurance credentials

Porsche 911 GT3 Cup racer improves endurance credentials

Porsche are known for their constant evolution of the 911 sports car. With over 2,200 units of the race version sold to date the 911 GT3 Cup is the most successful customer racing car in the world. It is raced in 19 Porsche brand trophy series worldw...
03.08.2011 | 2738 views | 0 comments
Volvo gives XC60 New and Upgraded Engines for 2012

Volvo gives XC60 New and Upgraded Engines for 2012

Volvo introduced the XC60 in Sweden in 2008 and the following year in the rest of the world. Now it is time to freshen it up a little. The 2012 XC60 is basically the same in and out except for a group of new and upgraded engines.  For 2012, the...
02.08.2011 | 1488 views | 0 comments
Porsche Claims Profit of Over €1B for First Half of Year

Porsche Claims Profit of Over €1B for First Half of Year

Porsche released an earnings statement today showing that it made an operating profit of €1.07 billion in the first half of 2011. In the same period last year it made €675 million. That means that Porsche made a profit of over 1.5 times mor...
02.08.2011 | 689 views | 1 comments
Infiniti Teases Two More Images of JX

Infiniti Teases Two More Images of JX

Infiniti has been releasing pictures of its new cross-over SUV concept, dubbed the JX, over the past several weeks. We have already posted the two previous images that the company has shown off.  Infiniti describes the new model as a ...
02.08.2011 | 4158 views | 0 comments
Button Wins a Rainy Race in Hungary

Button Wins a Rainy Race in Hungary

It is said that in racing, rain is the great equalizer, and Jenson Button proved that today at the Hungarian Grand Prix. In a race where many drivers took five or six pit stops to deal with the changing weather, Button only took three. For a time, in...
01.08.2011 | 1337 views | 1 comments
Vettel Takes Pole in Hungary, McLaren close behind

Vettel Takes Pole in Hungary, McLaren close behind

One thing that you cannot deny about Sebastian Vettel is that he knows how to string together an amazingly fast lap. He has done it again at the Hungaroring today taking the pole for the race tomorrow in Hungary.  For the first two portions of ...
30.07.2011 | 767 views | 1 comments

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