Mazda2 Wins Good Design Award & Becomes Thailand’s First Diesel Car
Mazda is setting eco-friendly trends in its own way in the eastern hemisphere. Having just won the 2014 Good Design Award from Japan’s Institute of Design promotion (as the Mazda Demio), the Mazda2 will become the first small car running on a diesel engine in Thailand that’s domestically produce and distributed. Mazda2 Is Treading New Ground as Thailand’s First Diesel […]
Toyota and Tesla: Is the Romance Over for Good?
Probably not.
Back in the day, Toyota and Tesla used to be like this (you can’t see us, but we have our fingers crossed as we type, which isn’t the easiest thing to do). The two automakers used to have a deal where EV giants Tesla provided Toyota with the batteries to make its RAV4 EV. But […]
Nissan Kicks Concept Revealed: Wait, Why is It Called Kicks?
The day has arrived at long last, and Nissan has revealed its compact crossover concept at the São Paulo International Motor Show. Is it, in fact, the EXTREM II? No. Is it a bold, unconventional design concept that likely won’t look like anything Nissan actually would end up producing? Not really. In fact, the concept […]
Random Acts of Kindness: Tom Hanks and the Cabbie
Picture this: you’re a cab driver in New York, and you’re just ending your shift after a long day’s work when someone flags you down and asks you to take them across down in the opposite direction you need to go. Normally you’d say “sorry,” and drive on, but today you decide to go the […]
2015 Toyota Avalon Pricing Announced
As we near the end of 2014, it seems that we see new 2015 models going on sale on a weekly basis. The next model to grace our roads will be the 2015 Toyota Avalon, which is due to arrive at dealerships across the country at the end of October. Just before its release, 2015 […]
Ford and Hard Rock Team to Celebrate Mustang and Music
The 50th anniversary celebration for the Ford Mustang rolls on with the ICON50 program, and Ford is teaming up with Hard Rock Hotels & Casinos to name 10 new musical acts who they have deemed the future of the music industry. The ICON50 artists are: ASTR, Betty Who, Cathedrals, Elle King, Joywave, MisterWives, Sheppard, Smallpools, […]
Ford Creates 318 Jobs at Dagenham Diesel Assembly
Despite the fact that clean diesel has not yet taken off in the United States (because get your act together, America), Ford is investing 190 million GBP (approximately $306 million USD) into its Dagenham Diesel Assembly facility in order to create 318 jobs as it ramps up production of clean diesel engines. The investment is […]
Volvo May Revisit Concept Estate Production
Say what you will for high-concept fastbacks that will never see production or amphibious-looking CUVs that will eventually be reduced to something as beige as the carpet in your apartment, but we hold firm that one of the most handsome concepts to be revealed anywhere in the last year was the Volvo Concept Estate. The […]
Mercedes Trolls Ferrari With Tweet
Mercedes-Benz is celebrating its first ever FIA Formula 1 World Constructors’ Championship, and it’s trolling the competition hard. The numbers for Mercedes-Benz are nothing short of astounding, to be sure: the MB PU106A Hybrid Power Unit has notched 13 wins, 35 podiums, 16 poles, and 14 fastest laps, earning 64% of all available championship points and […]
BMW Self-Driving Car Technology Arrives in China
It seems like every automaker has been itching to jump on the driverless vehicle bandwagon (a bandwagon which, hopefully, isn’t driverless itself). If you’re hoping, like many of us, to see a BMW self-driving car during your lifetime, you might not be waiting as long as you’d expect. The brand is already researching autonomous cars […]
Elon Musk and Tesla Get South Park Treatment
Matt and Trey Go Car Crazy in Automotive-Themed "Handicar" Episode
With appearances on both The Price is Right and South Park, this week Tesla is really cornering the stoner television market. We are guessing Elon Musk won’t be too thrilled about the latter “endorsement,” though. In last night’s automotive-themed South Park episode, “Handicar,” series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone satirized electric car company Tesla […]
Mazda2 Puts Japan’s 2014 Car of the Year Award on Mantle
While the Mazda6 has been accumulating its share of awards from sources like Popular Mechanics, the Mazda Demio, more commonly known as the Mazda2, has been busy on the other side of the globe. Mazda’s recently-launched supermini already has the attention of experts around the world, as evidenced by the recent acquisition of Japan’s 2014 Car […]
Ford Adds 850 Jobs at Ford Rouge Center for 2015 F-150 Production
Only weeks after announcing that it had smashed the original goal of creating 12,000 hourly jobs in the United States by 2015, Ford is at it again, adding 850 jobs at Ford Rouge Center in Dearborn in order to support the impending launch of the 2015 F-150. Ford Rouge Center is comprised of the Dearborn […]
Kia GT Concept Greenlit for Production
Warning: Don’t Drink A Whole Mouthful of Water Before Reading This
Three years after its 2011 debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show, the Kia GT Concept has finally been given the go-ahead for production, and the sporty four-door fastback coupe will reportedly be available for purchase in about two years time. Kia executives at the Paris Motor Show told Edmunds that the Kia GT was […]
So Will There Be a New Ford Ranger? “No.”
It’s reason enough to start getting excited about a future model when a high level exec affirms that it’s something that an automaker has been kicking around. Thusly, people were understandably enthused when Ford Trucks Marketing Manager Doug Scott told USA Today’s James R. Healy that the company was “looking at” bringing a small pickup […]
Renault-Nissan Alliance May Team with Mitsubishi for Ford Focus Rival
It was announced back in September that Mitsubishi and Fiat had signed a Memorandum of Understanding to work together on a midsize pickup truck for the European market. Reports out of the United Kingdom suggest that Mitsubishi and the Renault-Nissan Alliance could be working with one another in the future on a new platform that […]
Q80 Inspiration Debuts at Paris Motor Show
Infiniti grabbed our attention last month when it dropped a couple of shadowy teasers for something called the Inspiration that they promised would “disturb the status quo” and foreshadow the future of the Infiniti brand. Then we got a brief glimpse at the hind quarters of the Q80 Inspiration, and the little four-seat fastback looked like […]
Hyundai Thinks Transforming Cars Should Be A Reality
How would you like a vehicle that could change between a truck and a sedan whenever you wanted to switch it up? You probably never thought of that before but, now that we’ve mentioned it, you’re begging for that to become a reality. Visions of Optimus Prime dancing in your head? Rest assured that Hyundai […]