Category: Detroit Auto Show

VW's 2.0L TDI Engine Named a 2010 "Ward's 10 Best Engines"

VW’s 2.0L TDI Engine Named a 2010 “Ward’s 10 Best Engines”

At last month’s Detroit Auto Show, Ward’s Automotive Group named Volkswagen’s 2.0L TDI Clean Diesel engine one of their “10 best” for 2010. The 2.0-liter TDI engine is now featured in the Jetta TDI sedan and SportWagen, as well as the 2010 Golf. The engine complies with all the excessively strict Tier 2, Bin 5/ULEV [...]

Bentley Mulsanne

Bentley Mulsanne

Bentley Motors pulled the wraps off the all-new Bentley Mulsanne flagship sedan at this year’s North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Designed and engineered at Crewe from the ground-up, the new Mulsanne “reaffirms the marque’s intent to create a new flagship Bentley with refined performance and unparalleled levels of luxury with the coach building [...]

Volkswagen Compact Coupe

Volkswagen Compact Coupe

What have we here? Yes, it’s a show car, but this one looks to have real production potential, and is also downright handsome to boot. This is the New Compact Coupe from Volkswagen. And besides a stupefyingly unimaginative name, it packs a boat load of technology and some pretty impressive performance figures.
Yes, sadly that is [...]

Cadillac XTS Platinum Concept

Cadillac XTS Platinum Concept

Here’s another GM concept car from the Detroit show that was a little unexpected: The Cadillac XTS Platinum Concept. No, it’s not as out of the ordinary as the GMC Granite, but it is noteworthy in a number of respects. GM says that the XTS Platinum Concept is a re-imagining the luxury sedan, with an [...]

Next-Gen Ford Focus - We Finally Get What The World Gets

Next-Gen Ford Focus – We Finally Get What The World Gets

It seems that for years, Ford has been keeping a lot of good stuff in the European market when they could have been, should have been, actually, bringing it over here. Seems like The Blue Oval boys finally wised up, because the next gen Ford Focus that we will get here, will be, by and [...]

GMC Granite Concept

GMC Granite Concept

Looks like General Motors is not completely dead yet, nor devoid of ideas. For example, fresh from Detroit and The North American International Auto Show comes the GMC Granite Concept. The exterior features an “urban-industrial design aesthetic” and on a lot of levels seems very un-General Motors-like.

Intriguingly the GMC press release teases almost right [...]

Chevrolet Aveo RS Show Car

Chevrolet Aveo RS Show Car

Chevy calls their AVEO RS show car “a wake-up call for the small-car segment”. Whether it is that remains to be seen, but they also point out, right off the top as a matter of fact, that the Aveo RS is ” designed to appeal to young enthusiasts,” has “personalization is built into the design,” [...]

The BMW Concept ActiveE

The BMW Concept ActiveE

Coming to the next North American Auto Show in Detroit, BMW will show a 1 Series based EV called the Concept ActiveE. This is yet another piece of evidence that all of the big auto manufacturers will be getting into making electric vehicles in one way or another. And, since this is a BMW, it [...]

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