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 [...]
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 [...]
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,” [...]
Ford’s Sync, developed by Microsoft, gives the driver voice-recognition which integrates into the car’s audio system, bluetooth, and navigation. It’s a good system, and until now, has yet to be rivaled by any other car maker.
The Kia UVO is the first rival to Sync, and is also developed in partnership with Microsoft. Kia just unveiled [...]
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 [...]
According to reports coming out after the Los Angeles Auto Show, it seems that Volkswagen will be bringing both a diesel version of the new, new Beetle (which will replace the soon to be old, new Beetle) and they will also be selling an electric only version of their Up! small car.
General Motors did the North American unveiling of its new (for America) Chevy Cruze. The General says that the Cruze is a “Popular global car refined for America”. Whether that flies with the U.S. car buying public remains to be seen, but what is known is that the Cruze will supposedly get up to 40 [...]
In Hyundai’s next step to rid themselves of their boring image, they’ve unveiled a completely redone Tucson crossover SUV for 2010 at the LA Auto Show. The new Tucson CUV was designed entirely at Hyundai’s European design center in Frankfurt, and it shows. The new Tucson has more interior room, better tech and fuel economy, [...]
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