Late Wednesday afternoon, Ford Motor Company made an important announcement about their brand structure. In light of dropping market share and redundancy, Ford has officially declared the Mercury division will be discontinued following the 2010 calendar year. Accounting for less than 1 per cent of the United States market compared to Ford’s total 16 per [...]
This is a guest post by James from Car Throttle – your performance car experts! A favorite genre of many auto fiends is the “sleeper” – a car that looks like grandma’s Mercury but goes like stink. In this day and age of flashy, showy performance – with all the standard body kits, huge spoilers [...]
Not everyone can survive owning an smaller economy car, but can’t afford something high-end. Nor can they use an impractical sports car for the everyday slog. That doesn’t mean that this increasing group suffer by driving something drab. So here are some cars that are priced right for their markets and offer some enjoyment of [...]
The Detroit auto show has come and gone, and has left the automotive industry with a little more to chew over. As a final wrap-up to quite possibly the most important auto show in America, we chose 10 cars that summed up the best of the show. We chose based on significance and looks, which [...]
OK, dude gets even cooler. Obviously, that’s Neil Young. To me, Neil Young is one of these guys that’s cool because he skirts the edge of disaster in a lot of ways. He’s Canadian, for one … and a Canadian MUSICIAN for two (I don’t need to go into the sonic & thematic failings of [...]
When Lincoln says it’s news that their new MKS has a THX II Certified 5.1 Surround sound system, the first thing it makes me think of is “So that’s the BEST thing you got to say about your car?” The second thing it makes me think is, “What a waste”. I’m not a big believer [...]
Ah January … in these cold, bleak days, things are also pretty bleak for the car guy. Apart from Paris-Dakar (canceled this year, due to parts of Mauritania being crazier than an ER on Halloween night), there’s only one thing that holds interest for a car guy: Auto Shows. And the big one for America [...]
On Saturday I posted another update on some of the cool cars that are going to be at the Chicago Auto Show, but there are so many, I can’t help but post again. Here are a few more of the cars that are going to be there in a couple days: Mazda Ryuga The Ryuga [...]