Expanding their global product portfolio, Chevrolet announced the pending addition of a new crossover production vehicle. Being officially presented at the upcoming Paris Motor Show in September, the Chevrolet Trax is a compact crossover utility, five-passenger vehicle with what is said to be class-leading cargo capacity. Loosely based off a design concept as part of [...]
On route to delivering the same headache-inducing gasoline prices that contributed to a complete economic meltdown in 2008, the price for a gallon of regular unleaded is just under a $4.00 national average. Drivers in European countries deal with fuel prices even more obscene then those being endured in North America. Subjected to heavy taxes [...]
The family crossover vehicle market is a segment major automakers can’t afford to neglect. Whereas the sedan and large pickup truck vehicle categories permit auto brands to be reactionary with their products, ever-continuing inventive spirits of crossover vehicle design leads to every product launch to be a pre-emptive strike. In 2012, two class-topping crossover [...]
While the Ford Motor Company has been reaping success from some well-planed products in recent years, a decade ago the American auto manufacturer was making many strategic missteps. However, a major exclusion to Ford’s hiccup in first years of the 21st century was a compact utility vehicle. Designed to compete against the white-hot Honda [...]
While the summer road trip has passed, the end of the year brings two major traveling events for a considerable group of American families. With sport utility and crossover vehicles existing as the most trusted form of private transportation, budgeting for the expense of everyday driving, let alone long distance travels, could have new car [...]
Perhaps foreseeing a blurring of automotive categories, Subaru was an early adapter of truck-like attributes to their cars. Remembering the old Subaru commercials of Australian actor Paul Hogan fleeing across off-road trails in the first-generation Outback and Forester give the perspective of a capable new image for the Japanese auto brand in the 1990s. Taller [...]
Since scoring victory in the 2008 Italian Grand Prix, Germany auto racer Sebastian Vettel has rocketed to auto racing’s hottest sensation. Debuting with the BMW Sauber team and winning his first race with the Scuderia Toro Rosso Formula 1 team, Vettel’s move to Red Bull Racing allowed this driver to reach a zenith. Formula 1 [...]
A phenomenon created when major road networks were formulated across North America in the 1950s, the summer family automobile trip was inaugurated. Originally identified as a time when a large station wagon was loaded up with belongings, the trip in route to a landmark or camping ground for some family memories. In the 1980s, minivans all but destroyed [...]