Some sympathy is in order for United Auto Workers president Bob King. Here he was last March, about to enter negotiations with the Big Three on labor contracts that were certain to be crap sandwiches for his brothers and sisters on the line, and Ford announces that it’s paying CEO Alan Mulally an extra $56.5 [...]
The Kia Soul has been a big hit for the company, and it’s an even better drive than before thanks to improvements made for 2012. To sustain the momentum, the Korean automaker is showing a Soul concept at the 2012 Chicago auto show called Track’ster. Born at Kia’s California design studio, this box is intended [...]
Damian Kulash Jr. sits in one of the editing suites of a media-production house in downtown San Francisco, watching clips on a computer screen of a silver Chevy Sonic doing hand-brake turns in a dust cloud. The car is festooned with what looks like forks, hockey sticks, TV antennas, railroad horns, shark spears, and a [...]
It’s easy to confuse weird with bad. The Mitsubishi i is weird. It looks like a computer mouse. It has windshield wipers that resemble Ultraman’s arms in attack mode. It is powered by a 66-hp electric motor mounted under the rear seats. It carries onboard the energy equivalent of less than half a gallon of [...]
At 7.6 seconds, the 2012 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon is 3.9 seconds quicker to 60 mph than the SUV it replaces, thanks to its new 285-hp, 3.6-liter V-6 and five-speed automatic. To put that in perspective: You could run a BMW M3 sedan to 60 mph and then, very immediately thereafter, run the new ute [...]
Saab apparently is not dead—it’s just in a persistent vegetative state. A total of five parties have stepped forward to bid on all or parts of the Trollhättan-based automaker as a bankruptcy court in Sweden manages the sale of the company’s assets. The aim is to recover some money for Saab’s creditors. The three parties receiving [...]
Volkswagen’s latest Beetle dropped a few things relative to the New Beetle it replaces, including the word “New,” the height of its roof, and the cutesy demeanor. Now the Beetle line regains something lost a few years back: a fuel-efficient TDI diesel iteration. The 2013 Beetle TDI will debut at the 2012 Chicago auto show. [...]
When the first-generation Mazda Miata debuted way back in 1989, the reveal took place at the Chicago auto show. The city therefore remains special to the brand, and the intervening years have seen a long line of special-edition Miatas zip through McCormick Place. Keep Reading: 2012 Mazda MX-5 Miata Special Edition – Official Photos and [...]
Please do not confuse this with news. It is merely something that happened, about which we’ll make the following comments: Jeep says these custom Grand Cherokee SRT8s were identically prepared. If true, this could be the first time Alonso and Massa were given identical cars. Ferrari Rosso Corsa paint, a matte-black roof, and a red [...]
Fiat’s new 500L five-door MPV will—if you believe the company—go on sale in the U.S. in 2013, several months after debuting at the upcoming Geneva auto show. Fiat had already confirmed that such a model was coming, but now it has released photos. U.S. sales of the 500 hatch and convertible have been disappointing, so [...]