Apparently General Motors hasn’t learned a darn thing throughout all their economic troubles. Word is that they are prepping to unveil a new brand in China called Baojun. This brand will be a partnership between SAIC-GM-Wuling who will build and sell the vehicles. At the moment the joint venture markets vehicles under the Wuling brand [...]
Word on the street is that even though it took forever for 6-speed transmissions to become found in more than a small exclusive club of cars that Mercedes Benz is now working on a 9-speed transmission. While we’ve grown accustomed to 6, 7, or 8 speed transmissions in the marketplace now due to manufacturers striving [...]
Whether you’re a fan of Ford’s products or not, there is no denying that Ford has muscled through the economic turmoil that almost ruined the other two of the big three. Ford’s CEO, Alan Mulally, is part of the reason Ford has been able to turn itself around and get back on track even in [...]
To help support the Young Eagles program of the EAA AirVenture, Ford has donated a one-off Mustang for the association to auction for the past couple years. This years Mustang will be inspired by an SR-71 Blackbird and should bring a hefty sum, likely to exceed the half and quarter-million price tags of the past [...]
It seems like just last week Toyota and Tesla announced that two test mules existed that Toyota was evaluating for standards compliance. Well, now they’ve announced that indeed they do and they will be partnering on an electric RAV4. Tesla is apparently hard at work designing the electrical systems on this new RAV4. This is [...]
The base price on a 2011 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 is a healthy $49,995 yet over 3,000 orders have already been accepted. You can’t say you blame them, 550hp in a Mustang is just mind blowing and with the Shelby name attached you can guarantee this car isn’t going to shed value very quickly. But [...]
As you may have read yesterday, the Wall Street Journal published a story saying that an investigation by the USDOT found that the unintended acceleration problem that plagued Toyota’s was actually driver error and not faulty parts or engineering. Today, however, brings a whole new light to this story with the NHTSA pointing fingers at [...]
At the fifth annual Bixby Knolls car show in Long Beach, Califorinia lots of cars of different types and makes were to be seen, but the highlight was certainly the cacklefest. Now you may ask to yourself — What exactly is this cacklefest thing? If you go back to the beginning of drag racing where [...]
General Motors has announced that the lithium ion battery pack in the Chevrolet Volt, slated for release in 2011, will be warranted for 8 years or 100,000 miles. However, since GM has equipped the Volt with a range extending gasoline engine the battery pack falls under the same scrutiny as other emissions systems would, which [...]
James May (aka Captain Slow) from the hit BBC series Top Gear apparently took the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, the same one that set the land speed record, to a top speed of 259.11 mph. Apparently the gents from Top Gear were in the thick of this world record attempt and the Cap’n got a [...]
With just the C&L cold air intake (CAI) the 2011 Mustang GT 5.0 delivered 11 more horses to the rear wheels. Pretty impressive given that the guys over at American Muscle were able to produce such numbers within 24 hours of taking possession of their Mustang GT. Not only will you get more power, you’ll [...]
Fastlane has beaten the rest of the industry to the punch and had successfully turbocharged the new Mustang 5.0. Utilizing a Borg Warner 72mm S400 turbo, they’ve been able to squeeze a healthy, and respectful, 530+ horsepower and 500 ft-lbs of torque on the 6 speed model with only a mere 6 – 7 psi [...]
