Jaguar has all the reason to throw a party and let the bubbly flow. The Jaguar’s new XF won the ‘Car of the Year’ award at the 2008 What Car? Awards. The new XF even topped the charts as the ‘Best Executive Car’ beating the Mercedes CLS and BMW 5 Series. Jaguar is creating a [...]
The 2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8 - the fourth & final installation of the LX-platform, which birthed the 300C Magnum & Charger – is going to be unveiled in February 2008 during the much awaited Chicago auto show.
The ‘reborn’ Challenger, if one is to say so, will appear almost 38 years after its namesake made a [...]
There has been a sudden race to develop the finest batteries and hydrogen fuel cells. Well the reason is the keen interest automakers have taken to manufacture electric and hybrid vehicles. General Motors Corps’ new global engineering group is specially assigned to speed up development of electric and hybrid vehicles. Chrysler LLC did the same [...]
Toyota and General Motors shared the spoils by winning Polk Automotive Loyalty Awards of R. L. Polk & Co at the just concluded Automotive News World Congress. General Motors won the prestigious ‘Overall Manufacturer award’ for demonstrating an unmatched ability of retaining its previous customers. Toyota also emerged as a major winner, grabbing top honours [...]
For all big automobile companies it’s a show of their fuel-efficient technologies at the Washington Auto Show, which is heavily attended by government and political leaders. Yet Ford had a different agenda for the same. It will unveil its latest version of the Escape. The gas-electric hybrid comes power-packed with new features and improved power [...]
For millions across the globe it’s all about “living life king size”. Yet there are others who believe in “keeping it simple and small”. And the world’s two largest automakers agree with the latter. GM and Toyota are currently working on ultracheap cars to sell in emerging markets.
The auto giants got the “small car” [...]
General Motors is thinking green. They are developing a new method of making ethanol thus addressing some of the environmental concerns usually associated with producing biofuels. Challenging old techniques the fuel will negate the process of making ethanol from grain. Instead, the fuel will be made from a wide variety of waste materials, such as [...]