Monthly Archives: September 2009
2010 Nissan Versa: A Top Safety Pick For Around $10,000
The 2010 Nissan Versa has been named an Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) Top Safety Pick. The Versa’s scores aren’t quite perfect though. It earned a rating of just ‘acceptable’ in the head/neck injury category, with a ‘good’ score … Continue reading
2010 Nissan Versa: A Top Safety Pick For Around $10,000
The 2010 Nissan Versa has been named an Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) Top Safety Pick. The Versa’s scores aren’t quite perfect though. It earned a rating of just ‘acceptable’ in the head/neck injury category, with a ‘good’ score … Continue reading
Volvo To Sell Diesel-Electric Plug-in Hybrids By 2012
Technology has always been at the core of the automobile, and as tehcnology steps forward, so too does the automotive powetrain–from the realm of pure combustion to electrical power. Today, Volvo announced another step down that road with its intent … Continue reading
Volvo To Sell Diesel-Electric Plug-in Hybrids By 2012
Technology has always been at the core of the automobile, and as tehcnology steps forward, so too does the automotive powetrain–from the realm of pure combustion to electrical power. Today, Volvo announced another step down that road with its intent … Continue reading
Flying A Garage makes a hard landing:
It was one of the greatest rod, custom, drag-racing and classic-car collections ever assembled and it soon will make one of the greatest auctions. America’s Car Collection, housed at the Flying A Garage in Winnemucca, Nev.
Porsche threatens to pull Boxster production from Magna:
Porsche is considering canceling an existing contract with Magna to build the next-generation Boxster and Cayman in Austria starting in 2013 and may instead move production to Karmann in Germany.
Rumor: Chrysler May Launch New ‘Ram’ Brand For Pickups, SUVs
General Motors came out of bankruptcy swinging, putting Bob Lutz on the front line of a full-court press junket to promote GM’s new vehicles and new technology. We haven’t heard much from the other restructured kid on the block, Chrysler, … Continue reading
Rumor: Chrysler May Launch New ‘Ram’ Brand For Pickups, SUVs
General Motors came out of bankruptcy swinging, putting Bob Lutz on the front line of a full-court press junket to promote GM’s new vehicles and new technology. We haven’t heard much from the other restructured kid on the block, Chrysler, … Continue reading
WTF Friday: Car Thief Dashes With Clunker
People are generally of two minds about Cash-for-Clunkers: either it was a brilliant piece of economic stimulation, or it was a big, steaming pile of stupidity. Similarly, we are of two minds about a car thief in Vineland, New Jersey, … Continue reading
WTF Friday: Car Thief Dashes With Clunker
People are generally of two minds about Cash-for-Clunkers: either it was a brilliant piece of economic stimulation, or it was a big, steaming pile of stupidity. Similarly, we are of two minds about a car thief in Vineland, New Jersey, … Continue reading

