For most auto companies, the most important and talked about offerings are the best sellers, the bread-winners and dependable work horses. Honda has the Civic and the Accord. Toyota has the Camry, which it needs to absolutely ace with each redesign. But Ford may be a...
We love it when we see new ideas at car shows, and an idea we had not seen until only a few years ago is pictured here: The “Dub Push,” a one-on-one drag race between teams pushing air-cooled Volkswagens, engines off.The photo was taken at the Central Jersey...
General Motors has confirmed today that it will build a new top-of-the-line Cadillac, a large, rear-wheel-drive sedan starting in late 2015.At this point the car is unnamed but it is expected that the name will be released relatively soon and that the car’s design...
Earl Ross died on Thursday at age 73.Who was Earl Ross? He was the only Canadian driver to ever win a race in NASCAR’s top series. He made 26 starts in what was then the Winston Cup series during his career, recording his only victory on September 1974 at the...
The tumultuous relationship between the New York Times and Tesla has become somewhat of an urban legend. Depending on who you ask the Times journalist, John M. Broder didn’t drive the car correctly, pushing it past advisable speeds, and forcing too much power from the...
Sales of the Volkswagen Beetle and other VW models here in the US may be down (see Beetle Bomb, here), but Volkswagen says that its sales of its various brands in China rose 11 percent in August as compared to the previous August. This outperformed the industry as a...
