Archive for December, 2009
Image Gallery: BMW Z4
The Z4 has undergone a facelift, reducing the ungainly styling it first dawned early in the decade. The new roadster, BMW’s only two-seater, now features [...]
Video: 2011 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG in Desert Gold
Power comes from a 6.2L V8 making 563-hp with a maximum torque of 479 lb-ft of torque. Mated to an E-SELECT system that controls the [...]
This Week’s Loser: Saab
GM failed to sell it, and now Saab’s going the way on Saturn and Pontiac. No matter what diehards say, Saab never stood a chance. [...]
This Week’s Winner: Ford
The ever-hungry EPA is saying that Ford has made the biggest gains in fuel economy and carbon reduction. Better yet, Ford’s refreshed ’11 Mustang engines [...]
The Best Concept of the Decade is…
…the Cadillac Sixteen. More than any other unmade concept, the Sixteen has been recurring topic of discussion. It both hearkened back to a glorious past [...]
Audi A1 Looking Less Likely to Hit US Shores
It’s unwelcome news, but Inside Line is reporting from an inside source (cute play on words, eh?) that Audi execs are not keen on exporting [...]
The Ten Best Concepts of the Decade #2: Infiniti Essence
The Essence may be where Infiniti finds its niche: the superb ’09 concept embraced beautiful sculpting with progressive technology. Whereas most concepts go to bizarre [...]
Video: Chevy’s PR Disaster
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvwTMZNWGuk&feature=player_embedded] Looks like marketing chief Susan Docherty may be joining the exec exodus from GM. In case you didn’t catch it on every other auto [...]
Jalopnik’s Worst Vehicles of the Millennium…Again, So Far…
It’s only fair for us to include Jalop’s the Worst10, since that is the more interesting list. Some cars we take issue with being included, [...]
The Ten Best Concepts of the Decade #3: Maybach Exelero
The Exelero was the opposite of the revived Maybach line: creative, daunting, and outlandish. The brand was a forgotten prewar luxury marque on par with [...]
Jalopnik Gives Us Its Favorite Vehicles of the Millennium (So Far)
We’re pretty fond of the Jalopnik gang–partly for their insults against The Truth About Cars, and partly for their grassroots fondness for automotive and aeronautical [...]
The Ten Best Concepts of the Decade #4: Shelby Cobra
Part of the short-lived Ford Revival, the Cobra continued a retro theme Dearborn initiated late in the Nineties. The Cobra was to borrow from the [...]
The Ten Best Concepts of the Decade #5: Chrysler Firepower
The Firepower seemed like the next logical step in the Viper evolutionary chain. The old Dodge two-seater had grown a little long in the tooth [...]
The Ten Best Concepts of the Decade #6: Hummer HX
GM’s always wanted the Hummer to be America’s twenty-first-century Jeep. After all, didn’t the military derivative, the Humvee, replace the old Willys icon? In the [...]