It’s not cold logic that will bring buyers to the dealerships in search of the 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8, the brand’s red-hot sport-utility vehicle. Left-brainers simply will not comprehend the attractiveness of a ground-pounding, gas-guzzling, 470-horsepower SUV that is filled with luxury features and sells for more than $60,000. I was reminded of this [...]
Crank the steering wheel around at least a couple times, gingerly let out the heavy clutch and edge up the revs just a bit. The big V8 chuffles and the car chuffles forward and around, out onto the narrow two-lane blacktop road. With all that lock in the steering system, there’s no choice but to [...]
How much to save the Saab Bilmuseum? How about $4.1 million. According to Radio Sweden, the Saab car museum got a last-minute reprieve when the Trollhattan (city) Council, Saab AB and the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Memorial Fund joined to buy the Saab car museum and its collection of vintage Saabs and memorabilia. Trollhattan is [...]
Houston – As an exclamation point to a year in which Grand Cherokee sales jumped 51 percent over 2010, Jeep has introduced a production-intent Grand Cherokee concept at this week’s Houston Auto Show. Adding fuel to the Internet-ready fire is an online “Name My Ride” contest, giving some creative winner the chance to win his [...]
First, let me say I really like the Nissan Leaf. I like its quirky styling, impressive ride quality and amenities. If you want to read a full review of the Leaf and its inner workings, follow this link. What I’m going to cover in this missive is my experience with the car to see [...]
The shocker came from the sticker. The bottom line on our 2012 Kia Sorento SX AWD was $37,150, and all of that was standard equipment for the SX AWD except the $1,500 panoramic sunroof and $800 destination fee. Holy cow, that’s a Kia? Yes, indeed it is. It’s not that other compact SUVs with all-wheel [...]
It must be tough to be Mitsubishi in the U.S. It’s not that the Japanese car manufacturer doesn’t get respect. It’s that it just doesn’t get anyone’s attention. That’s despite building vehicles like the 2012 Mitsubishi Outlander GT, a compact SUV-crossover with off-road credentials that for a crossover are quite impressive The Outlander GT is [...]
It’s not cold logic that will bring buyers to the dealerships in search of the 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8, the brand’s red-hot sport-utility vehicle. Left-brainers simply will not comprehend the attractiveness of a ground-pounding, gas-guzzling, 470-horsepower SUV that is filled with luxury features and sells for more than $60,000. I was reminded of this [...]
First, let me say I really like the Nissan Leaf. I like its quirky styling, impressive ride quality and amenities. If you want to read a full review of the Leaf and its inner workings, follow this link. What I’m going to cover in this missive is my experience with the car to see [...]
The shocker came from the sticker. The bottom line on our 2012 Kia Sorento SX AWD was $37,150, and all of that was standard equipment for the SX AWD except the $1,500 panoramic sunroof and $800 destination fee. Holy cow, that’s a Kia? Yes, indeed it is. It’s not that other compact SUVs with all-wheel [...]
How much to save the Saab Bilmuseum? How about $4.1 million. According to Radio Sweden, the Saab car museum got a last-minute reprieve when the Trollhattan (city) Council, Saab AB and the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Memorial Fund joined to buy the Saab car museum and its collection of vintage Saabs and memorabilia. Trollhattan is [...]
Houston – As an exclamation point to a year in which Grand Cherokee sales jumped 51 percent over 2010, Jeep has introduced a production-intent Grand Cherokee concept at this week’s Houston Auto Show. Adding fuel to the Internet-ready fire is an online “Name My Ride” contest, giving some creative winner the chance to win his [...]
Jeep sales are up in the U.S. by some 44 percent, but they’re even more so in Europe and the UK, even as overall vehicle registrations there have declined for 2011 versus 2010. In fact, “up” is an understatement with an increase of 61.8 percent. The increase—for the 27 member states of the European Union [...]
For those who happen to be in Jolly Olde during 2012 and approximate anything like a James Bond fan, or just a fan of the cars in the movies about Britain’s most famous spy, the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu, England, will host a collection of fifty of the “best loved and most iconic James [...]
Every year for the past 16 years on the first Sunday in November, a group of diehard auto enthusiasts have been meeting at a local park in Van Nuys, California, to celebrate the Best of France and Italy cars. Started by four friends, Tina Van Curen (owner of Burbank’s own Autobooks-Aerobooks), Chuck Forward, Sam William, [...]
Buyers of the new 2012 Ford Mustang Boss 302 are getting a special treat, the Boss Track Attack. Even if the track-tuned pony promises owner gratification just by being itself, the Boss Track Attack days, a free day of training and track time at Miller Motorsports Park driving track-ready Boss 302 Mustangs, should serve as [...]
Automotive technologies are appearing on new vehicles faster than customers can absorb them. Hybrids, electric power, handling dynamics, lane departure warning systems and more rapidly are replacing mechanical systems that we all loved and easily understood. Which means now you need to do even more research before spending your hard-earned cash on a new [...]
It’s common knowledge that carbon monoxide kills. It’s the culprit in car-running-in-garage suicides—though it’s harder to do that with today’s cleaner running engines. Poorly vented furnaces and stoves account for news reports of fatalities every winter. However, snow country drivers have to know that carbon monoxide can be a killer with cars in open air, [...]
As an early adopter of technology, I was thrilled when Ford introduced its MyFord Touch in-vehicle connectivity system. I liked the touchscreen display, the fact that so many features can be controlled through voice activation, and the control pads that help keep the driver’s hands on the steering wheel. As with any new technology, glitches [...]
Crank the steering wheel around at least a couple times, gingerly let out the heavy clutch and edge up the revs just a bit. The big V8 chuffles and the car chuffles forward and around, out onto the narrow two-lane blacktop road. With all that lock in the steering system, there’s no choice but to [...]
Special is a word for the 1966 Ferrari 330 GTC. It came from an era when Ferrari grand touring cars were coming into their own. The separation between racing and road cars was complete, and touring cars no longer suffered under the compromises imposed by competition siblings. The Ferrari 330 GTC was introduced at the [...]
The first Saab to come to America, at least officially, was the Saab 93. It was an unusual addition to the automotive landscape. To a continent rife with aircraft-inspired styling came a truly aerodynamic automobile, and one made by an aircraft manufacturer, no less. Yet most Americans thought it was the Saab that looked peculiar, [...]
A car stole itself and neatly parked in a garage, which the owners reported to police as a break-in. Call it two mysteries solved for the price of one: According to news.com.au, police in suburban Stirling, near Perth, Australia, had two crimes on their hands, one a stolen car and the other a garage that [...]
You know those crosses people place on roadsides as a memorial for those who died in highway accidents? PETA wants to do the same for cows. Not just any cows, but cows that died in two specific unrelated truck crashes in Illinois. According to myfoxnews.com, “People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants to buy [...]
Girls, make sure you know your beau before you give him the keys to your car. If he has a floppy red Mohawk, a spider tattoo on his neck and a list of priors, consider yourself lucky that he didn’t do anything worse than steal your car in the middle of your date. According to [...]
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