So many leaders and outspoken voices from the automotive industry have expressed their opinion regarding cars which will require little or no input while driving/being driven – self-guided cars are coming and much quicker than we were anticipating but a few years ago. Now, the CEO and co-founder of Tesla Motors, Elon Musk, has announced [...]
Mercedes-Benz sold more vehicles in the U.S. in April than archrival BMW, with increases reported for some pricier models like the SL-Class. Sales for the Mercedes-Benz brand rose 5.8 percent to 23,635 in April, while BMW posted a 10 percent increase to 23,225 units. The April results extended Mercedes’ 2013 lead to 4,695 vehicles as [...]
When Kia announced the death of the Sedona minivan last spring stating that it would come back to the segment in 2013 with a new model, this was surely not one was expecting. The only logical explanation is that the South Korean carmaker pushed back its plans for a successor to the series for an [...]
The Chrysler Group as a whole reported an 11 percent sales increase in the United States in April, with 156,698 units sold. The Jeep, Dodge, Ram Truck and Fiat brands each posted year-over-year sales gains in April compared with the same month a year ago. The largest sales increase came from the Ram Truck brand, [...]
New York: A book titled ‘How 12 Immigrants Made Billions: 12 Keys to Success’ by Indian American author and entrepreneur Dr. Harsimran Singh detailing stories of immigrants to the US who became billionaires has hit the stands here. “This book captivates the reader with stories of people who arrived in America with nothing but the [...]
Panaji: The Indian media could learn from the Boston bombing when the public and security agencies helped to close down the American city after the terror attack, a former RAW official said Saturday. Former special secretary of RAW Amber Sen was delivering a lecture at the International Centre, Goa. “The media were not good in [...]
By Nauman Farooq It’s sleek, powerful, fast and allows you to go topless, the 2013 Chevrolet Corvette 427 is the car many enthusiasts have been begging for. On the Corvette’s 60th Anniversary, Chevrolet has finally offered the convertible Vette with the motor from the Z06. When Chevrolet launched the Z06 version of the Corvette C6 [...]
A few months after the third generation IS sports sedan’s world premiere at the Detroit Motor Show in January, Lexus this week released detailed pricing on its BMW 3 Series and Cadillac ATS rival, with the first examples of the car to arrive in dealerships across the States this summer. Even though Lexus has developed [...]
Once a fuel reserved only to heavy-duty trucks, diesel has begun to gain ground also among U.S. automobile drivers in recent years. Clean diesel registrations increased by 24.3 percent in the U.S. from 2010 through 2012 following similar trends of double-digit diesel car sale increases throughout the country, according to data compiled by R.L. Polk [...]
While we still have many years ahead of us for fuel-cell vehicles to become a practical and affordable alternative to gasoline- and diesel-powered models, automakers are edging closer and closer to that goal. On Tuesday, during the Fortune Brainstorm Green conference in Laguna Niguel, California, Chris Hostetter, group vice president of strategic planning for Toyota [...]
