Filed under: Earnings/Financials, Chrysler, Ford, GM, Lexus, Toyota, Canada The Canadian auto market was hot in 2014 and posted recorded sales. Leader among them for the fifth straight year was Ford, but the Blue Oval nearly lost its sales crown. A rally from FCA put it within about 2,000 units Read more
Filed under: Etc., Government/Legal, Green, Safety Recently elected New York City mayor Bill de Blasio inaugurated his “Vision Zero” plan last year to reduce traffic deaths in The Big Apple to zero by 2024. The numbers for 2014 show the initiative is headed in the right direction: pedestrian deaths dropped Read more
Salvage experts are still trying to figure out what to do with the Hoegh Osaka , the container ship that ran aground off the Isle of Wight on Saturday evening while carrying 4,600 tonnes of cargo. Meanwhile, Getty Images photographer Matt Cardy has captured just how dire and breathtaking the Read more
Bet you can’t remember the last time your saw a Packard featured on the pages of Street Rodder magazine, or at a car show, or on the street.
This is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that’s actually important — all in one place every weekday morning. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn’t your time more Read more
We take a look at this 1968 Pontiac GTO and 1968 Pontiac LeMans, two more Homegrown Heroes submitted by our readers!
Most folks have stories or pictures of their first car. Fun moments, scary moments, and possibly illegal moments are the ones that make the most distinct memories, but most first cars are exactly that—memories.
People who are too wimpy to skydive will often invoke a defensive phrase that goes something like, "Why would I want to jump out of a perfectly good airplane?" But in New Zealand on Wednesday, one of those skydiving planes was not good at all, and forced all of its Read more
When BMW brought iDrive into the world it was shunned. Then every other German automaker hopped on board the control knob bandwagon. Now we’re in an era of touchscreens, with BMW and Audi holding out. And then there was one. Read more…
Filed under: Green, Videos, BMW, UK, Coupe, Hybrid, Performance After seeing how they perform at the drag strip, the BMW i8 and M4 are now at Castle Combe circuit to see how they feel on the track. It’s the modern hybrid versus the traditional sports coupe in this inter-brand rivalry. Read more