BMW USED CARS

Celebrities be
warned - there's a brand new Toyota Prius to spark off a whole new
holier-than-thou war among yourselves.

The good news
for the hair-shirt brigade is that it's even more environmentally friendly than
before. CO2 is now 89g/km and the combined fuel figure is 72.4mpg. Impressive
stuff for a genuine five-seater.

The trouble is
that, as before, the practical everyday running doesn't quite match up to the
theory. On a long-ish motorway stint, we only managed 55.7mpg, which is nowhere near that target figure.

GMs Next Volt-Style Plug-In Hybrid Could Be a Buick Crossover

The next General Motors product to get a plug-in hybrid powertrain, like the one that will be introduced in the Chevy Volt, may be a Buick.
This new PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle) was supposed to be a version of the Saturn Vue, but as GM has now sold off the Saturn brand to the Penske [...]

2011 Mustang to Get Smaller, More Powerful 3.7-liter V6


The 2011 Ford Mustang looks like it will get a boost in performance, while at the same time a drop in displacement. According to a report on The Mustang News, Ford is about to replace the aging 4.0-liter V6 with a new 3.7-liter unit.
A Mustang with the new 3.7-liter engine was put on display recently [...]

U.S. Automakers Must Adopt Diesels to Meet 2016 CAFE Standards says Bosch CEO

The CEO of auto parts supplier Bosch today told a crowd at the National Summit for Clean Transportation that U.S. automakers must adopt diesel technology in order to meet the strict new CAFE standards the Obama Administration has laid out. The new legislation will see fleet averages for passenger cars rise to 35.5 mpg for [...]

BMW X1 Prototype Spied Mostly Uncovered

Until now the only decent photos of the upcoming BMW X1 have been the imitation spy photos that BMW released. And those pics hardly showed the car, with plenty of camoflauge used to cover up the front and rear. Now, thanks to the folks at WorldCarFans we have some exceptional pics that show the entry-level [...]

PT Cruiser Not Dead Yet

Can you hear that? It might sound a lot like Monty Pythons John Cleese, but its actually Chryslers PT Cruiser screaming, Im not dead yet.
Thats right, despite plans to scrap the retro-styled economy car, production will continue on. Pre-bankruptcy Chrysler had announced that it would cease production of the PT at its Mexico plant this [...]

New Automaker to Build Green Cars at Former GM Plant in Louisiana

A shuttered General Motors plant in Louisiana will reopen soon but under new ownership. V-Vehicle Co., a new U.S. car maker says it will soon start building environmentally friendly cars at the facility thanks to a major investment by Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens. The company has also hired on former Mazda design boss Tom [...]

2010 Corvette ZR1 Gets New Traction Control System, Launch Control
The Corvette ZR1 is already one of the best road-going machines ever made, but that hasnt stopped the Chevy engineers from adding a few updates for the 2010 model.
The main upgrade is a new traction control system that uses what Chevy calls Performance Traction Management (PTM). Essentially this works like a typical traction control system, [...]