It’s official: another U.S. car brand has been killed, going the way of Saturn, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Hummer and Saab (so far). This time it’s Mercury, part of the Lincoln-Mercury Division of Ford Motor Co.
Let’s kick-off our road test series with the 2010 Buick LaCrosse, an all-new car which is one of the prime examples of how far American-made car quality and attention to detail has come.
Two weeks ago, in Los Angeles and Santa Monica, Nissan officially launched their five-passenger Leaf electric car to the American media and public. We were there getting the latest info on what will most likely be the first mass-produced EV family car sold in the U.
Harley-Davidson, which to many people is a Hummer-like example of housing bubble-fueled consumer product overkill, seems in danger of going down a similar road as that gigantic military vehicle-turned-grocery-getter, and was recently sold to a Chinese company.
By now everyone knows that Toyota, the world’s largest carmaker, has announced the largest safety recall of vehicles in its U.S. history. With a lot of Toyota and Lexus cars and trucks in the Santa Monica area, let’s take a closer look at what this recall really means.
It’s beyond me why GM is using Ed Whiteacre, their new board of directors chief, in new TV ads. He famously said, at his first press conference, that he doesn’t know much about cars, but one of the new Cadillac commercials is right-on.
You may have missed this news among all the recent clamor over “clunkers,” but Nissan just rocked the automotive world. The company opened a new world headquarters this past week in Yokohama, just south of Tokyo, and company CEO Carlos Ghosn used the grand opening to announce that the Leaf, an all-e
The week the clunker law went into effect, we found out that the EPA had suddenly changed the MPG ratings of many cars and trucks sold in the years which would make them eligible for the so-called “clunker program” (vehicles not more than 25 years old).
Warranties on new and used cars are confusing, at best. But in spite of the sometimes-confusing terminology, keep this in mind — “warranty,” in this case, is just a fancy word for “insurance policy.
Good news for car collectors: Your pride and joy may not be a clunker, thanks to the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA). SEMA managed to inject an addition to the so-called clunker law which exempts cars and trucks older than 25 years from this new federal program.
General Motors is still too big. The number of people already put out of work by the Amazingly-Shrinking General is sickening, outrageous; these workers didn’t bring this on themselves, it’s been forced on them and their families and the businesses where they trade by GM’s own shortcomings and the c
It’s a bright, warm Southern California afternoon and I’m driving north on the I-405 from Irvine to Torrance, in the carpool lane at 80-plus miles per hour, in an electric car which makes its own electricity.
