An M5Board forum member took his 2007 BMW M5 to the dealer for brakes and fresh oil. Their 20-year-old tech crashed it during a test drive. The dealership’s offering him $2500 in parts . The problem? There’s $30,000 in damage. More
The world’s most popular car-related TV show, produced in the U.K., is Top Gear. Lately, BBC America has been showing more reruns of Top Gear from past seasons and fewer new episodes from the 2010 season. Maybe they are holding back because the History Channel will begin airing a U.S. version of Top Gear. As we anxiously await, today… Read the rest
Rahm Emanuel, former Democratic congressman and President Obama’s chief of staff, gave the UAW the Gettelfinger during the GM and Chrysler rescue debate, according to former auto czar Steve Rattner ‘s new book. This could get messy. Especially because there’s more. More
Chrysler is on a roll with SUV designs, and though the Durango doesn’t quite hit the sweet spot the 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee does, it’s not far off the mark. Sleek, smooth, and modern, the 2011 Durango’s look wraps what Dodge is pitching as a “performance-tuned” setup, and does it with three rows of seating. Performance SUVs are hardly… Read the rest
by Sean Tucker $200 a month: It’s less than $7 a day. Sacrifice your daily latte habit, and voila! You have the budget for a new car. In today’s market, you have options. There are a number of appealing cars you’d genuinely enjoy owning available for less than $200 a month. They’re lease deals, which have drawbacks. You’ll need… Read the rest
Joel Ewanick is the relatively new Vice President of GM Marketing, and from what little I’ve dealt with him, a terrific guy. He is charged with improving and advancing GM’s brands in consumers’ eyes and bringing in new sales. The launch of the Volt (and Cruze) later this year is extremely
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In the green-car world, the leaf is the king of all icons. The 2010 Honda Insight fertilized the idea when it bowed in 2008; it still promotes greener driving with electronically rendered displays of plants that add leaves as the car’s computers sense a light, planet-conscious foot on the gas pedal. The king of the leaves? The 2011 Nissan… Read the rest
Ford , current ‘merican automotive media darling, saw sales drop 11% in August. At least they did better than Toyota ! More
Some big questions are being asked of the Chevrolet Cruze compact, which is just about hit the market. First, will its conservative styling draw showroom traffic? Will GM’s new marketing minds–namely new marketing Vice President Joel Ewanick and his hand-picked Chevrolet marketing chief Chris Perry, both Hyundai veterans–come up with a way to get consumers interested in this car… Read the rest
When I was in college I had a newish Vaio desktop (with a 1-gig AMD! OMG!) and a Sony monitor and was fairly happy with myself. It was kind of purplish, but awesome. When my The University of Texas at Austin dormmate Eddie installed Counter Strike on it I suddenly had less time to study or try to get… Read the rest