LOS ANGELES – At the 2012 Los Angeles International Auto Show, Mazda confirmed it will be entering the U.S. diesel-powered passenger car marketplace in late 2013, with the 2014 Mazda6 Skyactiv-D. Completely redesigned for 2014, the midsize sedan will be offered with the 2.2-liter four-cylinder turbocharged diesel engine, a version of which is currently available […]
BMW Group announced financial results for the third quarter of 2014. The automaker’s total sales revenue was €19.6 billion, a year-over-year increase of 4.5% from €18.751 billion in the third quarter of 2013. Operating profit for the company was €2.26 billion, an increase of 17.1% from €1.93 billion in the same period last year. Total […]
Classic. Iconic. Few vehicles are deserved of such exultations as the fourth generation Lincoln Continental and Lincoln Continental Convertible. Introduced in 1961 with the marque’s first rear-hinged doors in a decade, the 1963 Lincoln Continental Convertible was America’s only four-door convertible, not just in that model year but for the entirety of its run. Indeed, […]
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said late Thursday it was suing Volkswagen and its former CEO relating to the Dieselgate affair. The SEC is accusing the German automaker of undertaking a “massive fraud” as it raised money from American investors. Volkswagen used software to manipulate its diesel-powered vehicles’ emissions tests in an effort to […]
Embattled automaker Volkswagen said that two members of its board including its Aufsichtsratsvorsitzenden, or chairman of the supervisory board, Hans Dieter Pötsch are under investigation by the Staatsanwaltschaft, or state prosecutor, in Braunschweig for violating securities laws. Mr. Pötsch, who previously served as the company’s chief financial officer, stands accused of failing to notify VW […]
A filling station in New York on Tuesday The price for a gallon (3.79 liters) of gasoline in the United State as of Tuesday is $4.37, up almost $0.15 over the past week, and has climbed 47% from a year ago. Tuesday’s figure eclipses the all-time high set on March 11, when the cost per […]
Google Maps used in Apple CarPlay Google announced that its Maps will soon default to a route that has the lowest possible carbon footprint, an effort to reduce CO2 emissions and drive sustainability. The new eco-friendly route mode will provide the driver with approximately the same estimated time of arrival as a regular route. In […]
Jaguar Land Rover will offer U.S. customers the option of a diesel-powered Land Rover in the next few years, although the timeframe has yet to be determined and it is likely not to be imminent. The good news, which came as the result of a question this reporter posed in a Q&A session with Jaguar […]
Hertz Global Holdings announced plans to purchase 100,000 Tesla electric vehicles and later said it will rent 50,000 of them to Uber drivers. The rental giant, which declared bankruptcy at the start of the pandemic in 2020, said it is making a substantial investment in an electric-vehicle fleet as well as charging infrastructure. Hertz existed […]
Mitsubishi teased us with the XR-PHEV and the XR-PHEV concepts earlier in the decade before bringing the Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross to the market. The compact crossover made its debut at the 2017 Geneva Motor Show and it slots betweenthe Outlander Sport and the Outlander in Mitsubishi’s lineup. You may be wondering about the name and […]
The 2012 Mercedes-Benz ML350 BlueTec is all new, with a look that harkens back in many respects to the first-generation M-Class introduced in 1997. That car launched the mid-sized luxury SUV segment that year and it was also the first SUV with electronic stability control standard. The second-generation M-Class, introduced in March 2005, used unibody […]
Audi is surging forward in the U.S. diesel market with the introduction of three new diesel-powered models, the A6 sedan, the A7 sportback, and the Q5 midsize crossover. All three use the recently updated 240-horsepower 3.0-liter V6 turbodiesel that is already available in the A8 and Q7, as well as … FRANKFURT—Mercedes-Benz unveiled the all-new, […]
MUNICH—Robert Bosch said Wednesday that it has developed a new diesel-exhaust system that would allow automakers to continue to offer diesel powerplants in the future. The new technology would cut emissions to below the 2020 EU emissions regulations by bringing nitrogen oxides or NOx to 13 milligrams per kilometer, well below the current legal limit […]
It’s been a tradition in my family that we go to the factory to take delivery of our cars. Even when I was a lad, I remember going to the local Mercedes-Benz car dealership for my parents to arrange picking up our next car in Germany. So when it came to picking out a car […]