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- Chrysler To Set Caps, Send Fewer Cars To Rental Fleets
- Smile For The Camera: Big Brother Is Watching You Speed Via Satellite
- 2010 Porsche Panamera Subject to Recall
- GM To Invest $890 Million In Making Its V-8 Engines Save Gas
- Five More Myths About Electric Cars, Courtesy of Think
- New Range Rovers, Jaguar XF On Aluminum Crash Diet Program
- Ford Posts $2.1 Billion First Quarter Profit
| Chrysler To Set Caps, Send Fewer Cars To Rental Fleets Posted: 27 Apr 2010 04:28 PM PDT  Chrysler, at least for a time earlier this year, was sending nearly three out of every five of its new vehicles to commercial and government fleets. According to Automotive News, citing information from the company, Chrysler sent a jaw-dropping 58 percent of its vehicles to fleets just in February. Overall, in recent months, about 40 percent of...
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| Smile For The Camera: Big Brother Is Watching You Speed Via Satellite Posted: 27 Apr 2010 08:31 AM PDT  Satellites do many awesome things: they allow us to communicate with friends and family, they help us find our way home when we're lost, and of course, they bring us television -- delicious television. But there are a few downsides to those hunks of metal and circuitry floating above the surface of the earth, and for drivers in Britain, one of...
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| 2010 Porsche Panamera Subject to Recall Posted: 27 Apr 2010 07:21 AM PDT  The 2010 Porsche Panamera is being recalled for an issue with seatbelts. Reuters reports that the recall of the new sedan will involve all models built to date. The problem? Faulty seatbelt tensioners, which could lead to more severe injury in an accident, or worse. The new Panamera is one of the highest-rated luxury sedans here at...
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| GM To Invest $890 Million In Making Its V-8 Engines Save Gas Posted: 27 Apr 2010 06:40 AM PDT  Going green on the road may involve smaller engines, electric cars, and clean diesels, but it also requires making all engines far more fuel efficient. To that end, General Motors will announce this morning that it will invest almost one billion dollars in five separate plants to build a new, far more economical line of direct-injected aluminum...
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| Five More Myths About Electric Cars, Courtesy of Think Posted: 27 Apr 2010 06:09 AM PDT  Yesterday, we published a piece called Five Myths About Electric Cars, Courtesy of Think, whose CEO Richard Canny sent them to us. Today we have five more, to finish off his list of 10 myths. Below is the second half of Canny's list (which is why it begins with # 6), along with our assessment of Think's rebuttal to each one. The Think City is a...
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| New Range Rovers, Jaguar XF On Aluminum Crash Diet Program Posted: 27 Apr 2010 04:57 AM PDT  Jaguar and Land Rover are moving to a lighter-weight future as the new 2011 Jaguar XJ--which we're driving this week in Los Angeles, natch--will spawn a whole new generation of aluminum-bodied vehicles for the British brands. The last-generation XJ probably was the car that sealed Jaguar's fate with Ford. Full of all sorts of technological...
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| Ford Posts $2.1 Billion First Quarter Profit Posted: 27 Apr 2010 04:41 AM PDT  Ford today reported a profit of $2.1 billion for the first three months of the year, beating most estimates by almost 50 percent and coming in a staggering $3.5 billion over the same period just one year ago. Ford cites strong demand for new products, streamlining of its global operations and higher profits from its Ford Credit financing division...
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