We have all seen stunt drivers on TV and in the movies. Man and machine, working as one in perfect harmony pulling off moves that many of us only dream of. Stunt drivers almost always prefer rear-wheel drives to front-wheel because they are much more stable and less likely to tip over. But this does [...]

Car of the Year 2008
Turin, 19 November 2007 – The international jury presiding over the “Car of the Year” award, which is made up of 58 specialist journalists from 22 European countries, has voted the Fiat 500 “Car of the Year 2008″ with 385 votes, ahead of the Mazda 2 (325 votes) and the Ford [...]

The Tata Nano Standard Edition
Last week, Tata Motors unveiled what it hopes will be the shape of things to come in the automotive industry. As if taking a page from Apple Corp., there had been many tantalizing rumors and photo leaks in the run up to the unveiling of the Tata Nano. Now that all [...]

2005 Ford FreeStyle
Amazing things happen when inspiration and empowerment take hold. Outstanding products come out of normal places. 2005 was the year when a breath of fresh air came out of Ford when they introduced FreeStyle crossover as one of six new nameplates during the company’s “Year of the Car”.
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News of the U.S. subprime mortgage market meltdown has dominated most of the business and finance headlines in the last quarter of 2007. Consumer spending has slowed down and its effects have rippled across all sectors in our economy: the automative industry is no exception. Sales figures from most car manufacturers in the US and [...]

DEARBORN, Mich., Jan. 3, 2008 – Led by two new and three redesigned models, Ford, Lincoln and Mercury crossover utility vehicles paced the industry’s fastest-growing segment with a gain of 62 percent in 2007, more than triple the industry-wide growth of 17 percent. In its first full year, Ford Edge sales were 130,125, exceeding [...]