BMW plans to build two new Mini models at its plant near Oxford in southern England, in a vote of confidence for UK manufacturing and a significant boost for the hard-pressed motor industry.
General Motors unveiled the Chevrolet Volt electric vehicle on Tuesday, allowing outsiders their first full look at the car GM says will go on sale in 2010.
Photos published on several automotive Web sites Monday show a production version of the Chevrolet Volt, a plug-in electric car General Motors plans to produce in 2010.
The world's automakers will try to win customers over with more environmentally friendly cars at the Frankfurt Auto Show this week as they tout new vehicles with hybrid propulsion and more advanced, cleaner engines.
While the United States celebrated Independence Day, Italy is experienced its own day of national pride. After years in the doldrums Italy's largest car manufacturer, Fiat, has unveiled the car that many believe will turn around the company's fortunes.
Things are a teensy bit weird here in Detroit. It's a cross between Wacky Wednesday and Alice in Wonderland: Nothing is as it should be, and some things are downright trippy.
General Motors released photos of a convertible Chevrolet Camaro concept vehicle Thursday. The car will be unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show on Sunday.
BMW plans to build two new Mini models at its plant near Oxford in southern England, in a vote of confidence for UK manufacturing and a significant boost for the hard-pressed motor industry.
General Motors unveiled the Chevrolet Volt electric vehicle on Tuesday, allowing outsiders their first full look at the car GM says will go on sale in 2010.
Photos published on several automotive Web sites Monday show a production version of the Chevrolet Volt, a plug-in electric car General Motors plans to produce in 2010.
The world's automakers will try to win customers over with more environmentally friendly cars at the Frankfurt Auto Show this week as they tout new vehicles with hybrid propulsion and more advanced, cleaner engines.
While the United States celebrated Independence Day, Italy is experienced its own day of national pride. After years in the doldrums Italy's largest car manufacturer, Fiat, has unveiled the car that many believe will turn around the company's fortunes.
Things are a teensy bit weird here in Detroit. It's a cross between Wacky Wednesday and Alice in Wonderland: Nothing is as it should be, and some things are downright trippy.
General Motors released photos of a convertible Chevrolet Camaro concept vehicle Thursday. The car will be unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show on Sunday.
Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works, famed for the U-2 and Blackbird spy planes that flew higher than anything else in the world in their day, is trying for a different altitude record: an airplane that starts and ends its mission 150 feet underwater.
We've all seen videos of racecar crashes in which the vehicle disintegrates spectacularly into smoke and flame and flying, spinning debris--and the driver emerges miraculously unscathed. Those happ...
Last year's $3.24 million sale of a 1954 Oldsmobile concept car at a Scottsdale, Ariz. auto auction definitely got the attention of automobile collectors.
With an appearance that draws heavily from the classic muscle cars of the late 1960s and early '70s, the Dodge Challenger, premiering in concept car form at next week's Detroit Auto Show, should satisfy those who thought the 4-door Dodge Charger just didn't have the right stuff.
Jeep unveiled two concept vehicles at the Frankfurt Motor Show in Germany today that, a company executive said, hint at a worldwide portfolio expansion for the off-road brand.
In the 1950s, they used to call them "dream cars." Now they call them "concept cars," reflecting the serious thinking behind cars that have two engines, the ability to rotate in place or wide-screen TVs instead of rear windows.
DaimlerChrysler revealed a design for Jeep pick-up truck concept vehicle on Tuesday. If the company eventually produces a similar vehicle, it would be Jeep's first pick-up since the 1992 model year.
DaimlerChrysler revealed a design for Jeep pick-up truck concept vehicle on Tuesday. If the company eventually produces a similar vehicle, it would be Jeep's first pick-up since the 1992 model year.
The biennial Tokyo Motor Show used to be a showplace for the wackiest automotive ideas seen since GM's Futurama exhibit at the 1939 World's Fair. But the most recent installment, which opened in Oc...
What is it, you ask? A fine question. And a popular one too, as evidenced by the fact that every time I emerged from my icy-black 2004 Crossfire, some goggling person was planted just beyond the sw...
There's been thunderous public reaction to a couple of gas-guzzling concept vehicles unveiled at the recent Detroit auto show: Ford's V-10-powered, 500-horsepower 427 sedan and GM's 16-cylinder Cad...
It isn't your uncle's Caddy anymore. At least that's what the folks at Cadillac want you to think of their new $75,000 convertible roadster, unveiled last month at a high-end auto show in Pebble Be...
There's a cute minicar called Ka zipping around Europe that wears a Ford badge on its grille. Yet much of its development was done by a three-year-old company you probably haven't heard of: MSX Int...
Imagine FORTUNE's surprise when it recently received a sternly worded letter from the estimable law firm of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges. The problem? As the letter put it, "FORTUNE Magaz...
Judging from the forward-thinking, risk-taking machines on display at last month's North American International Auto Show in Detroit, the car industry is enjoying a lavish renaissance. Inspired par...
Close your eyes and picture yards of buttery pastel leather, yawning chrome grilles, ferocious V-8s, rare-wood exterior panels. Mmmmm. Now imagine vehicles with names like Thunderbird, Charger, Imp...
If two heads really were better than one, nobody would need to read this pair of books, which, from different vantage points, take aim at the same problem: group stupidity. Persons individually sma...
General Motors' woes took a lot of the usual sparkle out of this year's Detroit auto show. Short of cash, GM canceled its corporate display and showed far fewer special-concept cars than in the pas...
WELCOME TO the world's preeminent automobile exposition -- the biennial Tokyo Motor Show, recently playing at a vast new hotel and convention complex slightly to the east of Tokyo Disneyland. On pr...
IN HIS State of the Union address in January, President Bush asked, ''Which of our citizens will lead us in this next American century?'' The answer, in part, can be found here and on the following...
Workers at Lockheed are proud, and their office walls show it: News clips and photos of the startlingly angular F-117A Stealth fighter are everywhere. But nobody is flying higher because of the air...
They are the hope of corporate America, at least according to their press clippings. They will rebuild our sagging companies from within. They will stave off the Japanese challenge. They will be ho...
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