Tesla Motors turned profitable for the first time in July, when the electric car manufacturer shipped a record 109 vehicles, the company said Friday.
It was an odd collection of vehicles on display on Capitol Hill, ranging from a bucket truck used for repairing power lines to something resembling an enclosed golf cart to a pair of hot-looking, two-seater sports cars.
A battery-powered 268-horsepower two-seat sports car is in line to become Chrysler LLC's first electric car, provided the carmaker lives to see another day.
Recently, Consumer Reports magazine issued its list of best and worst used cars, and divvied them up by price range.
Collecting cars is an expensive hobby. Here's a twist: Buy a new car today that will be worth a fortune as a collectible years from now.
The Wrightspeed X1, a sports car whose three-second acceleration from 0 to 60 makes it one of the fastest autos in the world, is also super clean: It's powered by an electric motor and gets about 170 mpg. Ian Wright, the Burlingame, Calif., entrepreneur who created the X1 several years ago, had planned on ramping up production on a line of similar electric cars in 2009. But over the summer, he changed his mind.
Meet today's most powerful production cars.
Why should a female auto journalist give you advice on great date cars? Because as far as cars go, I know what turns a woman on and what really turns her off.
Tadge Juechter, General Motors' chief engineer for the Chevrolet Corvette, wants to set one thing straight: the Corvette is here to stay.
If you're like me, you probably log a lot of miles for business -- and often at the pointy end of the plane, thanks to frequent-flier programs.
Tesla Motors turned profitable for the first time in July, when the electric car manufacturer shipped a record 109 vehicles, the company said Friday.
It was an odd collection of vehicles on display on Capitol Hill, ranging from a bucket truck used for repairing power lines to something resembling an enclosed golf cart to a pair of hot-looking, two-seater sports cars.
A battery-powered 268-horsepower two-seat sports car is in line to become Chrysler LLC's first electric car, provided the carmaker lives to see another day.
Recently, Consumer Reports magazine issued its list of best and worst used cars, and divvied them up by price range.
Collecting cars is an expensive hobby. Here's a twist: Buy a new car today that will be worth a fortune as a collectible years from now.
The Wrightspeed X1, a sports car whose three-second acceleration from 0 to 60 makes it one of the fastest autos in the world, is also super clean: It's powered by an electric motor and gets about 170 mpg. Ian Wright, the Burlingame, Calif., entrepreneur who created the X1 several years ago, had planned on ramping up production on a line of similar electric cars in 2009. But over the summer, he changed his mind.
Meet today's most powerful production cars.
Why should a female auto journalist give you advice on great date cars? Because as far as cars go, I know what turns a woman on and what really turns her off.
Tadge Juechter, General Motors' chief engineer for the Chevrolet Corvette, wants to set one thing straight: the Corvette is here to stay.
If you're like me, you probably log a lot of miles for business -- and often at the pointy end of the plane, thanks to frequent-flier programs.
It's 6 a.m. and still dark out, but to beat traffic I climb aboard a shuttle bus with a crowd of other car enthusiasts and head for the Pebble Beach Golf Links. Today is the last day of Monterey Speed Week, and the marquee event - the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, the largest, most glamorous classic-car exhibition and competition in America - is set to begin.
After five years of writing this column, I'm about to shed all objectivity. Before I do, however, let's review some numbers. During the past half decade, I've tested - though not always written about - almost 200 cars, worth a cumulative $20 million or so. Although I've logged as many as 1,000 miles in a single car, on average I've driven the things between 100 and 200 miles before handing them back to their corporate overseers, thus clearing the decks for the next new ride.
With governments in the United States and Europe considering stricter fuel economy regulations, car companies all over are wondering how to meet the proposed demands.
Take a pen, start with the nib at the bottom left corner of the page. Gently drag the pen diagonally from bottom left to top right and you have a quick and easy graphic representation of the price differential between the standard BMW 3-series and its habañero cousin the M3 coupe over the last four generations (and 20 years).
Prejudice is a funny thing. I was prepared not to like BMW's M6. Not that I thought it would be a bad car -- BMW, as a rule, isn't prone to making duff automobiles -- it's just I wasn't entirely sure what it was supposed to be. An executive coupe with a 5-liter V10 engine and 500 bhp? With a price tag that could buy you a Porsche 911 or most of an Aston Martin V8 Vantage? What fresh nonsense was this? But prejudice is there to be challenged.
Chemistry is a delicate recipe. Drivers and chiefs and owners don't automatically start winning races as soon as they are partnered together. Sometimes it takes days, months, or even a year to click.
For most successful people in corporate America, the average day is like a German or Japanese sedan: hard-charging, constant and complex. Competent? Yes. Thrilling? More like the perfect shade of gray.
Twenty years ago, if you were in the market for some exotic sheet metal, you would have lusted after the kind of experience only Lamborghini's Murciélago still delivers: a frighteningly powerful su...
Allow me a shameful confession: I don't love convertibles. (I'll pause a moment while your gasp subsides.) This is not a dislike, precisely, but rather a heightened sensitivity to minor annoyances....
Troubled Ford Motor Co. said Monday it would sell its Aston Martin luxury car business to the founder of an auto racing company and other investors in a deal valued at $925 million.
Just look at this!" exclaimed Seal, gesturing at the new Audi R8's carbon-fiber midsection stripe. "It gives the car a unique identity, it highlights that it's a mid-engine sports car, and it separ...
If you were to buy the car of your dreams - say, a Porsche 911 GT3 (sticker price, $106,000) - the odds are you'd drive it about 30 days a year and cover maybe 1,000 miles. Those are widely accepte...
At long last Audi announces the R8 - a two-seater that brings the brand's Le Mans-winning capabilities to the street.
Allow me a shameful confession: I don't love convertibles. (I'll pause a moment while your gasp subsides.) This is not a dislike, precisely, but rather a heightened sensitivity to minor annoyances....
The target buyer of the Asus Lamborghini VX1 isn't exactly looking to go incognito: The laptop's bright yellow lid, with a shape evocative of a sports car's spoiler, prominently features the Automobili Lamborghini logo.
Would Mustang Sally drive a station wagon? Maybe she'll get the chance.
Bidding for Ford Motor unit Aston Martin had been particularly fierce and there was a strong chance that the car line made famous by James Bond movies could sell for more than $1.2 billion, according to a published report.
Sports car manufacturer Maserati has unveiled its latest dream car at the Bologna Motor Show in Italy. However, because the $1.67 million MC12 Versione Corse does not meet standard emissions and safety requirements, it can never be driven on the open road.
Decades later, the view from the cramped, rock-hard back seat of my father's Porsche is imprinted clearly in my mind. I remember the sound of the air-cooled engine just behind me and the smell of his hair oil.
Decades later, the view from the cramped, rock hard back seat of my father's Porsche is imprinted clearly in my mind. I remember the sound of the air-cooled engine just behind me and the smell of his hair oil.
Audi introduced its new R8 sports car to the United States Wednesday with a drive down Manhattan's Park Avenue and New York mayor Michael Bloomberg riding shotgun.
Ford Motor is looking at selling Aston Martin, the sports car brand made famous in James Bond movies.
In testing the most expensive group of cars the magazine has ever purchased, Consumer Reports rated the Porsche 911 as the top high-performance sports car.
Tradition can be a such a wonderful thing. It keeps us in touch with our past and it communicates our varied cultures.
Precisely how fast I drove a Maserati at Road Atlanta racetrack is not the point. Or maybe it is the point, but since the people with me all claimed to have driven much faster, I'm not going to get...
(FORTUNE Small Business Magazine) - Nobody buys a Jaguar for transportation. Jags are all about glamour, style, and romance. Owners traditionally have put up with eccentricity and even inconvenience, as long as the car exuded Jaguar's aristocratic roadster personality.
How much longer can this fabled brand survive?
The Toyota Prius is the car that makes its owners happiest, according to a survey by Consumer Reports, but the Chevrolet Corvette is a close second.
MONEY's car tests don't involve stopwatches. Instead, trunks are loaded up, kids shuttled, vehicles parallel-parked--in other words, what you do with your car in the real world. Value is the other ...
The Mazda MX-5 (formerly known as the Miata) has been tops on my list of affordable sports cars since it arrived in 1989. Now serious competition has emerged in the swaggering Pontiac Solstice.
The Mazda MX-5 (formerly known as the Miata) has been tops on my list of affordable sports cars since it arrived in 1989. Now serious competition has emerged in the swaggering Pontiac Solstice.
Twenty years ago this month, at 5:30 on a nippy winter night, four gentlemen wearing trench coats and black fur hats converged on a luxury sedan idling outside a New York City restaurant called Sparks Steak House.
Should you want to parse the particulars of owning a Lamborghini, you'd need numbers rather than words. To wit: The average Lambo buyer--and there are 500 of them each year--has assets exceeding $1...
Ford Motor Co.'s Jaguar division released photos today of the upcoming 2007 Jaguar XK sports car. The car closely resembles a concept version, called the Advanced Lightweight Coupe, displayed at auto shows this year.
Porsche will build a four-door car starting in 2009, the company announced Wednesday.
Porsche released the first official photos of its new hard-top sports car Monday.
It was a blatant ego-massage from the Aston Martin public relations department. As if an invitation to drive the new Aston Martin DB9 wasn't enough, my test model bore its driver's name on a doorsill plaque -- my name etched in gleaming stainless steel on a $171,534 sports car.
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A golden 1954 Oldsmobile concept car sold at auction this weekend for $3.24 million.
A U.S.-based company plans to sell cars manufactured in China at American dealerships beginning in 2007.
Automotive siblings the Chrysler 300 and Dodge Magnum were named two of the 10 best cars by Car and Driver magazine in a list released Friday.
When three kings of the road deliver great redesigns within a few months of one another, it's a gift an auto enthusiast can appreciate. When the kings are named Mustang, Corvette and Porsche 911, h...
The Toyota Celica and MR2 sports cars will no longer be sold after the 2005 model year, Toyota announced Friday.
Among my road rules: Anyone who loves cars must own at least one convertible before he dies. Even if he lives in Duluth.
To evoke history is a perilous marketing ploy, mostly because the past can be messy. It includes all sorts of nasty, unpleasant things, one of which I will now describe in some detail. On a late Fr...
Aston Martin, Ferrari, Bentley, Maybach, Cadillac, Lexus ... the world's luxury car makers are all lining up for a slice of China's red-hot car market.
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On the last day of press previews before the big Detroit auto show opens to the public, Chrysler Group unwrapped three new convertibles headed to dealerships.
Most people know a good car when they drive it. Unfortunately, most people don't get to drive that many.
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As a red-blooded American, I've always wanted to own a German luxury car. After all, the Germans make some of the world's finest automobiles--and charge big heaps of deutsche marks for them. How be...
When entrepreneurs brainstorm new business ideas, they should put auto manufacturing smack down at the bottom of the list. The last successful startup was Chrysler in 1925. Since then, a number of ...
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Few people would dispute that the 1967 classic film The Graduate is almost unimaginable without Dustin Hoffman (in his first major role) as the freshly minted college graduate Benjamin Braddock, or...
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The economy may be tanking, but demand for high-priced supercars is revving up. From Atlanta to Stuttgart, carmakers are building rides propelled by supercharged engines bolted to lightweight bodie...
In Hollywood, it's Oscar season. On my calendar, it's time for another set of awards--my annual honors for the best cars of the year, for the shining stars on wheels. And this year, I'm more glad t...
It's always risky to mess with success, but the world's most profitable automaker is about to do exactly that. Sometime next year Porsche will introduce the first non-sports car in its 53-year hist...
Sitting in front of my house was $70,000 worth of the fastest car Mercedes ever made. Trouble was, I couldn't move it. Two inches of snow and ice in the driveway had made the car immobile.
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Che bella macchina! Italiana, si?" cries the Italian gentleman lounging roadside as I pull up in the Audi TT. Seeing the TT as an Italian car is an easy enough mistake to make, given that we are ne...
Don't worry about locking it," says Reeves Callaway, founder of Callaway Cars, as we park at Flanders Fish Market in East Lyme, Conn., to grab some lunch. I look longingly at his outrageously sexy ...
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