The shortcomings of General Motors’ product development efforts were exposed yet again last week when the automaker confirmed that it was dropping the Pontiac GTO this summer. GM has rolled out the GTO as kind of an off-the-shelf answer to the complaints that the automaker’s cars weren’t exciting or muscular enough.
The Australian-made GTO, with […]

Norwood, Mass. ï Raising the bar for high performance in consumer audio systems, Analog Devices Inc. today (January 24th) introduced a family of audio amplifiers that combine the space- and heat-saving advantages of Class-D amplification, with dramatic improvements in sound quality and reduced EMI (electro magnetic interference).
Featuring less than 0.005 percent THD+N (total harmonic distortion […]

Talladega County is helping set the pace for the Alabama automotive industry.
A recent report showed the automotive industry in the state leading employment with nearly 45,000 workers employed with automakers and suppliers.
And Talladega County trails only Tuscaloosa County in industry workers, with 6,001 workers in 2005, up 50 percent from 4,002 in just two years. […]

You don’t want to mess with a good thing, so Mercedes didn’t change too much about its 2007 Mercedes Benz SL550 roadster. Underneath the hood, a new 5.5-liter V-8 engine matched to a seven-speed automatic transmission compelled the name change from SL500 to SL550, although outsideNorth America, the name will remain SL500.
The new engine produces […]

The Ferrari F360 Modena is dead – long live the F430! While there won’t be any parades down the streets of Paris, expect there to be a buzz of excitement around the Ferrari stand at this year’s Paris motorshow. The release of a new Ferrari is always a celebrated matter in Italy and around the […]

Citroën is to unveil a new addition to its C2 range at this year’s Paris motorshow. The lineup so far consists of humble city hatches and the lukewarm 105 horsepower, lukewarm VTR, but will change with the introduction of a more powerful variant called the VTS. The naming scheme was adopted from previous performance models […]

Suzuki’s global marketing plan is quite confusing when it comes down to its international product, the Swift. In Japan, the Swift is a Kei vehicle based off the Wagon R – it’s a sort of supercompact designed to be very affordable as it falls within the lowest tax bracket. To Europeans, the Swift is a […]

Chevrolet is the definitive American brand, a staple for the North American consumer when it comes to affordable automobiles, sport utilities and pick up trucks, reaching a level of fame that only few brands can challenge. While Chevrolet may rein supreme in North America, its levels of success cannot be applied everywhere else in the […]

Families and sports cars are like water and oil – they just don’t mix. Try as they might, automobile manufacturers have yet to find a solution that can accommodate the enthused driver as well as their children, but Nissan just may have the product to answer the calls of the public. The Tone concept, which […]

TOKYO (Reuters) - Shares in Toyota Motor Corp. (7203.T) hit a record high on Friday, sending the auto maker’s market value above $200 billion — more than that of U.S. retail giant Wal-Mart Stores (NYSE:WMT - news) — and analysts said the issue could keep rising as profits look to grow even faster next year.
Climbing […]