January 2011

The number “one” seems to be appearing a lot around the BMW offices these days; just over two weeks or so after we reported that the 1 Series M Coupe (1M) was on its way, BMW announced that they would be campaigning a pre-release model as a pace car for this year’s Rolex 24 at [...]

Strong consumer demand for the Chevrolet Volt has prompted Chevrolet to ramp up the pace of its national rollout of the popular electric vehicle. “We’re accelerating our launch plan to have Volts in all participating Chevrolet dealerships in every single state in the union by the end of this year,” said Rick Scheidt, U.S. vice [...]

The IEEE-USA, an organizational unit of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, intends to explore whether or not US President Barack Obama‘s electric vehicles goal is realistic. During the recent State of the Union address, President Obama challenged the US to “become the first country to have a million electric vehicles on the road [...]

After time runs out on the official game clock at Super Bowl XLV, Chevrolet will hand over the keys to a 2011 Camaro Convertible to whoever is named the Most Valuable Player of the gridiron showdown pitting the Pittsburgh Steelers versus the Green Bay Packers. The MVP award winner will be decided by a media [...]

Well, it’s auto show season and even though the events in both Detroit and Montreal are fresh in our minds, manufacturers have already started prepping us for the Canadian International Auto Show in Toronto, February 18-27, 2011. Vistiors might want to make their way over to the Infiniti stand, where Nissan’s luxury division will be [...]

Recently, we reported that BMW won the honour of entering a pre-release version of their new 1-Series M Coupe (1M) sports coupe as a pace car for the 49th annual Daytona 24 Hour race at the end of this month. Not to be left behind as the racing season gets underway, GM will be running [...]

Fitting that Mercedes-Benz, whose original founders basically invented the horseless carriage in Germany all those year ago, would find a way to “grow” their own car. Enter the Mercedes-Benz BIOME, a completely “organic” car that could (or could not) be a symbol of things to come in the automotive world as manufacturers try to get [...]