A second focus of the stand is an area dedicated to the exclusive Limited Edition Alfa Romeo supercars: Alfa 8C Competizione (introduced at the Paris Motor Show in 2006) and the Alfa 8C Spider, two sports cars that have had collectors and fans swooning with desire throughout the world and falling over themselves to place thousands of orders for both cars in just a few days. Five hundred of the cars have been produced by the Alfa Romeo Style Centre and are remarkable for their moulded surfaces that provide ideal attire for Alfa Romeo’s engineering and mechanical excellence: a slender line that expresses all the beauty of a veritable piece of poetry in motion that harks back to the brand’s glorious past while also carrying forward its attributes of engineering and emotion into the future. [click to continue...]
If there’s one name in the Corvette’s close to 60 year run (and going..) that stands above all else it is this: Stingray. The 1963 design of the Corvette’s first ever coupe model was that of a muscle car-ish brute of a sports car that at one time or another has been at the very top of any Corvette fan’s must have list. And since this was America’s sports car intended to be head and shoulders above regular muscle cars it needed a bit more flair than just taut, curvy goodness… it needed a split rear window. [click to continue...]
If there’s one thing that private party sellers hate doing the most its parking a car all day long where drive-by traffic can see it in the hopes that someone will buy it. Empty corner lots, parking spaces facing a main avenue, grassy street curbsides, where ever you think a lot of people will see your car as they drive by are all candidates.  But while grassy knolls and other supposed hotspots may get you a lot of on-lookers, the whole thing is just so much more trouble than its worth. [click to continue...]
Cadillac was originally supposed to debut the production CTS Coupe at the L.A. show last November, but being that they were a little busy at the time with Congressional hearings and possible bankruptcy, decided to push back the coupe’s debut to the Detroit show. Now comes word via Automotive News that Cadillac is again delaying the coupe’s launch by a full year to summer 2010. [click to continue...]
The 2010 Ford Taurus’ job is simple: To find more buyers than its immediate predecessors. Ford’s full-size family sedan that debuted in 2005 as the Five Hundred and changed its name to Taurus for 2008 was a very competent and practical vehicle, even a bit upscale. But the styling was a little boring, and derivative of older Passats making the design look dated. The 2010 Taurus changes all of that by putting revised mechanicals in a more unique and sexier body. [click to continue...]
Return of a Classic
The classic roadster is back – more powerful and more stylish than ever before. It is the BMW Z4, the only car in its segment combining classic roadster proportions with a seating position moved close to the rear axle, rear-wheel drive, with a retractable hardtop. [click to continue...]
A couple days ago, Chrysler and FIAT announced plans to form a strategic alliance where FIAT would take a 35% stake in struggling Chrysler initially, and if things work out eventually a 55% controlling stake. While the announcement’s timing may have been a bit sudden, it should come as no surprise since Chrysler and FIAT had been in talks earlier this year about what they could do together. The deal is critical for Chrysler’s survival, having been almost forced into a shotgun wedding with GM during the Washington bailout, and most recently told by one senator to merge or die. [click to continue...]
When people say that GM is the world’s largest car maker, what they’re referring to is that they sell more cars in every market across the globe than any other car maker. That statement of fact has been accurate for the last 77 years and is what made GM one of the largest most valuable corporations for several decades, despite their current teetering on bankruptcy. Now in addition to their current financial troubles, GM has lost its sales crown for 2008 to Toyota after a virtual tie for 2007. [click to continue...]
GM showed off a Cadillac concept, Converj, at the Detroit Auto Show recently that previews what a possible luxury vehicle based off their much anticipated extended-range electric car architecture would look like, an architecture to which they have committed very heavily to bringing out as the Chevy Volt in late 2010. But given GM’s recent visit to Washington where they explained that they would literally cease to exist real soon if they didn’t get federal loans ASAP, its not hard to believe reports from Automotive News that they don’t have the money to engineer and build the Cadillac Converj show car. The problem is that the Converj is no ordinary pie in the sky concept that is just nice to look at. [click to continue...]
