Tag: automaker

  • Lamborghini overhauls its museum

    Visitors to Central Italy will now have a new reason to stop in Sant’Agata Bolognese, a small town that Lamborghini has called home for generations: The Italian supercar manufacturer has opened the doors to its freshly renovated museum. The museum itself dates back to 2001 but was growing a little rough around the edges, so…

  • 8 ways to turn an SUV into a Porsche

    The 2017 Porsche Macan GTS is the compact SUV the automaker always set out to build, according to Porsche. Based on the Audi Q5, the Macan GTS is, in our opinion, the best handling crossover on the planet, but how does it get that way? Let’s dissect how a sports car maker turns an SUV…

  • Subaru Levorg STI Sport revealed

    Subaru has taken the wraps off a new model based on the Japanese-market Levorg wagon. The car is called the Levorg STI Sport, and it’s been developed by the automaker’s in-house tuner Subaru Tecnica International. The “Sport” in the title signifies that this isn’t one of the tuner’s dedicated performance…

  • BMW sued over i3’s extended-range electric powertrain

    BMW has been hit with a class action lawsuit regarding a potential issue afflicting the extended-range version of the automaker’s i3 electric car. According to the suit, which was filed in a District Court in Los Angeles last week, the extended-range i3, known as the i3 REx, can reduce power to unsafe levels without warning.…

  • Data reveals BMW is most cross-shopped against Tesla

    Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] buyers are generally pretty set in their ways, but research suggests some surprising buying habits that should have established German car brands on high alert as the electric car manufacturer readies its relatively inexpensive Model 3. Bloomberg, using data from Edmunds, discovered that more than a quarter of Tesla buyers…

  • Watch the Mercedes museum turn into a… hungry t-rex?

    A pair of film students in Germany have taken a bite out of Mercedes-Benz’s history by creating a short video that turns the automaker’s historical museum into a car-eating tyrannosaurus rex. The film isn’t quite as far-fetched as you might think. And one thing’s for sure: You’ll never look at the distinctive architecture of the…

  • Volkswagen teases mid-size SUV to be built in U.S.

    Volkswagen has given us our first official look at a new mid-size SUV with third-row seats the automaker plans to build at its plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Production is due to start later this year but pre-production examples are already being built to gear up for the final version due in showrooms sometime next year.…

  • Bonhams to auction off rare Aston Martins, including ex-Stirling Moss DB3S

    Next month, the auction house Bonhams will set up shop on the grounds of Aston Martin’s old Works factory in Newport Pagnell, England, where a number of the automaker’s best-known cars will go under the hammer. Chief among them is a 1954 Aston Martin DB3S, which is estimated to sell for as much as $10…

  • Forbidden fruit: Driving the Volkswagen Golf GTE: Video

    Volkswagen has an issue on its hands with its diesel vehicles. You know this. The entire world knows this. That’s because when you apply the suffix “-gate” to the end of anything, it automatically becomes a big deal. Diesels, however, aren’t the only thing the automaker has to offer besides gas-drinking vehicles. An all-electric eGolf…

  • 2016 Buick Envision Coming Next Summer… From China: Official

    It’s been rumored for some time that General Motors Company [NYSE:GM] could import its Chinese-made Buick Envision to the United States, and now the automaker has made it official. The small crossover, which has been in production at a plant in China’s Shandong province since 2014, will arrive in local showrooms next summer, as a…