Clint Eastwood has thrown his hat into the ring with a SuperBowl half-time advert on behalf of, nominally, Chrysler but widely seen as pro-Detroit in general. Actually, it's much more than that.
The US Government seizes vehicles for a wide range of reasons: used in crime, as assets representing proceeds of crime (money laundering), smuggled vehicles, vehicles taken as payment for taxes a...
Automtive: Honda recalls 200,000 carsJapan's Honda Motors is recalling some 200,000 Stream and Civic cars after identifying a defective component in the engine bay.
Automotive: Et tu, LotusWhen the UK started charging purchase tax on cars, Colin Chapman found a loophole: if he sold his Lotus cars in kit form, buyers did not have to pay the tax. Caterham Cars started their business...
Automotive: SAAB brings back the GriffinSAAB, now free of its GM constraints and in ownership of specialist sports car maker Spyker is to reintroduce the Griffin, this time as a variant of the new 9-3 model
Automotive: Toyota to recall 1.7 million cars and vansIt sometimes seems as if the one company you don't want to be if you are a car maker is Toyota. Having admitted last year that it put innovation and a rush to market ahead of its traditionally pr...
Automotive: and the CoTY goes to.... a car that won't get you home in a snowstormThe Nissan Leaf may be a great car (Nissan haven't given us one to drive yet) but as the UK disappears under another snow storm, it's clearly not the car for this year, or at least not this winte...
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