Fiat 500C It’s official: the Fiat 500–Europe’s Car of the Year for 2008–is heading to the U.S., and it’s bringing three of its cousins along for the ride. At the launch of the Fiat 500C last week, designer Roberto Giolito confirmed that Italy’s de facto national automobile will make its American debut in early 2011. [...]

Since the introduction of their all-new Dodge Ram 1500 last summer, Chrysler made it clear that their 2010 Ram 1500 would have a clean and green diesel option. In January, Chrysler said it was delaying the introduction of the diesel light-duty Ram until at least 2011. Frank Klegon, then Chrysler’s executive vice president of product [...]

The motorsports experts at Autoweek recently reported that on Saturday, June 6th the Chip Ganassi Racing team’s Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas drove to victory at Watkins Glen International in their No. 01 Telmex Riley-Lexus. Pruett and Rojas entered the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen still vying for their first victory of 2009 and [...]

All the drama but the race is over in Le Mans, France this week. Organizers of the 24 Hours of Le Mans made their decision that the Audi R15 TDI is legal to race. Peugeot made the claim Wednesday that that Audi’s front aero design broke Le Mans downforce rules. Peugeot hadn’t seen the R15 [...]

As we reported last month (Down The Snake Hole), Chrysler hasn’t had an easy time finding a buyer for their Viper brand. That stuck me as kind of odd, because everybody in the auto nation knows that every true enthusiasts and rich guy, sooner or later, dreams about having their own car company. Now AutoWeek [...]

Pontiac G8 fans–and we know there are a few of you–keep pitching those pennies down the wishing well: the G8 isn’t dead yet. Yes, the Pontiac brand is still being phased out. And yes, GM’s CEO Fritz Henderson has said flat-out that the Pontiac G8 GXP edition is a goner. However, General Motors’ new product [...]

The PowerLine PowerCup inverter ♦  Hate your car? Tired of making endless repairs? We’ve all been there. However, few of us have taken the ballsy step of plastering our car with lettering like “If you want trouble free motoring do not buy one of these!” and parking it in front of a dealership–but only ’cause [...]

 Lots of chatter today about the Chevrolet Volt test drives the past few days make me ask one question: How big is the back seat? Really, that’s all I want to know. Here’s what I found out: 1) The Chevy Volt that all the media types have been driving is really a “mule.” It’s one [...]