Ford Motor Co. is downplaying an engine problem that stopped production of its '03 SVT Mustang Cobra. We'll make up our target production of 12,000 units, a spokesman says. We didn't lose any Cobras. All the customers are happy. All the dealers...
Admitting not all the (past) XJ's were beautiful, Jaguar Cars' director of design Ian Callum previews for the media in Novi, MI, the company's all-new '04 XJ8, the longstanding flagship that Callum nonetheless calls, the mainstay of Jaguar design...
58 YEARS AGO Oct. 24, 1944, marks the death of Louis Renault in a French military prison hospital an accused Nazi collaborator. Born to a middle class Parisian family in February 1877, Louis was the youngest of five children. Renault hated school...
General Motors Corp. will offer more engine and transmission variants but fewer powertrain products in an effort to reduce costs while continuing to meet local demand for fuel economy, emissions and performance, a company executive says at a...
A stubbornly slow-to-recover economy. Lingering economic and societal effects from last year's terrorist attack and recent corporate scandals. Detroit's scanty passenger-car portfolio and an ongoing struggle for brand credibility. Looming...
General Motors Corp.'s Cadillac division unveils a wholesale reworking of its signature engine, the Northstar, as engineers prepare the V-8 to power two all-new models. The Northstar V-8 retains its 4.6L displacement, 90-degree layout and DOHC...
Although it's darn near unpatriotic to admit it, I've never found much to love in the Viper. Once you drove one for 10 or 15 minutes, the point-and-shoot audacity of it all soon wore thin, and you realized DaimlerChrysler AG's V-10 muscle car was...
You can't sell diesel engines to American consumers. They won't buy them because they're dirty, noisy and smell bad their performance stinks, too. It will be impossible to meet new environmental regulations coming in 2007. Everybody remembers the...
The temperature's rising in the U.S. heavy-duty pickup segment, and Ford Motor Co. is gleefully fanning the flames with an all-new turbodiesel V-8 that it says will re-establish the auto maker's dominance in the suddenly ultra-competitive race to...