Lincoln and driving dynamics in the same sentence? Yep. The '03 Aviator starts with the body-on-frame platform of the Ford Explorer, but engineers spent three years developing its unique characteristics, over and above the 50% shared components...
Ademe, the French Agency for the Environment and Energy Resources, has given a glowing endorsement to the new particulate filter PSA Peugeot Citroen is using with its common rail turbodiesel engines for passenger vehicles. In an 18-month study of...
On a road winding through the ranch lands near Austin, TX, I surprise an armadillo slowly making its way across the asphalt. I tap the brake pedal and jerk the steering wheel of the new Saturn Ion. No thud is heard. Saturn's all-new smallest car...
Chrysler, MIT on Trail of Driver DNA If you climb into a one-of-a-kind Chrysler 300M in Cambridge, MA, be on your best behavior. You're being watched. Chrysler Group and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have outfitted the 300M IT-Edition...
The Chrysler Group appears to be planning at least two greenfield plants as it prepares to add new vehicles and powertrains to its lineup. Chrysler Group President and CEO Dieter Zetsche tells WAW that plans for a new world engine include a...
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...