Ford Motor Co. suffered a black eye a few years back when Mustang enthusiasts charged that the new SVT Cobra wasn't making the advertised 320 hp. Instead, it was coming up 40 to 45 hp short, due to excessive backpressure in the exhaust system...
General Motors Corp.'s Pontiac Div. will produce the Bonneville G/XP show car unveiled at the Chicago Auto Show. The G/XP was developed by Pontiac's design team within the last four months, and plans call for sales of between 5,000 and 15,000...
NEW YORK A director of a technical team for the U.S. Department of Energy's FreedomCAR program says it will take more than a decade before mass-produced fuel cell-powered vehicles hit dealer showrooms. Patrick B. Davis told the recent Fuel Cell...
Everyone's a joker, thanks to the Internet. An e-mail arrived at WAW from a GM designer, along with the photos below. For those who don't know, the e-mail reads, MCM (Material Cost Management) is GM's program for removing cost from purchased parts...
68 Years Ago On March 5, 1934, the world's first aerodynamically designed, air-cooled V-8-powered, rear-engine vehicle rolls off the assembly line at the Tatra automotive works in Koprivnice, Czechoslovakia. Dubbed the T77, it provides room for...
Sour Grapes Toward Foreign Auto Makers An anonymous, pass-along e-mail the kind that spreads like an old-fashioned chain letter and quickly turns fiction into oft-repeated urban legends continues to make the rounds, accusing foreign-based...
For several months, a number of domestic automotive executives and automotive pundits have been saying that the business model is broken. This certainly seems to be the case. During 2001, the second highest production year ever, losses at Chrysler...
It's been 10 years since PSA Peugeot Citroen sold cars in the U.S. namely the Peugeot 405 and 505 wagon but it will be at least a few more years before the French auto maker considers another run at North America's largest vehicle market. Richard...
General Motors Corp. will delay the redesign of the Buick Regal and LeSabre sedans 10 to 12 months due to disappointing exterior styling. GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz called the prototypes the most disappointing vehicles I've encountered during his...
Thanks to a technology partnership announced in 1999, Delphi Automotive Systems and French auto maker PSA Peugeot Citroen unveil a Peugeot 206 concept car equipped with seven advanced technologies from Delphi, most of which are ready for...