Ford Motor Co. launched production in mid-June of a 3-valve V-8 that has its first applications in Australia, Ward's has learned. The new version of Ford's venerable modular V-8 family will be built on a medium-volume line (about 325,000 units)...
A group of journalists and General Motors Corp. employees scramble from the bottom of a steep rock slope nicknamed The Guard Rail as the 03 Hummer H2 creeps down a jagged hillside. What? You don't trust me, the reporter driving the H2 laughingly...
Anatomy of auto makers heading in different directions: Honda Motor Co. Ltd. introduced the '03 Pilot, its first-ever Honda-badged midsize SUV on June 3. In the first full year of production, Honda plans to sell 80,000 units of the around-$30,000...
Envision a long grade so steep and threatening, even a mountain goat could get a case of vertigo. And the dirt more like crumbs of loose, dry clay is wheel-hub deep. Now ponder a trip down this arid crater in a 5,379-lb (2,440-kg) SUV. Logic...
BMW AG will sell hydrogen-fueled, internal-combustion (IC) engine versions of its new 7-Series to European consumers as soon as the '08 model year. The company is working with the European Commission and individual European governments to develop...
Our much ballyhooed, super-lux Volkswagen Phaeton awaits at Dresden's small airport. There is no traditional folded map, only satellite navigation. Time is short. The dashboard-mounted key is turned. Nothing. Only after looking at the rev counter...
CHELSEA, MI The storied Hemi engine's back from Chrysler Corp.'s past, but this time it's thanks to a little help from its friends. Chrysler's merger friends, that is, at DaimlerChrysler AG's Mercedes-Benz unit. The claim to fame for the all-new ...
DETROIT Ward's editors always hate to part with our 10 Best Engines long-term test vehicles, because that means we're parting with one of the year's 10 Best Engines. Audi AG's 2001 A4 Avant and its sparkling 1.8L turbocharged DOHC I-4 will be...
Reeves Callaway knows something about high horsepower. In the 1980s, a derivative of his celebrated C4 Twin Turbo Corvette was known as the SledgeHammer, and it recorded a speed of 254 mph (406 km/h) on an Ohio test track, with 880 hp. At the New...