Saturn Corp. is the only General Motors Corp. unit that will use engines and transmissions supplied by Honda Motor Co. Ltd., Ward's learns. The Saturn Vue will be the sole GM product to use the ultra-low emissions-vehicle-certified 3.5L DOHC V-6...
How fitting that Ford Motor Co.'s Special Vehicle Team chooses a southern setting to play possum. Until now, the word understated has never been applied to any SVT product. But it's appropriate here. Still smarting from braggadocio that proved...
Mitsubishi Motor Corp. led the way with its patented GDI (gasoline direct injection) system, and now three major German auto makers are heading the European advance into this promising powertrain development. Big gains in fuel economy and...
Chrysler Group executives and engineers, gathered at the auto maker's Chelsea, MI, proving grounds to provide a peek at the all-new '03 Dodge Ram heavy-duty pickup line that debuts this fall, mention almost with reverence how robust the market has...
Valeo SA will supply its Hydraulically Driven Fan System (HDFS) for the redesigned '03 Dodge Viper and on an '05 luxury SUV. The supplier also has letters of intent with customers to provide the system for two other major SUV platforms for the '05...
When the burden of supplying readers with scintillating industry coverage becomes too much, one of the Ward's staff balms is our long-term test program, undertaken in conjunction with the annual Ward's Ten Best Engines Award. After a too-long day...
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...