As a toddler we all played with a remote controlled toy car, always bumping into the newly painted living...
VW has been a stockholder of Seat since 1986 and full owner since 1990, with the Spanish brand supposedly being...
In 2011, Mitsubishi announced Jump 2013, a three-year business plan that focused its attention to building SUVs, pick-up trucks and...
General Motors has a problem in Europe. The world’s second largest automaker European Opel brand (named Vauxhall in the UK)...
In the past weeks, hydrogen fuel cell cars have been in the media again: Toyota revealed the FCV concept car...
I recently wrote about GMs strategy for Opel, and I received encouraging support from a few readers, asking for more...
As I mentioned in my article on Tesla vs. Fisker, Elon Musk takes great use of Twitter as a marketing...
In an article published this week by Automotive News, Volkswagen’s sales slowdown in the United States this year is quite...
There are many roads that are just too much fun not to drive yourself. At first, I was skeptical of...
Citroën is making a huge bet on its DS premium subbrand in China. With a projected 200.000 cars to be...
Remember the Moose Test that almost killed the Mercedes-Benz A-class? In 1997 Mercedes had introduced a revolutionary new car, the...
With new technology, there is always a period when regulations and good practices haven’t kept up with the new situations...
General Motors must be reading Left-Lane.com, as they have announced that Chevrolet will be pulled from the European car market,...
Renault Samsung Motors, the South Korean subsidiary of the French carmaker, is the least successful of the South Korean domestic...
The U.S. Treasury Department announced on Monday that it had sold its final shares of General Motors stock, officially ending...
With GM CEO Dan Akerson stepping down next January to make room for Mary Barra, the first female CEO of...
In response to my article on hydrogen fuel cells, one of my readers, John V. Ryan, has written a follow-up...
The Fiat 500 has been and still is a great success story. It has been on the market for almost...
When Fiat took control of Chrysler in 2009, Fiat-Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne drew an ambitious five-year turnaround plan for the...
The seven-year, $ 559 million sponsorship deal that Chevrolet signed in 2012 with English Premier League football/soccer club Manchester United...
Unlike many other brands, which are adding models to fill up every possible niche, Peugeot has changed its strategy to...
As announced almost a year ago, 2015 will mark the end of production of one of the longest running vehicle...
The Volkswagen Group continues to dominate the European automobile market with a record 27% market share in July 2014 thanks...
A few days ago, Bloomberg reported that Nissan’s recently relaunched low-cost Datsun brand was failing in India, as consumers would...
The midsized car segment in Europe has been in a deep crisis for over a decade, but the bottom of...
It’s been almost three years since Land Rover showed the Range Rover Evoque Convertible Concept at the 2012 Geneva Autoshow,...
Audi exterior designers are known in the automotive world to be among the laziest in the business, they’re the automotive...
In the late 1990’s, Nissan was Europe’s best selling Asian car brand thanks to the Micra, Almera and Primera, which...
The concept of a car “segment” is a curious thing. Mostly customers don’t know or don’t care in which segment...
To no-one’s surprise the Lagonda (ok, Aston Martin) Taraf will be sold in the UK, Europe, and not just in...
#5: Koenigsegg Regera Why is it here? Because it has more than 1,500hp from its hybrid drivetrain, because it can reach...
Just the other day I caught myself trying to remember what the current Renault Laguna looked like, and I couldn’t....
#5: Renault Kadjar Why is it here? Because it’s based on successful Nissan X-Trail/Rouge, because it manages to look even...
For many successful manufacturers it’s easy to point to their breakout car – Ford has its Model T, VW has...
The new Jeep Cherokee has gotten a lot of flack for its challenging looks, but it’s one of those cars...
“Look-A-Like” is a new column which is meant as a lighthearted account of all those “I feel like I’ve seen this...
It really didn’t come as a surprise when Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles announced that it would withdraw the Chrysler brand from the...
Executive salaries are a hot topic these days, mostly due to the huge bonuses paid out to executives in the...
The automotive world is littered with success stories of automakers coming up with surprising hits, creating design icons from scratch...
The latest Ford Mondeo / Fusion has received a lot of praise ever since it was launched, mainly because of...