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Sales Up, But Too Early to Call it a Boom

Erik Johnson — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:00:28 +0000

Hello from Wolfsburg, Germany, where I missed U.S. Jan income reports to attend a Volkswagen program. The news reports I’ve read seem pretty optimistic about the industry’s 11 percent year-over-year acquire in January. The Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate hit 14.1 million in Jan ’12, and the auto industry is back, the reports say. Not so [...]

We’re in the TV Business!

Jon Yanca — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:00:00 +0000

This is a significant month in the 63-year history of Motor Trend, because America’s biggest automotive brand is now officially in the TV business. And I don’t mean we have a show on network or telegram TV. Been there, done that. Nope, this time we’re truly in the TV business, with our own channel devoted [...]

Dear Nissan: You Simply Must Build the Juke R

Robert Farago — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:20:26 +0000

I mean, right? Our resident hot shoe Scott Mortara recently drove and tested the Nissan Juke R in Dubai, and he not only totally dug it, but has led me to the following automotive conclusion: If there’s one thing the world’s absent it is an amphibian-look 485 horsepower 4-door micro-SUV with but two seats that [...]

Cadillac or Commodore? The Zeta Dillema

Tom Adams — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:00:12 +0000

GM’s new Alpha rear drive architecture, which prefabricated its global debut under the new Cadillac ATS at the Detroit Show, is one of the most important pieces of hardware the company will launch this decade. Light and flexible – it can be stretched or shrunk, and widened – Alpha not only gives Cadillac a genuine [...]

Cadillac or Commodore? The Zeta Dilemma

Mike Dushane — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:00:12 +0000

Dodge Hits the Bullseye with the Dart Name

Andrei Avarvarii — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:00:06 +0000

The new 2013 Dodge Dart is one of the stars of the 2012 Detroit auto show. Its design, its interior and its attitude should make compact buyers forget the ill-conceived and ill-executed Caliber in a hurry. We’re probably a couple of months away from a first drive, so I’ll reserve judgment on whether an Alfa [...]

Chevy 130R vs. 140S: One of These Cars is a No Brainer

Jared Gall — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:15:07 +0000

So Chevy wants the people to decide: Which of its 2012 Detroit auto show concepts — Code 130R or Tru 140S — should be turned into a production model? Dumb question, really, because only one of these Chevys is a no-brainer. And that’s the 130R. Why? Because Honda could build the 140S. So could Ford [...]

2012 Detroit: Our Highs and Lows from Detroit’s Big Show

John Neff — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:00:07 +0000

Every year the Motor Trend team rolls into the Detroit auto show already knowing a lot about the show’s big reveals so we can bring you the first photos and information as it breaks. But staring at over-photoshopped studio shoots and pouring over preliminary specs can only go so far to give you a true [...]

How Detroit Stole the 2012 Detroit Auto Show

William C Montgomery — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:00:42 +0000

“I’ll never forget the 2009 show,” Christophe Georges, the president and COO of Bentley said to me as we admired his new V-8-powered Continental GT but also the buzz in the air. “It was grim.” And if the 2009 Detroit show was grim, the 2008 Los Angeles show was frostbitten. To refresh your memory, Chrysler [...]

2012 Detroit: Stuff Your Ballot Boxes for the Chevrolet Code 130R Concept

Jon Yanca — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:10:23 +0000

DETROIT — Call, write, email, tweet Chevrolet right now and tell them you want the Code 130R. The red one. GM’s advanced design chief, Clay Dean, says the vote so far is overwhelmingly for this rear-drive car over the Cruze-based Tru 140S, the white car, which frankly (my opinion, not his) looks like a Mitsubishi [...]