| No Tricks Just Treats: Top 6 Cars in Costume |
Oct 31st, 2012 |
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While you scroll through Instagram pics of your friends or their kids dressed up for our most playful holiday—Halloween—we at Automotive.com would like to remind you that cars can dress up too. They may not be sporting a Bieber-wig, but as we’ve found out, they can have shaggy “fur.” They can even ape real humans, [...]
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| Superstorm Sandy Lets Her Wrath Be Known With Damaged Cars, Slowed Sales |
Oct 31st, 2012 |
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In case you live under a rock that wasn’t picked up or submerged in the Northeast or you live in California, chances are you’re fully aware of Hurricane nee Superstorm Sandy. If you’re reading this from back east, congrats, you still have electricity. Beyond the 7.5 million people without electricity and the destruction—on a serious [...]
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| Toyota Builds 25 Millionth Vehicle in North America |
Oct 31st, 2012 |
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Twenty-five million cars, trucks, vans, and SUVs is an awful lot. That’s more than the number of original Volkswagen Beetles that were made from 1938 all the way through its final run in 2003. But Toyota has done that in North America alone, and only in 26 years of manufacturing. It’s quite the milestone for [...]
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| 2012 Nissan Leaf SL Road Test |
Oct 31st, 2012 |
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It's not a car, it's a lifestyle decision.
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| Modified 2013 Honda Accords Bite Exotic Liveries, Look Awesome—And One Has 401 hp [2012 SEMA Show] |
Oct 31st, 2012 |
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OK, so the 2013 Honda Accord sedan and coupe featured here don’t exactly copy exotic-car color scheme, but they’re awfully close: We thought Porsche 911 GT3 RS as soon as we saw the two-door, and the sedan vaguely recalls the classic blue-and-white Maserati livery. Both are currently being displayed on the Honda stand at the [...]
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| VW Gives Vegas a Dose of Beetle Mania [2012 SEMA Show] |
Oct 31st, 2012 |
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Volkswagen is celebrating this year’s SEMA show by reintroducing Beetle Mania to Las Vegas. The gang from Wolfsburg has brought six Beetles to the show, allowing a number of tuners to have their way with the latest VW icon. Follow the jump to check out the photos and more details from all of VW’s SEMA [...]
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| Volkswagen Prices Beetle Fender Edition at $25,235, $28,925 with Turbo |
Oct 31st, 2012 |
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VW has announced sticker prices for its 2013 Fender Edition Beetle, which will be available with both the base 2.5-liter five-cylinder and the upgrade 2.0-liter turbo four. The special bits include starburst-pattern painted interior trim, brushed-chrome mirror caps, and a 400-watt, nine-speaker Fender audio system. Every example will be painted black, have bi-xenon headlamps, and [...]
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| Mopar Shows Off Some Prototype Parts for Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 [2012 SEMA Show] |
Oct 31st, 2012 |
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Jeep’s 470-hp Grand Cherokee SRT8 is pretty bad-ass as it sits, all pumped-out bodywork, crushing curb weight, and V-8 rumble, but Chrysler’s Mopar parts division may be working up some performance pieces for the big beast. At Mopar’s SEMA stand, the Grand Cherokee SRT8 that had competed in this year’s One Lap of America event was [...]
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| 2013 Volkswagen Jetta hybrid drive review: Fine German driving feel combined with electric power |
Oct 31st, 2012 |
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What is it?
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| Thread of the Day: Should the Shelby GT500 Get the Cobra Jet’s Twin-Turbo V-8? |
Oct 31st, 2012 |
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When the new Ford Mustang Cobra Jet concept was revealed at the 2012 SEMA show with a twin-turbocharged 5.0-liter Coyote V-8 engine, enthusiasts everywhere began to wonder: Would a variant of such an engine ever reach a production-ready Ford Mustang GT or Shelby GT500? For the 2013 model year, the street-legal Shelby GT500’s boosted engine [...]
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