Posts Tagged ‘luxury segment’
Spend more for the cutting edge of luxury and style, and you could wind up taking a larger whack than most when it's time to trade in that sled. The National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) is reporting that premium luxury vehicles actually have the highest annual depreciation rate. The reason......
Dual-mode muscle car? GM may develop hybrid Camaro
Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Buried at the end of an article from The Car Connection that discusses the future of General Motors' rear-wheel-drive expansion (or lack thereof) was an interesting canard. In an effort to lower the General's CAFE rating, GM has supposedly assembled a team to outfit the new Camaro with the automaker......
DuPont reports most popular color on earth
Monday, September 24th, 2007
For seven long years, silver has reigned as the overall number one choice worldwide for car color. DuPont reports that those days are over, and the new color of choice is -- gasp -- white/white metallic. That means more people prefer white cars than silver or black cars, with white taking a decisi......
Spy Shots: Bigger Hyundai luxury sedan caught testing with Genesis
Friday, August 31st, 2007
Hyundai's assault on the full-size luxury segment may involve another model above the Genesis sedan that originally debuted in New York earlier this year. A spy shooter snapped a shot of a larger Hyundai model making the rounds next to a Genesis prototype and a few other competitors from Cadillac an......
VW of America’s plan for expansion: More core, less niche
Thursday, July 12th, 2007
In 2006, Volkswagen sold over 235,000 vehicles in the U.S., and by 2018, it plans on cresting the 800k mark per year. The refocus of VW comes at a time when the automaker lost over $800 million last year, and through a revamped product line, a focus on core products and a five-percent price drop on ......
Mercedes BLK takes aim at 1-series
Sunday, May 27th, 2007
To hear some people talk, you'd be forgiven for thinking BMW's 1-Series has already won the compact luxury segment and retired to the hearth with a glass of celebratory Riesling. And it hasn't even come to America yet. In spite of the 1's much hyped and much anticipated arrival, it will still have t......
Forbes names “Most Affordable Luxury Cars”
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
One of our favorite non-auto-publications-laughably-doing-car-stories, Forbes has just issued its list of the most affordable luxury cars available today. Sound like an oxymoron? Well, it is, sort of, but their point is a logical one. Even the entry-level models from most luxury players are getting ......
Even more details on the BMW Concept CS, including VIDEO and official PR
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
BMW just dropped the full press kit on its stunning CS Concept unveiled yesterday in Shanghai. In case we didn't see it before, these diagrams clearly show similarities to class competitors, including the Quattroporte, Rapide and Panamera, with an overall BMW 7-Series flavor. They're even using the......
Geneva Motor Show: Cadillac unveils new 2.9L V6 diesel for CTS
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
click above image to view high-res angles of GM's new 2.9L turbodiesel V6General Motors has used the occasion of the 2007 Geneva Motor Show to announce a new powertrain for the European market. The 2.9L V6 turbocharged diesel engine will make its production debut in 2009 beneath the bonnet of the C......
Pontiac may get a G8 RWD sedan
Monday, July 10th, 2006
General Motors' announcement last week to build the Camaro and other rear-wheel-drive product at its soon-revamped Oshawa facility is a perfect ignition source for all sorts of RWD product rumors, so let's get things started with talk about the Pontiac G8. The cancellation of the Bonneville has left......