Posts Tagged ‘Parts’

Camaro still on track, V6s to make up two-thirds of sales

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Click above for high-res gallery of the Camaro in many colorsThe 2010 Chevy Camaro is a foregone conclusion. It's definitely coming on schedule and it will give GM's value division a credible competitor to the current generation Mustang and new Dodge Challenger. But, just because the Camaro of old i......

45th Anniversary Mustang badge found

Friday, May 16th, 2008
2009 will mark the 45th year of production of Ford's iconic Mustang, and while the handsome pony car won't get its skin changed until MY2010, it will receive some festive badging to celebrate the occasion. The Stang fanatics over at Mustang Evolution got a hold of a picture of the new badging, which......

Mark LaNeve: Camaro won’t be positioned as a muscle car

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
The hits just keep on coming for fans of the Chevy Camaro. Just yesterday, we quoted Bob Lutz as suggesting that the Camaro could get a four-cylinder engine option. Now we hear that Mark LaNeve, VP of sales and marketing for GM North America, says that, "We won't position it as a muscle car," speaki......

Big Block Fever: First Anniversary 427 Big Block ZL-1 on the block at Barrett Jackson

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Monster motors were the order of the day in the late 1960s, and GM's 427 was a part of that class. The drawback to a big-block's burly output was, and still is, the increased weight of the engine. While big blocks are a hoot for straight line shenanigans, a small block car is often a better all-arou......

Mopar intros chrome grille for Jeep Wrangler

Saturday, July 14th, 2007
For Wrangler owners who believe that it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that... chrome, Mopar has a delivery for you. The new chrome grille, only for the Wrangler and Wrangler Unlimited, lets you front more of the shiny stuff in case you haven't been getting the kind of attention you deserve at c......

Cambridge engineers develop “talking” Fiat

Monday, April 30th, 2007
Who would have thought that Pixar would turn out to be a prophet of the automotive industry? In creating its talking automobiles for the computer-animated film Cars, the Disney-associated studio might have done just that, as a group of engineering students in England have demonstrated.The team at Ca......

Subaru STI performance pack released, in Japan

Friday, April 27th, 2007
Click the link above for a gallery of STI goodies.Those intrepid internet scavengers over at Carscoop came across what they originally believed was the next Impreza STI, but instead it turned out to be Subaru's sport parts and accessories. Most of the products are more geared towards visual enhance......

GM exec says weak U.S. dollar helping suppliers

Monday, April 9th, 2007
According to Bo Anderson, General Motor's purchasing chief, the weakening dollar is actually going to help U.S. suppliers become more competitive in the economically flat world we live in. The combination of low-cost foreign rivals and the high prices commanded for raw materials have caused several ......

Are electronics making cars obsolete faster?

Friday, March 23rd, 2007
If just about any part breaks on your 1971 Volkswagen Beetle, you could probably get a replacement from a hundred different outlets. If the black box goes out on your 1996 Lincoln Mark VIII, your car becomes little more than a giant paperweight. With the profusion of different cars and the electrica......

Desktop fabricator takes DIY to a new level

Sunday, December 17th, 2006
We need one of these for when we finally get that Autoblog project car. It's called Fab@Home, and it's an open-source, desktop size fabrication rig; essentially a 3-dimesional printer. What the system allows you to do is fabricate complex parts with a simple, low cost rig. All you need are the mater......