by Paul A. Eisenstein | Aug 7, 2019
While battery power is still struggling to gain traction in the consumer market, it is accelerating fast on the race track as a growing number of motor sports series – and automaker race programs – adopt various forms of electrification. Two of the newest...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Aug 1, 2019
The company that invented the modern incentive with its “Buy a Car, Get a Check” campaign nearly four decades ago is offering a new twist to the art of the deal. As part of its “Dodge Power Dollars” campaign, Fiat Chrysler’s muscle car brand is offering a cash...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jul 26, 2019
Never wish away the summer…unless you’re a Corvette fan, perhaps. In that case, expect to be doubly rewarded this autumn when two more versions of the all-new C8 Stingray are revealed, Chevrolet is promising. The automaker released a short video Friday morning teasing...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jul 18, 2019
(This story has been updated to include pricing information on the new Corvette Stingray.) “It’s the stuff dreams are made of,” or so the fictional detective Sam Spade might have said, had he been a fan of the Chevrolet Corvette. For more than 50 years, Chevy has been...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jul 15, 2019
We’ll got our first official look at the all-new, mid-engine Corvette later this week but Chevrolet is already dropping hints about what we’ll learn when the first-ever mid-engine sports car makes its debut during a California news conference. For one thing, the first...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jul 15, 2019
With his car rapidly running out of energy, Robin Frijns took the checkered flag to win the final race of the Formula E series on Sunday, capping a two-race weekend marking the end of the series’ fifth season – though the complicated scoring system for the world’s...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jul 4, 2019
Mystery solved. During the last couple weeks there has been plenty of speculation about a teaser image Ford sent out. There was no question it was a GT supercar, but what precisely did the automaker have in store? Was it a new version of the GT race car that recently...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | May 24, 2019
Fifteen years after Cadillac introduced its first V-Series model, two more performance offerings are set to make their debut next week, the automaker has confirmed. What’s unusual about the coming news is that Caddy will use a preview in Detroit to reveal the all-new...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | May 22, 2019
With more and more motorists switching from passenger cars to SUVs and CUVs, it’s no surprise that we’re beginning to see manufacturers not only expand their utility vehicle line-up but also add more performance variants. BMW has been a leader in this trend and it’s...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | May 21, 2019
He was born to be a banker, like the rest of his patrician, Austrian family. So, when Niki Lauda asked his grandfather for the financial help he needed to land a ride on the Formula One circuit, he was cut off. Lauda eventually found a way to raise the money on his...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | May 14, 2019
Alliances and joint ventures are becoming as much the norm as the exception in today’s auto industry, but Hyundai Motor Group just entered a particularly strange-bedfellow sort of relationship, investing nearly $90 million in Rimac, the Croatian manufacturer of...
