Articles tagged with: engines
A “sales flop” or poor execution?
Fiat’s tiny 500 model took the market by storm one year ago with high expectations of sales success. Indeed, Fiat/Chrysler put its first year numbers at 50,000 units, but when …
Five passenger hatchback gets fuel efficient engine.
TORRANCE, Calif. — Honda announced on Wednesday that it is making available a 2.4-liter four cylinder engine for two-wheel-drive versions of its Crosstour crossover. This 16-valve engine will be …
Dodge revives a heritage name.
The all-new Dodge compact that will hit the market in 2012 will sport the Dart name. That news was released by the Chrysler Group today which also announced that the 2013 …
Chrysler’s best selling brand continues to set the pace.
One of the reasons why Dodge matters today is because of a decision made two decades ago to make this brand distinctive enough that people would consider …
Italian automaker makes good on its Chrysler connections.
The exclusivity of Maserati doesn’t rival Ferrari, but if parent Fiat has its way, the Italian sports car brand will soon move mainstream. Certainly, selling 50,000 models annually …
More than seven decades have passed since the Volkswagen Beetle was introduced, an iconic compact car popularized by the 1960s “generation of love” and immortalized in film, documentaries and and lovingly driven by devotees the …
Daimler hasn’t committed to offering a diesel engine in its Smart line, at least not in North America, but it is planning to give Mercedes more of what it wants: clean, energy efficient diesel engines. …
First, please allow me to clear up an important matter: Chrysler separated Dodge and Ram by categorizing its pickup trucks as “Ram” while leaving its SUVs and other body styles as Dodge.
When Ram was pulled …
For the past ten years the Ford Motor Company has been producing a Sustainability Report to gauge how the automaker is performing when it comes to environmental and social issues. The most recent edition, “Blueprint …
Cleveland Engine Plant No. 1 was opened by the Ford Motor Company in 1951, the very first engine plant for the automaker in Ohio. Throughout its near fifty year history the plant produced more than …
A Little Bit Of Autobahn Collaboration!
Okay, the title of this article is a bit of an exaggeration – Germany’s two biggest luxury automakers are not merging operations. Instead, Daimler AG and Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW) …
A Tiny, Economical Engine From Hyundai
Hyundai has developed a new engine, the Kappa, a tiny 1.2L I4 powerplant that has been placed in its i10 model, a car being exclusively built in Chennai, India.
According to …
