As it proceeds with plans to slash jobs and shutter factories in North America, Ford Motor is expanding aggressively in Asia, announcing Tuesday a $500 million investment to build a car plant in Thailand just two weeks after opening a $510 million manufacturing center in Nanjing, China.

by Chris Shunk

The crossover segment is quickly overpopulating many automaker’s lineups (think Mazda and Ford), and Toyota is the latest to join the fray. The folks from Aichi Japan are only a couple months away from launching a production version of the 2005 Tokyo Motor Show’s FSC concept in their home market. The concept blended […]

Mazda Motor Corporation (マツダ株式会社 Matsuda Kabushiki-kaisha?) (TYO: 7261 ) is a Japanese automotive manufacturer based in Hiroshima, Japan.
As of 2006, the company is expected to produce 1.25 million vehicles per year, with sales evenly divided among Japan, Europe, and North America, followed by Latin America.
The Ford Motor Company owns a controlling interest of 33.4% of […]

by John Neff

We only know of one other time a Bugatti Veyron has been wrecked, and that was during the car’s development when a prototype was destroyed doing a high-speed test. There there was the time a preproduction Veyron performed a very public spin-out at Mazda’s Laguna Seca Raceway during the Monterey Historics. These incidents […]

by Frank Filipponio

Americans are apparently suckers for a good bargain. Or maybe we’re just addicted to rebates. In what appears to be a growing trend among automakers, Dodge is beginning Avenger sales by offering a sales incentive right off the bat. Granted it’s only a small rebate, at $500, but it still strikes us as […]