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What’s Wrong With This Picture: Hungry Like A Wolf Edition
What, you didn’t know that Amarok is Inuit for “Wolf”? Anyway, Forget Mahindra. Third-world compact diesel pickup fetishists can move their misplaced hopes for US-market salvation on Volkswagen’s...
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Chevrolet Mid-Sized Truck Planned, But Not For US?
Yesterday we suggested that this line drawing of a smaller-than-full-size Chevrolet pickup meant that Chevy would be “recommitting” to the US market for compact pickup trucks. Today, however,...
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GM IPO: Go Ask Opel (Or Daewoo)
With news that GM’s IPO price could be headed as high as $33/share (only $10.67 more per share to taxpayer payback!), boosting the offering to some $12b, some might think that the decks have been...
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American Roads Safer Than Ever… But How Safe Is Safe Enough?
On-road fatalities per vehicle-mile-traveled in the United States have fallen to their lowest level in recorded history (and dropping fast)… so safety advocates must be thrilled with the success,...
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Saudi Arabia Builds A Budget Car
When you think of cars and Saudi Arabia, you’d be forgiven for thinking of incredibly expensive European cars, typically modified in a particularly distasteful fashion by one of the more crass tuning...
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Nissan And Mitsubishi Snuggle Closer
At a press conference announcing new cooperation between Nissan and Mitsubishi, Nissan’s Carlos Ghosn presented the tie-up as a far-sighted move that will help both sides prosper. The Renault/Nissan...
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GM’s “Made In America” Fiasco
Ruh Roh! A press release from the Made In USA Foundation [via theautochannel] picks the kind of fight that GM has been assiduously avoiding for years (but especially since the bailout): General...
View ArticleAsk The Best And Brightest: Which Automaker Will The UAW Target?
The WSJ gets a little closer to the truth about the UAW’s incredible disappearing transplant organizing campaign, reporting On Tuesday, UAW leaders meeting here described plans to reach out to foreign...
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The Mystery Of The Fiat-Gaddafi Connection
Back in 1976, the Italian automaker Fiat had been badly battered by a global energy crisis and the resulting malaise infecting the global auto industry. In what Time Magazine described at the time as...
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Parts Paralysis Daily Digest: April 7
We’ve already asked the cui bono question about Japan’s post-tsunami parts paralysis, and though opinions vary about precisely cui will be doing the bonoing, it’s clear that some are already doing...
View ArticleDoes The New Malibu Trade Interior Space For Trunk Room?
When I reviewed the current Chevrolet Malibu, I was generally impressed with GM’s effort in a highly competitive segment, but I had a few complaints. One of those complaints had to do with the ‘bu’s...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia Doesn’t Want You To See This Video
The NY Times reports: Manal al-Sharif, one of the organizers of an online campaign encouraging Saudi women to drive en masse on June 17, was arrested on Sunday, days after she posted video of herself...
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Pimpin’ Number 39: A Tale From Afghanistan’s Nascent Car Culture
The confrontation between modern, Western societies and deeply traditional lifestyles in Afghanistan creates a healthy supply of fascinating car stories, as we’ve already heard about such uniquely...
View ArticleChevy Beats The Gas Prices Blues In India With LPG, EV City Car
Speaking of GM’s future lineup, there’s no sign in GMI’s 2013 projected lineup of the on-again-off-again Spark city car (A-Segment) that we had heard would be here now. Hell, they’ve had the...
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Is Toyota Losing the Market for “Technicals” to China?
You’ve seen them before, photos from some godforsaken place of insurgent warfare. A half dozen rag tag soldiers, if you can call them soldiers, bristling with Chinese Kalishnikov knockoffs, piled into...
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Launch Report: Toyota HiLux and Fortuner
An extravagant ceremony at Bangkok’s Impact Arena has seen the launch of Toyota’s new Hilux and Fortuner – key models in its developing market portfolio. The pair are products with big, tough...
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Live From Jakarta: Indonesian International Auto Show Coverage
The 19th Indonesian International Motor Show (IIMS) is currently taking place at the JIExpo in the capital city, Jakarta, with almost all the world’s major automakers represented at a show which is...
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Trekka: Skoda Meets Land Rover In New Zealand
Each weekend, TTAC turns its attention to some of the more obscure news and stories from around the world, taking you from Jakarta to Haiti to Monaco… and now to New Zealand. Hungarian Skoda blog...
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Review: 2011 Chevrolet Spark 1.2 (Global-Spec)
If you have a pulse and a willful ignorance of the local speed limit, you’re probably not interested in the Chevrolet Spark. If you’re a media-savvy hipster who’s on Facebook sixteen hours a day,...
View ArticleFun With Youtube: Woman Drives Car. Gets Beaten.
[Editor's note: I want to be clear that, despite the unconventional, somewhat light-hearted tone of this post, the editors of TTAC take the right to drive very seriously. Sometimes, however, the...
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