Filed under: Motorsports, Hirings/Firings/Layoffs The Triple Crown of Motorsport is an elusive distinction earned by only a handful of drivers in the history of motor racing. It's elusive partly because it evades definition, but given its immense difficulty, we'll take the broadest possible: To score the Triple Crown, a driver has to win either the Indianapolis 500 or the Indy/CART title, plus either the Monaco Grand Prix or the F1 drivers' tit
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Filed under: Truck, Plants/Manufacturing, Ford 2010 Ford Ranger - Click above for high-res image gallery It may have taken 28 years to get here, but the Ford Ranger is living inanimate proof that determination eventually pays off. Or something like that. Automotive News reports (via PickupTrucks.com) that Ford built its 7 millionth Ranger last month at the assembly plant in St. Paul, Minnesota. The Ranger has gone through a number of revisions,
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Filed under: Hybrid, Recalls, Safety, Hatchback, Toyota 2009 Toyota Prius - Click above for high-res gallery Could the apparent braking problems reported on the Toyota Prius - which Toyota admits was an issue on the current model prior to being resolved earlier this year - extend past the recently released 2010 model? According to TheDetroitBureau.com, the answer is a resounding... maybe. The third generation of the popular hybrid hatchback hit
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Filed under: Coupe, Performance, BMWTechnical details of BMW's coming M1 have leaked before and the important bits are these: Aluminum, twin-turbo six-cylinder, 350 horsepower, 310-plus pound-feet of torque, six-speed dual-clutch gearbox, electronically-controlled rear M differential and around 3,300 pounds. Now details on the car's appearance are bursting through the cracks and the mods aim to separate this from lesser 1-er siblings by including
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Filed under: Hybrid, Safety, Lexus, Toyota 2010 Toyota Prius - Click above for high-res image gallery In what is perhaps our least surprising announcement of the young day, Toyota has officially announced that it will recall 2010 model Prius and Lexus HS250h models globally along with the Toyota Sai in Japan to fix an issue the performance of their braking systems. The latest in a series of safety related problems with Toyotas became public fodd
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Filed under: Chicago Auto Show, Minivan/Van, Work, Ford, Specialty, Electric 2011 Ford Transit Connect Electric and Taxi models - click either image for high-res gallery Fresh off of its North American Truck of the Year win, Ford's Transit Connect commercial van range is set to grow by two. The Blue Oval will present the space-efficient runabout in production electric and taxi forms at tomorrow's Chicago Auto Show. The battery-powered version,
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Filed under: Motorsports, Europe, Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Ferrari Jean Alesi at Fiorano testing an AF Corse Ferrari F430 GTC - Click above for high-res image gallery There are plenty of racing series around the world that attract big names from Formula One. Le Mans endurance sportscar racing ranks high among them, but the former F1 pilots usually go to the top-tier LMP1 class. Sometimes the GT1 class draws some big names, but this year it's the
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Filed under: Motorsports, Dodge, Racing The SpeedFactory 426 Charger does 9.453 in the quarter - Click above to watch video The Chrysler-mad tuners at SpeedFactory have taken a 2006 Dodge Charger, ripped out its interior and inserted a GEN III Hemi stroker motor boosted by a Vortech supercharger under the hood. The 3,700-pound, 900-horsepower sedan has kept its factory transmission and independent rear suspension, but swapped over to 1,000-horse
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Toyota Motor Corp. launched a global recall Tuesday of 437,000 hybrid vehicles, including its popular Prius hybrid, as the world's No.

Toyota Motor Corp. faces yet another possible federal investigation, this time of the electric power steering in 2009 and 2010 Corollas.

The redesigned Volvo S60 sedan gets a formal debut in Geneva early next month, but Volvo is ready to show off its new beauty now.

Ford plans to re-enter South Africa's entry-level passenger car market later this year with the launch of the new Figo which has just started production at the company's Chennai plant in India.

An Italian private equity manager wants to build electric cars at Fiat's Termini Imerese factory reported the Financial Times.

Fiat and Russian automaker Sollers plan to set up a joint venture to produce the Italian company's cars in Russia according to business daily Vedomosti.

Ford is unlikely to sign a deal selling Volvo Car to Zhejiang Geely Holding Group by the end of this week as planned, Bloomberg News has learned.

Nissan has revised its forecast it would make another loss this fiscal year, saying it will now return to profit after government incentives boosted demand for its vehicles in China and Japan.

Renault is to set up its own distribution network in India as part of a reorganisation of its joint venture in the country with Mahindra & Mahindra.

Opel/Vauxhall said the announcement today (9 February) of its EUR11bn (US$15.1bn) investment to 2014 should see the automaker break even next year and return to profit in 2012.