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KBB.com Makes Car Buying Easier with Guaranteed Trade-ins

Kelley Blue Book's KBB.com is working with AutoTrader.com to provide consumers guaranteed trade-ins when buying new cars. It's the latest trend in car buying and removes one of the biggest concerns for buyers: the trade-in.
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By: Keith Griffin

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2012 Nissan Quest minivan nears a second decade in U.S. showrooms

The 2012 Nissan Quest comes in four grades this model year, with prices starting at $27,750 for the base S model, the Japanese carmaker announced on Tuesday.
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By: Hawke Fracassa

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Porsche adding 1,000 auto workers to build 2013 Cajun

Porsche will ramp up production of the 2013 Porsche Cajun by expanding an assembly plant in Leipzig, Germany. Besides new investment in the factory of just under $1 billion, the German luxury car marque also will hire 1,000 auto workers to make the Cajun.
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By: Hawke Fracassa

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Revenge of the Electric Car opening this weekend

Revenge of The Electric Car, a documentary about the rise of the electric car, will be opening this weekend on October 21st, 2011 in three select theaters. It is the sequel to the 2006 documentary, “Who Killed the Electric Car?”
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By: Adam Yamada-Hanff

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The 2012 Fiat 500 earns IIHS Top Safety Pick

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has announced that the subcompact 2012 Fiat 500 has received a Top Safety Pick – making it just the second option in the American minicar segment to receive the major safety certification after the Ford Fiesta became the first to earn these honors.
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By: Patrick Rall

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GM developing mobile tech to warn of potholes, slippery roads, other motorists

New mobile technology in development by GM researchers could alert drivers of potentially dangerous driving circumstances well in advance using embedded devices or smartphone apps to create a wireless safety network. Such devices are designed to gather data from other vehicles and infrastructure to alert drivers to slowing traffic, stalled vehicles, hard-braking drivers, slippery roads, sharp curves and upcoming construction or other impediments.
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By: Don Bain

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Kia teases their 2011 SEMA Show vehicles

The 2011 SEMA Show opens exactly two weeks from today but the corporate teaser shots continue to flow, with the folks from Kia offering up a shot of their compact Kia Soul - giving us a glimpse at what to expect from the six sporty vehicles coming to the Las Vegas Convention Center later this month.
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By: Patrick Rall

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Bosch developing long-range automotive radar

In the very near future, long-range radar will allow your car to maneuver through fog – fog so thick you can hardly see the hood of your car – without a care in the world. If for some reason you don’t perceive what the radar sees, it will stop the car for you before you hit anything. Then you need only pray the person behind you also has automotive radar.
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By: Don Bain

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IEEE states 90 percent of all auto accidents could be prevented

Nearly every auto accident caused by driver error, which amounts to 90 percent of all crashes, could be eliminated if existing intelligent mobility technologies were implemented in both vehicles and roads, state experts at IEEE, the world's largest professional technical association. These technologies include features such as the detection of drowsy drivers, lane departure warning, and vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications for safety.
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By: Don Bain

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GM's Akerson and Renault/Nissan's Ghosn have gloomy outlooks for 2012

Thanks to the worsening European debt crisis, both the CEOs of General Motors and the Renault/Nissan Alliance are predicting slow sales growth and general uneasiness in the automotive industry for 2012.
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By: Gordon Block

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