As much as we love carscarscars, we also appreciate, on occasion, you know, things that happen outside the automotive industry. Like sports and animals and (now) old movies references. Fortunately, all of those things happened (and are happening) this week in the automotive industry! Yeah! W00t! Go team! Monday, January 30 This week marked the [...] Click here to read the rest of… The Week in... 

Another day, another Mini special edition to slowly milk the United Kingdom of all of its Britishisms for its new products. It was the Baker Street and Bayswater coupes. This month, it’s the 2012 Mini Cooper Convertible Highgate, a luxury-lined convertible version of the Mini Cooper and Mini Cooper S named after a hoity-toity suburb [...] Click here to read the rest of… 2012 Mini Cooper... 

As the public anxiously waits for the release of the 2013 Dodge Dart, Chrysler is prepping behind the scenes for its assembly. Chrysler announced that it will be adding 1800 jobs to its Belvidere facility, 500 of which will be solely dedicated to the Dart’s production. With the addition of the new jobs Chrysler confirmed [...] Click here to read the rest of… Chrysler Adding 1,800 More Jobs... 

Just days after Honda announced pricing for the Crosstour, they’re forced to announce something else: the Crosstour, along with its Accord platform-mate, are being recalled for an airbag system that could fail to deploy the driver’s side airbag. The driver’s side airbag inflator is defective on about 341 Accords and Crosstours, all built in 2011 [...] Click here to read the rest of…... 

BMW has always made engaging advertising material. Most of us in the office still fondly remember the company’s “The Hire” short film series from the early 2000s. And, as for some personal disclosure: At this week’s press drive for the 2012 BMW 3 Series sedan, I made sure I had the main song used in [...] Click here to read the rest of… BMW Creates Six Funny Digital Shorts... 

One of Ford’s most popular models has gotten off to a fast start in 2012 turning in strong sales figures in the western United States. To keep up the momentum, the Blue Oval boys have also answered the public’s outcry for a manual transmission in the Focus as it can now be found in the [...] Click here to read the rest of… Ford Adds Manual Transmission to Focus Titanium Series; Sees... 

Maserati is recalling 1768 GranTurismo convertibles assembled from 2008 to 2010 for faulty tail lights. The convertibles have a defective lamp assembly which can cause the tail lights to fail. Without tail lights vehicle visibility is drastically reduced and could result in an accident. Maserati will notify owners of the affected convertibles and dealers will [...] Click here to read the rest of…... 

Audi’s most exclusive car, the 2012 R8 GT Spyder, is all set to come to the U.S., and it comes complete with supercar pricing. Audi says only 333 of these will be produced, and we earlier speculated that under 100 would make the journey across the Atlantic. We now know 50 of the automaker’s finest [...] Click here to read the rest of… Audi Prices Ultra Limited 2012 R8 GT Spyder, Not... 

In an effort to build a little publicity, Jeep considerately gave away two 2012 SRT8 SUVs, decked out in Ferrari Red, to Formula One drivers Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa at the Fiorano circuit in Maranello, Italy. The two drivers were outfitted in their racing best and posed for the cameras in front of one [...] Click here to read the rest of… Jeep Gives Away Two Ferrarified 2012 Grand Cherokee... 

The Scandinavians were among the first Europeans to explore (and conquer) their continent en masse, over the course of three centuries. If they had the luxury of an Audi R8 Spyder, we think they would have done so a lot faster. On the Motor Trend Channel’s premiere episode of “Epic Drives,” editor Frank Markus takes an [...] Click here to read the rest of… Motor Trend’s “Epic...