Monthly Archives: October 2009
Critical Launch of 2011 Chevrolet Cruze is Delayed
By Chris Haak 10.30.2009 Over its long history, GM has never really given small cars enough attention, building only as many of them as necessary to help with corporate...
Fisker to Produce Cars at GM’s Mothballed Wilmington, Delaware Plant
By Chris Haak 10.28.2009 GM's former plant outside Wilmington, Delaware has in its recent history produced some real automotive duds. The Chevy Chevette, Chevy Corsica, Chevy...
Volkswagen Launches 2010 GTI Using Only an iPhone Game
By Chris Haak 10.26.2009 In what is likely a first for an auto manufacturer, Volkswagen has decided to to eschew the traditional print/online/broadcast advertising campaign to...
Neo-Classic Car: 1987 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS Aerocoupe
By Chris Haak 10.22.2009 There weren't a lot of bright spots in the performance car universe in the mid-1980s. At the tail end of the malaise era, before Honda Accords had...
2010 Hyundai Genesis Coupe 3.8 Track Review
I'm not sure what Hyundai was thinking when they named this car "Genesis." Like the Genesis sedan, it's based on an all-new rear wheel drive platform, and in fact both cars...
2010 Kia Forte EX Review
By Chris Haak 10.15.2009 Korean automaker Kia spent many of the past several years selling questionably-styled knockoffs of "real" cars. If you want evidence of that, I direct...
2010 Mercedes-Benz S400 BlueHYBRID: First Drive
By Chris Haak 10.09.2009 The big European luxury-car makers like BMW and Mercedes-Benz - and even smaller ones like Porsche - have seen the regulatory writing on the wall and...
Chevrolet Caprice is Re-Born in the US – As a Police Car Only
By Chris Haak 10.05.2009 With the demise of GM's Pontiac brand - and with it, the excellent Pontiac G8 - many pistonheads have been clamoring for GM to sell the same car (based...
2010 Lexus RX450h Review
By Chris Haak 10.02.2009 The Lexus RX line of crossovers has been an unqualified success for Lexus over the past decade. And why not? While its driving dynamics aren't going...