Filed under: Government/Legal , Safety , Toyota After a long spell as the apple of the media’s eye, Toyota is now officially in the bad news barrel. So far the Japanese automaker has announced the recall of 5.3 million vehicles for floor mat issues that may lead to unintended acceleration and...

Filed under: Motorsports , Renault , Racing Renault R30 F1 challenger - Click above for high-res image gallery. Follow the jump to watch video. On Sunday the Renault F1 team revealed its 2010 race car with a color scheme that hearkens back to the team’s debut in the late 1970s. The yellow-and-black...

Filed under: Sedan , Performance , Acura , Canada , Luxury At the very least, our friends to the north will soon have another Acura TL trim level to choose from. Reader Steve F. dropped us a line to let us know he received this mailing from Acura , which included an announcement a new TL A-Spec model....

Filed under: Chicago Auto Show , Motorsports , Event Alert Just like January equals Detroit , February means Chicago for auto show lovers. The major players will again descend upon McCormick Place in the Windy City, along the banks of the still-frozen Lake Michigan. Other auto shows in February include...

Filed under: Etc. , Marketing/Advertising , Toys/Games You know what we like almost as much as real cars? Toy cars. It’s gotten to the point where there mere existence of Hot Wheels, Matchbox, and the like seem like an ongoing conspiracy to suck an extra few bucks out of our wallets with every...

Filed under: Motorcycle The upper-middleweight naked bike segment, which currently has entrants from the likes of BMW , Aprilia and Ducati , is about to get an good ol’ injection of Japanese know-how as Yamaha readies its upcoming new FZ8 for production. Yamaha apparently sees room for a machine...

Filed under: Government/Legal , Japan , Recalls , Toyota With Toyota’s woes seemingly multiplying by the day, you knew it was just a matter of time before the lawyers arrived on scene. Cue two law firms, Parker Waichman Alonso and the Becnel Law Firm, that are joining forces in a bid to sue Toyota’s...

Ferrari will show its first hybrid production car this March at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show. The high-end hybrid specimen will be a gas-electric version of the carmaker’s eye-popping 599 GTB. It will also be the world’s first ready-for-market exotic hybrid. The exact specs will not be known until...

Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing , Earnings/Financials After gathering real-time transaction data from 8,900 automotive franchisees across the U.S., J.D. Power and Associates predicts new-vehicle retail sales will have declined for January 2010 compared to one year ago. January’s new-vehicle...

Surprisingly, the most read story of the week had nothing to do with the Toyota recall. Although the ongoing brouhaha with Toyota’s sticking accelerator pedals occupied four of the top five slots, the most read story of the week was the details of the 2011 Ford Explorer to be built at a plant in our...

Filed under: Europe , Recalls , Toyota , Peugeot , Citroën The massive Toyota sticking-accelerator pedal recall has spread from the United States to Europe and even beyond Toyota-branded vehicles. Approximately 90,000 Peugeot 107 and Citroën C1 minicars have been added to the list of afflicted...

Filed under: Motorsports , Ford , Subaru Rally America Sno*Drift 2010 - Click above for high-res image gallery Travis Pastrana has no shortage of critics who claim the daredevil is skating on thin ice. Okay, that was a terrible segue into this year’s Sno*Drift, the opening event in the Rally America...

Filed under: Marketing/Advertising , Videos Click above to watch the video after the jump It seems like only yesterday that Internet companies dominated the Super Bowl commercial water-cooler talk, but in fact it was a full decade ago. While most of those businesses are long gone, the few remaining...

Tesla Model S One week after finalizing the terms for a $465 million low cost federal government loan, Tesla Motors on Friday filed for an initial public offering. The company’s strategy is to sell $100 million worth of stock, and with a new level of capital in its coffers, to focus its efforts on...