Finally, there has been some good news for Saab fans. According to a recent report appearing in British magazine Autocar, the Saab museum has been saved from destruction.
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Saab Museum rescued by Trollhattan – report
Filed under: Classics , Europe , Saab , Earnings/Financials Despite the popular saying, history cannot simply repeated. So, when faced with the possibility of losing the entire classic collection of cars that had made up the official Saab museum in Trollh
Filed under: Etc. , Videos Flip through the pages of CAR , EVO or Top Gear , and it’s obvious the British motoring press has an unhealthy obsession with getting sideways. Not that we can blame them. We enjoy a healthy dab of oppo as much as the next guy, but when the Pistonheads hive-mind starts crying foul about opposite lock shenanigans, you know it’s getting out of hand
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Video: Mugen Ariel Atom… will it drift?
Filed under: Concept Cars , Convertible , Performance , Volkswagen A Black Knight stalks the ramparts of corporate castles, he carries a shield decorated with a wreath of beans, he swings a double-edged spreadsheet and he rides a terrifying black mare called The Bottom Line. His name is The Business Case and if a new report from Autocar is accurate, he’s done his foul work again, this time dealing another blow to the already-long-delayed Volkswagen Bluesport Roadster . Even though the engineering work for the two-seater convertible is reportedly finished, it appears no one can come up with a way to support the necessary sales projections of 50,000 units annually. That is in part because Jonathan Browning , head of VW USA, apparently doesn’t see the point of expanding VW’s product portfolio with another model (a truly unexpected sentiment coming from Volkswagen as far as we’re concerned).
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Report: VW Bluesport Roadster might finally be dead before it lived
Filed under: Europe , Government/Legal , Plants/Manufacturing , Saab The future hopes of Saab seem to have been crushed under the weight of insolvency, and that’s going to translate into reality as about 100 Saab cars lingering on the production lines are cubed up into scrap metal croutons. Unconfirmed rumors suggest that the vehicular carnage will ensue over the next 48 hours as the death rattle from Trollh
Filed under: Concept Cars , Detroit Auto Show , Coupe , Hybrid , Performance , Lexus , Design/Style , Luxury Thanks to our friends over at Road & Track jumping the embargo gun , we received our first sneak peak of the Lexus LF-LC Concept . Now the rest of the story has been published, with R&T taking a thorough look at how Toyota’s California-based Calty Design Research facility came up with the look of the racy hybrid 2+2 coupe. “Only a few written attributes were given as criteria: avant-garde beauty, originality, driving joy and unequaled technology,” according to the story, which says Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda himself weighed in with a mandate that the car “have the ‘wow’ factor.” Lexus has been working on the LF-LC Concept for a year and a half, so the concept is no mere auto show roller.
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Detroit: More photos of hybrid Lexus LF-LC Concept hit the web [UPDATE]