Filed under: Car Buying , Budget , Sedan , SUV , Truck , Chevrolet , Ford , Honda , Nissan , Toyota , Earnings/Financials The figures have been tallied for the best-selling vehicle in the U.S. in 2011, and not surprisingly, the Ford F-Series pickup truck is king of the heap once again. Dealers sold a total of 584,917 F-Series units in 2011, beating out the second-place Chevrolet Silverado by 169,787 units.
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Report: These are your top 10 best-selling vehicles for 2011
In an effort to shake itself from the top of the most-stolen vehicle chart, Cadillac has announced a series of new security features developed for the Escalade.
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Most-stolen Cadillac Escalade gets new security features for 2012
Filed under: Europe , Government/Legal , Videos , Saab , Earnings/Financials They’re called uncharted waters, and everyone who has anything to do with Saab is floating in them. It’s been a while since a global, decades-old automotive brand went bankrupt and wasn’t rescued or provided immediate after-death care by a corporate parent, but that’s the case with Saab, and no one’s quite sure – not the company itself, nor dealers, nor employees, and certainly not customers – how this plays out. There’s the outside chance that another (presumably non-Chinese) company could swoop in and purchase the brand whole before the liquidation process takes hold, but as this didn’t happen earlier, there’s little reason to think that a white knight can be found at this late date.The bankruptcy has been filed and two receivers have been named, but there isn’t even a timetable for who’s going to get what, or what to do while everyone waits.
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Report: Saab owners, employees, dealers and suppliers trying to figure out what comes next [w/video]
2012 Chevrolet Cruze 2LT The Cruze has been a homerun for Chevy. The Cruze has been a homerun for Chevy, repeatedly appearing in the top of the sales chart for the compact class and giving the Toyota Corolla a run for its money as reigning champ of the segment’s sales. (Through November, the Cruze was only down by 4193 units to the number-one-selling Corolla among all compacts.) It’s no surprise that the Cruze has been popular with the car-buying public thanks to its best-in-class interior, handsome design, and good pricing. (In comparison, only the Hyundai Elantra and Mazda 3 are cheaper when similarly equipped, and by less than $1000.) The turbocharged four-cylinder is lively and peppy – especially around town – but the Cruze is not nearly as refined as the Ford Focus, nor does it feel as planted as the Focus, the 3, or the Elantra on the highway
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2012 Chevrolet Cruze 2LT
2012 Nissan Altima 2.5S The Nissan Altima is a quietly competent vehicle. The Nissan Altima is a quietly competent vehicle. There’s no flashy design, no fancy dual-clutch automatic transmission, and no high-performance pretensions here.
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2012 Nissan Altima 2.5S
Filed under: Car Buying , Etc. , Europe , Volkswagen Every once in a while you’ll find an accidental lie on the Internet… A group of German organizations created a label applied to every new car sold in that country that grades it based on CO2 usage. The energy-efficiency categories run from A+ to G, with the greenest cars at the top and the lowest cars falling into the deep red of the seventh letter of the alphabet.
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Report: Did Volkswagen tamper with its efficiency graph in Germany?