Filed under: Classics , Auctions , Celebrities What price would you pay to own a piece of history? We’re thinking that might depend on what sort of historic significance we’re talking about… or, in the case of this 1964 Cadillac Hearse, how morbid that history may be.
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Auctions: Barrett-Jackson 2012: 1964 Cadillac JFK Hearse garners final bid of $160,000 [w/video]
Filed under: Sedan , Performance , Chrysler , Luxury Imported From Detroit And Then Some To the average driver, the term “horsepower” has, for all intents and purposes, no meaning whatsoever. Not surprising, really, as there isn’t any single established explanation, at least not a good one, as to how today’s piston-powered engines became so intertwined with the output of a horse. Think, for a moment: Can you really quantify how much power 200 horses produce? Regardless, and though not all engines have been measured with the same methods of certification, enthusiasts of the four-wheeled kind have well over a century of automobiles and their attendant horsepower ratings with which to occupy themselves.
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Review: 2012 Chrysler 300 SRT8 [w/video]
Filed under: Car Buying , Sedan , Crossover , Saab , Luxury We never heard about buyers of other ex- General Motors brands – Pontiac , Saturn and Hummer – taking to their keyboards to research new rides when the lowered boom crushed them all. Even though they would have been warrantied and supported by a still-living GM. Leave it to Saab , then, to spin that right ’round like a record: according to electronic-research tracker Dataium, 10 percent more people have inquired about Saabs since the brand declared bankruptcy.
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Report: More people interested in buying a Saab after bankruptcy
Filed under: Concept Cars , Detroit Auto Show , Crossover , GM , GMC It might have been a worthy successor to the Pontiac Vibe – a stylish, youth-marketed crossover – but alas, the GMC Granite may never come to be. Jim Federico, GM’s small car exec, told Automotive News that the Granite concept from the 2010 Detroit auto show isn’t headed into production. Granite was rumored to be green-lighted for production , and would have been based on the Chevrolet Cruze platform, to compete with vehicles like the Scion xB and Kia Soul . We liked the concept when we saw it in 2010 , but felt that the Granite was perhaps a bad match for GMC , given its small size.
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Report: GMC Granite is dead
Filed under: Classics , Celebrities As the Poison frontman is wont to sing, every rose has its thorn. Indeed, if the 1969 Chevrolet Camaro Bret Michaels sold at the 2011 Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction was that flower, his latest consignments are as painful as pricked fingers. Michaels will be offering three vehicles at the sale, to be held January 15-22, 2012.
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Official: Bret Michaels selling family truckster and more at Barrett-Jackson
Filed under: Government/Legal , Safety , Videos “Are you that drunk,” the officer asks, “that you did not realize that your car was on fire and you were sitting in a burning car?” With smoke pouring from under the hood of the Pontiac Bonneville, Officer Eric Hornbacher of the Grand Rapids, MI, police force had just helped the driver from his vehicle, incredulous that he was unaware of the potentially life-threatening situation. According to Mlive.com, the police were summoned to the fiery sedan shortly after four in the morning, when neighbors raised the alarm about a vehicle that had been revving its engine for an hour. Apparently the driver, who was later arrested, had fallen asleep with his foot on the gas pedal, according to the report. The car was already on fire when the officer pulled him out, but it wasn’t a minute or two after he had removed the driver that the entire vehicle was engulfed in flames
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Report: Alleged drunk driver so intoxicated he didn’t realize his car was on fire