Filed under: Etc., Government/Legal, Police/Emergency Edmunds has taken a closer look at which vehicles are most heavily favored by the federal government by evaluating percentage of model sales in 2011. Not surprisingly the Chevrolet Caprice topped off the list with a whopping 79.2 percent of sales going to government agencies, while the out-to-pasture Ford Crown [...]
Filed under: Convertible, Etc., BMW, Design/Style, Luxury Perhaps it’s merely the era, perhaps it’s the shapes of modern cars, but you just don’t see large numbers of sports cars and supercars drenched in wildly luminous colors anymore – the Lamborghini Gallardo maybe the only exception. A sky blue Porsche 911 or a dandelion Ferrari were [...]
Filed under: China, Saab Zhejiang Youngman Lotus Automobile has been jettisoned from the dwindling pool of bidders for Saab after tendering an offer of $492 million for the whole kaboodle. Exact reasons weren’t given for Youngman leaving the table, but according to a report in Autoweek.nl, “Chinese bureaucracy” was partially to blame and there apparently [...]
Filed under: Etc. That’s right a parking spot for $1 million! Well, that’s not quite fair. It’s a one-space, 12×23 foot parking garage with 15-foot ceilings that would allow the space to be “duplexed” to allow storage of two cars. The garage comes with its own deed and the owner will still pay monthly maintenance [...]
Filed under: SUV, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GM, Luxury Known for unmitigated excess to some, the Cadillac Escalade embodies over-the-top transportation for oil barons and high-rolling hip-hop stars. The Detroit Bureau quotes an unknown senior Cadillac official saying, “We were finding that for everyone turned on by that image there were four (potential luxury buyers) who were [...]
