Americans are moving past the days of screaming eagles and big pick-ups. That’s what the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) says, and it has the survey results to prove it.
Demand for the Lincoln MKZ Hybrid is strong enough that Ford will change the production mix from 20 percent to 30 percent hybrids for the 2014 model year.
It’s part of an overall MKZs comeback, which saw sales increase in April sales now that the car is no longer quite as slow to roll of the line. MKZ sales more than doubled last month, hitting the 4,000 units sold mark for the first time and setting an all-time monthly sales record for the Lincoln brand.
The official, revamped website for Fisker Automotive appears to be more of an homage to the company’s focus on style rather than an accurate snapshot of the struggling automaker’s actual troubles.
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Last year, Toyota won the electric title at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb with the Toyota Motorsport GmbH EV P001 in a time of 10 minutes, 15.380 seconds for the 12.42-mile uphill course. For the 91st running of the demanding event, which will take place at the end of June, TMG is coming back with the EV P002, once again with Rod Millen behind the wheel.
We got our first taste of the refreshed 2013 Mercedes-Benz GLK lineup last summer, once again affirming our belief that it’s easy to fall in love with the littlest Benz CUV. There’s something sort of charming about the boxy, rugged-looking luxury crossover, and while it won’t set the world on fire in terms of driver engagement, it’s a solid front-runner in the segment.
General Motors has issued a recall covering 38,197 2012 and 2013 model-year Chevy Malibu Eco, Buick LaCrosse and Regal sedans equipped with eAssist, and sold in the United States. The automaker will check the generator control module for proper operation. Only vehicles built before December 2012 are being recalled.
We began our Fiat 500e Los Angeles press-launch drive with 95 miles showing on our 500e’s range gauge – interesting, since the car’s EPA-rated range is 87 miles city/highway combined. Because the 500e’s range-calculating algorithm looks at the last 100 miles, then the last 10 miles and the last five minutes, to account for recent change in energy usage, our 500e must have been hypermiled for some distance before we got into it to give us that starting point. Or the EPA’s numbers are a bit conservative here.
Never one to leave things up to chance, Porsche will deploy a charging system for its upcoming Panamera S E plug-in hybrid that the should match the vehicle’s high-end cache.
A few months and one hemisphere later, Nissan has gotten around to cutting the price of its all-electric Leaf in Australia.
