Tag: VehicleVoice

The Ford Edge is a very good vehicle, but does it have appeal beyond its built-in Ford owner audience?

I’ve just had no luck in getting you, our loyal reader, the sort of in-person coverage of the past week’s cool automotive happening that I’d been hoping for! You’ll remember that last week, a traffic accident that shut down a major freeway prevented me from bringing you the reveal of the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro. Since Thursday, I’ve tried and failed to bring you full reports from two other automotive happenings, which I’ll get back to in a minute. I might be good at forecasting the automotive market, but a resourceful automotive journalist I am obviously not!
Had things gone differently, this story would have brought you some pics and insight from me attending a panel discussion at 2008 Comic-Con in San Diego with the creatives behind Click and Clack’s As the Wrench Turns, a new animated TV series on PBS based on those lovable Tappet Brothers who have entertained and informed us about cars [...]

One town looks to stretch the definition of the annual Woodward Dream Cruise, and bring a little future into this annual nostalgia drip.

Follow the jump for the organizer’s views and plans for NextCruise. The press conference was held in a park in Pleasant Ridge, with some vehicles on display and representatives from GM, Ford, Chrysler LLC, and the Detroit Grand Prix on hand.

NextCruise can be great way to get new technology in front of people who don’t think about it much, or maybe don’t even know it’s out there. And looking to the future is just as relevant as honoring the past. But the Dream Cruisers are often people looking to simply while away a typically muggy August Saturday.
Case in point: During the press conference, a couple of teenage girls wandered through the park. They made a beeline for the green E85-fueled Pace Car Corvette, hamming it up for a couple of photos. They didn’t stick around to hear about its E85 capability, or [...]

2008 Vehicle Satisfaction Award top brand honors went to Cadillac, while other luxury brands such as Lexus, Mercedes-Benz and Porsche also had strong showings. But what does it mean to have a top brand? Though calculations single out one brand as having the highest overall score, each individual attribute also has its own top scorer. Sometimes the detail underneath it all can have just as much, if not more, meaning than the final outcome.

Hyundai's Genesis has the goods, but can they turn the heads of buyers looking to drop $35,000 to $42,000?

Volvo XC90 in Britain - safe, secure, capable, expensive.

What a disappointing day today turned out to be. I was supposed to represent VehicleVoice at Chevrolet’s unveiling of the long-awaited new Camaro up in North Hollywood this afternoon. Unfortunately, a three-car pileup on the I-5 North brought my northward progress to a halt, effectively making it impossible for me to get to the press conference. Beaten, I turned around and drove back to the office.

I tried to go to Hollywood to see this…
But instead all I got was this. Bummer.

Volkswagen and GM have more not-so-good news for Michigan's economy this week.

Audi's all-new A4 introduces Drive Select, a great way to personalize and adjust for various road conditions, and continues the company's standard of refinement and elegance.