Blog Posts by: Christian Seabaugh   GT

The last full year of the current-gen Ford Fusion saw the Blue Oval’s midsize sedan have its best sales year ever with 248,067 Fusions sold.  But the Fusion’s best year ever was still some 60,000 vehicles shy of the segment's best seller, the Toyota Camry and its 308,510 sales last ...    Read more

During a ceremony commemorating the 2 millionth vehicle produced at its Spartanburg, S.C. plant, BMW announced that it will be making a major investment in its sole American plant, totaling almost $900 million, and adding 300 new jobs as it prepares for production of the upcoming X4 crossover. BMW’s new investment ...    Read more

You might have noticed that this December 2011 German auto sales roundup is out a day later than sales from the rest of the world. There’s a very good reason for that: BMW and Mercedes-Benz’s rivalry. Both automakers reported record sales and were neck and neck to take the title ...    Read more

Save for a pair of Ford GTs, FIA's GT3 racing class is largely dominated by European vehicles, including the Aston Martin DBRS9, Audi R8 LMS, BMW Z4 GT3, Ferrari 458 Italia GT3, Lamborghini Gallardo LP600 GT3,  ...    Read more

Seeing as weight has long been the Achilles’ heel of full-size trucks, Ward’s Auto reports that Ford will be taking fuel economy head-on in the next generation F-150 by making extensive use of weight-saving materials like aluminum as it seeks to meet increasingly strict fuel economy standards. Ward’s Auto reports that ...    Read more

De Tomaso is one of those storied brands that always seems to just be struggling, often falling in and out of the public’s eye. De Tomaso recently burst back on the scene during February’s Geneva Motor Show with a four-door crossover dubbed the SLC and then renamed the Deauville, ...    Read more

There’s one Top 10 list that the Cadillac Escalade continually owns year-after-year: the Highway Loss Data Institute’s list of the most stolen vehicles in the United States. In an effort to wean its way off the most stolen ...    Read more

More people arguably tune into the Super Bowl each year to watch the commercials instead of the game – so much so that the commercials often go viral because of it. For example, last year’s Chrysler “Imported from Detroit” ad currently has over 13 ...    Read more

Often times, the best medium to get you into the cabin with us is video, like this one that AMG just released of the 2013 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG Coupe Black Series lapping Laguna Seca. Shot during the 2013 C63 AMG ...    Read more

Volkswagen Auto Group will overhaul its complete model lineup in an effort to standardize components and technologies, increase profits, and allow it to surpass Toyota and General Motors to become the world’s largest automaker by 2018, reports Automotive News. The ...    Read more

Santa’s new sleigh has arrived in the form of the 805-hp all-wheel drive Hennessey Jeep Grand Cherokee HPE800 – a beast of an SUV that would certainly make Rudolph's red nose green with envy. Big power calls for big modifications and the Hennessey Jeep Grand Cherokee HPE800 doesn’t disappoint. Hennessey starts ...    Read more

Let’s face it -- kids have an attention span as long as a Chevy Sonic, which is to say, not long at all. Perhaps that’s why Chevy has been upping its marketing game towards millennials by doing things that might actually interest them, like ...    Read more

Ford has officially expanded its restoration parts line with the release of its 1967 Mustang Convertible body, which was first previewed at this year’s SEMA show. The “new” ’67 Mustang convertible body is built to not only makes it easier for enthusiasts to restore Mustangs, but also to give them ...    Read more

Eat your heart out, Ken Block. Stuntman, rally driver, and professional drifter Rhys Millen knew just what to do with his Hyundai Genesis Coupe drift car once he found out Hyundai was demolishing its old headquarters in California: drift ...    Read more

Volkswagen is reportedly readying two green concepts for next month’s Detroit Auto Show, according to the Detroit Free Press. Volkswagen’s first concept will be an electric car, while its second will be a Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid. Volkswagen’s first concept will be all-electric and is described by the Free Press (and confirmed ...    Read more