Blog Posts by: Joe DeMatio  

• The 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray speaks to me in a way that no recent Corvette ever has, and its debut on Sunday night at a 1915-era, Albert Kahn-designed former auto factory in Detroit was the most dramatic car unveiling I've attended in years. • ...    Read more

Tesla's little stand at Cobo Hall, squeezed into a corner near Bentley and Volvo, was mobbed during the company's press conference, which seemed to serve multiple purposes: to show the Model X crossover concept for the first time at an auto show; to allow the company to gloat over the ...    Read more

The auto industry hasn't exactly been predictable over the past decade, but one thing we have learned to count on is that if there's an all-new Mini model, a John Cooper Works (JCW) version won't be far behind. And so, the Paceman that debuted at last September's Paris Motor Show ...    Read more

Marco Mattiacci - President, Ferrari North America, sat down for a quick interview with deputy editor Joe DeMatio. Here's what he had to share: "Racing is one of our big strategies for 2013," Ferrari's chief executive for North and South America told us on the automaker's stand at Cobo Hall. "This ...    Read more

Jim Federico is currently in charge of B-segment small cars for GM around the world, from the United States to Europe to Brazil to China to Indonesia and everywhere in between, but his engineering hands have been all over some ten GM vehicles that are currently on sale in the ...    Read more

Favorite trip: Audi at Le Mans As you know, Audi has had great success with its gasoline- and diesel-powered race cars at Le Mans over the past 13 years, and this year its R18 e-tron Quattro, its first hybrid race car, competed alongside the TDI R18 Ultra. With success comes ...    Read more

Volkswagen will introduce its all-new 2013 Beetle Convertible to the American market in December with three special launch editions that are meant to evoke the decades of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, a period in postwar America that, not incidentally, saw a level of growth of the Volkswagen brand ...    Read more

Dr. Ian Robertson -- Member of the Board of Management, BMW AG -- is the man grappling with the Big Issues that will face BMW as an automaker in the near and distant future. He's concerned with immediate matters for BMW AG, of course, such as sales. ...    Read more

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Stefan Fegg is the Project Manager for Powertrains on the Porsche Cayenne. Deputy Editor Joe DeMatio spoke to him while sitting in a Porsche Cayenne Diesel on the Porsche stand at Javits during media days for the 2012 New York Auto Show. The Cayenne Diesel goes on sale this fall ...    Read more

I just interviewed Christophe Georges, President & COO of Bentley in North and South America, and Darren Day, a longtime Bentley designer, in a private room on the Bentley stand at Javits. Both of these Bentley Boys are steadfast in their defense of ...    Read more

Last night I attended the official unveiling of the Nissan NV200 at Skylight West on the West Side of Manhattan, arriving just in time to hear NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg introduce the yellow cube before he was whisked out of the building by his security detail. Bloomberg used the opportunity ...    Read more

We received our first serious snow dump in Ann Arbor last week, but the Automobile Magazine fleet of Four Seasons test vehicles was ready for the cold, since we had fitted each car with a set of winter tires from various manufacturers well before Thanksgiving with the assistance of the ...    Read more

Jaguar has long been know for its designs, but has had some real knockouts one after the other in the past few years in the forms of the C-XF, C-X75, and C-X16 concepts, and the XF and XJ production cars. We were able to sit down with Jaguar Global Brand ...    Read more

Our editors have been plenty busy scouring the show floor of the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show -- but in between running to and from press conferences and battling spotty Wi-Fi connections, they picked their three favorite concept and production cars at the show. Joe DeMatio, Deputy Editor CONCEPT CARS ...    Read more