Detroit Auto Show Coverage

Kia is joining Ford, GM, and Hyundai by abandoning the minivan segment—but only temporarily as the Korean automaker works on replacement for the Sedona minivan. The automaker says the market is expected to grow 25 percent by 2016. Although the Kia Sedona offers lots of standard features ...    Read more

E-Bugster Concept Volkswagen’s E-Bugster concept loses its top at the Beijing auto show this week. The electric-powered roadster loses its removable hardtop from January’s Detroit auto show debut and previews a Volkswagen Beetle Cabriolet model. The E-Bugster concept is powered by a 114-hp electric motor capable of a leisurely ...    Read more

Yes, the first wave of 2014 Chevrolet Corvette C7 spy photos broke long ago, but as Chevy’s latest and greatest sports car inches closer to production, prototype cars are apparently becoming an increasingly common site on public roads. Case in point? A CorvetteBlogger reader bumped into a Corvette testing group in ...    Read more

When the Lexus LF-LC concept dazzled at this year's Detroit auto show, we were told it had little to no chance of being produced. However, after the show car garnered such a positive reaction, Lexus is more seriously pondering the possibility of LF-LC production. Lexus ...    Read more

The Volkswagen Beetle family just wouldn’t be complete without a drop-top version. Unsurprisingly, the folks over at Motor Trend snapped plenty of spy photos of a Volkswagen Beetle Convertible prototype mule for you to drool over. Volkswagen did an admirable job with the camouflage on this test car, as it tacked on ...    Read more

Yes, we’ve already seen the Cadillac ATS in the flesh and on the stand at the Detroit Auto Show last month, but that until recently, we hadn’t had a chance to see one actually in action. That changed this past weekend, as our Creative Director spotted a 2013 ATS prototype ...    Read more

Honda showed concept versions of the Acura ILX and RDX at the Detroit Auto Show last month. Now the luxury brand plans to debut the production version of the 2013 Acura ILX and the completely redesigned 2013 Acura RDX at the Chicago Auto Show this month. ...    Read more

Three of the four vehicles Chrysler’s Mopar brand unveiled this morning are offered as dealer-installed kits – but if they prove popular with consumers, there’s a chance they could be built on the original factory assembly line. Jim Sassorossi, Mopar’s head of sales and product development, says his brand can ...    Read more

What's being first worth to you? Evidently, for comedian Jerry Seinfeld, quite a bit. In Acura's first Super Bowl ad, the eponymous sitcom star tries to tempt a buyer who is first in line for Acura's revived NSX sports car with a ...    Read more

We knew Chrysler's SRT division would soon take responsibility for most motorsports operations -- but we didn't know it had dreams of racing in Australia's V8 Supercars race series. “I am extremely interested ,” SRT president and CEO Ralph Gilles told V8X Magazine at the Detroit auto show. “It’s not ...    Read more

The new Acura NSX concept is perhaps the most important design ever for a brand that hasn’t always presented a clear, consistent face. We walked around the concept with Acura head designer Jon Ikeda to learn what he likes best about the new concept. Though he cautions that this is ...    Read more

There are two things that can be counted on at every auto show: beautiful cars and beautiful women. The 2012 Detroit Auto Show proved to be no exception. But what’s it actually like being a product specialist? CNN Money interviewed Joyce Brew, a Toyota ...    Read more

We joined a roundtable with Ulrich Hackenberg, member of the board of management for Volkswagen AG, responsible for product development during the Detroit auto show this week. Hackenberg says that localization is the most important thing to VW's continued growth in the U.S. That means the volume engines we get ...    Read more

In a roundtable discussion, Klaus Draeger, BMW board member in charge of product development, touched on a variety of subjects, ranging from electric vehicles, triple-turbo diesels, and his commitment to the straight six. Weight saving and EVs Commenting on the Mini E and the 1-series Active E, Draeger said that the takeaways ...    Read more

If you thought the luxury crossover market was already too crowded, think again. Cadillac may be considering an SUV to battle the BMW X3 and others in its class. "We're looking at options there," said Kurt McNeil, Cadillac's vice president of sales, to Automotive News at ...    Read more

You ready for the age of 30 mpg full-size luxury sedans? Audi will soon bring the U.S. market supercharged V-6 and diesel variants of the A8, the automaker announced at the 2012 Detroit auto show. Starting with the 2013 Audi A8, luxury customers finally have a direct competitor for ...    Read more

Favorite Car 1: Ford Fusion I think there’s something to be said about accessible design: it’s all well and good that the Aston Martin Rapide looks great, but it’s a very expensive car. The new Fusion is the embodiment of accessible design: it ditches ...    Read more

Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn was born in Brazil and educated in Paris, yet has no problem dispatching quick-fire and sometimes sarcastic remarks in English to a panel of journalists at the Detroit auto show. He paces while giving lengthy answers, frowns as he takes questions from reporters, and occasionally even ...    Read more

Bentley’s 2012 Detroit auto show reveal of the Continental GT V8 presents a new, downsized reality for the exclusive British automaker, but this wasn’t our first time seeing the twin-turbocharged, 4.0-liter V-8. The same core engine is already under the hood of ...    Read more

Acura NSX Concept While the NSX Concept is one of the most jaw-droppingly stunning cars on the auto show circuit, what's most important is the fact that it came from the Acura brand. Flanked on the stand at the Detroit auto show this week by the dull-looking ILX Concept and ...    Read more

2013 Ford Fusion Maybe it’s because I woke up extra-early to see the car unveiled at 8 a.m. Monday, but I am seriously impressed by the new Ford Fusion. The design, while clearly derivative of Audi, Jaguar, and Aston Martin, is fresh and expensive-looking. The range of five different powertrains ...    Read more

It’s no secret that we all have relationships with our cars: sometimes they’re good, other times we’d consider a vehicular divorce. Toyota is hoping for the former with its newest concept car, the NS4, which it says looks to the ...    Read more

Mini unveiled the Roadster Concept at the 2009 Frankfurt show and it wasn't at all surprising when the brand announced the Roadster would reach production.  Here it is! The 2012 Mini Cooper Roadster. Like the Coupe, the Roadster rides on the current-generation Mini Cooper platform and uses the same range of ...    Read more

Seeing as Toyota's working over its giant Land Cruiser SUV for the 2013 model year, it's not surprising to learn Lexus' flagship sport ute -- the 2013 LX 570 -- also gains a few new tweaks at the same time. As with most facelifts, most of the work is cosmetic. The ...    Read more

Love it or hate it, that hourglass-shaped grille from the new Lexus GS isn’t going away anytime soon. At least, not if you’re to believe the LF-LC Concept, which debuted yesterday at the Detroit Auto Show and predicts the future ...    Read more