By GREG MIGLIORE AND BOB GRITZINGER
The Prancing Horse is doing a slow striptease of its new GT, the F149.
Ferrari is revealing the much-anticipated sports car on a website that launched Friday, leading up to its introduction at the Paris motor show in October. The 2+2 coupe features a folding hardtop, along with a new direct-injection [...]
By GREG MIGLIORE
An MG TF from the 2002 model year.
Plans to resurrect production of the MG TF appear to have new life–again.
Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp., the Chinese owners of the storied British marque MG, said on Thursday, May 8, that production of the TF LE500 sports car would begin in August, with the cars arriving [...]
I have to give Henrik Fisker credit: The man ventured from the cosseting arms of Ford and its associated benefits to start a firm designing cars using the old-school, carrozzeria methods. Never mind that design houses such as Zagato had their heyday a generation ago. His move is the stuff of designer dreams.
But if I [...]
By LUCA CIFERRI
Fiat is currently eyeing Mexico as the location for a plant that would supply both North and South America, people familiar to the matter told Automotive News Europe this week.
To cope with the weak dollar, Fiat needs production in North America after its Alfa Romeo brand returns in the U.S. in late 2009.
At [...]
By JAN TEGLER
This Triumph 2000 Mk 2’s original owner, a U.S. State Department worker, purchased it in the Bahamas. By the late 1970s, the 2000 was in Boston. But the left-hand-drive car’s career came to an abrupt halt when the owner hit a pine tree. It sat for years until Stephen Oertwig heard about it.
“Someone [...]