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A groovy creation by automotive designer George Barris that was featured in the 1977 film SuperVan, as well as glimpsed briefly in Back To The Future II, is up for auction. The location will be tomorrow in Scottsdale, Arizona on January 23.In 1966, he took a Dodge A100 van, tore it down, and rebuilt it as the futuristic Love Machine, a conveyance that seemingly had more to do with the era’s fascination with monorails and people movers than it did the lone-wolf, roaming cad’s life of the committed vanner. After his passing at age 89 last year, Barris' creation might s...
BMW held on in December to top the U.S. luxury segment in 2015 for its fourth luxury-sales crown in five years.BMW won the U.S. luxury-auto sales crown even with a 17 percent drop in December deliveries, ahead of Lexus and Mercedes-Benz.BMW finished 2015 with luxury sales of 346,023 vehicles, followed by Lexus with 344,601 and Mercedes with 343,088. All three brands set annual sales records last year.The results exclude BMW’s MINI models and Daimler’s work trucks and Smart cars, which aren’t luxury vehicles.The German automakers have held the top spot in U.S. luxury sales sin...
German automaker BMW has been fined $40 million by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for failing to issue safety recalls in a timely manner to Mini owners. The fine, announced on Monday, caps a year of auto industry crackdowns by the Department of Transportation and the Environmental Protection Agency. Regulators have come down hard on the auto industry for problems ranging from air bag defects to cheating on emissions tests.The MINI Cooper Hardtop was recalled for the same issue in December of 2014, prompting the NHTSA's investigation for non-compliance.As part of the set...
In an attempt to improve the public image after the emissions scandal, Volkswagen is planning to drop the famous "Das Auto" slogan in the coming advertising campaign.Launched in 2007 under ousted boss Martin Winterkorn, the slogan has had the advantage of simplicity, merely meaning "The Car". However, the German carmaker's leaders, anxious to proclaim a reformed corporate culture, have criticised it as out of step with a company trying to show new-found humility. Volkswagen is trying to grapple with how to pull itself out of a nosedive that has threatened to aliena...
December promises to be the strongest month in auto sales. It is expected to set an annual record with 17.5 million sales in 2015, according to a monthly sales forecast developed jointly by J.D. Power and LMC Automotive.The car retail sales are projected to reach 1,400,100 units, while total light-vehicle sales are expected to reach 1,712,200, both a 6% increase on a selling-day adjusted basis, compared with December 2014. Both sales volumes are also the highest for any month since July2005, when retail sales hit 1.64 million units and total sales 1.80 million units.“We now have greater ...
