Pedigree of the Brands - A Different View of the Story... ...Many of us own cars which come from rather famous brands. Plenty of times, even if you hate to admit it, the badge is the main reason to look at a certain car and, in the end, it's the decisive reason in actually choosing the "perfect"model. OK, there ... Continue reading >
100+ years since the invention of the self-propelled car, three new engines battle for a place in the automotive future. Which one do you see in your car 10 years from now?
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Articles written by Alex Oagana
Alex Oagana
Growing up in typical Suburbia, Alex's chances of one day becoming a Formula 1 driver were pretty much toast since, well... forever. He handled his first actual car steering wheel on his father's lap when he was five (on a field) and started practicing “Scandinavian Flicks” when he was 14 (on non-public gravel roads, elementary). The first day after he received his driving license his parents almost called the police suspecting their car had been stolen. Little did they know that Alex had went for a 24 hour joy ride with his friends and had forgotten to announce his parents that he was going to “borrow” the family car for the trip.In case it's not obvious enough by now, he lives and breathes cars. He considers himself an oldschool petrolhead who is well aware that the automotive industry is a polluting business but he's also sick at heart knowing that someday we're all going to drive kitchen appliances with digitalized V8 sounds. After landing his first real job at a local franchise of an international automotive magazine he entered the New Media realm with the autoevolution.com project, which he hopes is going to change the face of online automotive coverage.
Personal motto: Suck, squeeze, bang, blow. (no pun intended)
... If 2009 was the year of thundering bankruptcies and an almost total collapse of the American car industry - while the Japanese more or less flourished - 2010 seems to be the exact opposite. General Motors, Ford and even Chrysler – who were technically dead as ...
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If there are any pre-war classics fans out there, then you are probably already aware that a historical car brand has been recently revived (again) at the 2010 Geneva Auto Show. We say "again" because the Hispano-Suiza brand had been previously brought ...
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...Statistically, every North American Auto Show has always been the venue where every US manufacturer is making its best peacock impressions in front of its competitors. Why? Well, it would be hard not to. I mean, whether it's good ole GM, Chrysler or Ford, each ...
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By now, there's probably not even a single avid Internet user who is not familiar with the way 2009 has wiped the floor with most carmakers and pretty much everything related to the auto industry. The on-going economic crisis, coupled with a massive change in car ...
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If you didn't come here following a link from the "autoevolution Behind the Scenes/Anniversary" editorial, let us break it down for you. Back in December 2008, the autoevolution.com website was coming alive, albeit not in the "Frankenstein - It's aliiive! ...
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..."Y'know one of the most beautiful things about a car? If it isn't working properly, you can strip the skin off, expose the insides, find out exactly where the trouble is, take out the faulty part and replace it with a new one. If only we could do that with ...
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... Back in March this year, I was bringing the almost-certain death of a once great car maker to your attention. Yes, I'm talking about Saab, once famed for making some of the quirkiest hatches around. In the meantime, things have evolved, by some accounts, but ...
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Gorden Wagener is one of the youngest (if not the youngest) chiefs of design in the automotive world. He became the head honcho of Mercedes-Benz's design division in the beginning of 2008, when he was just 39 years old, therefore replacing the venerable Professor Peter ...
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... or so it seems if you believe all the hype about the world's oil reserves coming to an end. Still, after constantly dismissing all the facts into rumors, even I started to think there must be some truth behind all this commotion. I looked carefully into a bunch ...
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... No matter what some history books are telling you, the French didn't invent the automobile. Yes, I know, a French dude by the name of Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot was experimenting in the late 1700s with a steam-powered vehicle - the so-called Fardier à vapeur ...
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We got ourselves a bit of an inside information from our very own "Deepthroat" at Dr. Ing. Ferdinand Porsche AG. According to the aforementioned sources, which we will keep undisclosed for obvious reasons, the current generation of the Cayenne will stop being ...
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... harsh times are coming for the Swedish car manufacturer. A brand which once stood for strength, durability and most of all, safety, is now on the verge of falling out of its owner's and even its customers' graces. After countless press releases technically ...
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...The complementary champagne glasses have dried out, all the major executives have left the building and the original booth girls have probably been replaced by doubles after being smitten by tens of thousand of DSLR flashes. The autoevolution team went to the ...
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... so I had a long talk about cars with one of my buddies the other day. As pretty much always, several topics spawned during the conversation but one of them kept reappearing no matter how hard we tried to change the subject. You see, this buddy of mine is a bit of a ...
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... as I'm sure most of you guys remember, Porsche was pretty much in deep doo-doo during the mid-nineties. Sure, there are probably more people who only (want to) remember the success period in the past few years, but they should also know that the auto brand with the ...
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Nicknamed by People Weekly as the "Auto Prince" John Delorean is the guy who was almost single-handedly responsible for bringing power to the masses in 1964, by being instrumental in the launch of the first ever true muscle-car, the Pontiac GTO. He is ...
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So we went to an Isuzu rally last week. Before jumping to any sudden conclusions, let us first say that by "rally" we mean "to come together for a common purpose". Although, come to think of it, driving with a copilot through some rain-drenched ...
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... would be an appropriate tagline for the upcoming Chinese invasion. Yes, I'm well aware that the original phrase ("All your base are belong to us", ed) was quoted from a Japanese video game, but Engrish can be used to define pretty much any Asian ...
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... some say that the real diesel revolution started in Europe about 20-25 years ago, and that that era is about to end with the introduction of higher efficient and smaller gasoline engines. Plus, one of the largest car markets in the world, the United States, has ...
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... Before the April 25-26 weekend came to an end, there was an increasing wave – or should I say tsunami? - of media reports concerning the completely inevitable Chapter 11 reorganization of Chrysler LLC. Like many times history has shown us, a LOT can ...
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