-Volkswagen’s upmarket strategy lives on. VW calls this car a “design concept,” but we know that the C Coupe GTE concept, unveiled at the Shanghai auto show, is a thinly disguised upscale “four-door coupe” that will come to market next year. At 199.7 inches long, 76.0 inches wide, and 56.9 inches tall, it will be the largest Volkswagen this side of the Phaeton. And it will be available only in
– If it looks like a Buick Verano, smells like a Buick Verano, and walks like a Buick Verano, is it a Buick Verano? If we’re talking about the Chinese-market Buick Excelle sedan, the answer is probably yes. The current Excelle, the Verano, and the Opel Astra are all siblings under the skin, so the new Excelle GT sedan that debuted at the 2015 Shanghai auto show provides a good
-McLaren took the wraps off the second model in its Sports Series, the 540C (a.k.a. the 540 Club), at the Shanghai auto show this weekend. And the good news is that this most-affordable McLaren will be offered globally, so we should get it in the United States. (At the New York show, McLaren said it would homologate the model but that it would probably be special-order only. We expect that to
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-Ashlee Vance’s upcoming book Elon Musk: Tesla, Space X, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future seems like it could be a fascinating read. – In an excerpt published by Bloomberg Business, we learn that in early 2013, when things were going decidedly not well for Elon Musk’s startup automaker, he arrived at a deal with Larry Page to sell the company to Google for billions, with assurances that the tech giant would
