Euro NCAP has released its top-five highest scoring cars of 2009. Aside from their individual scores, all the cars achieved five-star crash ratings. Taking the top spot is the 2009 Volkswagen Golf VI. Two hybrids, the Honda Insight and Toyota Prius, took the second and third spot, respectively. The Hyundai i20 followed in forth place. [Read More]

We have never been big fans of the Honda Accord Crosstour’s styling (you can’t even call it polarizing), but as sales figures show, a factor to the success of certain models is what’s under the skin. What better way to to assess these credentials than to compare the Crosstour to its main rival, the Toyota [Read More]

You think Hyundai, Kia and Subaru were the only automakers on the face of the earth that had a good 2009? Well, you thought wrong. There is one other automaker that could join their ranks and that automaker is Skoda. Who the hell is Skoda, you ask? As one of Volkswagen’s many brands, Skoda is [Read More]

With a disastrous 2009 now over, automakers can sit back and take a sign of relief. The overall U.S. market was hit hard. However, there were some winners, notably Hyundai, Kia and Subaru, which saw their sales actually increase from the year prior. All the other automakers were in the red, with Ford–surprisingly–having the lowest loss. [Read More]

Ford Motor Co. – including Ford, Lincoln, Mercury and Volvo brands – is quickly turning itself into a success story, announcing good news after good news ever since both Chrysler and GM filed for (and emerged from) bankruptcy. The good news continue – FoMoCo announced a sales increase of 2.4 percent for July 2009 over [Read More]