Nick Kurczewski went to Pune, India to take a test drive in the Tata Nano for The New York Times. The Nano, the much storied $2,000 “people’s car,” has a 32 hp, 624-cc, 2-cylinder engine. The body and chassis are steel, the bumpers plastic. Overall, it’s the shortest four-passenger car in India at just 122 [...]
Well, it’s official. Clawing their way up from sixth and tenth place respectively last year, Buick and Jaguar have kicked Lexus out of a 14-year reign at the top of the J.D. Power and Associates’ Vehicle Dependability Study. Buick and Jaguar owners reported an average of 122 problems per 100 vehicles, four less than Lexus. [...]
The current economic crisis may prove to be the death of some carmakers and the resurrection of others. From 1999 to 2003, Ford owned a little Norwegian car maker, Think, that produced electric cars. After an investment of about $100 million and the sale of a whopping 400 units, Ford pulled out and sold the [...]
It’s all well and good to advise cash-strapped Americans to consider buying a “previously owned” car as a cost-saving measure, but used car prices have been moving up steadily for the last two months. Apparently the increase is due to a shortage of trade-ins because consumers aren’t buying new cars. I’m sensing a “damned if [...]
