Exterior and Interior

When BMW first announced it’s plans to put the Vision Efficient Dynamics into production, a company source said: “there will be less of the synthetic glass and more solid structure added to the final design.” How can this be translated? The i8 will be built on an aluminum chassis which houses the powertrain and the passenger cell. This cell consists of high-strength, but extremely lightweight carbon fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP). It will be built at BMW’s Leipzig plant starting 2013. [Read the rest of this entry…]

The National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA), which represents some 17,000 dealers with about 37,500 franchises in the U.S., has issued a statement through its chairman, Ed Tonkin, expressing some concerns about Ford’s decision to discontinue its Mercury brand [Read the rest of this entry…]