GM preps for new engines, 8-speed transmission

General Motors is spending $332 million to upgrade powertrain plants in three states to build a new eight-speed automatic transmission, a new V6 and a new family of small-displacement gasoline engines. The plants are in Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. GM is also adding $46 million to an earlier $600 million program to upgrade powertrain plants in Saginaw and Romulus, Mich.

Michelin Challenge Design competition celebrates 10 years

Michelin has released a short video documenting the last ten years of the Challenge Design competition. With excepts from jury members Freeman Thomas, Director of Advanced Design at Ford; Victor Nacif, VP of Design at Nissan Design Europe; Geza Loczi, Director of Design at Volvo Monitoring Concept Center; Dave Marek, Advanced Design Director for Honda North America; Steward Reed, Chair of Transportation Design at ACCD; Frank Saucedo, Design Director of GM's Advanced Design Studio in California and Chris Chapman of BMW Designworks USA, the video outlines some of the 2700 entries Michelin has received since the competition's inception in 2002. That year, the MCD display at the NAIAS in Detroit featured cars from European design houses.

Range Rover Westminster & upgraded Autobiography run-out models arrive

The Range Rover Westminster & upgraded Autobiography models arrive Land Rover has revealed the Range Rover Westminster to replace the Vogue and upgraded Autobiography models, marking the end of the current Range Rover. Back in 2001, when the last Range Rover was coming to the end of its life, Land Rover delivered the Range Rover Westminster as a run-out model. And here we are, ten years after the launch of the current Range Rover, and Land Rover has dusted off the Westminster moniker to signal the end of the current Range Rover.