Why Can’t We Buy Bentleys on Amazon Yet?
Chinese luxury car dealer Yongda and giant online retailer Alibaba are offering the next logical step in online car buying for luxury car buyers: point-and-click car buying. The South China Morning...
View ArticleTTAC Forum Aurum: Corvette Show for Crazy Dough
A Tampa-area man knows how to sell his 1993 Corvette like a boss — with girls and guns and stuff. Our own Chris Tonn is talking about the car in the forums. This Craigslist entry doesn’t detail the...
View ArticleThis Year Could Be the Biggest Car-buying Year in 15 Years
Automakers could sell more than 17 million new cars and trucks in the U.S. this year, approaching the sales record set in 2000 of 17.4 million, Automotive News is reporting. Analysts raised their...
View ArticleUtah Man Says State Insurer (the State) Shortchanged Him
Matt Gephardt and KUTV in Salt Lake City have a good story about a Utah man who was hit by a state vehicle and its insurance company — which is the state itself — shortchanged him on his 1985...
View ArticleChevrolet Finishes Work on 1,000,000th Corvette And It’s Pretty Rad
Chevrolet finished work restoring its 1,000,000th Corvette after it was damaged in a Kentucky sinkhole that swallowed it — and other Corvettes — at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green,...
View ArticleMillennials Digging Cars Their Parents Can’t Buy New Anymore, Including the...
Millennials. Who knows what they’re thinking? Well, maybe GM and Dodge did … in the early and mid-2000s. According to Edmunds, the 18-34 age group of used car buyers are flocking to some discontinued...
View ArticleHere’s What It Might Cost To Fix Each 2.0 TDI Volkswagen
In all reality, Volkswagen probably won’t pay $37,500 for each car that cheated its way through U.S. emissions standards, but the German automaker will probably pay thousands for each car to fit a...
View ArticleToyota, Honda Dominate List of Cars Kept for More Than 10 Years
Nearly 30 percent of buyers who purchase a Honda CR-V, Toyota RAV4 or Prius car will keep that car for more than 10 years, according to data from iSeeCars.com. Data from 400,000 car purchases was...
View ArticleAuction Prices for Volkswagen Diesels Are Dropping
According to Kelley Blue Book, auction prices for Volkswagen’s diesels cars are dropping faster than similar models that are powered by gasoline. According to auction data gathered before and after...
View ArticleFor Some TDI Owners, Conflicting Messages on Trade-in
As Volkswagen works to make amends with customers and the public, TDI owners ready to give up their illegally polluting cars are hearing conflicting messages from some Volkswagen dealers who are either...
View ArticleCheech And Chong’s 1992 Toyota Low Boy Is For Sale In Spokane, Apparently
Or is it a 1991? We could pore over the details of a Toyota pickup festooned with more weed than the University of Colorado Boulder campus, or we could just admire the grapes on “Mike” for selling his...
View ArticleUtah Mechanic Buys, Fixes Car for High School Custodian Walking to Work (Video)
I swear someone was cutting onions right next to me just now. A Utah high school custodian, whose broken-down car left him commuting two hours each way to work, was surprised by a mechanic who...
View ArticleGiving Thanks: Here’s What It Might Cost To Fix Each 2.0 TDI Volkswagen
Editor’s note: This article originally ran September 22, 2015. TTAC has yet to be proven or disproven on these numbers, but hopefully we will learn the truth soon. In all reality, Volkswagen probably...
View ArticlePorsche Wants To Get in On Some of That Classic Porsche Action
Porsche announced Friday that it opened its first classic Porsche center in the Netherlands, the first among nearly 100 centers that will sell, service and make money on maintain old sports cars. The...
View ArticleParts Giant Pep Boys Has New Suitor in Carl Icahn
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn disclosed a 12-percent ownership stake in Pep Boys and said that Auto Plus, a competitor which he owns, should consider buying the retail parts giant, Bloomberg...
View ArticleIs the Classic Sports Car Bubble About to Burst?
During the last week, much has been written about the “Driven By Disruption” auction Dec. 10 by RM Auction/Sotheby’s. Most of that reporting was about Janis Joplin’s Porsche, which sold for a mildly...
View ArticleSteven Lang And Doug DeMuro Debate Carmax
Earlier this week I wrote about how CarMax is heavily constrained by a market that has flip-flopped between six years worth of heavy car sales and about 18 months of resurgent truck and SUV demand....
View ArticlePep Boys Agrees to $947M Bid From Bridgestone
Bridgestone will buy Pep Boys for $947 million, shunning a competing bid from investor Carl Icahn, to complete its purchase of the auto parts chain, Bloomberg reported (via Automotive News). The...
View ArticleTTAC News Round-up: How Low Can Oil Go, IROC an El Camino, and What’s Buick...
A picture is worth a thousand words, or millions of dollars worth of cars not built by the United Auto Workers. That, and Buick is planning a surprise for Detroit, oil prices are ever-so-slightly up, a...
View ArticleCarl Icahn Definitely, Probably Secures Purchase of Pep Boys, Maybe
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: Billionaire investor, activist and horse racing enthusiast Carl Icahn bid to buy Pep Boys on Tuesday for just over $1 billion, outpricing Japanese tire giant...
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