Cadillac Press Conference

I am a guest of GM at the North American Auto show here in Detroit. Cadillac will be revealing their new large sedan. Watch it live here on January 12, 2010 8:40 – 9:05 a.m. Eastern. It will also be here for you to watch at your convenience after the live press conference. [...]

Roadtrip – 2010 Golf TDI

I just took delivery of a blue four-door Golf TDI with VW’s Direct Shift Gearbox (DSG®) and will be piloting it to the 2010 Detroit Auto show from Northern NJ. To give you real feedback from the car, my co-driver and I will be using Twitter to tweet our thoughts about the car from the road. If my initial impression from my trip to Germany is any indication, the TDI should get high marks during this trip. But, as they say, there is nothing like a long road trip to make a car show its true colors. Ok, THEY don’t really say that, I say that…but it really is true. [...]

My Car Should Be an iCar!

With all the news coming from the Consumer Electronics show and the arrival of more and more technology in our vehicles, they are becoming so advanced that many of the target customers won’t be able to use them. So I posed this question to the college student that interns for us in my other job. What does Gen Y expect from their vehicle? Is all this cool and amazing technology wasted on the older people that can actually afford the vehicles it comes in? Here is what he has to say. [...]

OnStar Reveals Mobile App for Volt

January 6, 2009 – Chevrolet and GM’s OnStar revealed a slick new application for mobile phones at the Consumer Electronics Show last night. Designed to work on the iPhone, Droid and Blackberry Storm, the application will allow owners of the upcoming Chevrolet Volt to interact with their vehicle from their mobile device. [...]