Volvo, with help from its Chinese owner Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, plans to start exporting Chinese-made cars to the United States and Russia as early as next year, said a Volvo executive, who requested anonymity because he is not authorized to speak with the media.
By Todd Woody
Is Elon Musk out to save world or dominate it? Both, it seems, given today’s announcement that the electric-car entrepreneur and space pioneer intends to build the world’s largest solar panel factory in New York so he can sell you carbon-free electricity to power your home and car in a bid to push fossil fuels off the power grid.
While the official Nürburgring lap record for road legal cars belongs to Porsche 918 Spyder with a time under 7 minutes, there is another hot category for front-wheel drive cars that for a while belonged to Renault Megane Trophy with a time of 8:07.9.
That’s likely to be the underlying theme of many of the questions thrown at the automaker’s CEO when she’s in front of Congress for a second time Wednesday. A House subcommittee is investigating GM’s mishandled recall of millions of small cars for a deadly defect in ignition switches.
Do you remember the classic Fiat 128 Sport Coupe, manufactured between 1971-1975?
