Happy 4th!

 

Nothing to really post Auto news wise,just wanted to wish every one a safe

4th of July to celebrate the country's birthday.

see you next week.

Joe

Tesla sedan on the way

Tesla Motors has announced plans to introduce a 4 door sedan based on its electric motor technology.

I loathe to link to Endgadget but will try to hold down my food this one time….

Our favorite Terminator (and Governor of California) Arnold Schwarzenegger has just helped Tesla Motors make an announcement that's probably sending chills through traditional automaker's boardrooms. The company has just introduced a fully-electric, five passenger sports sedan dubbed the Model S, which will be selling for $60,000, and will manage 225 miles on a full charge. The carmaker says it will produce the vehicles in a brand new manufacturing plant it's opening in Northern California. We're on the ground at the announcement right now -- no pictures or release date have surfaced yet, but you'll know more as soon as we do.

There’s not much more than this in the Link, but go ahead and hop over if you want to see it first hand.

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Chevy Traverse now available

The Chevy Traverse isn’t anything new when compared to its cousins in the GM stable, but what it does share is the excellent interior room and utility with its cousins in the generals line up.

The big question here is the same being presented to the other big crossovers in the market, with gas prices at record levels, the public has reacted by flocking to smaller compact and subcompact cars.

There’s always a need for a roomy and well executed vehicle, it’s just a matter of finding  a balance between utility and good gas mileage.

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FIA prepares to Battle Bernie

From Autoweek.....

The FIA World Motor Sport Council has started a review of the way Formula One is governed. It also announced a projected revival of Formula Two next season as a new, low-cost F1 feeder series.
Both moves are seen as direct challenges to Bernie Ecclestone’s F1 group, which holds the commercial rights to Grand Prix racing through 2110, and acquired the GP2 Series in August last year.
Ecclestone’s attempts to put a new commercial agreement in place with the FIA and the teams are being thwarted by Max Mosley. The Concorde Agreement expired in December 2007, but the FIA president has declined to sign a new one and has accused Ecclestone of using the previous agreements to exercise control over the sport.
As for F2, insiders wonder how the FIA can possibly create a new category within a few short months, and how it can possibly achieve its objective of operational costs of $310,000 per car.

 

This is just what Formula 1 needs, the FIA deciding that it needs to exercise more control over the worlds most successful racing series.

This stinks of a power struggle, the FIA seems to exercise too much power and influence over F1 as it is, there can be an argument made that Bernie Ecclestone has hurt as much as helped F1, but the last thing needed is Max Mosley playing God with the F1 circus.