Jamaica Gleaner Auto

Published: Monday Sunday | November 15, 2009

MINI comes of age
GROOVY British spy Austin Powers' free spirit and crushed velvet suits complemented his Mini in the 2002 flick Goldmember. Read More...

Karting season races for exciting finish
IT IS official. Montego Bay's Dean Corrodus has been declared the Jamaica Millennium Motoring Club Rally Sport Driver of the year while Clarendonian Christopher Campbell was recently named Dover's champion driver. Read More...

Maintaining good traction
Traction and visibility are more related than we commonly believe."Many situations involving reduced visibility are worsened by poor traction," says auto mechanic S. Wright. Read More...

E10 stalls classic cars
Classic car owners need a road map. This is so, as no clear solution seems to be in sight to the group's predicament with the Government's recent move to distribute ethanol-blended fuel. Read More...

Motorists still have E10 jitters
Despite Petrojam's assurances, several motorists are distrusting the virtues of the ethanol-based fuel."Based on my research, it cannot work with a GDI engine," said Paul Ashman, who drives a 2002 Mitsubishi Galant.Ashman, 47, said he spent hours... Read More...

Porsche posts losses
BERLIN (AP): Porsche Automobil Holding SE on Thursday reported a small net profit for the past financial year, but said it had a large pretax loss because of costs related to its attempted take-over of Volkswagen AG. Read More...

Daimler eyes US market
NEW YORK (AP):The battered US auto market will eventually see sales return to levels posted before the economic meltdown, but not for at least another two to three years, the chairman of German automaker Daimler AG said Thursday.Dieter Zetsche also said... Read More...