article thumbnail

2023 Toyota Prius Limited Review – Finally a Worthy Choice

The Truth About Cars

To be sure, the Prius is no sports car. A road trip to Detroit and back wasn’t too punishing. liter four-cylinder/electric motor pairing – 194 horsepower now for front-wheel drive models like my test car, and 139 lb-ft of torque for all models – erases the pokiness of the past and brings the car up to date.

Prius 111
article thumbnail

The Right Spec: 2024 Ford Mustang

The Truth About Cars

The venerable Mustang is new for 2024, becoming the last man standing from Detroit after the Challenger and Camaro shuffle off this mortal coil. Blithering masculinity aside, your author realizes the four-banger belts out roughly 315 horsepower for this year, a healthy number and leagues ahead of the Fox-bodied cars so desired as a teenager.

Ford 119
article thumbnail

Junkyard Find: 1978 Chrysler LeBaron Coupe

The Truth About Cars

The LeBaron name goes well back in Chrysler history, starting when the coachbuilder known as LeBaron Carrossiers was purchased by Detroit car-body-builder Briggs Manufacturing in 1926 and Chrysler bought Briggs in 1953. Here's one of those cars, found in a Denver boneyard recently. Worth restoring? Not in this condition.

article thumbnail

Junkyard Find: 1948 Dodge Custom Sedan

The Truth About Cars

For a few years after the end of World War II, Detroit's automakers sold mildly facelifted prewar designs while they made the switch back to peacetime production. The '48 Dodge looked old-fashioned in its day, and so I shot this photograph with an Ansco Memo camera (which was made to shoot then-cheap 35mm movie film) from the late 1920s.

Dodge 98
article thumbnail

Ford expects inner combustion engine quantity, earnings to develop thru 2025

Baua Electric

DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. The ones enlargement plans are pushed by means of the corporate’s center of attention on successful automobile sections and high-margin, cheap derivatives. Kumar Galhotra, head of Ford Blue, mentioned benefit margins from combustion automobiles will develop from 7.2 these days to a minimum of 10 p.c

Ford 52
article thumbnail

Report finds US automakers remain profitable under future CAFE standards even with fuel price fluctuation

Green Car Congress

When gas is very cheap, people tend to buy bigger, more profitable trucks. Standards that encourage making more fuel-efficient cars also offer a hedge against gas-price spikes. In that event, the Detroit Three automakers could lose 300,000 vehicle sales, $1.08 With gas at $1.80 billion in profits, and 1.9

Standards 170
article thumbnail

2024 Nissan Titan Priced at $45,770

The Truth About Cars

This author tested the then-newly revised Titan for the 2020 model year and was on the cusp of palming the keys to one before being seduced by a hilariously cheap two-year lease deal (remember those?) Get the latest news, features, TTAC takes, and everything else that gets to the truth about cars first by subscribing to our newsletter.

Nissan 52