(May 17, 2012) Academy Award winning director Martin Scorsese is joining Lord Richard Attenborough and Anthony Haas to produce the feature film drama SILVER GHOST. The project will be a co-production between Scorsese’s Sikelia Productions and Zuma Productions.

SILVER GHOST will tell the story of motoring pioneer Lord John Douglas-Scott Montagu of Beaulieu, his wife Cis and his secret love affair with his secretary and mistress, Eleanor Velasco Thornton.

(May 16, 2012) David Sargent, vice president of global automotive at J.D. Power and Associates noted in his recent blog that Automotive News and German trade newsletter Automobil Produktion reported that German luxury automaker BMW and South Korea’s Hyundai Group are discussing a possible tie-up or alliance to develop and produce engines, where both automakers would share costs equally.

(May 16, 2012) DETROIT — There’s nothing inherently funny about converting scrap Chevrolet Volt battery covers into wildlife habitats such as wood duck nesting boxes to bat houses,  but it makes pretty good cartoon fare just the same.

Instead of sending that material to a landfill, GM reuses it to benefit wildlife, creating more than 150 of them so far at designated wildlife habitat areas surrounding its facilities, as well as other U.S. locations where GM environmental engineers work alongside students and community groups to convert them.

(May 16, 2012) Here’s one chariot that looks set to swing low for the rest of 2012, as it gets crammed to the roof and beyond with rugby players.

As the competitive rugby season is kicked into touch, Chevrolet is calling local amateur and semi-professional rugby clubs across the UK to tackle a new kind of challenge, by squeezing as many of their players as possible into the New Aveo, at dealers across the UK, in a bid to win new kit and rugby goodies for their team.

(May 16, 2012) The Porsche 918 Spyder is on the road. Driving trials of the super sports car of the future has progressed a step further with completion of the initial prototypes. The 918 Spyder will go into production at the end of September 2013 as planned, with the first customers receiving their vehicles before the end of that year.

(May 16, 2012) SMYRNA, Tenn. — It has been 20 years since the first Nissan Altima rolled off the line in Smyrna. Yesterday, more than 4.4 million Altimas later, Nissan celebrated another milestone: production of the top-selling vehicle's fifth generation.

(May 15, 2012) The 2013 Chevrolet Malibu Eco, a midsize hybrid; the 2012 Hyundai Azera, a large family sedan; and the 2012 Toyota Prius c, a small hybrid, have earned the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's top award for good performance in front, side, rollover and rear impact evaluations.

The Malibu Eco is a redesigned model. The 2012 Malibu continues to be sold and also is a Top Safety Pick.

(May 15, 2012) LONDON — Olympic gold medallist and BMW London 2012 Performance team member Mark Lewis-Francis joined sports scientist Professor Greg Whyte on the Mall in London to investigate the parallels between the acceleration of a world class sprinter and a BMW.

(May 15, 2012) The all-new Volvo V40 has received a warm welcome from the fleet industry just as order books open in Europe. Leasing companies and future value guides who have already had detailed previews of the V40 are positive about Volvo's new small five-door hatchback with residual values, demand and desirability all predicted as being strong.

(May 15, 2012) The gap between racetrack and family has finally been filled. The 2013 Ford Taurus SHO with Performance Package is the ride of choice for anyone looking to burn rubber after work in the same car she uses to drive to parent-teacher conferences.