(May 17, 2012) DEARBORN, Mich. — Aimed squarely at the Toyota Prius v wagon, Ford dealers are starting to take orders for the 2013 Ford C-MAX Hybrid.
 
The C-MAX is a compact hybrid utility vehicle and the company’s first dedicated line of hybrids. The 2013 C-MAX Hybrid will be available this fall with a base price of $25,995 — approximately $500 lower than the Toyota Prius v’s base price.

(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) 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) 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.