Rolls Royce and Land Rover, as well as Italian sports car maker Ferrari and economy-focused automaker Suzuki, have told show officials they will not have displays at the North American International Auto show this year.

Detroit show officials could not be reached for comment, but Sam Locricchio, a vice president at John Bailey & Associates Inc., confirmed the automakers would not have a presence this year.

John Bailey & Associates is a public-relations firm that handles communications for the auto show.

As for other changes to the show this year, Locricchio said it was unclear exactly how the rest of the show's attendees would tailor their displays to respond to the auto industry's significant struggles.
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Seller: Volo Auto Museum Address: 27582 Volo Village Road City: Volo State: Illinois Country: USA Price: $14,998 Date Added: August 19, 2008 Expiration: December 17, 2008 Link: http://www.volocars.com/...htm Views: 272 Description: Incredible original condition! Factory built. Rare 4 SEATER. Built by ALLISON DAYTONA. Its their touring deluxe, the Cadillac and Ferrari of Dune Buggies. Cost new $ 4,480 , thats not much less than a Corvette! This Buggys really in impressive condition. One owner for 27 years pampered and maintained very well. Finish is slick as glass. Original aluminum wheels are polished like new and still have the original tires as pictured in the original brochure!  read more »

It's not every day you can see a Ferrari California Spyder leading a Cadillac V16 in a slow parade onto the 18th green at Pebble Beach Golf Course, but the image above is just one of many great sights and sounds I experienced over the past three days.

The 2008 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance was a celebration of cars from as far back as 1896, though most of the vehicles that caught my eye were from 1960 or newer. However, seeing several examples of the Cadillac V16 gave me a new appreciation for the brand's history. Would love to see GM's permier division produce a 16-cylinder engine for the 21st Century. Various economic and geopolitical issues suggest that's unlikely...  read more »

Yesterday evening we saw the Specter Werkes C6 Corvette GTR make its public debut here at Cauley Ferrari in West Bloomfield, MI. It's rare to have the chance to cover a car from its earliest concept sketches , through the build process and all the way until its public unveiling. But yesterday evening we completed that cycle with the Specter Werkes' special Corvette.  read more »

Matt Farah and Mike Spinelli discuss the Ferrari California, The V10 that's about to fall into the R8, McLaren and Mercedes new supercars, the 9FF GT9, and the record holding Cadillac CTS-V. -Garage419

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Chrysler refuels America, Cadillac builds a two-wheeler and the countdown to a new Ferrari continues. And stay tuned for our next installment of Fast Lane Daily at Supercar Life. Hosted by Derek DeAngelis. Source: youtube We need your comments below >>

The Detroit (well, actually South Bend) machine put up a good fight against the Detroit-powered British Leyland product yesterday, but it's tough to beat a PCH Superpower and thus the voters gave the victory to the V8/IRS MGB-GT in yesterday's poll. But are we giving up on America as a credible PCH contender? Hell no! That's the thinking behind today's Detroit-versus-Paris matchup, and we'll see how things sort out. Big American pushrod V8s are always cool when installed in a European car- just look at the Jensen Interceptor or Facel Vega to see what we mean. However, the nature of Project Car hell is such that you need to drop your crude-yet-potent cast-iron powerplant into a car whose designers never imagined such a combination in all their wildest opium dreams. You could just pick out the car and do the entire swap from scratch, but it's far more insane fun to start with someone else's half-finished project! Say, this 1967 Peugeot 404 (go here if the ad disappears), which has been equipped with a 280Z front subframe and is- in theory- set up for a small-block Chevy engine. Holy power-to-weight ratio, a 404 with a rip-snortin' 383 crate motor would sure be something, eh? Or you could forget about the Chevy and put a Chrysler 383 in there! Let your imagination run wild... and you'll have plenty of time to do that, what with all the fabricating and parts chasing you'll be doing with this project. A psychotic V8 Peugeot would be a welcome edition to the garage, but sometimes you and your entourage need to make a good impression when you roll up to Nickel Nick's Hot Slots Casino in North Las Vegas, and we mean the kind of impression that only a one-of-a-kind custom limousine can deliver. Forget those stretch Hummers or even a stretch Ferrari , folks, because now you have the opportunity to buy this custom limo assembled from 1976 and 1982 Corvettes (go here if the ad disappears)! We'll admit it needs some work (and we don't just mean a couple of hours of quick Bondoization), and you might want to take a good hard look at the frame welds before taking it out on a public street... but look at this thing! Imagine it with a roof made of something sturdier than duct tape and trashbags and an interior fully decked out with a full bar, Sno-Cone machine, cocktail-table Missile Command arcade game, and Max Mosley Edition swagger-stick storage locker! You'll have class and plenty of it when you and your crew roll in this baby, no doubt about it! Of course, since it's already set up for a V8 engine, you won't have too much trouble putting a Maximum Torque Specialties Cadillac 500 under the hood. Got to be a Cadillac engine in a Corvette limo, right?  read more »

Ferrari wagon-izations and hypercars bathed in magnetizing yellow are just a couple hints the Sultan of Brunei is perhaps the most Jalopnik head of state in the whole world. Like us, he seems to have a maddening obsession with odd cars. However, what sets him apart is his seemingly unending pot of money with which to manifest his wildest automotive fantasies.  read more »