Today’s Test Drive with Steve is a 2009 Chevrolet Express 2500.  This 3/4 ton work cargo van comes equipped with air conditioning and a large cargo area.  E Track lines the interior of cargo area to aid in securing your load.  More than one available.  Full details can be found here on our Broadmoor Motor website.

This Test Drive with Steve is a 2001 Dodge Ram 1500 Conversion Van done by Chariot called Regent.  This is a one owner vehicle that has a lot of great extra features including heated front seats.

Check out all the details here on Broadmoor Motors website.

Today’s Test Drive with Steve is a 2008 Ford E-350.  This 15 passenger van is perfect for church groups, sports groups, schools and youth groups.

As Steve and his Doppelgangers show, you can seat plenty of people safely and comfortably in this shuttle van.  It handles great and has lots of extras features.  Broadmoor Motors has three 15 passenger vans currently in their inventory and can be found here.

If you’re looking to rent instead of buy, Sign and Drive Rent-a-Car has 12 passenger vehicles available as well.

Today’s Test Drive with Steve is a 2007 Dodge Grand Caravan Rampvan.

Here at Broadmoor Motors, we understand that needing a specialized vehicle can put you in a difficult situation.  Sadly, we’ve seen all too often a person taken advantage of by businesses when a consumer is hard pressed to find a vehicle that meets their specific needs.  That’s why we strive not only to fit your needs but in your budget as well.

This vehicle has been converted by Viewpoint Mobility and customized for wheelchair accessibility.  The rear entry conversion makes parking more convenient and the floor has been lowered all the way to the front seat.  It seats 4 adults plus a wheelchair.  Full details on this 2007 Dodge Caravan Rampvan can be found our website.

We are located just minutes from the Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Caledonia, Michigan.

Few automakers have existed so long and so close to the precipice — or shown the uncanny ability to come back from the seeming dead.  But this week’s developments would suggest that the Swedish automaker will soon wind up on the automotive rust heap.

The news leaves a lot of folks wondering what will happen next, among them Saab car owners, the maker’s creditors and its employees. There’s relatively little in the kitty left to cover the carmaker’s debts, and a Saab spokesperson today told us warranty service has been “temporarily suspended.”

Even after filing for bankruptcy on Monday, Dutch businessman Victor Muller — who purchased Saab from General Motors in early 2010 and who has been serving as its chairman — remained surprisingly optimistic, telling the Dow Jones newswires:

“With a bankruptcy, it is now possible to start with a clean slate.”

Exactly what that means remains to be seen, as the bankrupt firm’s parent, Muller’s Swedish Automobile, or SWAN, said it would write off its investment in the automaker. 

There are signs others may see gold amidst the rust, however. The Swedish Ministry of Enterprise says it has received a “number of calls” from potential buyers of Saab’s remaining assets. Among those interested is Zhejiang Youngman Lotus, the ambitious Chinese automaker that had hoped to strike a deal with Saab to head off the Swedish company’s bankruptcy.

It ran into a brick wall in the form of General Motors, which made clear it didn’t want to create a new competitor for its own Chinese operations — GM being the largest automaker in the booming Asian market. Though it had sold off Saab in 2010, the U.S. company remained one of its biggest suppliers, providing engines and other parts for Saab’s 9-3 and 9-5 models and assembling the new 9-4X crossover vehicle at a GM plant in Mexico.

But Youngman could purchase Saab’s other assets — if it can figure out precisely what those are. There are the designs for the current Saab models, though it’s unclear what value they would have without GM’s cooperation. There’s also the next-generation Saab 9-3, which was going to migrate to an engine provided by BMW. 

There’s also the Saab name itself — although industry analysts see it as severely tarnished in light of the maker’s long-running death spiral. And a purchaser might still have to get approval to use the brand name from Swedish defense company Saab AB, which sold the automaker to GM a decade ago.

Saab started out as an aircraft manufacturer, originally known as Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget. A group of the company’s engineers, looking for ways to keep busy as defense spending collapsed, put together the company’s first automobile shortly after World War II.

Saab never developed a solid financial foundation. GM bought a 50 percent stake in 1989, acquiring the rest of the company 11 years later. GM decided it close or sell off Saab — along with three other North American brands — after emerging from bankruptcy in 2009.

Saab was set to close when Muller stepped in later that year. The deal was completed early in 2010 and gave Muller, among other things, Saab’s headquarters and assembly plant in Trollhattan, Sweden.

The Swedish carmaker earlier this year had raised some preliminary cash by selling its factory and other properties. What use they will be to anyone remains unclear. While the Saab assembly plant was one of GM’s most modern it is located far from the center of European automotive manufacturing and in a country with some of the Continent’s highest labor costs.

Part of the challenge for anyone interested in purchasing Saab assets is that it would also have to deal with both the Swedish government and the European Investment Bank, the latter having provided a 400 million euro loan to back the sale of Saab last year to what was then known as Spyker Cars.

The Swedish courts have already appointed two trustees to try to rescue whatever is possible from the ruins of Saab. Muller hinted he would like to see workers — who have gone unpaid for months — get something in time for the holidays, though that seems unlikely.

Despite its problems, Saab has maintained a small core of loyalists; U.S. sales totaled almost 4,000 units this year. The question is what will happen to those and previous buyers. Vehicles sold when GM owned the company should qualify for warranty service at GM dealers, according to several industry sources, but there could be hiccups in the short-term, and as for vehicles — like the new 9-4X — purchased after the sale, that could be another matter entirely. 

But for the moment, the news is bad for all Saab owners. Saab USA spokesperson Michele Tinson noted that, “all warranty coverage is now being suspended until we have further direction from the [bankruptcy] trustees.”

Even those older GM-built models are facing delays. Should a customer have an immediate problem, Tinson said, it will be “up to the discretion of the dealer” to decide whether to provide covered repairs or charge the owner.

via Bottom Line – A sad end to Saab’s story.

The new version of the supercar will be small, loaded with technology and easy on the environment. Honda wants to show what they aspire to be through this production.The plan of the company is to have more models unique to their Acura name, instead of spreading models across the two names. The goal is to make Acura’s image more upscale and elite just in time for Gen Y to buy their first upscale car.

But still, there is a need for affordability not just power and technology. This is not to say they won’t create high performance vehicles, but the way it will be done will be unique to Acura.

The new NSX will be a midengine two seater, and will be powered by a v6 gas-electric hybrid. There will be multiple electric motors that are independently controlled to improve the all wheel drive system and handling.

While photos haven’t been released yet, it has been said not to worry…it will be sleek and sexy. I guess we have to wait and see…

Other highly rated hybrids include the Ford Fusion Hybrid, Lincoln MKZ Hybrid, Lexus CT 200h and RX 450h, and of course the Toyota Prius.