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The technical reality of autonomous cars is coming sooner than you think, but societal acceptance of autonomous cars may be some way off. Technologies such as adaptive cruise control and lane-keeping assist make the tip of this iceberg among production cars, while Google has already done extensive testing of an autonomous car system. Automakers are [...]
In three years, the Subaru Impreza will hail from Indiana. Subaru imports today’s Impreza, which competes with the Honda Civic, Ford Focus and other compact cars, from Japan. Its sole U.S. plant in Lafayette, Ind., builds the larger Legacy sedan, the Outback wagon and a few Tribeca SUVs. It also builds the Camry sedan in [...]
BMW recalls 220,000 2002-2003 3 Series cars over an airbag problem. The same issue prompted five other major automakers to recall 3.4 million vehicles, Honda, Infiniti, Lexus, Nissan, and Toyota. The recall applies worldwide with 42,080 of these located in the United States. For DetroitNews, BMW spokesman Dave Buchko said the automaker knew of no [...]
Normally, when one mentions any reference to the word “Hybrid”, shudders and torturous visuals of older generation Toyota Prii (plural of Prius) come to mind; and for myself especially, it’s like a panic attack of automotive question marks combined with a dose of sore eyes. Fortunately, the world moves on, as does that of the [...]
China’s Central Military Commission, which is headed by President Xi Jinping himself, has banned the use of military license plates for a long list of vehicles, most of them belonging in the luxury segment. This, according to the PLA (People’s Liberation Army) Daily, the country’s armed forces official newspaper, has been done in order to [...]
Episode 17, When your airbag is your enemy Subscribe: iTunes (HD) | iTunes (SD) | iTunes (HQ) RSS (HD) | RSS (SD) | RSS (HQ) Way back in May 2005, I did what I believe was our first car tech video: a look at the 2005 Acura RL. It was like this thing from Mars had dropped on the [...]
When one’s mind turns toward performance Audi’s, initial thought usually conjures up images of the glorious Quattro’s from the 80′s, R8′s and countless hyper luxury cars carrying the famous ‘RS‘ designation. I’ll be the first to admit for having a soft spot for them – especially the now superseded ballistic twin-turbo V10 RS6 (and gosh [...]
April’s fastest-selling cars mixed luxury models with recent redesigns and, oddly enough, a few oldies. The Audi Q5 and Q7 — frequent speedy sellers despite their age — met the likes of the BMW X3, Land Rover Range Rover, Mercedes-Benz GL-Class and Lincoln MKZ. A couple 2014 redesigns also made the list: the Subaru Forester [...]
Nissan and Ford led a strong month for the auto industry, with sales up 23.2% at Nissan and 17.9% at Ford thanks to big gains among both carmakers’ strongest sellers. Nissan Altima sales gained 35.4% while Ford Escape sales spiked 52% — despite similar year-over-year incentives on both and lower dealership supply for the [...]
Car salesmen in America don’t offer beers before a test drive, nor would they ever tell a customer to leave because “it’s not a good day.” But there are fewer rules to break in South Africa, where we recently drove seven of the worst new cars from China, India, Malaysia, and Germany—ja, really—to see if [...]
Earlier this week, news broke that Chicago up-and-comer Lil Reese was arrested in his hometown while snoozing in his car. Although it turned out that the car aspect of the story was incidental to the actual arrest – Reese was actually knocked for battery and trespassing charges – the news got us thinking about how [...]
Tesla will use its Model S Performance cars as loaners. (Credit: Wayne Cunningham/CNET) Tesla announced today that it would offer its high-end Model S Performance edition, with an 85 kilowatt-hour battery pack, and the Roadster as loaner cars for when owners’ cars are being serviced. As Tesla sells cars directly to owners, the company, rather [...]
Drivers on Interstate 90 in the Coeur d’Alene area in Idaho had the fright of their life this past Sunday (April 21, 2013), when a Kia sedan driving erratically was involved in at least five accidents and plenty of near misses with other road-users, some of whom were driven off the highway. Kon Shiva, the [...]
I firmly believe that the 1960s marked the peak of automotive design, and the Jaguar E-Type, or XKE as it’s known in the US, is one of the finest examples of the era. No matter how hard Jaguar will try to “revive” it through the F-Type, they have failed to do so simply because modern [...]