For the second year in a row, the Chevrolet Colorado has won the Motor Trend Truck of the Year award. Motor Trend called it a “Jack-of-all-trades, a Swiss Army knife.” Jack-of-all-trades. Swiss Army knife. There are many descriptors for the…
Hyundai Genesis Launches As Company’s New Standalone Luxury Brand
Hyundai has announced it is launching a brand now global luxury brand, dubbed Genesis. The rebranding will see its current Genesis lineup break off and form its own, autonomous entity. Hyundai says its new Genesis brand will compete with the…
Toyota Tacoma Gets Back To The Future Concept
The Toyota Tacoma has become Back to the Future-ized. Toyota announced this week that it would celebrate October 21, 2015 – the date introduced in Back to the Future Part II – by recreating Marty McFly’s dream truck with a…
Volkswagen Scandal Hasn’t Really Harmed Reputation in Germany
The Volkswagen emissions scandal hasn’t really harmed the company’s reputation inside its home country, a new survey finds. Nearly two-thirds of Germans said that Volkswagen still makes “outstanding cars.” From Reuters: Sixty-five percent said they either fully or largely agreed…
Ferrari 290 MM Could Sell For Over $28M at Auction
A classic Ferrari built for Formula One legend Juan Manual Fangio could pull a whopping $28 million at auction – or maybe even more. According to Sotheby’s, the 1956 Ferrari 290 MM is one of the greatest, most original, and…
Tesla Cars 2015: 11,580 Vehicles Delivered in Q3
Tesla announced this month that it has delivered 11,580 cars in Q3 of 2015. This includes the company’s initial deliveries of Model X. Tesla said that although it had a week of planned production shutdown, the delivery level represented a…
Kia Sorento Recall Affects Hundreds of Thousands of Cars
Kia is recalling hundreds of thousands of Sorentos in order to replace the brake-shift interlock mechanism. According to the car company, excessive force applied to the gear shift lever, the brake-shift interlock mechanism may chip or crack. The recall affects…
BMW M2 Inspired By Models From Motor Racing History
BMW Group unveiled the new BMW M2 Coupe. The car features a high-performance six-cylinder in-line engine, rear-wheel-drive, and lightweight aluminum M Sport suspension. The first-ever #BMW #M2 Coupé commands power and demands attention. http://t.co/KTKSO4LvE3 http://t.co/xKHM27LmKj https://t.co/AnFNQFIe20 — BMW (@BMW) October 14,…
Honda CR-V Gets A 2016 ‘Special Edition’ Upgrade
Honda recently introduced the new special edition 2016 Honda CR-V. “After a major refresh for 2015 that brought a new powertrain, significantly enhanced exterior and interior styling and a long list of new standard and available features, the 2016 Honda…
Leonardo DiCaprio Is Making a Movie About the Volkswagen Emissions Scandal
Leonardo DiCaprio, a prominent environmentalist, is taking the Volkswagen emissions scandal to the big screen. The scandal is less than a month old, but DiCaprio’s production company Appian Way has acquired the rights to a book about it. The book…
Apple Car Coming in 2019, Per Report
Apple is turning up the heat on its automotive goals, and you can expect the first electric Apple car to ship in 2019. That’s the word from the Wall Street Journal, which quotes the ubiquitous people familiar with the matter.…
Google Tests Waze-Powered Ride Service
Google is testing a Waze-powered carpooling program in Israel, according to multiple reports. The service, called RideWith, will let people pay drivers a “small fee for a ride to and from work,” reports Reuters. The service launched today in Tel…
Google’s Self-Driving Cars Hit the Road
Last month, Google said it was almost ready to start testing its self-driving car prototypes on public roads, and that it would happen sometime this summer. Well, that time is now. A few cars from Google’s fleet are now cruising…
Google Self-Driving Cars Hit Public Roads This Summer
Google is almost ready to put its self-driving cars on public roads. According to the company, the “next step” in the project involves putting its prototypes on the roads of Mountain View this summer. Google’s self-driving cars will be capped…
Google Called Upon To Make Self-Driving Car Accident Reports Public
Google’s self-driving cars are coming under fire again as the Associated Press reported that four out of forty-eight of the cars Google has driving around California have gotten into accidents since September. As has been the case with previously reported…
Burt Reynolds To Auction ’77 Pontiac Trans Am From ‘Smokey And The Bandit’
One of the most iconic cars in American movie history will be on the auction block this month. This year’s Spring Carlisle Auction event will be auctioning off a restored 1977 Pontiac Trans Am owned by Burt Reynolds. Running from…
Kurt Russell’s Role In ‘Fast And Furious 7’ Suggests A New Direction For Franchise
Fast & Furious 7 ripped through the box office furiously this week, garnering a staggering $384 million in sales worldwide. The latest in the Fast franchise has been widely anticipated by fans not just for the ridiculously amazing car scenes…
Elon Musk Thinks Driving Could Be Outlawed at Some Point (Hopefully Not Though)
Will there ever come a day when it is actually illegal to get behind the wheel of a car and drive it yourself? Tesla founder and possible Terminator Elon Musk says yes, this is a distinct possibility. Musk made his…
Google Reveals First Real Self-Driving Car Prototype
Google unveiled what it says its its “first real build” of its self-driving vehicle prototype. Back in May, Google showed off an early mockup that eliminated the steering wheel and gas/brake pedals. But that didn’t even have real headlights. Now,…