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31 Oct 2022, 17:17 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / There was a time when superminis still had a shot in the global market. The electric shift and shrinking profit margins condemned them to oblivion: Ford was simply the first one to admit that with the Fiesta. To celebrate the times when people with...
31 Oct 2022, 13:48 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / You do not have to understand a word of Portuguese to get most of a commercial that was pretty famous in Brazil around 2011. Nissan was trying to get a larger share of the pickup truck market in that country – dominated by the Toyota Hilux &n...
31 Oct 2022, 10:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Over the years, we have collected stories of people who decided to buy Tesla Solar or the Tesla Roof. They often complain that the installation presents problems, water leaks, or that the company simply vanishes when they need assistance. This Tesl...
30 Oct 2022, 17:38 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / AC/DC once started a song by saying, “she was a fast machine; she kept her motor clean.” “You Shook Me All Night Long” must have made it into thousands of commercials just because of that, but we doubt that this song ever fo...
29 Oct 2022, 10:54 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We recently wrote about a brilliant old Audi commercial promoting the German automaker while praising its main competitors. One thing is to recognize what other companies do well. A completely different one is to fund them, even if indirectly. GM p...
28 Oct 2022, 21:10 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Alfa Romeo has always been praised for the beauty of its cars. BMW has a long tradition of sportiness and handling. Mercedes-Benz is considered a synonym for luxury and comfort, while Volvo is recognized for selling safe vehicles. In such an enviro...
28 Oct 2022, 16:06 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla promised to sell a $25,000. It is not here. The EV maker also said it would offer an electric pickup truck, the Cybertruck. So far, it didn’t. We only mentioned the American EV maker because we could not miss the chance to show that Gee...
28 Oct 2022, 10:57 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Speed Racer is probably one of the most popular race cartoons ever made. Years after being shot, people still talk about it or fall in love with the Mach 5. The Volkswagen Golf GTI is also a known name among hot hatchbacks. Volkswagen once managed ...
27 Oct 2022, 23:37 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / QuantumScape has been promising to present not only a solid-state platform that will work with any lithium-ion chemistry. It also stated that it would have a proprietary format that would have to work with its technology. The company just did that ...
27 Oct 2022, 22:25 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It seems the U.S. government is not going after Tesla only in the criminal sphere. After Reuters disclosed that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating the company for stating they are more autonomous than they really are – something...
27 Oct 2022, 21:17 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On October 25, we brought our readers what seemed to be the first video showing how “whompy wheels” act in a Tesla vehicle. A crash in Sandbach, UK, was filmed by a passerby with a dashcam, and it shows the right front wheel was broken ...
27 Oct 2022, 17:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Pigeons and cars have been enemies for ages. Just wash your vehicle with tenderness, love, and care and park it to watch crappy attacks from these flying vandals to all your work and your car’s paint job. Leave the mess pigeons generated with...
27 Oct 2022, 13:24 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Green NCAP has the goal of offering car buyers a trustworthy reference for choosing the cleanest vehicle for their budgets. We have pointed out several flaws in the rankings provided by the organization present, but a new concern makes us even more...
26 Oct 2022, 21:08 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is investigating Tesla due to cars on Autopilot crashing against emergency vehicles. The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) also accused the company of falsely advertising the capabi...
26 Oct 2022, 18:46 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When the Peugeot 206 was first presented in 1999, it caused a frisson – to keep things as French as they should be. Anyone old enough will remember how car buyers wanted to have one as soon as the supermini was available in their countries. P...
26 Oct 2022, 13:54 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / There was a time when it was cool to have a Tesla. The company did not even need marketing efforts to sell its vehicles, its service centers were praised by customers, and the Supercharging network made road trips possible with EVs (even if longer ...
26 Oct 2022, 11:15 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Oil is a finite resource. A while ago, it was said that we only had around 50 years of reserves, which showed we needed to find alternative energy sources. Despite that, some people still find it strange to drive electric cars. What if everything w...
25 Oct 2022, 21:50 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Tesla is not a company that tests disguised prototypes. We have never seen one, mainly because the EV maker is not a fan of testing. If that were the case, Elon Musk would probably present the vehicle to start collecting preorders way before it was...
25 Oct 2022, 18:29 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Toyota revealed the new bZ3, it also published a picture that seemed just an old teaser for that electric sedan. It had the same lines, such as the beltline with a sort of higher step when it approaches the C-pillar towards the trunk. However,...
25 Oct 2022, 15:32 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When you are telling a story, it is crucial to make sense. This is why the Mitsubishi Lancer commercial using the “Back to the Future” movie as a background did not impress me, even if it has millions of fans. When you do not have that ...