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25 Oct 2022, 09:33 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / You are peacefully driving at night when you see a Tesla Model 3 crash and climb a bollard. Thanks to your dash cam, you have recorded the incident and thought it was curious enough to publish it on YouTube to share with some friends. A few days la...
24 Oct 2022, 21:51 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In the name of selling anything, we sometimes see commercials that defy logic. If they are fun and evoke good memories, they can even catch our attention. That is the case with an old Brazilian advertisement to promote the Mitsubishi Lancer. The Ja...
24 Oct 2022, 21:06 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Abarth is normally associated with Fiat because the Italian brand bought it in 1971. Before that, Carlo Abarth also prepared vehicles from Porsche, Simca, Lancia, and Alfa Romeo. Despite that, all recent Abarth vehicles are from Fiat. The next one ...
24 Oct 2022, 15:38 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Good commercials entertain while promoting any given product. The exceptional ones can be used to discuss more than one subject. Just check this one aired in 2010 in the Netherlands: it shows an old lady selling her Volkswagen Golf. While the fathe...
24 Oct 2022, 14:20 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The electric Corolla is finally out in the woods. Toyota presented in China the bZ3, the company’s second electric vehicle designed to be one. Before the bZ4X, the company only sold or leased electric cars based on combustion-engined projects...
24 Oct 2022, 11:06 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / With the semiconductor crisis, inflation, and the rising cost of raw materials, any automaker reducing prices is either a miracle or a necessity. Tesla just cut the price tags for the Model 3 and Model Y made and sold in China by up to RMB37,000 ($...
22 Oct 2022, 19:06 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / There are car markets that see old vehicles renovated over and over instead of being replaced by more modern cars. Brazil was one of them. In 2011, it still sold the Volkswagen Kombi (a T1.5, or a mix of the T1 and T2 Bus) and the Fiat Uno, which w...
22 Oct 2022, 10:33 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The magic carpet ride reached consumers when Paul Magés conceived the hydropneumatic suspension that made the Citroën DS an extraordinary piece of machinery in the 1950s. After that, other carmakers pursued the same path of comfort, and...
22 Oct 2022, 06:59 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Pontius Pilate washed his hands to escape guilt when Jesus was condemned to die on the cross. The Roman governor doubted that the Nazarene deserved the death penalty but would be in trouble if he just released Him. In Euro NCAP’s recent issue...
21 Oct 2022, 16:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If you grew up watching Wacky Races, you must be pretty happy to have learned it will make a comeback as a stop-motion series. If you have no idea what it is, you ended up here by accident: no one who loves cars has failed to meet Mutley, Penelope ...
21 Oct 2022, 10:02 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Renault developed the CMF-A platform, the first vehicle to get it was the Renault Kwid. Nissan later used the architecture to create the Magnite, a car it sells in India and some other countries. Mitsubishi showed it wants a slice of that mark...
20 Oct 2022, 19:34 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / You have already heard about Mullen more than once here with us. It presented the Five electric SUV at the 2021 LA Auto Show. More recently, it bought Bollinger, which will allow that startup to produce the B1 and B2. If you have never read about t...
19 Oct 2022, 22:06 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Hon Hai’s CEO assured his audience that the Taiwanese giant “is not in the business of selling its own EV brand.” That means we will never see a Foxtron for sale. Despite that, Young Liu presented two new Foxtron vehicles at the H...
19 Oct 2022, 17:31 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On October 6, Volvo disclosed that the EX90 would be its first EV to present bidirectional charging. That means it will be able not only to draw electricity from the grid but also to give it back to the grid, a house, or electric equipment and appl...
19 Oct 2022, 15:31 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Hon Hai Tech Day (HHTD) is celebrated on October 18 every year: it is Terry Guo’s birthday. The company’s founder always says that new vehicles are his best birthday gift, which was no different with HHTD22. One of the vehicles pres...
19 Oct 2022, 10:01 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Luxgen presented the n7, we told our readers it was just a badge-engineered Foxtron Model C. It was going to hit the market before the original vehicle, which seemed quite unfair. Young Liu just clarified that at the Hon Hai Tech Day 2022 (HHT...
18 Oct 2022, 18:01 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We often hear about supercomputers and how much they save time by processing billions of calculations much faster than a regular computer would. What few people know is that supercomputers are already outdated: quantum computing is the new Holy Gra...
18 Oct 2022, 14:55 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Elon Musk said the Semi would reach its first customer – Pepsico – on December 1. While Tesla investors celebrated that it only took the company five years to deliver its Class 8 electric truck, others seized the announcement to make fu...
17 Oct 2022, 21:41 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The refreshed Tesla Model S and Model X took quite a while to reach other markets. The Model S Plaid was introduced in June 2021 in the U.S., but it has only come to China recently. The same will happen with them in Europe, where the Model S and Mo...
17 Oct 2022, 17:53 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Tesla Semi made some headlines this past week. Elon Musk said it is finally going to be delivered by December, more than two years after the initial deadline. His critics thought it was suspiciously close to a pressing need for him to sell a to...