Small SUVs Push Subcompact Car Sales Down in Europe
12 Jun 2014, 11:46 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / For the first time in 8 years, Europe's favorite vehicle segment might end its sales reign in 2014 due to the rising demand for lifestyle-oriented small crossovers. Forecasts hint that subcompa...
Owners of Recalled GM Vehicles Won't Be Compensated For Depreciation
12 Jun 2014, 07:57 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / An official statement from General Motors indicates that owners of recalled GM-branded cars will not receive any kind of compensation for lost value on their vehicles. However, the Detroit manufactu...
Americans Want to Pay More on Fuel For Better Roads
11 Jun 2014, 16:48 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / If you’ve ever been on California or Louisiana roads, you know how bad some of the highways are. You can consider yourself lucky if you can play a CD and keep your soda in the cup holder. Of c...
Salting Roads During Winter Kills Butterflies in the Summer
10 Jun 2014, 16:27 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Winter chill and heavy snow are long gone now, being replaced by sun, plants and butterflies. Speaking of these funky colored creatures, if you don't see as many of them as last year, some stud...
California Legacy License Plates Available For Pre-Order
10 Jun 2014, 16:15 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Good news, Golden State motorists! Assemblyman Mike Gatto successfully passed a bill that allows the DMV to rollout vintage black-and-yellow vehicle license plates that adorned American muscle from ...
Lincoln to Borrow 2015 Ford Mustang Platform
10 Jun 2014, 12:48 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / A Lincoln official declared in a recent interview that the Blue Oval's luxury brand is currently developing a number of new models, including a sporty model which will be underpinned by the all...
Toyota Researching Hovering Car Technology
10 Jun 2014, 12:22 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Yeah, don’t worry, the Jetson era is still way out of our reach, but Toyota is currently working on some new tech that will raise some of its cars a bit over the ground to increase efficiency....
Tesla Considers Patent Giveaway
9 Jun 2014, 10:07 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / This might come as a pretty surprising bit of news for most of the automotive industry, but the Palo Alto-based EV manufacturer recently hinted that the company may giveaway its patents sometime in ...
GM Lays Off 15 Employees Over Delayed Ignition Switch Scandal
9 Jun 2014, 07:33 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / According to the extremely "thorough, brutally tough" and "deeply troubling" Valukas report, the 13 fatally injured connected to GM's faulty ignition switches lead the autom...
Public Transportation Can Save You Over $10,000 per Year
5 Jun 2014, 16:40 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / It’s pretty obvious that riding the metro from home to work will save you cash, but no one did the math so far on a large scale to come up with some accurate figures. APTA (American Public Tra...
Another Study Shows Eco Tires Are Not that Efficient
5 Jun 2014, 14:46 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Ask a regular driver what are his measures for eco-driving and only a few will tell you they chose to switch for eco/fuel-saving tires among other options. Yes, in case you haven’t heard about...
New Scion Sedan and Hatchback Confirmed by Second Report
4 Jun 2014, 12:59 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Earlier this year we were telling you that Scion isn’t doing quite well and will probably come up with new models in its lineup. Although, it’s a brand aimed toward young clients, but th...
Intel Entering Self-Driving Cars Business With New Tech
2 Jun 2014, 18:18 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / With all this technology getting into our cars nowadays, there’s no wonder that many electronic and software giants started do develop an affinity for the auto industry. Google just unveiled i...
Paris Default Speed Limit Might Drop to 30 KM/H
2 Jun 2014, 13:21 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / And we thought Japan is the slowest country in the world for having a general speed limit set at 40 or 50 km/h (25-31 mph) on most of its roads, including highways and country lanes. But it seems li...
How to Draw a Pickup Truck
2 Jun 2014, 12:52 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Except for a few guys out there, who usually like 30-inch wheels or questionable suspension kits, people don’t talk about design too much when ordering themselves a pickup truck. However, the ...
New Investigation Shows Audi's Deep Nazi Involvements
31 May 2014, 12:08 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / It looks like there's a trend these days to dig up the past and find out which success companies now have been working for Hitler. Everyone knows the iconic VW Beetle was the Fuhrer's desi...
Everything You Need to Know About Powder Coating
31 May 2014, 11:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Being gifted with seeing all the colors of the light spectrum, humans started coloring things since ancient times, using different combinations of plant and rock dies. Now, we have dozens of solutio...
Ford Details Adaptive Steering System
30 May 2014, 10:39 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The American car manufacturer dropped the first details of its all-new generation steering technology. Slated to be incorporated across the Ford lineup within 12 months, the revamped system improves...
Dunlop Says Future Racecars Won’t Need to Pit for Fresh Tires Anymore
29 May 2014, 16:08 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / In case you’re new around here, sir John Boyd Dunlop, a Scottish veterinary surgeon invented the pneumatic tire principle in 1888 and made it popular years later, becoming one of the world&rsq...
Ford Selling Inflatable Safety Belt Technology to Other Automakers
29 May 2014, 15:07 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Cars have evolved a lot from their motorized wagon shape in the early days. We have comfortable chairs, electric everything, slipstream bodywork, 10 times the power and they can almost drive themsel...