Tag archive: Car

Quickly snowballing across Tumblr blogs and Facebook pages this week, Something Awful writer Jon Hendren started retweeting the posts from his followers about unwanted Christmas gifts ranging from iPads to cars. Obviously pointing out the spoiled nature of the posts, Hendren's list of tweets continued to grow over Christmas and started to get reposted in graphic format across the Web. Tweets ranged from complaints about receiving… Read More

Lit with bright overheard fluorescents and littered with massive wooden crates the size of backyard sheds, GM’s R&D garage feels less like a hangout for grease monkeys and more like a Hollywood sound stage. The sleek, pod-shaped vehicles dotting the floor could be movie props. – or perhaps leftovers from Blade Runner or Total Recall, maybe. Until they sit up, almost silently, and begin moving. On two wheels no less. The EN-V concept… Read More

While BMW ConnectedDrive has been tying technology like mobile phones or GPS navigation into the driving experience for over a decade, BMW is taking a new step toward a future where vehicles can communicate with other vehicles to provide assistance to the driver. Aptly called Car-to-X communication, the new technology from BMW is designed to provide a safer driving experience. For instance, a driver that starts signaling for a left turn on a… Read More

Although being asleep at the wheel of a car is a situation that wants to be avoided – especially if it’s moving along at the time – it is something that could one day be a not altogether uncommon sight on roads around the world, if scientists at Oxford University have their way. The team of scientists have equipped a Bowler Wildcat car with cameras, radar and lasers to help it “see” the world around it. Project leader Professor Paul… Read More

The automotive industry is going through some very public growing pains. People are choosing to share cars, carpool, invest in repairs versus buying new vehicles or just do without a car altogether. And the consumers who are hoofing it most often are college students. While there are benefits (your health, the savings, and the environment being the obvious few), there always comes a time when you find yourself wishing you had a car—even for just… Read More

All the talk about the hazards of using a cell phone while driving a car must have passed straight over the head of Brit David Secker. Perhaps he simply got confused about the idea of using a cell phone hands-free. Whatever the case, the 34-year-old was caught by police using not one, but two mobile devices while driving along at 70mph. A BBC report on Monday said that Secker was seen “talking on one phone while holding the other as if texting.”… Read More

We spent some time at Chevy’s design center in Michigan this week, and in addition to letting us in on their engineering process and testing the Sonic the auto-maker spent some time explaining some of the new concepts behind its cars’ design and style. Using the Chevy Spark to show off these coming changes, design manager Todd Parker led us through the manufacturer’s new focus on style and customization in its products. Parker told us Chevy is… Read More

“You're sleek as a thoroughbred, your seats are a featherbed, you'll turn everybody's head today!“ The wonder car from Roald Dahl and Dick Van Dyke's classic 1968 musical is going to be auctioned off on May 15 in Los Angeles. Bidding for Chitty Chitty will begin at $1,000,000. In the movie, off-beat inventor Caractacus Potts (Van Dyke) and his children speed through the air and navigate the seas as the car… Read More

Pioneer makes a wide array of consumer electronics products, but you wouldn't know it from its CES press conference today. The company focused exclusively on its car stereo and accessories, putting its car division's director of marketing, Ted Cardenas, on the stand to make some minor announcements including additional social networking support, the launch of a new iPhone dock, and its own app platform. Pandora, Twitter, Facebook… Read More

The nature of America and its dependence on oil is well documented, exceedingly so. It is the blood that flows through the veins of our nation. It is the power that defines our identity and the fuel that powers the world. It is also one of the greatest source of anxiety for the future of humanity, as the fossil fuel reserves dwindle. If you head online to your search engine of choice and type in the keywords “oil”, “consumption” and “America”,… Read More

Not every car GM produces these days is pure gold. We loved the Chevy Volt, which is an economical car that fills a void by running on electricity for your commute, and on gas for longer trips. The Chevy Cruze is also an economical car with enough pep to get you that one last parking spot at Target. And we know the automaker is planning some brand new redesigns for next year as well. But the Cadillac CTS Coupe? It’s a luxury car that might get… Read More

The cars are using artificial-intelligence, as reported by The New York Times, to make themselves aware of obstcacles and respond as a normal driver would to road conditions. The cars have always had a technician behind the wheel, in case the computer malfunctioned, but the test has had surprising results. Google drove seven cars for 1,000 miles with zero human assistance and 140,000 with occasional human intervention. There has been one… Read More

It seems like all of the top car manufacturers of the world are jumping on the four-door band wagon this year – these cars are not quite supercars, and definitely not family sedans.  If you want to be able to comfortably load your children into the back seat, then take your sports car for a nice afternoon drive, here are four prime picks.  The Rapide, Estoque, Panamera, and Karma all feature the classic sports car styling of their little… Read More

If you like to drive fast, this is the car for you.  Ariel has packed 300 bhp into it's 1,400 lb. Atom 3.  This beast can launch you to 60 miles an hour in under three seconds, and get you  over 100 miles per hour in 11 seconds.  It's a simple question of weight ratios, and the Atom 3 has a higher power-to-weight ratio than many supercars, making it a real steal at a starting price of $65,000.  This is not the type of car that you… Read More