The next generation of lithium-ion battery technology seeks lofty performance gains. Increase range, longevity as well as improve performance characteristics...
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Admiring automobiles ever since childhood viewership of the TV show Knight Rider, Chris Nagy grew as an enthusiast enroute to become an automotive and motorsport writer. Drawn to the rich world of motoring, Chris discovers charm everywhere in the industry from supercars like the Bugatti Veyron to a Kia Soul. Car design, engineering, performance and the passion itself fuels his daily existence.
A popular 1980s song by Huey Lewis and the News identified how it’s “Hip to be Square”. This is...
Expanding their global product portfolio, Chevrolet announced the pending addition of a new crossover production vehicle. Being officially presented at the upcoming Paris Motor Show in September, the Chevrolet Trax is a compact crossover utility, five-passenger vehicle with what is said to be class-leading cargo capacity. Loosely based off a...
In September of last year, the annual Targa Newfoundland road rally in Canada gained viral video attention for the misadventure...
For anyone who pays even the slightest attention to the sports car culture, the name Carroll Shelby could be one...
A sign of emerging technology and a push to minimizing the environmental impact of automobiles has led to the sizable production of electric or electrified vehicles becoming a reality. Dismissed for a long time, cars using battery-backed propulsion are being inundated into a world where a well-performing counterpart (the internal...
As a marketplace that has been embracing automotive mobilization in a big way for over a decade, the intensity for...
Entering the first major build-up in electrified vehicle construction in over 100 years, the increased use of battery-derived propulsion...
It seems that with every dramatic up-tick in the price of gasoline the interest in other automotive propulsion seems to spike. The most available and globally accepted alternative to gasoline is seen by many as diesel fuel. Diesel engines are general 20-30 percent higher in fuel economy when compared to...
Centered within one of California’s premier celebrations in motion, Toyota has been the title sponsor for the 2012 Grand...
As climbing temperatures begin to liberate many North Americans from a winter slumber, Chevrolet has announced an Avalanche warning....
As warmness rushes over the previously cold climate of winter, as the ideal environment for driving nears (barring more gas price spikes), the summer blockbuster season approaches. Despite its name, the Summer blockbuster period typically starts in the month of May with the first big-budget flicks. With many 2012 releases...
More expensive and effectively multiplying the amount of vehicle maintenance for a single owner or household, owning more than one...
I can attest to the fact that media day at an auto show represents a near Christmas-like atmosphere for automotive...
While Subaru is a derivative of Japan’s Fiji Heavy Industries, two of the auto brand’s most popular vehicles for the United States are built in Indiana. In the 2011 calendar year, the Subaru Outback was the highest-selling product in the United Stats line-up for the Japanese branded auto company....
When the automobile launched into the 20th century, the ripe and untapped market had every little auto builder in the...
The 2012 auto racing season is truly on! In NASCAR, the Daytona 500 initiated the 2012 stock car campaign with...
The ownership experience of a Porsche is viewed as one of the most sensual in the global sports car market. While the Porsche line-up has expanded to include vehicles like the crossover Cayenne and four-door Panamera, the essence of the German sports car company has remained based on the...
With no more large, old-fashioned sedans left available to consumers in 2012, the fleet vehicle marketplace has been undergoing a...
Whether the automotive marketplace considers all-wheel drive a brilliant active safety component or just smart marketing feeding customer fantasies for...
Successful in marketing the Sonic subcompact and Cruze compact cars, Chevrolet appears to be on the verge of another product bulls-eye with the mid-sized 2013 Malibu. Set to be based on the GM’s new Super Epsilon II platform (debuting in North America as the basis of the Cadillac XTS), the latest full-sized Chevrolet...
The family crossover vehicle market is a segment major automakers can’t afford to neglect. Whereas the sedan and large...
For some people, owning an exotic, desirable Ferrari street car just isn’t enough. While one of every modern Ferrari built...
While major auto brands such as Lamborghini, Audi and Hyundai drew the initial enthusiasm expected for the 2012 Geneva Motor Show, the acclaim of this Swiss exhibition also attracts the likes of smaller European firms. It is from these smaller companies some of the most imaginative expressions of design...
‘It Takes Two‘, ‘Two Hearts‘, the music industry has harnessed the words that seem to be the driver of humankind....
Concept cars always amuse an auto show crowds with notions of what the future of motoring has in store. With...
This past February of 2012, the Earth took part in an event occurring one every four years. Given an extra day on the calendar, many of us were propelled by the thoughts for what we should make of the February 29th day. Was it just another day where we go...
A crossover design concept that evolved into a much-needed production crossover for an English auto brand in 2012, the Range...
Have you ever wondered what would a MINI Cooper look like if it was bespoked by Rolls-Royce? Since German...
This past decade, in-car infotainment electronics has evolved from a multi-disc CD charger and the occasional rear-seat DVD viewing system to a level of innovation once thought of as absurd. Satellite radio, electronic GPS guidance and even wireless Internet connections on several luxury products provide a mere tip of the...