The luxury car business is one of the machine’s equivalent of a popular contest. Every premium vehicle represents beauty, power, honour and pleasure in their own particular style. For a long time, the only way to win the game was with a super-exotic. The advent of a new luxury car class evolution has changed the [...]
The 21st century automotive marketplace has deeply altered the way we look at many brands. Crossover vehicles galore are placed under the umbrella of marques that today includes sports car maker Porsche selling the Cayenne. With Chevrolet, a plug-in gasoline/electric hybrid sedan operates within the line-up. Even in Europe, Aston Martin offering a rebranded Scion [...]
Serving as a Christmas after Christmas for me, the 2013 Canadian International AutoShow in Toronto is my first chance to gain a firsthand view of the most recent products. While many have made global debuts at many prior auto shows, I will attest there is no replacement to setting your own eyes on the presence [...]
Expected to adhere to constantly changing criteria driven by government and consumer fronts, automakers have utilized the practice of building multiple vehicles off a single platform. Existing as a kind of foundation for automotive designers, vehicle platforms represent a series of standardized parts that can conform to various cars, trucks and crossovers. Defining a standardized [...]
Ah, software updates. You’ve got to love the big ones that can take hours and require us to restart our computers (or phones, whatever the case may be). I’ve got one waiting on my phone right now for me – oh joy. We’ve all been used to software updates for our computers and phones. Now [...]
Call it a comeback of sorts. Just a few months ago, the LA Auto Show was so awful, it had left me cold on the direction of where things were headed in the near future for the auto industry. The 2013 Detroit auto show was jammed packed to the rafters with creative imagination; not to mention [...]
When everybody is clearing the bar, it’s time to raise it. In 2011, that is exactly what the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) did. Manufacturers steadily improved and developed cars that would ace the tests. There is no doubt that the latest cars are safer than ever. Last year the NHTSA reports that traffic [...]
With much of the world busy guessing (and alarmingly betting on) the name of an unborn heir in a royal family, the automotive world braces for its own new additions. First coming at the 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show and to Detroit early in the new year, 2013 and beyond automobiles will see some brand [...]
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