It seems Lexus‘s design department has grown a little bored with designing vehicles for Earth. The company recently released a series of design sketches for a distraction of sorts for its in-house artists: Lunar rovers and various spacecraft. And this isn’t the first time Toyota or one of its divisions has let their minds wander
Month: January 2020
TOKYO — How does a Detroit automaker sell American vehicles in Japan’s notoriously fickle, hyper-competitive and supposedly closed market? Actually, if you’re Jeep, you do it quite well. Jeep posted a 16 percent sales surge in Japan last year, making it one of the fastest-growing brands in the world’s No. 3 auto market. In posting
When I wrote “The Four Sides Of A Tesla Autopilot Crash Are Revealed By NTSB,” I did not know that Tesla says Autopilot may not work in some situations. One of them is precisely the one that happened in that accident. Thanks to this Dirty Tesla YouTube channel video, I am now aware of that.
Part 4 of Ultimate Adventure 2017. We awoke on Day Five to a stunningly panoramic view from our campsite high atop the Mogollon Rim. With all of Arizona laid out below us we drank in the scenery before mounting our 4x4s and heading for Flagstaff, Arizona, to wheel one of the coolest natural features in
A few years back, not many would have believed that Aston Martin would actually build an SUV, let alone a good one, but then again, the same was said about Porsche, Lamborghini, Bentley and Rolls-Royce, and look at them now. Designed to be much more than a high-riding GT, the DBX has widened the company’s
With the new Flying Spur, Bentley is fighting back against the popularity of Maybach and AMG versions of the Mercedes-Benz S-class upper-premium sedan. Bentley says the Flying Spur provides more luxury than the Maybach and offers more sporting prowess than the AMG in one car. The 12-cylinder Flying Spur launch model has a maximum output
Huntington Beach Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep-Ram wanted to make waves when the U.S. Open of Surfing came to town last summer. The Southern California dealership’s ad team, TurnKey Marketing, decided to get in on the action via Snapchat, the growing messaging app that has a foothold among the industry’s youngest customers. TurnKey used Snapchat’s filter tool, which allows
The Barrett-Jackson collector car auction company announced Friday that it was adding another celebrity car to an auction docket that reportedly had been filled to the brim. “Barrett-Jackson… announced today that it will auction the 1963 Modena Spyder California, serial number GTC001… made famous as the number one hero car in the iconic 1980s film
Starting at $65,295 (including $995 destination) and ranging to nearly $120,000 with the X6 M Competition, the 2020 BMW X6 comes well-equipped and has more options than a hall of mirrors. The X6 M50i offers the best of the value and performance worlds, and with standard all-wheel drive it is our recommended X6. All X6s
The world’s fascination with the Tesla Cybertruck continues and the latest replica has just emerged out of Russia. This Cybertruck started out as a Russian UAZ that the Garage54 YouTube channel in question covered in concrete not too long ago. With all of that concrete drilled away, work begun on modifying the frame of the
Volkswagen is not known as a pickup brand. But LaFontaine Volkswagen of Dearborn is using pickups to attract customers who wouldn’t otherwise come into the store. The Michigan store acquires used pickups and outfits them with a lift kit, beefy rims and tires, side steps and sometimes even fender flares. The trucks are then parked
Carbon fiber is strong and lightweight, making it a favored component in race cars and exotic road vehicles, and GMC is out to prove the material’s worth to the masses. GMC, you see, recently introduced the carbon-fiber CarbonPro bed for its mainstream Sierra full-size pickup, and the brand is using a new commercial to show off
BERLIN — Around 250 Germans on Saturday protested in the outskirts of Berlin where U.S. electric automaker Tesla Inc. is planning to build a gigafactory, saying its construction will endanger water supply and wildlife in the area. Tesla announced plans last November to build its first European car factory in Gruenheide, in the eastern state
By Amy Thompson Posted on January 18, 2020 It’s no secret that Elon Musk wants to make humanity a multi-planetary species. But when humans take up residence on the red planet, what sort of abode will they call home? Instead of habitats made of building materials you see Earth, like metal and glass, NASA is
You’re forgiven for not knowing exactly what the Suzuki Jimny is—or for calling it the “Jimmy,” which was a GMC SUV in the ’90s. The little 4×4 isn’t sold here in the U.S., which is really too bad because it’s the small, affordable, elemental SUV that’s been missing from American dealerships since Jeep’s Wrangler went
CLEVELAND — The Serpentini Auto Group, already one of the highest-volume Chevrolet sellers in Ohio, just got a lot bigger. Bob Serpentini, president and founder of the group bearing his name, and partner Ken Ganley on Thursday announced the acquisition of three Pat O’Brien Chevrolet dealerships in the suburbs of Cleveland. Terms of the deal,
The 2021 GMC Yukon’s launch earlier this week may have been overshadowed by the arrival of the Genesis GV80, but the new GMC does have a unique appeal of its own. This video from Redline Reviews highlights some of the key features of the new Yukon. Both the new GMC Yukon and Yukon XL models
BERLIN — German rangers stand guard to visitors away from a nondescript stretch of forest near Berlin, where a sign nearby warns of “Lebensgefahr” (danger to life). The precautions are part of the frantic activity underway to set up Tesla’s latest assembly plant, Elon Musk’s most daring attack yet on the German auto establishment. Workers
As auto retailing shifts toward allowing consumers to buy vehicles entirely online, it behooves dealerships to do more to market and promote finance and insurance products, F&I trainers and dealership managers agree. That may mean giving the F&I department its own marketing budget. But above all, F&I pros say, it means educating consumers, before they
The 2021 Genesis GV80 broke cover and we drove it; the sheet came off the 2021 GMC Yukon and we took a spin in the snow; and the 2022 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 was spotted. It’s the Week in Reverse, right here at Motor Authority. The 2021 Genesis GV80 was revealed and it’s set to become
The 2020 Lexus UX is a spacious, fuel-efficient crossover SUV with standout styling. Edgy styling isn’t the only thing that makes the 2020 Lexus UX stand out in the fiercely competitive field of luxe-lite small crossovers. The 2020 UX is a strong choice for those with the budget, if not necessarily the garage space, for
Bizarre footage has emerged from the quaint city of Ljubljana, Slovenia showing a Mini Cooper briefly driving under its own power while on fire. The clip, which was filmed vertically, shows the dark red Mini parked on the side of the road with flames pouring out of the engine bay. Just a few seconds in,
DETROIT — More than two years before a new vehicle is built, General Motors engineers test the power steering, turn signals and driver-assist technology such as Super Cruise — all from a lab at its engineering hub here.It’s made possible by GM’s new digital platform, which will be integrated into most of its vehicles by
October 22, 1964 proved to be a fateful day. The 53rd, 54th, and 55th Porsche 911s were built that day, only they weren’t called 911s. See, a year earlier at the 50th Paris Motor Show the Porsche 901 had debuted. Reaction was mixed. So big! So fat! It’s true—much of the assembled press bemoaned how
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has signed a bill that represents the state’s most ambitious strategy to promote electric vehicles. New Jersey, where transportation accounts for about half of greenhouse gas emissions, joins about a dozen other states that have targets for electric-vehicle adoption. The bill calls for 2 million plug-in electric vehicles by 2035, and
This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy, including a possible new compact Tesla car, Model Y news, Tesla releasing a new Wall Connector, and more. The Electrek Podcast is me, Fred Lambert, editor-in-chief of Electrek, and Seth Weintraub, founder and publisher of Electrek
The GTS specification, available across the Porsche lineup, typically describes a bundle involving extra power over the S trim, along with sportier chassis and exhaust upgrades and unique trim. Stirring in that magic 4.0 engine, however, is clearly an escalation of Porsche’s GTS game, making the already enticing trim level more desireable than ever—at least
WASHINGTON – The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Friday it will review a petition asking the agency to formally investigate 500,000 Tesla Inc. models over unintended acceleration reports. The petition covers 2012 through 2019 model year Tesla Model S, 2016 through 2019 Tesla Model X, and 2018 through 2019 Tesla Model 3 vehicles, the agency
I’ll admit right up front, I did not believe hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle (FCV) sales, and in particular, used car sales would prove to be as good as they have been. I decided to track used Toyota Mirai sales because I wanted to see the market for non-subsidized and no free fuel incentives. To this end,
Toyota’s range is no longer dominated by boring, bland, and uninspiring cars like it used to be, and the 2020 Avalon TRD is certainly one of the most ‘out-there’ performance cars the carmaker produced in recent memory. The sedan, introduced last year, is powered by a naturally-aspirated 3.5-liter V6 engine also found in the Camry
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