Toyota release two of its Super Bowl ads today. This year only four auto brands have confirmed running a total of six ads so far – Hyundai, Kia, Toyota and Lexus. A fry cry from last year’s auto ad activity. The first spot is a 60-second ad, which will run in the game’s first commercial slot […]
Lotus is now part of Zhejiang Geely, the Chinese automaker that also controls Volvo, and the firm’s deep pockets mean that the British business has truly new vehicles on the horizon for the first time in years. Lotus CEO Jean-Marc Gales outlined the plan Automotive News Europe, including adding two new sports cars by 2020 […]
Land Rover’s Range Rover subbrand will get a new flagship to boost its upscale ambitions. The Range Rover Coupe SV will be Land Rover’s most expensive model to date when it goes on sale later this year. The three-door model will debut at the Geneva auto show on March 6. The SUV is based on […]
Apple’s fleet of self-driving vehicles has grown. Bloomberg, citing the California Department of Motor Vehicles, on Thursday reported that Cupertino has registered 24 additional autonomous Lexus Rx450h sport-utility vehicles in the Golden State since first receiving a permit to test three of them in the state in April 2017. That brings Apple’s California autonomous vehicle […]
ICE has signed a deal that gives it access to a Vigilant Solutions’s massive license plate database Livermore-based Vigilant Solutions’ database contains data on a couple of billion license plates, The Verge reports. The data is collected in conjunction with law enforcement and other agencies throughout the nation, according to the company’s website. Vigilant Solutions […]
After years as the lone holdout among major automakers selling the US in adopting smartphone integration – Toyota, without much fanfare, introduced the feature on the redesigned Avalon sedan at the NAIAS in Detroit last week. The move was only a bullet point was listed among the new features of the fifth-generation Avalon in a […]
BMW will add a front-wheel-drive variant to the new X2 subcompact crossover family just a couple of months after the all-wheel-drive debut model reaches U.S. dealerships in March. That awd model, the X2 xDrive28i, powered by a 228-hp, 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine, was BMW’s showcase vehicle at the Detroit auto show last week. Coming later […]
Ferrari NV will make a battery-powered supercar to challenge Tesla Inc. at the high end of the electric-auto market, Chief Executive Officer Sergio Marchionne said recently. The race-car maker, spun off from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV, has been expanding its lineup to lift sales without losing the exclusivity of a brand associated with Italian design […]
The all new Honda Accord may be the best version yet built! Today Auto journalists named the Honda Accord the 2018 North American Car of the Year. Accord had stiff competition for this year’s top honors: the 2018 Toyota Camry (the ToT staff pick) and 2018 Kia Stinger. “Honda took a clean-sheet approach to reinventing […]
Maserati, a unit of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, is recalling more than 1,000 of its newest luxury sedans to fix leaky fuel pipes that increase the potential for an engine fire. The 2018 Ghibli and Quattroporte sedans have a faulty fuel delivery pipe in the engine compartment that may leak gasoline. The affected autos will be fixed by […]
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