The VW Passat may not be the most desirable vehicle in the German carmaker’s range, but as Mat Watson from CarWow recently discovered, it’s quite an impressive car in Passat Estate R-Line Edition guise. The special edition was introduced by VW after last year’s Geneva Motor Show and is based around the facelifted iteration of
Month: April 2020
LONDON — Nissan will resume vehicle production at its UK plant in early June, the automaker said in a statement. The plant is the largest car factory in the UK and Nissan’s largest in Europe. The Qashqai and Juke SUVs, and the Leaf electric car, are built at the facility in Sunderland, northeast England. Production
A sleeker, sportier 2020 E-Tron Sportback is coming to join the E-Tron in Audi’s growing EV portfolio this summer. The E-Tron Sportback is a coupe-like version of the E-Tron battery-electric SUV that went on sale in 2018, and it will sell at a slight premium, with Audi announcing Thursday a starting price of $78,395 versus
Tesla has been sued by the family of a 44-year-old Japanese man who was killed when a Model X using Autopilot crashed into a group of people standing to the side of an expressway near Tokyo, Bloomberg reports. According to the complaint filed in federal court in San Jose, California, the driver of the Tesla
Porsche is bringing 21st-century tech into last century’s models. The German sports car maker is delivering smartphone connectivity to classic Porsches via an aftermarket infotainment system. The Porsche Classic Communication Management unit offers modern-day conveniences such as Bluetooth connectivity, navigation, satellite radio and Apple CarPlay. The system is available for several Porsche models, including 911
Big, gas-guzzling trucks and SUVs are so passé. What the world wants now are big, electric trucks and SUVs. Just look at the Tesla Cybertruck or upcoming GMC Hummer EV. Or even this beast: the AmorTruck. Designed and rendered by Milen Ivanov, the ArmorTruck looks like the lovechild of the Tumbler from the Dark Knight trilogy
Cockpit electronics supplier Visteon Corp. said Thursday it was able to post a near break-even first quarter with the COVID-19 pandemic looming for much of the period. First-quarter earnings before interest, taxes and other adjustments dropped nearly 20 percent to $33 million. The company posted a net loss of $35 million compared with a $14
By Simon Alvarez Posted on April 30, 2020 Tesla’s Traffic Light and Stop Sign Control is arguably the company’s most advanced driver-assist feature yet. But if Elon Musk’s recent comments are any indication, the function is actually more capable than its current functions would suggest. Musk covered several key developments at Tesla during his opening
Here’s something we never expected to see but we’re glad we did: Toyota Gazoo Racing collaborated with McDonald’s in Japan to create a bizarre commercial involving drifting, giant Big Macs, and the Toyota Supra. Why does such a partnership make any sense? We’re just as confused as you are, but the world is a strange
Demand for Tesla’s electric cars held up in the first three months of the year, despite upheavals caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Quarterly revenues jumped 30% from last year to $5.9bn (£4.7bn), allowing the firm to turn a small profit of $16m. It is the third quarterly profit in a row for the company, marking
Gale Halderman, credited with the exterior styling of the original Ford Mustang, based on a sketch he created some 21 months before the car’s April 1964 public debut, died Wednesday. He was 87. The cause of death, at a hospital in Troy, Ohio, was cancer, the Dayton Daily News reported, citing the family. Halderman was
Every car in the 2011 Motor Trend Best Drivers Car competition was lapped around Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca by hot shoe Randy Pobst. Our next competitor, the Ferrari 458 Italia. For more on the 458 Italia’s lap around Laguna Seca, including Randy Pobst’s track notes, click here: http://www.motortrend.com/features/performance/1108_2010_ferrari_458_italia_best_drivers_car_contender/ Also find Motor Trend on: Tweets by
Not too long ago, Harry Metcalfe published a review suggesting that the BMW X5 was the world’s first SUV but that irritated some of his American watchers who claimed that no, the Jeep XJ Cherokee was in fact the first Sports Utility Vehicle of its type. To see whether that’s true or not, Metcalfe recently
The German auto industry is readying proposals for a new scrappage program to counter a sales slump that risks choking off production restarts at factories across Europe’s biggest economy. The state premiers of Lower Saxony, Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg, home to Volkswagen, BMW and Daimler, are expected to consult this week on a joint strategy ahead
Of the many memorable Porsche racing liveries, the Apple colors are among the rarest, as they were only used during the 1980 season. If a Martini or Gulf car seems too common, and you have half a million dollars to spare, this replica of the Apple-sponsored Porsche 935 is currently for sale on DuPont Registry
Speeding on public roads is never a good idea but it can become particularly dangerous if you try to weave in between traffic at high speed. Just ask this driver in St Petersburg, Russia. The following incident occurred on April 22 and was filmed from the dashcam of a vehicle that witnessed the crash. Fortunately,
SHANGHAI — If China was an early warning of what the United States could expect from the outbreak of COVID-19 infection, China at the end of April may offer a glimpse of what U.S. auto retailing might look like in another four to six weeks. After a coronavirus shutdown that kept tens of millions of
If you think exceeding your local speed limits by 5 or 10 mph is living on the edge, well, you’re practically asleep compared to one Michigan driver who was just ticketed for going 110 mph over the posted limit. As reported by MLive, the driver of a 2016 Dodge was clocked by a stationary Michigan
Volkswagen of America has hit the pause button on its race to restart its Chattanooga Assembly plant, delaying indefinitely its planned Sunday, May 3, return to production. “Before setting a new start date, Volkswagen will weigh the readiness of the supplier base, as well as market demand and the status of the COVID-19 outbreak,” the
KT-KMC via Amazon offers a 3-pack of Wi-Fi Smart Plugs with Energy Monitoring for $18.45 Prime shipped when promo code 8XPB89MP is applied during checkout. Regularly $35 or more, today’s deal is the best we’ve tracked. Aside from smart home functionality with Alexa and Assistant support, these plugs offer energy monitoring functionality. This makes it easy
You’re looking at something unreal. We mean that in the literal sense—these are renders created by student designer Esa Mustonen for the RAW Design House, a design consultancy that’s part of Koenigsegg. But it’s also unreal in the figurative sense. It is phenomenal, a truly interesting interpretation of some major Koenigsegg design cues, but remixed
TOKYO — Luc Donckerwolke, the cosmopolitan Belgian designer who overhauled styling at Hyundai, Kia and Genesis, is leaving the Hyundai Motor Group for personal reasons. Donckerwolke’s resignation is effective April 29, according to an internal note obtained by Automotive News. His next career moves were unclear. Donckerwolke joined South Korea’s biggest automaker from Volkswagen Group
The Tesla Model X 100D Performance isn’t exactly a track car. Even with the so-called “Raven” update that arrived in 2019 and saw it and its Model S stablemate receive more powerful, more efficient motors, adaptive suspension, and silicon carbide (SiC) power electronics, among other things. Sure, it’s quicker than the non-Performance version around a closed circuit,
On first impressions, the 2020 Volkswagen Polo Style 85TSI may seem rather unremarkable, but dig beneath the surface and you’ll discover all the qualities the German brand is known for. Volkswagen has been producing the Polo since 1975 and now in its sixth-generation, it is better than ever. Some models, like the Style, are so
LJUBLJANA — Revoz, Renault’s Slovenian arm, has resumed production after a suspension of activities since March 17 due to the coronavirus crisis. Production restarted on Tuesday with a single daily shift, which is expected to be expanded into two shifts next week and into full production from May 11. Revoz, one of Slovenia’s largest exporters,
Audi is giving up on its most advanced driver-assist system. The German automaker will no longer add its Traffic Jam Pilot system to the A8 sedan in Europe or anywhere else in the world, Automotive News Europe reported Tuesday. It’s now too late to add the system to the current-generation A8, as the car is
Dramatic dashcam footage has captured the moment a PIT maneuver went wrong during a high-speed chase in Fort Smith, Arkansas. A report from 5 News Online says that the chase started at around 6:30 a.m. on April 10 when an officer with the U.S. Forestry Service noticed a black Ram 1500 pickup run a red
The COVID-19 pandemic and its resulting impact on the economy are going to leave a number of dealers in crisis. The most stable of dealerships may be left vulnerable and — absent a definitive plan to create, protect and preserve liquidity — the dealer pool may be considerably culled. Unlike other industries, the auto industry
Just weeks after the Ford Mustang Mach-E’s vehicle engineering manager, Rob Iorio, told The Detroit News that “You can’t just hit the pause button” on the program, there are rumblings that the pandemic has, in fact, hit the pause button on the Mach-E’s launch. The virus will impact deliveries, with the Detroit Free Press reporting
The Small Business Administration will conduct a “full review” of loans for more than $2 million through the Paycheck Protection Program before there is any loan forgiveness, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Tuesday. The announcement comes as a warning to big companies such as AutoNation Inc. and others that had tapped into the administration’s $349
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