Automotive News

Everywhere you look someone is gripping tightly to an iPhone, Android, or some other type of smartphone, because whatever the need, there's an app for that. As so, Hyundai announced it launched a refreshed version of Blue Link, an app that can control and peek into a variety of vital ...    Read more

BMW has been teasing its 2013 M5 and M6 for a while. Both are already on sale abroad, which makes it even worse. But as the German automaker gears up for pushing its new high-performance cars into dealerships, it's taken some of the guessing out by showing us how much they're ...    Read more

It's funny how time flies when you're having fun. And what fun the BMW M division, the company's motorsports offshoot, has been. BMW M came on the scene in 1972, complementing what connoisseurs had already found out with the "Neue Klasse" cars the automaker started making in the 1960s. BMW already built incredibly ...    Read more

Officially, the U.S. recession ended two years ago. Corporations, apparently, have not caught the news, busily reaping the benefits of their newly purchased government representatives or reorganizing as their executives soar away on their golden parachutes. The auto industry seems to be the sole exception. One of the last major manufacturing ...    Read more

Fame comes in a wide variety of flavors these days, and YouTube's enormous reach must account for the vast majority of them. Case in point: The "drummer kid," who wakes up in the back seat playing imaginary drums as his sister and half brother blast Nirvana's "Breed" over the car ...    Read more

The Oregon Department of Transportation is looking into a system that would track the amount of miles you log as an alternate way to pay road taxes and user fees. An original proposal was shot down in 2006, as users didn't want GPS devices that could potentially track where they ...    Read more

Apologies for the hackneyed headline, but it's true—the American economy is being buoyed by the auto industry, from the ground up. From manufacturing to sales to rising employment, cars are what's fueling economic growth. The US economy's 2.2 percent growth in the first quarter of this year was due in no ...    Read more

Friedrich Nietzsche, perhaps not the most cheery fellow to say this, once said, "In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play." It's only unfortunate that he lived in an age before the invention of LEGOs, dying a mere 49 years before the invention of those colorful ...    Read more

Honda is always trying to experiment with getting humans out of their products and onto its other products. How else could you explain a company that builds cars, motorcycles, the HondaJet, and—for professionally supervised landscaping shenanigans—riding lawnmowers? This, more than anything, will explain the gestation of the UNI-CUB, ...    Read more

Buick has made no small effort the past couple of years to appeal to an increasingly younger demographic. The 2012 Buick Regal GS is a key part of this strategy: Buick entered the Regal GS in the Nevada Open Road Challenge last year, and even won the 120-mph class of ...    Read more