Miscellaneous

The picture you're looking at with the Audi was taken on flat land. The Aud R8 LMS above was riding a track with an incredible 60-degree banked corner. Now that we have your attention with that tidbit, here's your unusually present update of race cars simply too awesome to ignore. We're ...    Read more

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

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

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

The nonprofit Insurance Institute for Highway Safety recently announced three vehicles -- the 2013 Chevrolet Malibu ECO, the 2012 Hyundai Azera, and the 2012 Toyota Prius c -- as the latest recipients for its Top Safety Pick award. The IIHS tests vehicles for safety in frontal and side crashes, rollovers, and ...    Read more

Love it or hate it, there's no denying that the Chevrolet Corvette can keep up with the best of them both on and off the track. Since the end of the 2011 model year, Chevrolet has produced 1,526,747 Corvettes since production began back in 1953. Since 1981, when the National ...    Read more

After hanging around with Germans for a while, it's possible to get the impression that most are born without a sense of humor. Then they surprise you every once in a while. Take, for instance, Porsche CEO Matthias Mueller. He told German newspaper Stuttgarter Zeitung that the automaker was no longer ...    Read more

High-tech electric cars with high-capacity, quick-recharging batteries are 10 years away. That's been the story for about 30 years. It's a joke, of course, but only barely. The twin holy grails of electrically powered cars—long-range and quick recharging—always seem to be just out of reach. And it's those two characteristics, naysayers ...    Read more

Oh boy, it's Saturday! No school! No classes! No facing that stupid bully Trent in gym class! Saturday! Gonna run downstairs in my PJs! Mom, where's the Captain Crunch? Where's the remote? FOUND IT! Yes! Disney XD, scroll scroll scroll...oh sweet, Motorcity's on! Yes! Mom! Mom! Mooooom, come watch this with ...    Read more

You may not know who Patrick Long is, but he's a big deal around Porsche's motorsports activities as the only American race car driver to drive a car for the automaker. Adding to his credits are three American LeMans GT2 racing championships and a slice of a class championship at ...    Read more

Sitting in a long commute with hoards of traffic is probably bad for your blood pressure, sure. But a new study says it could also be a factor in poorer fitness levels and putting on the pounds. That news comes by way of the American Journal of Preventative Medicine which recently ...    Read more

Nissan is keeping itself busy, quickly expanding its partnership with Daimler, Mercedes-Benz's parent company. Announced this week, the Japanese automaker broke ground on a new plant in Decherd, Tennessee, to build engines for the 2014 Mercedes-Benz C-Class, and likely the next Infiniti G sedan, a car rumored to share the ...    Read more

The year: 2008. The situation: $4 gasoline and impending global economic meltdown. The hardest-hit victims other than Bernie Madoff's clients: SUVs. Truck-based sport utility vehicles have been part of American lexicon since before World War II, before they were even called SUVs. They've held a position as a rugged carryall for ...    Read more

While many states have already outlawed texting, grooming, reading, and eating while driving, Rhode Island is taking distracted driving to a whole new level. Representative Peter Palumbo, a Democrat from Cranston, R.I., has presented a bill that would outlaw dogs from riding in the lap of the driver. If this ...    Read more

More automakers continue to update the user interfaces for their vehicles' infotainment systems but many are tough to comprehend.  Ford has seen firsthand what happens when an infotainment system is tough to use, while rival Chrysler enjoys a steady stream of compliments with its Uconnect. Ford in response has recently ...    Read more

After more than four months of legal battles, a Torrance, California, judge overturned the February 1 decision that awarded $9,867 to 2006 Honda Civic Hybrid owner Heather Peters. She won the judgment in California's small claims court system, convincing the court that Honda made false claims about her car's ability ...    Read more

Depending on your viewpoint of Saab, this is either the most heartwarming thing you'll read all day, or as sad and pitiable as a disabled puppy struggling to walk. We won't pass judgement. But perhaps in the best example of community fundraising since the Amish started charging for their barn ...    Read more

Abraham Lincoln (you know, that guy on the five-dollar bill) once said "whatever you are, be a good one." While Lincoln was gone long before Chrysler became an official corporation in 1925, the Auburn Hills-based automaker appears to have taken that bit of advice to heart when it comes to ...    Read more

Before the world bank's crumbled in 2008, it was easy to get a home and car loan. Too easy, in fact. But hey, things are better now, and despite it being near impossible to get financed in 2009, CNN Money today reports that, HEY!--you can get financed again. Even ...    Read more

Fear not, electric vehicle owners and considerers: Fast-charging is about to get simplified. Thanks to the SAE, the ACEA, and most major OEMs, the CCS is about to get all AC/DC, and very soon, if demonstrations at EVS go according to plan. OK, let's back that up, in case you're not ...    Read more

Neil Armstrong's 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray looks like it was driven on the moon. In fact, it was not. But don't let that affect the selling value: As of this writing, with three days and five hours remaining on the eBay clock, ...    Read more

Infotainment, from satellite radio to Bluetooth to smartphone interactivity, has become the latest battleground among automakers to attract consumers' attention and dollars. German automaker Volkswagen and satellite radio provider SiriusXM recently announced the availability of SiriusXM Traffic on certain 2013 VW models. SiriusXM Traffic provides real-time information such as traffic speeds, ...    Read more

What's more American than a big truck that that goes really fast? A Swedish freight-hauler hybrid capable of going more than 100 mph of course!  In today's installment of Video of the Day, Volvo's Mean Green hybrid tractor-trailer truck attempts to break its own world speed record at the Bonneville ...    Read more

Somehow, the term "Playstation generation" has stuck on us Gen Y folk. And somehow, Scion has boldly attempted to emblazon itself as the brand of young people, handing out indie hip hop sampler CDs at car shows and offering Bazooka subwoofers as dealer-installed options. It wasn't too big a leap for ...    Read more