This year’s North American International Auto Show in Detroit was a mix of announcements and reveals ranging from jaw-dropping to just meh. The overarching theme: connectivity and varying degrees of autonomous driving. With the dust barely settled from CES, Detroit felt more like a reminder that autonomous driving is destined to become ubiquitous in the […]
The 2018 Mercedes-AMG GLC63 and GLC63 Coupe has been revealed ahead of its official debut at the 2017 New York auto show, and both cars come with fire-breathing V-8 engines as standard along with a host of suspension and chassis tweaks. In the standard GLC63 and GLC63 Coupe, the hand-built 4.0-liter twin-turbo V-8 makes 469 […]
Mercedes-Benz parent company Daimler is gearing up for the autonomous future, having just signed a driverless technology co-development agreement with German supplier Bosch. The goal of the partnership is to develop and launch a production-ready fully autonomous system for public roads by early next decade. The partnership will combine Daimler’s vehicle expertise with Bosch’s hardware […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk presents Powerwall 2.0 and SolarCity solar roof Enlarge Photo First it was electric cars, and then came the mission to conquer space exploration and Mars. Now, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has set his sights on yet another lofty venture called Neuralink. According to The Wall Street Journal (subscription required), […]
Best in Show Elegance (foreground) and Sport. Photos by author. The Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance has earned its place as one of the world’s finest motoring events. This year, looming bad weather forced a last minute date change, but despite the move from Sunday to Saturday, the field was packed with both attendees and over […]
TV show-restored 360-powered 1973 AMC Gremlin X for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This example has been specially restored to show you that not all Gremlins live the sedate suburban life. It starts with a professional respray of the correct Pewter Silver paint. Plus, we all love the body-colored front, aggressive black side […]
Date: circa 1960 Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Source: Benjamin Ames, via The Old Motor What do you see here?
Awaiting awards. Photos by author. Consider the numbers: not including Cars & Coffee, roughly 300 cars took to the greens at Amelia Island on Saturday, March 11. Counting the shots taken during setup on March 10 (but excluding auction coverage), your humble author shot around 1,900 images of vehicles at the concours. My colleague Terry […]
The Volkswagen Group avoided its usual pomp and flair in the lead up to this year’s Geneva auto show by focusing on a single, community-minded concept car meant to be representative of future trends affecting its entire portfolio of brands. The concept is called the Sedric, and it’s the first vehicle to be launched by […]
Horsepower is a great indicator of how a vehicle will perform on the road, but it’s not as strong at signaling how it will manage off the beaten path. That’s why Nissan has come up with its own unit of measurement: camel power. Nissan engineers gathered together to define camel power, a measurement that they […]
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