Fire up a new model and it updates more than 100,000 data points, including rather personal details like the front-seat passenger’s weight. The navigation system tracks every mile and remembers your route to work. The vehicular brain is smart enough to help avoid traffic jams or score parking spaces, and soon will be able to […]
Mercedes-Benz solidified its sales lead over the BMW brand in the first half of the year, moving closer to a goal of unseating its rival for the first time since 2005. BMW’s six-month deliveries rose 5.8 percent from a year earlier to 986,557 autos, compared with a 12 percent gain to just over 1 million […]
1. Buy Leftovers Last year, I bought a set of 2011 Pirelli Scorpions. They were new but discounted, because they were four years old. I asked the Tire Rack rep. “They have the same warranty as a tire that was manufactured last month,” he said, “but they might have less ultimate grip.” Ultimate grip is […]
For groups that have lobbied for stronger safety rules, that’s precisely what’s wrong with U.S. regulators’ increasingly anything-goes approach. Tesla Motors Inc. says the self-driving feature suspected of being involved in a May 7 fatal crash is experimental, yet it’s been installed on all 70,000 of its cars since October 2014. “Allowing automakers to do […]
The great-grandson of both Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone, now executive chairman of Ford Motor Co., certainly knows his way around cars. What he doesn’t know is how they’re going to get around in an increasingly congested world. Bill Ford’s seen the future, and it’s crowded. “Some of it’s just mathematics,” Ford says. “We’re going from […]
Senior executives from each company will hold an event on Friday to discuss the driverless-vehicle initiative, said the people, who asked not to be named because the details are private. Mobileye shares jumped 12 percent, the most in almost two years, to $46.90 at 11:41 a.m. in New York. BMW AG, Intel CorpPanerai Replica Watches. […]
As part of the deal, VW will pay $2 billion over 10 years to promote clean cars such as those powered by hydrogen and electricity. To mitigate pollution created by the cheating cars, the company also will pay $2.7 billion over three years that will, in part, be used to give incentives to replace polluting […]
Now, automakers are worried about the costs — not to mention their profitable pickup trucks — and are pushing for a revision. Environmentalists are resisting. President Barack Obama’s most concrete environmental achievement may have come in 2011 when the auto industry agreed to stricter targets for fuel efficiency and carbon dioxide emissions. 1. What are […]
Here are ways to fix some common problems yourself. Not every infliction on your car’s exterior needs to land you at the mechanic’s, though some should early on so that you don’t need a more major repair (and incur a bigger expense) later. Touch up nicks sooner rather than later Touch-up paint won’t adhere well […]
Yet the 2017 Cadillac CTS arrives to skepticism in Washington, where Detroit’s dream of cars talking to cars is running into Silicon Valley’s wireless aspirations. General Motors Co. is rolling out a sedan laden with gadgets that track other cars on the road and can automatically brake to avoid collisions, fulfilling a safety vision decades […]
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