The Kia Soul is going through a really hard time right now with the NHTSA opening a preliminary inquiry into possible steering loss on the compact car. Kia said that it is actively cooperating with NHTSA and is working with its supply base to track down what caused a driver to lose all steering ability [...]
Usually when you hop in a car with a bunch of friends and say “buckle-up,” the rear seat passengers probably choose to ignore it or know that it isn’t legally required for rear seat passengers in their state to wear a seat belt. Well, all that’s about to change because states are moving to close [...]
Last time we heard anything about a redesigned, reengineered Civic it as reported by HOnda’s PR guy Kurt Antonius, there is no hurry to introduce a redesigned model. Apparently, Honda felt that the current Civic is selling so hot that they can take their sweet time developing the next-generation model. Well, an image has popped [...]
Thomas, a senior staff engineer for Chevrolet, has 30 safety patents to his credit ““ mostly for new or better air bags and restraint systems. “I actually think of virtually all of the inventions in the middle of the night, from about two to four in the morning,” said Thomas. “There have been times when [...]
The Porsche 918 Spyder is most definitely guaranteed for production. The electric supercar hybrid was shown to potential customers at a private viewing at Pebble Beach last weekend and it is now rumored that production is expected to total 1,200 units with prices starting around $630,000 a piece. But that’s not all… Insiders at the [...]
A new study has found that the use of ambient lighting inside vehicles increases the consumer’s perception of safety and the quality of the car. According to a study by engineers at BMW and the Lighting Engineering Group at Ilmenau University of Technology, ambient lighting improved a driver’s perception of a vehicle”s cabin and makes [...]
Following the Honda Civic Type R, the Ford Focus ST is the latest high-performance hatchback to fall victim to forthcoming Euro V emissions regulations. The 2.5L turbo 5-cylinder Focus ST will end production very soon and a successor to the ST, with a 4-cylinder engine is expected to debut at the 2010 Paris Motor Show [...]
A little while back, Gemballa, a tuning firm that produces aftermarket parts for Porsche and Ferrari vehicles, closed its doors after the disappearance of its founder Uwe Gemballa. Uwe had been reported missing since February in Johannesburg, South Africa while on a business trip. The company is now reportedly scheduled to hold a press conference [...]
Now that General Motors has filed for an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, we’ll learn a lot of inside details we didn’t know before. According to its prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, GM paid analyst Stephen Girsky more than $1 million to advice the automaker on other [...]
The 2012 BMW M5 is no stranger to the Nurburgring and has been spotted numerous times undergoing high-speed testing on the famous German track. The latest spy video shows the next-generation BMW M5 drifting in the rain on the Nordschleife. So far reports suggest that power will come from an uprated version of the 4.4 [...]
