Famous television and movie star Rowan Atkinson is recovering in the hospital after an accident with his McLaren F1 supercar occurred earlier this week. The 56-year-old actor walked away from the ditched F1 while a passing motorist looked after him after crash. Atkinson was then taken to Peterborough District Hospital in Cambridgeshire where was treated [...]
Toyota and Tesla Motors Inc. have just confirmed today that the two will be working in conjunction with each other to build Toyota’s RAV4 Electric Vehicle at Toyota’s plant in Woodstock, Ontario. “The Tesla-Toyota joint development team has agreed that building the vehicle at the Woodstock plant on the same line as the gasoline-powered RAV4, [...]
Chrysler AG has just unveiled a series of new commercial TV spots for the new 2011 Dodge Durango. Several of the new spots have began airing this week with the overall theme that “the SUV is back.” “In all of our advertising campaigns, we look for creative solutions that entertain the audience, capture the essence [...]
Hyundai of Germany has just unveiled a new limited edition of the Hyundai Genesis Coupe GT just for Germany. Inspired by the Hyundai Schuhmann Motor Sport Team that raced a Genesis Coupe at the 24 Hours of Nurburgring in June, the unique Genesis Coupe GT comes standard with the 3.8L V6 good for 299hp and [...]
Land Rover has been very confused as to what to do with its Defender replacement. Over the last decade, we’ve seen sketches, drawings, and heard of ideas for a Defender replacement, but they were usually met with uproar in the enthusiast community. However, truth be told, the Defender has just turned 63 years old and [...]
A couple of geeks security researchers have made some interesting finds that they chose to show off at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. Don Bailey and Matthew Solnik from iSec Partners showed the crowd that by using an Android-powered smartphone and a technique they’ve called ‘war texting’, they could lock and unlock [...]
You probably think that you’re the world’s best parallel parking and can fit your car into any tight spot you find. Well, we’d like to introduce you to Ronny Wechselberger a.k.a. “Ronny C-Rock” from Germany. He just broke set the Guinness World Record of the tightest parallel parking by drifting a Volkswagen Polo into a [...]
General Motors outsold Toyota globally during the first 6 months of 2011 to become the world’s largest automaker. Of course, the March 11 earthquake in Japan is to blame for much of Toyota’s loss, but GM’s sales were nothing less than stellar. The Detroit automaker’s sales were up 8.9 percent to 4.536 million units during [...]
Honda announced today that it is recalling around 1.5 million vehicles in the United States to address an issue with automatic transmission equipped Accords, CR-Vs and Elemenets. During the recall, Honda will update the software that controls the automatic transmission. Vehicles involved in the recall include 2005-2010 4-cylinder Accord, 2007-2010 CR-V and 2005-2008 Element vehicles. [...]
We here at egmCarTech are pretty excited to see the 2012 Lexus GS 350 later this month when it makes its debut at the 2011 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. Lexus says that the new GS will ‘lead the rest of the Lexus lineup in an entirely new direction of driving dynamics.’ So what about Toyota? Later [...]
