WARNING: the following story and video may be a bit disturbing for us enthusiasts. No, there’s no blood, gore or anything of that nature, at least involving living animals. The victim however, is an E60 BMW M5. In the wake of the huge riots that occurred when Canada’s hockey team the Canucks lost to the [...]
Volvo is looking to make yet another safety-promoting technological advancement. So far, its cars can automatically avoid rear-end and human collisions. The next step is to prevent accidents with wildlife, by creating a system similar to the human avoidance one. The focus will be on nighttime functioning, and on bigger animals that frequently cause accidents [...]
According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, SUVs are now safer than cars of the same weight due to anti-rollover technologies pushed by automakers. The agency said in a report that SUVs in the 2006-2009 model years had a driver fatality rate half that of cars. “The rollover risk in SUVs used to outweigh their size/weight [...]
The 2011 Chevrolet Volt has become the first electric-vehcile (plug-in hybrid) to earn a 5-star overall vehicle score for safety as part of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s New Car Assessment Program. “Safety is a key consideration for all buyers no matter how a car is powered – gas, or in the case of [...]
If one of us here at egmCarTech was to ever purchase a Ferrari or any other supercar for that matter, we would take care of it more than our first-born (we are exaggerating…relax). Either way, this driver of the Ferrari 599 GTO isn’t as careful as we would be with his black Ferrari 599 GTO. [...]
“When you’ve only got so much sunlight…you resort to certain things to stave off boredom,” reads the description on the YouTube video you’re about to see here. We’re pretty bored on this Saturday night and we really wish we lived in Alaska right now. Hit the jump for the video.
Admit it – you’re not the most perfect driver on the road. In a study by Insurance.com, a significant percentage of respondents to an Insurance.com survey confess to poor driving behavior. Nearly 10 percent of Americans surveyed admitted to driving without car insurance at some point in their lives – a move that breaks the law in [...]
First off – we’d like to point out that the title of this post is inspired by a comment on YouTube so we take no credit for creativeness here. A video on YouTube shows a beat up (and by saying ‘beat-up’ we’re being nice) SUV just driving down the Russian highway trying to fit into [...]
Over the weekend we reported on a fire that broke out in a home garage in Barkhamsted, Connecticut, claiming as its victims the new Chevrolet Volt, and a self-converted electric-powered Suzuki. GM has released a statement regarding the fire and says that its engineering experts inspected the Volt that was severely damaged in the garage and found [...]
Nothing shows off a new vehicle better than putting it in front of thousands of people in Washington, D.C. during the annual Cherry Blossom Parade. That’s what Dodge ended up doing this past Saturday but things didn’t really turn out as they’d hoped. To show off the new 2011 Dodge Durango’s towing capability, the SUV [...]
